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
Charles I or Karl I (german: Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria, hu, Károly Ferenc József Lajos Hubert György Ottó Mária; 17 August 18871 April 1922) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary (as Charles IV, ), King of Croatia, ...
, 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
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 mentione ...
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-sou ...
, 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
Karl (in Eifel dialect: ''Koahl'') is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The munici ...
, 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 effor ...
, 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 t ...
, 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 ...
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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 ...
, 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 di ...
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Carll S. Burr, Jr.
Carll Smith Burr Jr. (September 26, 1858 in Commack, Suffolk County, New York – January 2, 1936 in Commack, Suffolk Co. NY) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Carll S. Burr (1831–1916) and Emma Frances (Case) Bur ...
(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
John Lawrence Karle (April 14, 1894 in Queens – 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
He graduated from Fordham Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1916, and practiced law in New York City.
Karle was a member of th ...
(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
* Kar ...
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Karlo (name)
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