Pola may refer to:
- Places
- Pola, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in south Poland
- Pola, Oriental Mindoro, a municipality in the Philippines
- Pola, Russia, a settlement in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
- Pola de Allande, a town and a parish in Allande, a municipality within the province of Asturias, in northern Spain
- Italian name for Pula, the largest city in Istria, Croatia
- Santa Pola, a town in Spain
- Pola de Siero, a town in Asturias
- Acronyms
- Principle of least astonishment, in human-computer interaction
- Principle of least authority, in computer security
- Port of London Authority, more often referred to as P.L.A.
- People
In Poland and other countries in the north of Europe, Pola is a diminutive of the name Apolonia. It is also used as a different name.
- Adrián Alonso Pereira (born 1988), a Spanish futsal player commonly known as Pola
- Pola Alonso (1923–2004), an Argentine actress
- Pola Brändle (born 1980), a German artist and photographer
- Pola Gauguin (1883–1961), a Danish painter
- Pola Gojawiczyńska (1896–1963), a Polish writer
- Pola Illéry (born 1908), a Romanian actress
- Pola Kinski (born 1952), a German actress
- Pola Negri (1897–1987), a Polish actress
- Pola Oloixarac, an Argentine writer
- Pola Raksa (born 1941), a Polish actress and singer
- Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 1959), a British politician
- Spike Pola (1914–2012), Australian rules footballer
- Other uses
- Italian cruiser Pola, World War II Italian warship
- Pola Flotilla, an Imperial Germany Navy formation of the First World War
- Pola River, a river in Russia
- polA, the bacterial gene encoding DNA polymerase I
- Pola (festival), a bull-centered festival in India
- Pola (skipper), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperlidae
- Pola X, a 1999 French film
- Pola's March, a 2001 documentary film
- POLA, a German factory of plastic model kits for model railroad, since 1997 owned by Faller
- House of Pola, an Italian noble family