Vila - People

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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