List of Famous people named Karl

Karl Ferdinand Sohn was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Karl Kurt Friedrich Ude was a German journalist and writer.

Karl von Struve was a Russian nobleman and politician. He served, in turn, as Russian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan, the United States, and the Netherlands.

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch was a social and political scientist from Prague. He was the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. From 1977 to 1987 he was the Director of Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

Karl Joseph Simrock was a German poet and writer. He is primarily known for his translation of Das Nibelungenlied into modern German.

Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten was a German mineralogist known for contributions made to the German metallurgy industry.

Karl Alexander Deisseroth is the D. H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technologies of hydrogel-tissue chemistry and optogenetics, and for applying integrated optical and genetic strategies to study normal neural circuit function, as well as dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease.