Top Celebrity Names Starting With Karl

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   Karl Lagerfeld

   Age 79 Male
   

   Photographer

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   Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel. Lagerfeld has his own label fashion house, as well as the Italian house Fendi.… read more

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   Karl Urban

   Age 39 Male
   

   Actor

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   Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor. He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess. He played Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick, the Russian assassin Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy, and Ghost in Pathfinder and won acclaim for his performances in New Zealand films The Price of Milk and Out of the Blue.… read more

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   Karl Malone

   Age 48 Male
   

   Basketball Player

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   Karl Anthony Malone, nicknamed "The Mailman," is a retired American professional basketball power forward. In his basketball career, Malone spent his first 18 seasons (1985–2003) with the Utah Jazz and formed a formidable duo with his teammate John Stockton. He played his final season with the Los Angeles Lakers. Malone grew up in rural Summerfield, Louisiana and played college basketball at Louisiana Tech University.… read more

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   Karl Rove

   Age 61 Male
   

   Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff

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   Karl Christian Rove was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.… read more

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   Karl Marx

   1818 - 1883 Male
   

   Philosopher, Political Economist and Revolutionary

   
   

   Karl Heinrich Marx was a Prussian philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement.… read more

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   Karl May

   1842 - 1912 Male
   

   Writer; Author

   
   

   'Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East. In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America. May also has written poetry and a play, and composed music; he also was proficient with several musical instruments.… read more

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   Karl Popper

   1902 - 1994 Male
   

   Austrian-british Philosopher of Science

   
   

   Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century; he also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Popper is known for his attempt to repudiate the classical observationalist/inductivist form of scientific method in favour of empirical falsification.… read more

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   Karl Malden

   1912 - 2009 Male
   

   Actor

   
   

   Karl Malden was a Serbian American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; On the Waterfront; and One-Eyed Jacks.… read more

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   Karl Wolf

   Age 33 Male
   

   Musician

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   Carl Abou Samah better known by his stage name Karl Wolf is a Lebanese-born Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has been a singer, songwriter and producer since 2001, releasing his first solo album Face Behind the Face on MapleNationwide/Universal in January 2006, followed by a second album Bite the Bullet in November 2007. His third album Nightlife was released on November 17, 2009.… read more

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    Karl Dönitz

    1891 - 1980 Male
    

    President of Germany; Nazi Military Commander

    
    

    Karl Dönitz was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine, or "Imperial Navy") during World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of SM UB-68 (2), the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner. While in a prisoner of war camp, he formulated what he later called Rudeltaktik ("pack tactic", commonly called "wolfpack").… read more

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    Karl Hess

    1923 - 1994 Male
    

    Speechwriter, Philosopher, Editor

    
    

    Karl Hess was an American national-level speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, atheist, and libertarian activist. His career included stints on the Republican right and the New Left, the latter coincident with his embrace of market anarchism.… read more

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    Karl Pilkington

    Age 39 Male
    

    Producer, Illustrator, Author

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    Karl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The Ricky Gervais Show with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.… read more

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    Karl Formes

    1815 - 1889 Male
    

    Bass, Singer, Voice

    
    

    Karl Johann Franz Formes, also called Charles John Formes, was a German bass opera and oratorio singer who had a long international career especially in Germany, London and New York. At one time extremely famous and in the forefront of his profession, several roles were composed for his voice, most notably that of Plunkett in Flotow's opera Martha.… read more

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    Karl Zéro

    Age 50 Male
    

    Television Journalist

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    Karl Zéro is the stage name of Marc Telenne. Zéro is a political talk show host/personality who has recorded albums of pop standards of the 1940s and 1950s. His pseudonym is all that remains from his punk period, other than a few scars from run-ins with 'rockers'. His music was used in the X-Files episode "Improbable".… read more

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    Karl Davies

    Age 29 Male
    

    Actor

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    Karl Davies is an English actor, who portrayed Lyle Anderson in the TV series Kingdom. Previously he had portrayed Robert Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.

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    Karl Muck

    1859 - 1940 Male
    

    Conductor

    
    

    Karl Muck was a German-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He endured a public outcry in 1917 that questioned whether his loyalties lay with Germany or the United States during World War I. Though he was a Swiss citizen, he was arrested and interned in a camp in Georgia from March 1918 until August 1919.… read more

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    Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg

    1760 - 1799 Male
    

    Habsburg Military Commander, French Revolutionary Wars

    
    

    Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg was an Austrian military commander. He achieved the rank of Field Marshal and died at the Battle of Stockach. The third son of a cadet branch of the House of Fürstenberg, at his birth his chances of inheriting the family title of Fürst zu Fürstenberg were slight; he was prepared instead for a military career, and a tutor was hired to teach him the military sciences.… read more

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    Karl Dietrich Bracher

    Age 90 Male
    

    Political Scientist, Historian, Scientist

    
    

    Karl Dietrich Bracher is 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. He was then held as a POW in Camp Concordia, Kansas.… read more

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    Karl Pruter

    1920 - 2007 Male
    

    Bishop, Priest

    
    

    Karl Hugo Prüter, was an Old Catholic bishop. Pruter was raised in the Lutheran church, and was a Congregationalist minister under the name of Hugo Rehling Pruter Sr. from 1945 to 1958. In the Congregationalist Church he was one of the leaders in the liturgical movement within the church during the late 1940s and early 1950s.… read more

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    Karl Benz

    1844 - 1929 Male
    

    Engineer, Inventor, Founder

    
    

    (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.… read more

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    Karl E. H. Seigfried

    Age 39 Male
    

    Bassist, Guitarist, Composer

    
    

    Karl E. H. Seigfried is a German-American jazz, rock, and classical bassist, guitarist, composer, bandleader, writer and educator based in Chicago. Seigfried has performed and taught on the double bass "in virtually all musical styles - from classical to avant garde jazz. " His projects in Chicago and his wide-ranging collaborations have largely been centered on an effort to promote multiculturalism in music.… read more

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    Karl Lucas

    Age 40 Male
    

    Comedian, Actor, Writer

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    Karl Lucas is an English comedian, actor and writer, who has written for and appeared in a number of television, music videos and radio comedy programmes, as well as various theatre productions. Lucas worked on Galaxy 102's Breakfast show which collectively won three Sony Awards - Gold in 1999 and Silver in 2000 for Best Breakfast Show. Lucas was writer and comedy sidekick on the show and was awarded his own Sony Award (Bronze)for his part of the 'Sticker Vicar' in 1999.… read more

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    Karl Eikenberry

    Age 61 Male
    

    Politician, Lieutenant General, Ambassador

    
    

    Karl Winfrid Eikenberry is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. He is currently the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.… read more

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    Karl von Eberstein

    1894 - 1979 Male
    

    Politician, Delegate, Witness

    
    

    Freiherr Freidrich Karl von Eberstein was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi party, the SA, the SS, Reichstag delegate, an HSSPF and SS-Oberabschnitt Führer, head of the Munich Police in World War II, introduced Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler, and was a witness at the Nuremberg Trials.… read more

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    Karl Kirchwey

    Age 56 Male
    

    Poet, Writer

    
    

    Karl Kirchwey is a prize–winning American poet who has lived in both Europe and the United States and whose work is strongly influenced by the Greek and Roman past. He often looks to the classical world for inspiration with themes which have included loss, loneliness, nostalgia and modern atrocities, and how the past relates to the present.… read more