Karl (also Carl) is a variant of the given name Charles. For origin and meaning see Churl and Charles.
Karl may refer to:
Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor
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 von In der Maur (1852–1913), Austrian statesman
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
Coby Karl (born 1983), American basketball player
George Karl (born 1951), American basketball coach
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
ST Karl, Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST Empire Henchman
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
