List of Famous people named Carl

Carl Leverkus was a German chemist and chemistry entrepreneur. He is the namesake of the city of Leverkusen.

Carl Ng is a Chinese actor and model in Hong Kong.

Carl Czerny was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's numerous pupils.

Carl Sternheim was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emerging German middle class during the Wilhelmine period.

Carl Diem was a German sports administrator, and as Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games.

Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.

Carl Horst Hahn is a German businessman and former head of the Volkswagen Group from 1982 to 1993. He served as the chairman of the board of management of the parent company, Volkswagen AG. During his tenure, the group's car production increased from two million units in 1982 to 3.5 million a decade later.

Carl Siegmund Franz Credé was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Berlin.

Carl Adam Petri was a German mathematician and computer scientist.

Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.