Karl

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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 (born 1949), computer scientist
• Karl Barth (1886–1968), seminal Swiss Reformed Theologian
• Karl Bartos (born 1952), German musician
• Karl Becker (general) (1879–1940), German engineer and officer
• Karl Becker (painter) (1820–1900), German painter
• Karl Becker (philologist) (1775–1849), German philologist
• Karl Benz (1844–1929), German engineer
• Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), German artist
• Karl Briullov, Russian painter
• Karl Davies (born 1982), English actor
• Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), German admiral
• Karl Farmer (born 1954), American football player
• Karl Fazer (1866–1932), Finnish businessman and sport shooter
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963), German composer
• Karl Haushofer (1869–1946), German geopolitician
• Karl Hess (1923–1994), American comedian
• Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), German philosopher
• Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), German Nazi commandant of concentration camps
• Karl Kraus (writer) (1874–1936), Austrian writer
• Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832), German philosopher
• Karl Kruszelnicki (born 1948), Australian television and radio personality
• Karl Lagerfeld (born 1933), German fashion designer
• Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), Austrian biologist and physician
• Karl Lucas (born 1972).English Actor and Comedian
• Karl Malden (1912–2009), American actor
• Karl Malone (born 1963), American basketball player
• Karl Maron (1903–1975), German politician
• Karl Marx (1818–1883), Prussian philosopher, father of communism
• Karl Pearson (1857–1936), English statistician
• Karl Pilkington (born 1972), English podcaster, author and former radio producer
• Karl Popper (1902–1994), Austrian/British philosopher
• Karl Power, British prankster
• Karl Rapp (1882–1962), German engineer
• Karl Rove (born 1950), American political advisor
• Karl Heinz Schnell (1915–2013), German jet pilot during WW II
• Karl Singer (born 1943), American football player
• Karl Stefanovic (born 1971), Australian television presenter
• Karl Stromberg, fictional James Bond villain
• Karl Urban (born 1972), New Zealand actor
• Karl Virtanen (born 1971), Sweden-Finnish journalist
• Karl Edward Wagner (1945–1994), American writer, editor and publisher
• Karl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayor
• Karl Wallenda (1905–1978), German-born tightrope artist
• Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), German mathematician
• Karl Wendlinger (born 1968), Austrian race car driver

Karl as surname

• Coby Karl (born 1983), American basketball player
• George Karl (born 1951), 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
• KARL project, 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 (disambiguation)
• Carle, a name
• Karle (disambiguation)
• 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