List of Famous people named Carel

Carel Struycken is a Dutch film, television, and stage actor. He is known for playing the Giant/Fireman in Twin Peaks, Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1992), and Lurch in the films The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993) and Addams Family Reunion (1998). He also appeared in the films Gerald's Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019).

Jonkheer Karel Pieter Antoni Jan Hubertus (Carel) Godin de Beaufort was a Dutch nobleman and motorsport driver from the Netherlands. He competed in Formula One between 1957 and 1964.

Albert Carel Willink was a Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism".

Carel Pietersz. Fabritius was a Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School, developed his own artistic style and experimented with perspective and lighting. Among his works are A View of Delft, The Goldfinch (1654), and The Sentry (1654).

Carel Nicolaas Visser was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture.

Carel Jan Jozef Marie Stolker is a Dutch administrator and the rector magnificus and president of Leiden University as of February 2013. He is the successor of Paul F. van der Heijden. Stolker is a professor of private law and former dean of the Leiden University Law School (2005–2011).

Carel Hendrik Frederik Polak was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist.

Carel Victor Gerritsen was a Dutch politician known for his radical views. The husband of Aletta Jacobs, he was a proponent of open government, fair wages and birth control. He helped found many radical organisations in the Netherlands including the Nieuw-Malthusiaansche Bond, Radicale Bond and Vrijzinnig-Democratisch Bond.