List of Famous people named Karel

Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He directed more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Karel Rada is a Czech former professional football defender. He played for several teams, including SK Slavia Prague, SK Sigma Olomouc, FK Teplice, Trabzonspor and Eintracht Frankfurt. At international level, he played for the Czech Republic, for which he played 43 matches and scored four goals. He was a participant in the Euro 1996, where the Czech Republic won the silver medal, and represented the Czech Republic at the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Karel Kaers was a Belgian professional cyclist with 30 wins.

Karel Halíř was a Czech violinist who lived mainly in Germany. "Karel" is also seen as Karol, Karl or Carl; "Halíř" is also seen as Halir or Haliř.

Karel De Baere was a Belgian professional racing cyclist. He won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 1954.

Karel Poborský is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a right winger. He was most noted for his technical ability and pace.

Karel Zelenka is a Czech-Italian former competitive figure skater. He is a five-time (2003–2007) Italian national champion and competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He qualified to the free skate at eleven ISU Championships – three World, three World Junior, and five European Championships – and finished in the top ten twice.

Karel Kramář was a Czech politician. He was a representative of the major Czech political party, the Young Czechs, in the Austrian Imperial Council from 1891 to 1915, becoming the party leader in 1897.

Karel Dujardin was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and other genre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting.