Royalty

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

• Karl of Austria - last Austrian Emperor

Karl as first name

• Karl (mythology), the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology, see Ríg (Norse god)
• Karl Auerbach
  Karl Auerbach
  Karl Auerbach is a California attorney and internet protocol engineer who in 2002 sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers —of which he was an elected board member—for refusing to share corporate records...
  
  , computer scientist

• Karl Bartos
  Karl Bartos
  Karl Bartos was, between 1975 and 1990, along with Wolfgang Flür, an electronic percussionist in the electronic-music group Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on its US "Autobahn" tour...
  
  , German musician
• Karl Becker, German engineer and officer
• Karl Becker
  Karl Becker (painter)
  Karl Becker was a German history painter and president of the Berlin Academy.-Biography:...
  
  , German painter
• Karl Becker, German philologist
• Karl Benz
  Karl Benz
  Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered car, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz...
  
  , German engineer
• Karl Blossfeldt
  Karl Blossfeldt
  Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the way in which plants grow...
  
  , German artist
• Karl Briullov
  Karl Briullov
  Karl Pavlovich Bryullov , also transliterated Briullov or Briuloff and referred to by his friends as "The Great Karl", was a Russian painter...
  
  , Russian Painter
• Karl Davies
  Karl Davies
  Karl Davies is an English actor, who portrayed Lyle Anderson in the TV series Kingdom. Previously he had portrayed Robert Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.- Biography :...
  
  , English actor
• Karl Dönitz
  Karl Dönitz
  Karl Dönitz was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy during World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of , the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner...
  
   (1891–1980), German admiral
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.-Life:...
  
  , German composer
• Karl Haushofer
  Karl Haushofer
  Karl Ernst Haushofer was a German general, geographer and geopolitician. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's ideas may have influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansionist strategies, although Haushofer denied direct influence on the Nazi regime.-Biography:Haushofer belonged to...
  
  , German geopolitician
  Geopolitics
  Geopolitics, from Greek Γη and Πολιτική in broad terms, is a theory that describes the relation between politics and territory whether on local or international scale....
  
  
• Karl Hess
  Karl Hess
  Karl Hess was an American national-level speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, atheist, and libertarian activist...
  
  , American comedian
• Karl Jaspers
  Karl Jaspers
  Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system...
  
  , German philosopher
• Karl-Otto Koch, German Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen
• Karl Kraus
  Karl Kraus
  Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German and Austrian...
  
  , Austrian writer
• Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
  Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
  Karl Christian Friedrich Krause was a German philosopher, born at Eisenberg, Thuringia.-Education and Life:...
  
  , German philosopher
• Karl Kruszelnicki
  Karl Kruszelnicki
  Karl Kruszelnicki AM is a scientist, who is best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He is often referred to as Dr Karl....
  
  , Australian television and radio personality
• Karl Lagerfeld
  Karl Lagerfeld
  Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...
  
  , German fashion designer
• Karl Landsteiner
  Karl Landsteiner
  Karl Landsteiner , was an Austrian-born American biologist and physician of Jewish origin. He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the...
  
  , Austrian biologist and physician
• Karl Lucas
  Karl Lucas
  Karl Lucas is an English comedian, actor and writer, who has written for and appeared in a number of television, music videos and radio comedy programmes, as well as various theatre productions....
  
  .English Actor and Comedian
• Karl Malden
  Karl Malden
  Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
  
   (1912–2009), American actor
• Karl Malone
  Karl Malone
  Karl Anthony Malone , nicknamed "The Mailman", is a retired American professional basketball power forward who spent the majority of his career with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association . Malone spent his first 18 seasons with the Jazz and formed a formidable duo with his teammate...
  
  , American basketball player
• Karl Marx
  Karl Marx
  Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
  
  , Prussian philosopher, father of communism
  Communism
  Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
  
  
• Karl Pilkington
  Karl Pilkington
  Karl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The...
  
  , Famously round-headed English podcaster, author and former radio producer, star of The Ricky Gervais Show
  The Ricky Gervais Show
  The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into an animated televised version debuting for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. The show started in November 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time...
  
   and An Idiot Abroad
  An Idiot Abroad
  An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as a spin-off book published by Canongate Books, created by and featuring Karl Pilkington and his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant....
  
  
• Karl Popper
  Karl Popper
  Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
  
  , Austrian/British philosopher
• Karl Rapp
  Karl Rapp
  Karl Friedrich Rapp was founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. He is acknowledged by BMW AG as an indirect founder of the company....
  
  , German engineer
• Karl Rove
  Karl Rove
  Karl Christian Rove was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives...
  
  , American political advisor
• Karl Stromberg
  Karl Stromberg
  Karl Sigmund Stromberg is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Stromberg was portrayed by the late German-born, Austrian actor Curt Jurgens. The character Stromberg was created specifically for the film by writer Christopher Wood...
  
  , fictional James Bond villain
• Karl Urban
  Karl Urban
  Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor.He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Julius Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess...
  
  , New Zealand actor
• Karl Virtanen (born 1971), Sweden-Finnish journalist
• Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
  
  , American writer, editor and publisher
• Karl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayor
• Karl Weierstrass
  Karl Weierstrass
  Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis".- Biography :Weierstrass was born in Ostenfelde, part of Ennigerloh, Province of Westphalia....
  
  , German mathematician
• Karl Wendlinger
  Karl Wendlinger
  Karl Wendlinger is an Austrian sportscar racing and former Formula One driver.- Mercedes Juniors :Wendlinger started his career in karting and in Formula Ford before entering the German Formula 3 Championship in 1988...
  
  , Austrian race car driver

Karl as surname

• Coby Karl
  Coby Karl
  Coby Joseph Karl is an American professional basketball player. He is the son of George Karl, head coach of the Denver Nuggets.-High school career:...
  
  , American basketball player
• George Karl
  George Karl
  George Matthew Karl is a former National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player. He is the current head coach of the Denver Nuggets. On December 10, 2010 he became the seventh coach in NBA history to record 1,000 wins.-Biography:Karl was born in Penn Hills,...
  
  , American basketball coach

Other uses of Karl

• Karl-Gerät, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War.
• Karl, Germany
  Karl, Germany
  Karl is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Location :...
  
  , municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Karl (comedy prize), Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  n comedy prize
• KARL, the KAiserslautern Register Transfer Language, a register transfer language
  Register Transfer Language
  In computer science, register transfer language is a term used to describe a kind of intermediate representation that is very close to assembly language, such as that which is used in a compiler. Academic papers and textbooks also often use a form of RTL as an architecture-neutral assembly language...
  
  
• Mörser Karl
  Mörser Karl
  "Karl-Gerät" , also known as Thor and Mörser Karl, was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar designed and built by Rheinmetall. It was the largest self-propelled weapon to see service. Its heaviest munition was a diameter, shell, and the range for its lightest shell of was just over...
  
   was a series of German 600mm mortars designed to bombard heavily fortified positions during World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• Korean Amateur Radio League
  Korean Amateur Radio League
  The Korean Amateur Radio League is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea. KARL was founded in 1955 by Korean radio communication enthusiasts. Due to advocacy efforts of KARL, the first amateur radio station in South Korea, HL2AA is Seoul, was licensed...
  
  
• KARL is the name of the software used by the KARLProject
  KARLProject
  The KARL Project is the open source project name for a web-based application called KARL. KARL is an open source, web-based product for collaboration, organizational intranets and knowledge management...
  
   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)
  Carl (name)
  .Carl is a popular given name as well as the name of various places. The most popular male variations are Karl, Charles; the popularity stems from the long lines of historical nobility using these names. There also exist many female variations such as Charlotte and Carla...
  
  
• Carol (disambiguation)
• Churl
  Churl
  A churl , in its earliest Old English meaning, was simply "a man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelt ċeorl, and denoting the lowest rank of freemen...
  
   (also churl, ceorl, carl), freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system
• Karl-Heinz
  Karl-Heinz
  Karl-Heinz may refer to:* Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer, German Bishop* Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , football coach and former player* Karl-Heinz Florenz , German Member of the European Parliament...