Kapila is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name Kapila (7th-6th-century BCE), Vedic sage in Hindu tradition Kapila Abhayawansa, Sri Lankan academic Kapila Chandrasena (1964–2026), Sri Lankan airline and telecommunications executive Kapila Gunasekara, Sri Lankan academic Kapila Hingorani (1927–2013), Indian lawyer Kapila Jayampathy, Sri Lanka air force officer, 16th commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force Kapila Jayasekera, Sri Lankan civil service official and politician Kapila Samaraweera, Sri Lankan naval officer Kapila Vatsyayan (1928–2020), Indian scholar, bureaucrat and politician Kapila Venu (born 1982), Indian artist Kapila Wanigasooriya, Sri Lankan air force officer Kapila Wijegunawardene (born 1964), Sri Lankan cricketer
Surname Achhroo Ram Kapila (1926–2003), Indian-born Kenyan lawyer Dhruv Kapila (born 2000), Indian badminton player Kusha Kapila, Indian social media personality Leela Kapila, British Indian paediatric surgeon Madhur Kapila (1942–2021), Indian novelist, journalist, art critic and a reviewer of Hindi literature Mukesh Kapila (born 1955), Indian author, medical doctor, professor and humanitarian Oumi Kapila (born 1984), British-born Australian musician Sunil Kapila (born 1958), Kenyan orthodontist and dental academic Yvonne Hernandez-Kapila, American periodontist and cell and molecular biologist
See also Kapil (name) Kapila (disambiguation)