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Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Karl" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB" title="Карл – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Карл" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl" title="Karl – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Karl" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_(fornavn)" title="Karl (fornavn) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Karl (fornavn)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl" title="Karl – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Karl" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_(eesnimi)" title="Karl (eesnimi) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Karl (eesnimi)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_(%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85)" title="کارل (نام) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" 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href="/wiki/Charles" title="Charles">Charles</a>.</div> <p><b>Karl</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic</a> masculine name meaning "free man". The name originates in <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a>. It is a variant of the English <a href="/wiki/Charles" title="Charles">Charles</a>, and the Latin <a href="/wiki/Carolus_(name)" title="Carolus (name)">Carolus</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nobles">Nobles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_(given_name)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Nobles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><span lang="de" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Karl_der_Gro%C3%9Fe" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl der Große">Karl der Große</a></span></span> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> for 'Charles the Great'), also known as <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Karolus Magnus</i></span> in Latin and <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Charlemagne</i></span> in French, 747–814), a <a href="/wiki/Frankish_King" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankish King">Frankish King</a> and the first <a href="/wiki/Emperor" title="Emperor">Emperor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl,_Truchsess_von_Waldburg" title="Karl, Truchsess von Waldburg">Karl, Truchsess von Waldburg</a> (1548–1593), Imperial minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl,_Count_Chotek_of_Chotkow_and_Wognin" title="Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin">Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin</a> (1783–1868), Austrian chancellor, Government President and school reformer of Bohemia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl,_Duke_of_Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl%C3%BCcksburg" title="Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg">Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg</a> (1813–1878), German duke</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl,_Prince_of_Isenburg-B%C3%BCdingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen">Karl, Prince of Isenburg-Büdingen</a> (1838–1899), head of the German house of Isenburg and Büdingen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl,_Freiherr_von_Prel" title="Karl, Freiherr von Prel">Karl, Freiherr von Prel</a> (1839–1899), German philosopher and writer on mysticism and the occult</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_Austria" title="Charles I of Austria">Karl I of Austria</a> (1887–1922), the last Emperor of Austria</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl,_8th_Prince_of_L%C3%B6wenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg">Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg</a> (1904–1990), German Roman Catholic nobleman</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Given_name">Given name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_(given_name)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Given name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Abraham" title="Karl Abraham">Karl Abraham</a> (1877–1925), German psychoanalyst</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Albrecht" title="Karl Albrecht">Karl Albrecht</a> (1920–2014), German entrepreneur and billionaire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Auerbach" title="Karl Auerbach">Karl Auerbach</a> (born 1949), computer scientist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Barth" title="Karl Barth">Karl Barth</a> (1886–1968), seminal Swiss Reformed Theologian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Bartos" title="Karl Bartos">Karl Bartos</a> (born 1952), German musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Becker_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Becker (general)">Karl Becker (general)</a> (1879–1940), German engineer and officer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Becker_(painter)" title="Karl Becker (painter)">Karl Becker (painter)</a> (1820–1900), German painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Becker_(philologist)" title="Karl Becker (philologist)">Karl Becker (philologist)</a> (1775–1849), German philologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Beckersachs" title="Karl Beckersachs">Karl Beckersachs</a> (1886–1951), German actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Benz" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Benz">Karl Benz</a> (1844–1929), German engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Berggren" title="Karl Berggren">Karl Berggren</a>, American electrical engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_B%C3%B6hm" title="Karl Böhm">Karl August Leopold Böhm</a> (1894–1981), Austrian conductor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_von_In_der_Maur" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl von In der Maur">Karl von In der Maur</a> (1852–1913), Austrian statesman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Blossfeldt" title="Karl Blossfeldt">Karl Blossfeldt</a> (1865–1932), German artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_B%C3%B6hm" title="Karl Böhm">Karl Böhm</a> (1894–1981), Austrian conductor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Bonatz" title="Karl Bonatz">Karl Bonatz</a> (1882–1951), German architect</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Brandt" title="Karl Brandt">Karl Brandt</a> (1904–1948), German Nazi SS physician executed for war crimes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Ferdinand_Braun" title="Karl Ferdinand Braun">Karl Ferdinand Braun</a> (1850–1918), German electrical engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Briullov" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Briullov">Karl Briullov</a>, Russian painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Brooks" title="Karl Brooks">Karl Brooks</a> (born 2000), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Brugger" title="Karl Brugger">Karl Brugger</a> (1941–1984), a German foreign correspondent for and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Chmielewski" title="Karl Chmielewski">Karl Chmielewski</a>, German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kendrick_Chua" title="Karl Kendrick Chua">Karl Chua</a> (born 1978), Filipino economist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Collins" title="Karl Collins">Karl Collins</a>, British actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Cook" title="Karl Cook">Karl Cook</a> (born 1990), American show jumper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Dall" title="Karl Dall">Karl Dall</a> (1941–2020), German comedian and singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Davies" title="Karl Davies">Karl Davies</a> (born 1982), English actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Denke" title="Karl Denke">Karl Denke</a> (1860–1924), prolific and cannibalistic German serial killer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Diehl" title="Karl Ludwig Diehl">Karl Ludwig Diehl</a> (1896–1958), German actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz" title="Karl Dönitz">Karl Dönitz</a> (1891–1980), German admiral</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Drews" title="Karl Drews">Karl Drews</a> (1920–1963), American baseball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Duldig" title="Karl Duldig">Karl Duldig</a> (1902–1986), Austrian-Australian sculptor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Etlinger" title="Karl Etlinger">Karl Etlinger</a> (1879–1946), German actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Farmer" title="Karl Farmer">Karl Farmer</a> (born 1954), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Fazer" title="Karl Fazer">Karl Fazer</a> (1866–1932), Finnish businessman and sport shooter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Fritzsch" title="Karl Fritzsch">Karl Fritzsch</a> (1903–1945), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant who was the first to use Zyklon B for mass murder</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Gebhardt" title="Karl Gebhardt">Karl Gebhardt</a> (1897–1948), German Nazi SS physician who conducted criminal medical experiments, executed for war crimes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Glusman" title="Karl Glusman">Karl Glusman</a> (born 1988), American actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_G%C3%B6bel" title="Karl Göbel">Karl Göbel</a> (1900 – 1945) Nazi Germany general</li> <li>Karl Green (1947–) British musician, bass player for British pop group <a href="/wiki/Herman%27s_Hermits" title="Herman's Hermits">Herman's Hermits</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hammes" title="Karl Hammes">Karl Hammes</a> (1896–1939), German operatic baritone and fighter pilot</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hannemann" title="Karl Hannemann">Karl Hannemann</a> (1895–1953), German actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Harst" title="Karl Harst">Karl Harst</a> (1492–1563), German diplomat and assistant of Erasmus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Amadeus_Hartmann" title="Karl Amadeus Hartmann">Karl Amadeus Hartmann</a> (1905–1963), German composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Haushofer" title="Karl Haushofer">Karl Haushofer</a> (1869–1946), German geopolitician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hess" title="Karl Hess">Karl Hess</a> (1923–1994), American comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hoblitzelle" title="Karl Hoblitzelle">Karl Hoblitzelle</a> (1879–1967), American theater owner and philanthropist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl-Friedrich_H%C3%B6cker" title="Karl-Friedrich Höcker">Karl-Friedrich Höcker</a> (1911–2000), German Nazi SS concentration camp officer and war criminal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Holz_(Nazi)" title="Karl Holz (Nazi)">Karl Holz (Nazi)</a> (1895–1945), German Nazi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Hyde" title="Karl Hyde">Karl Hyde</a> (born 1957), English musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Jacobs" title="Karl Jacobs">Karl Jacobs</a> (born 1998), American streamer and YouTuber</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Jaspers" title="Karl Jaspers">Karl Jaspers</a> (1883–1969), German philosopher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Joseph" title="Karl Joseph">Karl Joseph</a> (born 1993), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kalkun" title="Karl Kalkun">Karl Kalkun</a> (1927–1990), Estonian actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kassulke" title="Karl Kassulke">Karl Kassulke</a> (1941–2008), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Kaufhold" title="Karl Heinrich Kaufhold">Karl Heinrich Kaufhold</a> (1932–2020), German economic historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Keating" title="Karl Keating">Karl Keating</a>, (born 1950) Catholic apologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Klug" title="Karl Klug">Karl Klug</a> (born 1988), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kneidinger" title="Karl Kneidinger">Karl Kneidinger</a> (1882–1952), Austrian actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl-Otto_Koch" title="Karl-Otto Koch">Karl-Otto Koch</a> (1897–1945), German Nazi commandant of concentration camps</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kraus_(writer)" title="Karl Kraus (writer)">Karl Kraus (writer)</a> (1874–1936), Austrian writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Christian_Friedrich_Krause" title="Karl Christian Friedrich Krause">Karl Christian Friedrich Krause</a> (1781–1832), German philosopher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kruszelnicki" title="Karl Kruszelnicki">Karl Kruszelnicki</a> (born 1948), Australian television and radio personality</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_K%C3%BCnstler" title="Karl Künstler">Karl Künstler</a> (1901–1945), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld" title="Karl Lagerfeld">Karl Lagerfeld</a> (1933–2019), German fashion designer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Landsteiner" title="Karl Landsteiner">Karl Landsteiner</a> (1868–1943), Austrian biologist and physician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Lauterbach" title="Karl Lauterbach">Karl Lauterbach</a> (born 1963), German Federal Minister of Health</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Lehmann" title="Karl Lehmann">Karl Lehmann</a> (1936–2018), German prelate of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Leo_Heinrich_Lehmann" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann">Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann</a> (1894–1960), German-born American art historian, archaeologist, and professor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Linnas" title="Karl Linnas">Karl Linnas</a> (1919–1987), Estonian Nazi concentration camp commandant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Lucas" title="Karl Lucas">Karl Lucas</a> (born 1972), English actor and comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Malden" title="Karl Malden">Karl Malden</a> (1912–2009), American actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">Karl Malone</a> (born 1963), American basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Maron" title="Karl Maron">Karl Maron</a> (1903–1975), German politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> (1818–1883), Prussian philosopher, father of historical materialism</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Mecklenburg" title="Karl Mecklenburg">Karl Mecklenburg</a> (born 1960), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_M%C3%B6ckel" title="Karl Möckel">Karl Möckel</a> (1901–1948), German Nazi SS officer at Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Moik" title="Karl Moik">Karl Moik</a> (1938–2015), Austrian television presenter and singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Nehammer" title="Karl Nehammer">Karl Nehammer</a> (born 1972), Austrian politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Olive" title="Karl Olive">Karl Olive</a> (born 1969), French sports journalist and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Olson" title="Karl Olson">Karl Olson</a> (1930–2010), American baseball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_von_Oberkamp" title="Karl von Oberkamp">Karl von Oberkamp</a> (1893–1947), German SS commander executed for war crimes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Pearson" title="Karl Pearson">Karl Pearson</a> (1857–1936), English statistician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Pilkington" title="Karl Pilkington">Karl Pilkington</a> (born 1972), English podcaster, author and former radio producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Platen" title="Karl Platen">Karl Platen</a> (1877–1952), German actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Popper" title="Karl Popper">Karl Popper</a> (1902–1994), Austrian/British philosopher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Power" title="Karl Power">Karl Power</a>, British prankster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Rahm" title="Karl Rahm">Karl Rahm</a> (1907–1947), German SS officer, commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp executed for war crimes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Rapp" title="Karl Rapp">Karl Rapp</a> (1882–1962), German engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuffy_Rhodes" title="Tuffy Rhodes">Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes</a>, American baseball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Karl Rove</a> (born 1950), American political advisor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Roy" title="Karl Roy">Karl Roy</a> (1968–2012), Filipino rock singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Schiewerling" title="Karl Schiewerling">Karl Schiewerling</a> (1951–2021), German politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Silfverberg" title="Karl Silfverberg">Karl Silfverberg</a> (1899–1978), Swedish Air Force major general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Heinz_Schnell" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Heinz Schnell">Karl Heinz Schnell</a> (1915–2013), German jet pilot during WW II</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Eberhard_Sch%C3%B6ngarth" title="Karl Eberhard Schöngarth">Karl Eberhard Schöngarth</a> (1903–1946), German Nazi SS war criminal, executed for war crimes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Sch%C3%A4dler" title="Karl Schädler">Karl Schädler</a> (1804–1872), President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Shiels" title="Karl Shiels">Karl Shiels</a> (1971–2019), Irish actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Schlyter" title="Karl Schlyter">Karl Schlyter</a> (1879–1959), Swedish jurist and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Singer" title="Karl Singer">Karl Singer</a> (born 1943), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_S%C3%B6llner" title="Karl Söllner">Karl Söllner</a>, (1903–1986), German-Austrian chemist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Stefanovic" title="Karl Stefanovic">Karl Stefanovic</a> (born 1971), Australian television presenter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Steubl" title="Karl Steubl">Karl Steubl</a> (1910–1945), Nazi war criminal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Streibel" title="Karl Streibel">Karl Streibel</a> (1903–1986), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Svoboda_(politician)" title="Karl Svoboda (politician)">Karl Svoboda</a> (1929–2022), Austrian politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_O._Thomas" title="Karl O. Thomas">Karl O. Thomas</a> (born 1963), United States Navy vice admiral</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Urban" title="Karl Urban">Karl Urban</a> (born 1972), New Zealand actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Virtanen" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Virtanen">Karl Virtanen</a> (born 1971), Sweden-Finnish journalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Edward_Wagner" title="Karl Edward Wagner">Karl Edward Wagner</a> (1945–1994), American writer, editor and publisher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Wallenda" title="Karl Wallenda">Karl Wallenda</a> (1905–1978), German-born tightrope artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Weierstrass" title="Karl Weierstrass">Karl Weierstrass</a> (1815–1897), German mathematician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Wendlinger" title="Karl Wendlinger">Karl Wendlinger</a> (born 1968), Austrian race car driver</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Williams" title="Karl Williams">Karl Williams</a> (born 1971), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Michael_Ziehrer" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl Michael Ziehrer">Karl Michael Ziehrer</a> (1843–1922), Austrian composer</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_characters">Fictional characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_(given_name)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fictional characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Karl the Giant, a character from the 2003 film <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Fish" title="Big Fish">Big Fish</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Agathon" title="Karl Agathon">Karl C. Agathon</a>, a character in the re-imagined <i><a href="/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)" title="Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)">Battlestar Galactica</a></i> series</li> <li>Karl Childers, protagonist in the 1996 film <i><a href="/wiki/Sling_Blade" title="Sling Blade">Sling Blade</a></i></li> <li>Karl Haulzemoff, a character in the 2011 film <i><a href="/wiki/Cars_2" title="Cars 2">Cars 2</a></i></li> <li>Karl Hootkin, a character in the 2012 film <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Miracle" title="Big Miracle">Big Miracle</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Mayer" title="Karl Mayer">Karl Mayer</a>, divorce attorney and ex-husband of <a href="/wiki/Susan_Mayer" title="Susan Mayer">Susan Mayer</a> on <i><a href="/wiki/Desperate_Housewives" title="Desperate Housewives">Desperate Housewives</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag-Smasher" title="Flag-Smasher">Karl Morgenthau</a>, the first Marvel Comics supervillain known as Flag-Smasher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Stromberg" title="Karl Stromberg">Karl Stromberg</a>, the main antagonist in the 1977 James Bond film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(film)" title="The Spy Who Loved Me (film)">The Spy Who Loved Me</a></i></li> <li>Karl Tanner, a character in the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i></li> <li>Karl Walken, fictional mayor in <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Cat_(manga)" title="Black Cat (manga)">Black Cat</a></i> magna series</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karl_(given_name)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="selfreference"><a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Karl" title="Special:PrefixIndex/Karl">All pages with titles beginning with <i>Karl</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="selfreference"><a href="/wiki/Special:Search/intitle:%22Karl%22" title="Special:Search/intitle:"Karl"">All pages with titles containing <i>Karl</i></a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Karl (disambiguation)">Karl (disambiguation)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_(surname)" title="Karl (surname)">Karl (surname)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karli_(name)" title="Karli (name)">Karli (name)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karol_(name)" title="Karol (name)">Karol (name)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karyl" title="Karyl">Karyl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADgs%C3%BEula" title="Rígsþula">Rígsþula</a> (<a href="/wiki/Churl" title="Churl">Churl</a>)</li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1097304697">.mw-parser-output .dmbox{display:flex;align-items:center;clear:both;margin:0.9em 1em;border-top:1px solid #ccc;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding:0.25em 0.35em;font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .dmbox>*{flex-shrink:0;margin:0 0.25em}.mw-parser-output .dmbox-body{flex-grow:1;flex-shrink:1;padding:0.1em 0}.mw-parser-output .dmbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}</style> <div role="note" id="setindexbox" class="metadata plainlinks dmbox dmbox-setindex"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/WPanthroponymy.svg/30px-WPanthroponymy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/WPanthroponymy.svg/45px-WPanthroponymy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/WPanthroponymy.svg/60px-WPanthroponymy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="53" data-file-height="51" /></span></span></div><div class="dmbox-body"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Name list</div>This page or section lists people that share the same <a href="/wiki/Given_name" title="Given name">given name</a>. <br /><small>If an <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Karl_(given_name)&namespace=0">internal link</a> led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.</small></div> </div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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