Karl (also Carl) is a variant of the given name Charles (see there).
People
Royalty
See Carl (name)#Notable people or Charles#Royalty for royalty with similar names.Karl of Austria - last Austrian EmperorKarl der Große - commonly known in English as Charlemagne
Karl as first name
Karl (mythology), the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology, see Ríg (Norse god)Karl Auerbach, computer scientistKarl Bartos, German musicianKarl Becker, German engineer and officerKarl Becker, German painterKarl Becker, German philologistKarl Benz, German engineerKarl Blossfeldt, German artistKarl Briullov, Russian PainterKarl Davies, English actorKarl Dönitz (1891–1980), German admiralKarl Amadeus Hartmann, German composerKarl Haushofer, German geopoliticianKarl Hess, American comedianKarl Jaspers, German philosopherKarl-Otto Koch, German Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and SachsenhausenKarl Kraus, Austrian writerKarl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopherKarl Kruszelnicki, Australian television and radio personalityKarl Lagerfeld, German fashion designerKarl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physicianKarl Lucas.English Actor and ComedianKarl Malden (1912–2009), American actorKarl Malone, American basketball playerKarl Marx, Prussian philosopher, father of communismKarl Pilkington, English podcaster, author and former radio producer, star of The Ricky Gervais Show and An Idiot AbroadKarl Popper, Austrian/British philosopherKarl Power, British pranksterKarl Rapp, German engineerKarl Rove, American political advisorKarl Stromberg, fictional James Bond villainKarl Urban, New Zealand actorKarl Virtanen (born 1971), Sweden-Finnish journalistKarl Edward Wagner, American writer, editor and publisherKarl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayorKarl Weierstrass, German mathematicianKarl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver
Karl as surname
Coby Karl, American basketball playerGeorge Karl, American basketball coach
In myth
Karl, giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island
Other uses of Karl
Karl-Gerät, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War.Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, GermanyKarl (comedy prize), Austrian comedy prizeKARL, the KAiserslautern egister Transfer anguage, a register transfer languageMörser Karl was a series of German 600mm mortars designed to bombard heavily fortified positions during World War IIKorean Amateur Radio LeagueKARL is the name of the software used by the KARLProject as an open source Knowledge Management Systems
Ships
ST Karl, Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST Empire Henchman
