Karl (given name)

Nobles

• Karl, Truchsess von Waldburg, Imperial minister
• Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin, Austrian chancellor, Government President and school reformer of Bohemia
• Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, German duke
• Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen, head of the German house of Isenburg and Büdingen
• Karl, Freiherr von Prel, German philosopher and writer on mysticism and the occult
• Karl I of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria
• Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, German Roman Catholic nobleman

  Given name

• Karl Albrecht, German entrepreneur and billionaire
• Karl Auerbach, computer scientist
• Karl Barth, seminal Swiss Reformed Theologian
• Karl Bartos, German musician
• Karl Becker , German engineer and officer
• Karl Becker , German painter
• Karl Becker , German philologist
• Karl Beckersachs, German actor
• Karl Benz, German engineer
• Karl August Leopold Böhm, Austrian conductor
• Karl von In der Maur, Austrian statesman
• Karl Blossfeldt, German artist
• Karl Bonatz, German architect
• Karl Brandt, German Nazi SS physician executed for war crimes
• Karl Briullov, Russian painter
• Karl Brugger, a German foreign correspondent for and author
• Karl Chmielewski, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Karl Davies, English actor
• Karl Denke, prolific and cannibalistic German serial killer
• Karl Ludwig Diehl, German actor
• Karl Dönitz, German admiral
• Karl Etlinger, German actor
• Karl Farmer, American football player
• Karl Fazer, Finnish businessman and sport shooter
• Karl Fritzsch, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant who was the first to use Zyklon B for mass murder
• Karl Gebhardt, German Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments, executed for war crimes.
• Karl Green British musician, bass player for British pop group Herman’s Hermits.
• Karl Hammes, German operatic baritone and fighter pilot
• Karl Hannemann, German actor
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer
• Karl Haushofer, German geopolitician
• Karl Hess, American comedian
• Karl Hoblitzelle, American theater owner and philanthropist
• Karl-Friedrich Höcker, German Nazi SS concentration camp officer and war criminal
• Karl Holz , German Nazi
• Karl Jaspers, German philosopher
• Karl-Otto Koch, German Nazi commandant of concentration camps
• Karl Kraus , Austrian writer
• Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
• Karl Kruszelnicki, Australian television and radio personality
• Karl Künstler, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
• Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician
• Karl Linnas, Estonian Nazi concentration camp commandant
• Karl Lucas, English actor and comedian
• Karl Malden, American actor
• Karl Malone, American basketball player
• Karl Maron, German politician
• Karl Marx, Prussian philosopher, father of historical materialism
• Karl Maw, Norwegian/British Developer
• Karl Möckel, German Nazi SS officer at Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes
• Karl Nehammer, Austrian politician
• Karl von Oberkamp, German SS commander executed for war crimes
• Karl Pearson, English statistician
• Karl Pilkington, English podcaster, author and former radio producer
• Karl Platen, German actor
• Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher
• Karl Power, British prankster
• Karl Rahm, German SS officer, commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp executed for war crimes
• Karl Rapp, German engineer
• Karl Rove, American political advisor
• Karl Shiels, Irish actor
• Karl Heinz Schnell, German jet pilot during WW II
• Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, German Nazi SS war criminal, executed for war crimes
• Karl Singer, American football player
• Karl Stefanovic, Australian television presenter
• Karl Streibel, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
• Karl Virtanen, Sweden-Finnish journalist
• Karl Edward Wagner, American writer, editor and publisher
• Karl Wallenda, German-born tightrope artist
• Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician
• Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver
• Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer
• Karl Shanks , British Martial Artist

  Surname

• Andy Karl, American actor and singer
• Coby Karl, American basketball player
• Elfriede Karl, Austrian politician
• George Karl, American basketball coach
• Jonathan Karl, American political journalist
• Mary Brennan Karl, American educator
• Terry Karl, professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University

  Fictional characters

• Karl C. Agathon, fictional character on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series
• Karl Stromberg, main antagonist in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me
• Karl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayor