Karl

Karl

People

Royalty

See Carl (name)#Notable people or Charles#Royalty for royalty with similar names.

• Karl of Austria - last Austrian Emperor
• Karl der Große - commonly known in English as Charlemagne

Karl as first name

• Karl (mythology), the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology, see Ríg (Norse god)
• Karl Auerbach, computer scientist
• Karl Bartos, German musician
• Karl Becker, German engineer and officer
• Karl Becker, German painter
• Karl Becker, 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 Amadeus Hartmann, German composer
• Karl Haushofer, German geopolitician
• Karl Hess, American comedian
• Karl Jaspers, German philosopher
• Karl-Otto Koch, German Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen
• Karl Kraus, 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 Marx, Prussian philosopher, father of communism
• Karl Pilkington, English podcaster, author and former radio producer, star of The Ricky Gervais Show and An Idiot Abroad
• Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher
• Karl Power, British prankster
• Karl Rapp, German engineer
• Karl Rove, American political advisor
• 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 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, giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island

Other uses of Karl

• Karl-Gerät, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War.
• Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Karl (comedy prize), Austrian comedy prize
• KARL, the KAiserslautern Register Transfer Language, a register transfer language
• Mörser Karl was a series of German 600mm mortars designed to bombard heavily fortified positions during World War II
• Korean Amateur Radio League
• KARL is the name of the software used by the KARLProject as an open source Knowledge Management Systems

Ships

• ST Karl, Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST Empire Henchman

See also

• Carl (name)
• Carol (disambiguation)
• Churl (also churl, ceorl, carl), freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system
• Karl-Heinz