Top Celebrity Names Starting With Carl

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   Carl Lewis

   Age 50 Male
   

   Track & Field Athlete

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   Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 gold, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired. Lewis became an actor and has appeared in a number of films.… read more

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   Carl Reiner

   Age 90 Male
   

   Actor, Producer, Comedian

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   Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during his career.

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   Carl Barât

   Age 33 Male
   

   Musician

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   Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is an English musician, actor and author. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and recently debuted a solo album, but is best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines.… read more

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   Carl Crawford

   Age 30 Male
   

   Outfielder, Major, Baseball Player

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   Carl Demonte "The Perfect Storm" Crawford is an American professional baseball outfielder who plays for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed. Crawford has more triples (110) than any other active baseball player.… read more

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   Carl Pavano

   Age 36 Male
   

   Major, Right Handed Pitcher, Baseball Player

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   Carl Anthony Pavano is an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher currently with the Minnesota Twins.

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   Carl Wilson

   1946 - 1998 Male
   

   Record Producer

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   Carl Dean Wilson was an American rock and roll singer and guitarist, best known as a founding member, lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist of The Beach Boys. Wilson performed lead vocals on a number of notable songs by The Beach Boys, including "Good Vibrations" and "God Only Knows". Carl Wilson was the younger brother of fellow Beach Boys Dennis and Brian Wilson. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.… read more

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   Carl Perkins

   1932 - 1998 Male
   

   Rockabilly Musician

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   Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes". According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed.… read more

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   Carl Levin

   Age 77 Male
   

   Politician

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   Carl Milton Levin is the senior United States Senator from Michigan, serving since 1979. He is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He has been Michigan's senior senator since 1995. He has served as a U.S. Senator longer than any Senator in Michigan history. He was elected to a sixth term in 2008, which will end in January 2015. He is the younger brother of U.S. Representative Sander M. Levin.… read more

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   Carl Paladino

   Age 65 Male
   

   Politician

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   Carl Pasquale Paladino is an American businessman and political activist from Buffalo, New York. Paladino is the founder and chairman of Ellicott Development Company, a real estate development company he founded in 1973. Paladino ran a campaign for the New York gubernatorial election in 2010; he pulled of an upset by winning the Republican primary over Rick Lazio, but finished second to Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the general election.… read more

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    Carl Linnaeus

    1707 - 1778 Male
    

    Botanist and Physician

    
    

    Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus a Linné).… read more

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    Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

    1884 - 1945 Male
    

    Politician, Civil Servant, Mayor

    
    

    Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. Had the 20 July plot of 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.… read more

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    Carl Bildt

    Age 62 Male
    

    Politician, Diplomat, Prime Minister

    
    

    Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. He has served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006.… read more

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    Carl McCall

    Age 76 Male
    

    Politician

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    Herman Carl McCall is a former Comptroller of New York State and was the Democratic candidate for state governor in 2002. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for numerous corporations. He received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1958.… read more

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    Carl Franklin

    Age 63 Male
    

    Actor, Screenwriter, Film and Television Director

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    Carl Franklin is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986. Franklin is most noted for Devil in a Blue Dress, which was based on the book by Walter Mosley and starred Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle.… read more

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    Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

    1867 - 1951 Male
    

    Politician, Statesman, Baron

    
    

    Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland (1918–1919) and the sixth President of Finland (1944–1946). Mannerheim is widely regarded by many Finns and non-Finns alike as the father of the modern country of Finland.… read more

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    Carl Icahn

    Age 76 Male
    

    Investor, President, Financier

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    Carl Celian Icahn is an American business magnate and investor.

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    Carl Sagan

    1934 - 1996 Male
    

    Astronomy and Planetary Science

    
    

    Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He advocated scientifically skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.… read more

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    Carl I. Hagen

    Age 68 Male
    

    Politician, Vice President

    
    

    Carl Ivar Hagen is a Norwegian politician and former Vice President of the Norwegian Parliament. He was the chairman of the Progress Party from 1978 until 2006, when Siv Jensen replaced him as chairman of the party. Under his leadership he was the undisputed leader and centre of the party, and in many ways personally controlled its ideology and policies.… read more

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    Carl Jung

    1875 - 1961 Male
    

    Psychiatrist, Influential Thinker, and Founder of Analytical Psychology

    
    

    'Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization.… read more

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    Carl Nielsen

    1865 - 1931 Male
    

    Danish Composer

    
    

    Carl August Nielsen, widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age. While it was some time before his works were fully appreciated, even in his home country, Nielsen has now firmly entered the international repertoire.… read more

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    Carl Switzer

    1927 - 1959 Male
    

    Film Actor

    
    

    Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.… read more

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    Carl Smith

    1927 - 2010 Male
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Musician

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    Carl Milton Smith was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter (later June Carter Cash) and Goldie Hill, and the father of Carlene Carter. He was one of country's most successful male artists during the 1950s, with 30 Top 10 Billboard hits, including 21 in a row. Smith's success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single every year except one.… read more

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    Carl Barks

    1901 - 2000 Male
    

    Illustrator, Comic Book Creator

    
    

    Carl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961).… read more

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    Carl Hayden

    1877 - 1972 Male
    

    Federal Politician

    
    

    Carl Trumbull Hayden was an American politician and the first United States Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as Arizona's first Representative for eight terms before entering the Senate, Hayden held the record for longest-serving member of the United States Congress from 1958 until 2009. The longtime Dean of the United States Senate served as its president pro tempore and chairman of both its Rules and Administration and Appropriations committees.… read more

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    Carl E. Duckett

    1923 - 1992 Male
    

    Visionary

    
    

    Carl Ernest Duckett was the founding father and visionary leader of the Central Intelligence Agency's science and technology operations. Those who knew him as a guitar-playing youth in the Blue Ridge Mountains would have never have guessed that this man with only a mill-town high-school education would eventually oversee the development and operation of some of the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering endeavors in the world.… read more