Karl

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See Carl (name) for information about the name.

People

Nobility

• Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus, Karl the Great, Charles the Great), a king of the Franks and of the Lombards and of Rome
• Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, King of Sweden
• Charles XV of Sweden, King of Sweden and Norway
• Charles XIV of Sweden - King of Sweden-Norway
• Charles XIII of Sweden - King of Sweden-Norway
• Charles XII of Sweden - King of Sweden
• Charles XI of Sweden - King of Sweden
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - King of Sweden
• Charles IX of Sweden - King of Sweden
• Charles VIII of Sweden (Karl Knutsson Bonde) - King of Sweden and Norway
• Charles VII of Sweden (Karl Sverkersson) - King of Sweden
• Karl of Austria - last Austrian Emperor

Karl as first name

• Karl Marx - Economic and political philosopher, who's writings comprise the beliefs of Marxism.
• Karl Popper - 20th century philosopher of science
• Karl Jaspers - German philosopher
• Karl Otto Lagerfeld - fashion designer
• Karl Kruszelnicki - an Australian television/radio personality
• Karl (mythology) - information in Ríg, the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology
• Karl Stromberg - Bond's main villain and the world's most rich teuton in The Spy Who Loved Me
• Karl Metzger - a Nazist correctional officer at HBO drama Oz
• Karl Willetts - British singer
• Karl Wendlinger - race car driver
• Karl Benz - German automobile engineer and inventor
• Karl Collins - A fat English kid who likes to eat a lot.
• Karl Malone - American basketball player
• Karl Blossfeldt - German Artist
• Karl Dönitz - German Admiral during World War II
• Karl Landsteiner - Austrian biologist and physician
• Karl Urban - New Zealand actor
• Karl Pilkington - ex XFM producer and podcast producer
• Karl Guo - a Chinese Biomedical Engineer who made many advancements in the field of medicine
• Karl Rove - American former Deputy Chief of Staff

Other uses of Karl

• Karl, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Karl (comedy prize) - an Austrian comedy prize.
• KARL - acronym for the hardware description language KAiserslautern Register Transfer Language.
• Mörser Karl was name of series of WW II mortars]

See also

• Churl (also churl, ceorl, carl), a freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system. Also the origin of the name.