Karl
Karl (also Carl) is a variant of the given name Charles. For origin and meaning see Churl and Charles.
Karl may refer to:
People
Royalty
- Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
- Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor
Karl as first name
- Karl Auerbach, computer scientist
- Karl Barth (1886-1968), seminal Swiss Reformed Theologian
- Karl Bartos, German musician
- Karl Becker (general), German engineer and officer
- Karl Becker (painter), German painter
- Karl Becker (philologist), German philologist
- Karl Benz, German engineer
- Karl Blossfeldt, German artist
- Karl Briullov, Russian painter
- Karl Davies, English actor
- Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), German admiral
- Karl Farmer, American football player
- Karl Fazer (1866–1932), Finnish businessman and sport shooter
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer
- Karl Haushofer, German geopolitician
- Karl Hess, American comedian
- Karl Jaspers, German philosopher
- Karl-Otto Koch, German Nazi commandant of concentration camps
- Karl Kraus (writer), Austrian writer
- Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
- Karl Kruszelnicki, Australian television and radio personality
- Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
- Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician
- Karl Lucas.English Actor and Comedian
- Karl Malden (1912–2009), American actor
- Karl Malone, American basketball player
- Karl Maron, German politician
- Karl Marx, Prussian philosopher, father of communism
- Karl Pearson, English statistician
- Karl Pilkington, English podcaster, author and former radio producer
- Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher
- Karl Power, British prankster
- Karl Rapp, German engineer
- Karl Rove, American political advisor
- Karl Heinz Schnell, German jet pilot during WW II
- Karl Singer, American football player
- Karl Stefanovic, Australian television presenter
- Karl Stromberg, fictional James Bond villain
- Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
- Karl Virtanen (born 1971), Sweden-Finnish journalist
- Karl Edward Wagner, American writer, editor and publisher
- Karl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayor
- Karl Wallenda, German-born tightrope artist
- Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician
- Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver
Karl as surname
- Coby Karl, American basketball player
- George Karl, American basketball coach
In myth
- Karl (mythology), in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl)
- Karl, giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island
Ships
- ST Karl, Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST Empire Henchman
Other uses
- Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Karl-Gerät, AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War
- KARLProject, an open source knowledge management system
- Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea
See also
- Carl (name)
- Carll S. Burr, Jr. (1858–1936), New York politician
- Carol (disambiguation)
- Churl (also churl, ceorl, carl), freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system
- John L. Karle (1894–1953), New York politician
- Karl-Heinz
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