Karl (given name)

Karl (also Carl) is an originally Germanic variant of the male given name Charles, meaning "free man". For further details on origin and meaning, see Churl and Charles.

Notable people with the name include:

Nobles

• Karl der Große (German for 'Charles the Great'), also known as Karolus Magnus in Latin and Charlemagne in French, 747–814), a Frankish King and the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Karl, Truchsess von Waldburg (1548–1593), Imperial minister
• Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1783–1868), Austrian chancellor, Government President and school reformer of Bohemia
• Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813–1878), German duke
• Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen (1838–1899), head of the German house of Isenburg and Büdingen
• Karl, Freiherr von Prel (1839–1899), German philosopher and writer on mysticism and the occult
• Karl I of Austria (1887–1922), the last Emperor of Austria
• Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1904–1990), German Roman Catholic nobleman

Given name

Fictional characters

• Karl C. Agathon, a fictional character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series
• Karl Mayer, divorce attorney and ex-husband of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives
• Karl Morgenthau, the first Marvel Comics supervillain known as Flag-Smasher
• Karl Stromberg, the main antagonist in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me
• Karl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayor

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Karl
• All pages with titles containing Karl
• Karl (disambiguation)
• Karl (surname)
• Karli (name)
• Karol (name)
• Karyl
• Rígsþula (Churl)

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