Gabriela is the Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Romanian form of Gabrielle — Hebrew *Gavri'el* ("God is my strength"). **Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)** — pen name of **Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, Chilean poet, diplomat, and educator who in 1945 became the first Latin American author of any gender to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature**, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world." **Worked her way up from a rural schoolteacher in the Elqui Valley to Chile's consul in Madrid, Lisbon, Los Angeles, and Naples**. **Her *Desolación* (1922) and *Tala* (1938) shaped 20th-century Latin American poetry**. **Her face appears on the Chilean 5,000-peso note**. **A top-500 US baby name from 1990 to 2010**. **Gabriela Sabatini** — Argentine tennis player; 1990 US Open champion.
Subject of Elizabeth Horan's *Gabriela Mistral: An Artist and Her People* (1994).
Gabriela reduces to eight — the number of first Latin American Nobel.