List of Famous people named Karl

Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus Kraepelin was a German naturalist who specialised in the study of scorpions, centipedes, spiders and solfugids, and was noted for his monograph Scorpiones und Pedipalpi (Berlin) in 1899, which was an exhaustive survey of the taxonomy of the Order Scorpiones. From 1889 to 1914, he served as the Director of the Naturhistorisches Museum Hamburg, which was destroyed during World War II, and worked on myriapods from 1901 to 1916.

Karl von den Steinen was a German physician, ethnologist, explorer, and author of important anthropological work, which is particularly to the study of Indian cultures of Central Brazil, and the art of the Marquesas. He laid the permanent foundations for Brazilian ethnology.

Karl Goldmark was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer.

Karl Eugen Julius Wirtz was a German nuclear physicist, born in Cologne. He was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces and incarcerated at Farm Hall for six months in 1945 under Operation Epsilon.

Karl August Folkers was an American biochemist who made major contributions to the isolation and identification of bioactive natural products.

Karl Gustav Jung was a German-Swiss medical doctor, political activist, professor of Medicine at the University of Basel, administrator and freemason.

Karl Hans Albrecht Jr. is a German billionaire, and the son of Karl Albrecht, who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo.

Karl Storck was a Hessian-born Romanian sculptor and art theorist.