List of Famous people named Karl

Karl Stotz was an Austrian football player from Vienna.

Karl Dietrich Bracher was a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Born in Stuttgart, Bracher was awarded a Ph.D. in the classics by the University of Tübingen in 1948 and subsequently studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950. During World War II, he served in the Wehrmacht and was captured by the Americans while serving in Tunisia in 1943. Bracher taught at the Free University of Berlin from 1950 to 1958 and at the University of Bonn since 1959. In 1951 Bracher married Dorothee Schleicher, the niece of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. They had two children.

Karl Bögelein was a German football goalkeeper and coach.

Karl Ludwig Hampe was a German historian of the Middle Ages, particularly the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the High Middle Ages.

Karl Schlechta was an Austrian footballer and coach.

Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle. He has been described as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations" by the Wall Street Journal. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch.

Karl Ravens was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Construction and Urban Development for West Germany from 1974 to 1978.

Karl Dedecius was a Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature.

Karl Freiherr von Drais was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He was born and died in Karlsruhe.

Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was an SS non-commissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp. After World War II, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but was ultimately released, having served 16 years in prison.