Karl Explained

Karl may refer to:

People

• Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
• Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
• Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor
• Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoeira Della Vedova Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• Karl (surname)

In myth

• Karl (mythology), in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl)
• Karl, giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island

Vehicles

• Opel Karl, a car
• ST Karl, Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST Empire Henchman

Other uses

• Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Karl-Gerät, AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War
• KARL project, an open source knowledge management system
• Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea
• KARL, a radio station in Minnesota
• List of storms named Karl, a number of named tropical cyclones
• Karl is also a local San Francisco bay area term referring to the climatically reliable fog of the Bay- area.

See also

• Carl (disambiguation)
• Carle, a name
• Karle (disambiguation)
• Carll S. Burr Jr. (1858–1936), New York politician
• Carol (disambiguation)
• Churl (also churl, ceorl, carl), freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system
• John L. Karle (1894–1953), New York politician
• Karl-Heinz
• Karlo (name)