Sala (surname)

Sala
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Region of origin	Italy
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Last updated September 24, 2025

Sala is a surname with several origins. First, in Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, and Romanian, a topographic or occupational name meaning someone living in or employed at a hall or manor. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts and entertainment

Musicians

Alessandro Sala (composer) (1816–1890), Italian composer, organist, and pianist
Flavio Sala (born 1983), Italian Classical guitar player
Ingrid Sala Santamaria (born 1940), Filipina pianist
Nicola Sala (1713–1801), Italian composer
Oskar Sala (1910–2002), German composer
Pep Sala (born 1960), Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer

Other arts

Anri Sala (born 1974), Albanian artist
Emilio Sala (painter) (1850–1910), Spanish painter
Emilio Sala (sculptor) (1864–1920), Italian sculptor
Emilio Grau Sala (1911–1975), Catalan painter
Giuseppe Sala (music publisher) (c.1643—1727), music publisher
Richard Sala (1954–2020), American cartoonist, illustrator and comic book creator

Athletes

Albert Sala (born 1981), Spanish field hockey player
Andrea Sala (footballer) (born 1993), Italian footballer
Carlos Sala (born 1960), retired Spanish hurdler
Claudio Sala (born 1947), former Italian association football player and current commentator
Costantino Sala (1913–?), Italian professional football player
Darío Sala (born 1974), Argentine football goalkeeper
Emiliano Sala (1990–2019), Argentine football forward
Giovanni Sala (born 1963), Italian enduro rider and a six-time World Enduro Champion
Guido Sala (1928–1987), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer
Lee Sala (born 1926–2012), American contender for the middleweight boxing crown in the 1940s and 1950s
Luigi Sala (born 1974), Italian football defender
Luis Pérez-Sala (born 1959), Catalan-Spanish racing driver
Manuel Sala (born 1982), Angolan football player
Marco Sala (footballer, born 1886) (1886–1969), Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender
Marco Sala (footballer, born 1999), Italian football defender
Patrizio Sala (born 1955), Italian former footballer
Ramón Sala (born 1971), Spanish field hockey defender
Valentino Sala (1908–?), Italian football player and coach

Politics

Giuseppe Sala (born 1958), Italian politician
Michel Sala (born 1954) is an Algerian-born French trade unionist and politician
Milagro Sala (born 1964), leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association, Argentina
Ricardo Sala Gaitán (fl. 1992–1996), Colombian industrial engineer and politician

Others

Alessandra Sala, Italian computer scientist
André Ricard Sala (born 1929), Catalan industrial designer
Enric Sala (born 1968), marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
Galdino della Sala (1096–1176), tenth century Christian saint from Milan, Italy
George Augustus Sala (1828–1895), British journalist
Giuseppe Antonio Sala (1762–1839), Italian cardinal
Jean Sala Breitenstein (1900–1986), United States federal judge
Louis Sala-Molins (born 1935), essayist and political philosophy professor at Paris-I and Toulouse-II universities
Luc Sala (born 1949), Dutch entrepreneur and writer
Oscar Sala (1922–2010), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
Xavier Sala-i-Martin (born 1963), Spanish academic economist