People
Vila (, ; ; ; ) is a popular surname in Catalan, Galician, Occitan and Portuguese that means 'town'.
- Antoni Vila i Arrufat, Spanish Catalan painter and engraver
- Antoni Vila i Casas, Spanish Catalan entrepreneur
- Bob Vila (born 1946), American home improvement television show host
- Enrique Vila-Matas, Spanish Catalan writer
- Hèctor Vila, pseudonym of Pere Vilaregut, Spanish Catalan singer
- Ferran Vila Bonell (b. 1983), Andorran ski mountaineer
- Jaume Vila Mulet, Spanish Majorcan politician
- Joan Vila i Cinca, Spanish Catalan painter
- Joan Vila i Pujol, Spanish Catalan drafter and illustrator, known as D'Ivori
- Jordi Vila i Foruny, Spanish Catalan industrialist and politician
- Josep Vila i Amorós, Spanish Catalan musician
- Josep Vila Closes, Spanish Catalan painter
- Lluís Vila i d'Abadal, Spanish Catalan doctor and politician
- Maria Vila i Panadès, Spanish Catalan actress
- Patxi Vila, Spanish Basque road bicycle racer
- Ramon Vila i Capdevila, Spanish Catalan anarcho-syndicalist and maquis, better known as Cara cremada (Burned face)
- Santiago Vila i Vicente, Spanish Catalan historian and politician
- Waldo Vila Gilabert, Spanish Valencian pilota player
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