Malaya or Malayan may refer to:

Political entities

• British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits Settlements and the British protectorates of the Malay States

• Malayan Union (1946–1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all the states and settlements in British Malaya except Singapore

• Federation of Malaya (1948–1963), the successor to the Malayan Union, which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957

• Peninsular Malaysia (1963–present), the successor to the Federation of Malaya

Science

• Malaya (fly), a genus of mosquitoes that includes Malaya genurostris

• Megisba malaya, a butterfly commonly called the Malayan

Organisations

• Malayan Insurance, a Philippine life insurance company

Malayan Airways Limited, a defunct regional airline

• Malaysia Airlines, its legal successor

• Maybank, a Malaysian universal bank officially known as Malayan Banking

People

• Malaya Akulukjuk (born 1915?), Canadian Inuk artist

• Malaya Drew (born 1987), American actress

• Malaya Marcelino, Canadian politician

• Oxana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour

• Malaya (born 1980), a founding member of the Chilean-Argentine group Zona Ganjah

Other uses

• University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• , a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars

• Operation Malaya, a police investigation begun in 2006 in Spain

• Malaya (film), a 1949 American war film set in Japanese-occupied Malaya

• Malaya, a 1961 documentary film produced by Malayan Film Unit (later Filem Negara Malaysia)

• Malaya (newspaper), a newspaper in the Philippines

• Malaya (album), an album by Filipino singer, Moira Dela Torre

• Malaya Mountains, a place in Hindu mythology

• Malaya Kuonamka, a river in Yakutia, Russia

• Malaya-sundari, a character in the 11th-century Indian story collection Shringara-manjari-katha

See also

• M'alayah, a dance of East Africa and Eastern Arabia

• Malay (disambiguation)

• Malabar (disambiguation), a region of India also known as Malaya and Malai

• Malayalam, a Dravidian language of Kerala, India

• Malayala Manorama, a Malayalam-language newspaper based in Kerala, India

• Malayala Rajyam, an Indian Malayalam-language newspaper

Malays (disambiguation)

• Malays (ethnic group)

• Malaysia, a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia

• Malaysian (disambiguation)

• Malai (disambiguation)