Vala can refer to:
- Caste
- Vala, a Rajput clan found in Gujarat in India
- People
- Asad Vala (born 1987), Papua New Guinean cricketer
- Jorge Vala, Portuguese academic
- Lobat Vala (born 1930), Iranian poet and activist
- Numonius Vala, a Roman family name, or any of the men of that name
- Vaju Vala, Indian politician
- Vajubhai Vala, Indian politician
- Fiction
- Vala (Middle-earth), an angelic being in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction
- Vala Mal Doran, a fictional character in the Canadian-American television series Stargate SG-1
- Vala, or The Four Zoas, a poem by William Blake
- Religion and mythology
- Vala (Vedic), a demon or a stone cavern in the Hindu scriptures
- Völva, a priestess in Norse mythology and Norse paganism
- Veles (god), a similar demon in Slavic mythology.
- Science and technology
- 131 Vala, an asteroid discovered in 1873 named after a prophetess in Norse mythology (Völva)
- VALA, Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc., an Australian not-for-profit organisation
- Vala GSM, a mobile operator in Kosovo
- Vala (programming language), a programming language targeting GNOME's object system