List of Famous people named Carol
Carol Merrill
Carol Merrill is a former television game show model best known for her appearance in Let's Make a Deal during the show's original run between 1963–77.
Carol Solberg
Carolina Solberg Salgado is a Brazilian beach volleyball player.
Carol Abras
Caroline Abras is a Brazilian actress.
Carol Rama
Carol Rama was an Italian self-taught artist whose unconventional painting encompassed an erotic, and often sexually aggressive universe populated by characters who present themes of sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. She began to paint around the mid-thirties and exhibiting her work ten years later. Her work was relatively little known until curator Lea Vergine included several pieces in a 1980 exhibition, prompting Rama to revisit her earlier watercolour style.
Carol I of Romania
Carol or Charles I of Romania, born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was the first monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling as Prince (Domnitor) from 1866 to 1881, and as King from 1881 to 1914. He was elected Prince of the Romanian United Principalities on 20 April 1866 after the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza by a palace coup d'état. In May 1877, he proclaimed Romania an independent and sovereign nation. The defeat of the Ottoman Empire (1878) in the Russo-Turkish War secured Romanian independence, and he was proclaimed King on 26 March [O.S. 14 March] 1881. He was the first ruler of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty, which ruled the country until the proclamation of a socialist republic in 1947.
Carol Campbell
Carol Campbell is an Afro-German actress, model, presenter and yoga coach.
Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction". Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
Carol S. Dweck
Carol Susan Dweck is an American psychologist. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on mindset. She was on the faculty at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford University faculty in 2004. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Carol Mather
Sir David Carol MacDonnell Mather, known as Carol Mather, was a 20th Century British soldier and politician.
Carol Lambrino
Mircea Grigore Carol Hohenzollern, also known as Prince Mircea Grigore Carol al României according to his amended Romanian birth certificate or as Carol Lambrino, was the elder son of King Carol II of Romania.