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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
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