Karl may refer to:
People
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Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
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Karl der Große
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Emp ...
, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
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Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
, German philosopher and political writer
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Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor
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Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoeira Della Vedova Júnior, Brazilian footballer
In myth
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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
Vehicles
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Opel Karl
The Opel Karl (also known as the Vauxhall Viva and Vinfast Fadil) is a city car with a hatchback manufactured by GM Korea and marketed by Opel as a rebadged and restyled variant of the fourth-generation Chevrolet Spark, replacing the Suzuki-s ...
, a car
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ST ''Karl'', Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST ''Empire Henchman''
Other uses
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Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Karl-Gerät
"''Karl-Gerät''" (040/041) (German literally "Karl-device"), also known as ''Mörser Karl'', was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar (''Mörser'') designed and built by Rheinmetall. Its heaviest munition was a diameter, shel ...
'', AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War
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KARL project, an open source knowledge management system
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Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea
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KARL, a radio station in Minnesota
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List of storms named Karl, a number of named tropical cyclones
See also
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Carl (disambiguation)
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Carle
Carle or Carlé is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
*Andrea Cosima Carle, whose stage name is Maggie Mae (1960 – 2021), German singer
*Barbara Carle (born 1958), French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist
* David C ...
, a name
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Karle (disambiguation)
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Carll S. Burr, Jr. (1858–1936), New York politician
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Carol (disambiguation)
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Churl
A churl (Old High German ), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled , and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. A ...
(also churl, ceorl, carl), freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system
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John L. Karle (1894–1953), New York politician
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Karl-Heinz Karl-Heinz is a German given name, composed of Karl and Heinz but with a hyphen dash. Notable people with that name include:
* Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer, German Bishop
* Karl-Heinz Feldkamp (born 1934), football coach and former player
* Karl-H ...
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Karlo (name) Karlo is an Albanian, Basque, Croatian and Esperanto masculine given name as well as a Slovene masculine given name that serves as a Slovene diminutive form of Karel.
Given name
* Karlo Aspeling (born 1987), South African rugby player
* Karlo ...
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