Karl may refer to:
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Karl (given name)
Karl (also Carl) is an originally Germanic variant of the male given name Charles meaning free man, or simply a man. For further details on origin and meaning, see Churl and Charles.
Notable people with the name include:
Nobles
*Karl der Gro ...
, 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) Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austri ...
, in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl)
* ''Karl'', giant in Icelandic myth, associated with
Drangey
Drangey () or Drang Isle is an island in the Skagafjörður fjord in northern Iceland. It is the remnant of a 700,000‑year‑old volcano, mostly made of volcanic palagonite tuff, forming a massive rock fortress.
The island was first mentioned ...
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
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The web-based application KARL has an open source project called The KARL Project. KARL is an open source, web-based product for collaboration, organizational intranets and knowledge management. Developed by th ...
, an open source knowledge management system
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Korean Amateur Radio League
The Korean Amateur Radio League (KARL) (Korean, 한국아마추어무선연맹) is a non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea. KARL was founded in 1955 by Korean radio communication enthusiasts. Due to advocacy effo ...
, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea
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KARL Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austria ...
, a radio station in Minnesota
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List of storms named Karl The name Karl has been used for six tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
* Hurricane Karl (1980) – moved across the central Atlantic; caused no significant effects on land
* Hurricane Karl (1998) – travelled from north of Bermuda to near th ...
, a number of named tropical cyclones
See also
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Carl (disambiguation) Carl may refer to:
*Carl, Georgia, city in USA
*Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name
*Carl², a TV series
* "Carl", an episode of te ...
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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)
Karle may refer to: Places
* Karle (Svitavy District), a municipality and village in the Czech Republic
* Karli, India, a town in Maharashtra, India
** Karla Caves, a complex of Buddhist cave shrines
* Karle, Belgaum, a settlement in Belgaum ...
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Carll S. Burr, Jr. (1858–1936), New York politician
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Carol (disambiguation)
Carol may refer to:
People with the name
* Carol (given name)
* Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist
* Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress
* Sue Carol (1906–1982), American actress and talent agent, wife of actor ...
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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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