List of Famous people named Carl

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart.

Carl Ludwig Siegel was a German mathematician specialising in analytic number theory. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms. He was named as one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century.

Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker was a German zoologist and entomologist.

Carl Oswald Victor Engler was a German chemist, academic and politician. He wrote a Handbook of Industrial Chemistry in 1872. He is remembered for his early work in indigo.

Carl Theodor Albrecht was a German astronomer.

Carl Gottfried Neumann was a German mathematician.

Carl Hermann was a German professor of crystallography. With Charles-Victor Mauguin, he invented an international standard notation for crystallographic groups known as the Hermann–Mauguin notation or International notation.

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.

Carl Sigismund Kunth, also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist. He is known for being one of the first to study and categorise plants from the American continents, publishing Nova genera et species plantarum quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt Bonpland et Humboldt.