List of Famous people named Carl

Name Carl is among the most common names in USA, England. Similar names: Karl, Karla, Karlie, Kaarlo, Karle, Karly, Kaarle. Here are some famous Carls:

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gontard

First Name Carl
Last Name Gontard
Born on July 30, 1764
Died on March 1, 1839 (aged 74)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
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Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz

First Name Carl
Last Name Adelcrantz
Born on January 30, 1716
Died on March 1, 1796 (aged 80)

Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz was a Swedish architect and civil servant. Adelcrantz's style developed from a rococo influenced by Carl Hårleman, the leading architect in Sweden in the early years of his career, to a classical idiom influenced by the stylistic developments in France in the mid-to-late 18th century. As överintendent, he headed the royal and public building works from 1767 until his retirement in 1795.

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Carl Jockusch

First Name Carl
Last Name Jockusch
Born on July 13, 1941 (age 84)

Carl Groos Jockusch Jr. is an American mathematician. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1959, attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and transferred to Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania in 1960, where he received his B.A. in 1963 with Highest Honors. He then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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Carl Stousland

First Name Carl
Last Name Stousland
Born on October 25, 1860
Died on August 23, 1941 (aged 80)

Carl Stousland was a Norwegian merchant, banker and politician.

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Carl Ludwig

First Name Carl
Last Name Ludwig
Born on December 29, 1816
Died on April 23, 1895 (aged 78)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology.

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Carl Holst

First Name Carl
Last Name Holst
Born on April 29, 1970 (age 55)

Carl Holst is a Danish politician, representing the liberal party Venstre. He is the first Region Mayor of Region of Southern Denmark, an office he assumed on 1 January 2007. He served as County Mayor of South Jutland County from 1 July 2000, following the unexpected resignation of the former county mayor, Kresten Philipsen. Holst was re-elected in 2001, and served in this capacity until 31 December 2006, when the Danish counties were abolished.

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Carl Henschel

First Name Carl
Last Name Henschel
Born on April 24, 1759
Died on January 1, 1835 (aged 75)
Born in Germany, Hesse
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Carl Gustav Hempel

First Name Carl
Last Name Hempel
Born on January 8, 1905
Died on November 9, 1997 (aged 92)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg

Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox.

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Carl von Linde

First Name Carl
Last Name Linde
Born on June 11, 1842
Died on November 16, 1934 (aged 92)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Carl Paul Gottfried Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which lead to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876. These breakthroughs laid the backbone for the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics that was awarded to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Linde was a member of scientific and engineering associations, including being on the board of trustees of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Linde was also the founder of what is now known as Linde plc, the world's largest industrial gases company, and ushered the creation of the supply chain of industrial gases as a profitable line of businesses. He was knighted in 1897 as Ritter von Linde.

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Carl E. Walz

First Name Carl
Last Name Walz
Born on September 6, 1955 (age 70)

Carl Erwin Walz is a retired NASA astronaut currently working for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Advanced Programs Group as vice president for Human Space Flight Operations. Walz was formerly assigned to the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.. He was the Acting Director for the Advanced Capabilities Division in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, and was responsible for a broad range of activities to include Human Research, Technology Development, Nuclear Power and Propulsion and the Lunar Robotic Exploration Programs to support the Vision for Space Exploration.

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