Károly is a very common Hungarian male
given name
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. It is also sometimes found as a Hungarian
surname
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Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
. The origin of this name is the
Turkic
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* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation)
** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language
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Karul, which means
hawk
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. Nowadays Károly is considered the equivalent of English Karl or
Charles
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...
(because the
Latin Carolus is very close to Károly).
[Fercsik Erzsébet – Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája – Budapest 2009, ]
Given names
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Charles I of Hungary (1288–1342), in Hungarian Károly Róbert, King of Hungary and Croatia
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Károly Aggházy (1855–1918), Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer
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Károly Andrássy (1792–1845), Hungarian politician
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Károly Bajkó (1944–1997), Hungarian Olympic wrestler
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Károly Balzsay (born 1979), Hungarian boxer
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Károly Bartha (Minister of Defence)
Vitéz Károly Bartha de Dálnokfalva (18 June 1884 – 22 November 1964) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence between 1938 and 1942. During World War I, he had several high commander offices in B ...
(1884–1964), Hungarian colonel general and politician
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Károly József Batthyány (1697–1772), Hungarian general, field marshal and ban (viceroy) of Croatia
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Károly Binder
Károly Binder (born 2 April 1956) is a Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and educator.
Early life
Binder was born in Budapest on 2 April 1956. He was five years old when he started playing the piano and studied jazz in Budapest at the Béla Bart ...
(born 1956), Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and educator
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Károly Brocky (1808–1855), Hungarian painter
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Károly Doncsecz (1918–2002), Slovene potter
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Károly Ecser
Károly Ecser (22 October 1931 – 6 April 2005) was a Hungarian weightlifter who competed in the heavyweight class and represented Hungary at international competitions. He won the bronze medal at the 1965 World Weightlifting Championships i ...
(1931–2005), Hungarian weightlifter
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Károly Eperjes
Károly Eperjes (born 17 February 1954 in Hegykő) is a Kossuth Prize winner Hungarian stage and film actor, member of the National Theatre in Budapest. Eperjes appeared in more than fifty films since 1982.
Selected filmography
Awards
* JÃ ...
(born 1954), Hungarian actor
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Károly Ferencz (1913–1984), Hungarian wrestler
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Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917), Hungarian painter
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Károly Frenreisz (born 1946), Hungarian singer and songwriter
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Károly Gesztesi (1963–2020), Hungarian actor
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Károly Grósz
Károly Grósz (1 August 1930 – 7 January 1996) was a Hungary, Hungarian communism, communist politician, who served as the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party from 1988 to 1989.
Early career
Grósz was born in Misko ...
(1930–1996), Hungarian politician
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Károly Hieronymi (1836–1911), Hungarian engineer and politician
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Károly Horvath (born 1947), Hungarian singer known as Charlie
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Károly Kárpáti (1906–1996), Hungarian Olympic wrestling
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Károly Kerkapoly (1824–1891), Hungarian politician and Minister of Finance
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Károly Kernstok (1873–1940), Hungarian painter
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Károly Kisfaludy (1788–1830), Hungarian dramatist and artist
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Károly Knezić (1808–1849), Hungarian Army general
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Károly Kós (1883–1977), Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician
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Károly Leiningen-Westerburg (1819–1849), German general in the Hungarian Army
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Károly Lotz (1833–1904), German-Hungarian painter
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Károly Makk (1925–2017), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
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Károly Markó the Elder
Károly Markó, also known as Carlo Marco (25 September 1791,
@ the Magyar Életrajzi Lexikonban.
(1922–1988), Hungarian artist
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Károly Sándor (1928–2014), Hungarian footballer
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Károly Simonyi (1916–2001), Hungarian physicist, father of
Charles Simonyi
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Károly Szabó (1916–1964), Austro-Hungarian assistant of Raoul Wallenberg in rescuing Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
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Károly Takács (1910–1976), Hungarian Olympic sport shooter
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Károly Tersztyánszky (1854–1921), Austro-Hungarian general in World War I
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Károly Than (1834–1908), Hungarian chemist
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Károly Vécsey (1803–1849), Hungarian Army general
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Károly Zipernowsky (1853–1942), Autrian-born Hungarian engineer
Surnames
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David Karoly
David John Karoly (born 1955) is an Australian atmospheric scientist, currently based at CSIRO.
Education and academic career
In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne, but later became in ...
(born 1955), Australian atmospheric scientist
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Jenő Károly
Jenő Károly (15 January 1886 – 28 July 1926) was a Hungarian footballer and later manager born in Budapest. Outside his homeland he is particularly noted for being the first manager of Agnelli-era Juventus.
As a player, Károly appeared ...
(1886–1926), Hungarian footballer
See also
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Károlyi, a Hungarian surname
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Karoli (disambiguation)
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Karola
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Karolj
References
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Hungarian masculine given names
Hungarian-language surnames