Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:

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
The States of Malaya (1963–present)

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

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
HMS Malaya, a Royal Navy battleship which served in both world wars
Operation Malaya, a police investigation taking place 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