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Karl A. Scheidt
Karl A. Scheidt is an American organic chemist, professor at Northwestern University since 2002, known for N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis, cooperative carbene and Lewis acid catalysis, and cofounding therapeutics startups.
Karl Adam Heinrich Kellner
Karl Adam Heinrich Kellner (1837–1915) was a German Roman Catholic priest and theology professor at Bonn, best remembered for his Heortologie, a history of the church year and saints' feasts.
Karl Ake Asph
Karl-Åke Asph, born 2 February 1939 in Avesta, Sweden, is a former cross-country skier of IFK Mora who won 4x10 km relay gold at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics in his only Games, skiing the first leg, and also won the 1967 Lidingöloppet.
Karl Albert Hasselbalch
Karl Albert Hasselbalch (1874–1962) was a Danish physiologist and biochemist who created the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation in 1916, co-demonstrated the Bohr effect in 1904, and later led the Royal Danish Agricultural Society.
Karl Albrecht
Karl Hans Albrecht (1920–2014), German entrepreneur who with brother Theo turned their mother's Essen grocery shop into the Aldi discount empire; after the 1961 split he led Aldi Süd, expanding it internationally, and died Germany's richest person.
Karl Albrecht von Vogel
Karl Albrecht Vogel, from 1883 Vogel Ritter von Frommanshausen, was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian who held the New Testament chair in Vienna from 1861.
Karl Alfred von Zittel
Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904) was a German paleontologist, professor at Munich from 1866 and director of its paleontological museum, best known for the Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–93).
Karl Allen
Karl Allen is an American politician and Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate representing Greenville's District 7, known for sponsoring expungement and teacher pay legislation.
Karl Anderson
Karl Anderson (Chad Allegra, b. 1980), American pro wrestler, "Machine Gun"; NJPW Bullet Club leader, four-time IWGP tag champion, WWE Raw tag champion with Luke Gallows, NEVER Openweight champion.
Karl Anker Jørgensen
Karl Anker Jørgensen (born 1955 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish organic chemist and professor at Aarhus University, known for asymmetric organocatalysis and for the Jørgensen–Hayashi catalyst.
Karl August Credner
Karl August Credner (1797–1857) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of church history at Gießen, a principal founder of the historical study of the New Testament canon.
Karl August Folkers
Karl August Folkers was an American organic chemist who isolated vitamin B12, the treatment for pernicious anemia, at Merck and later devoted his career to coenzyme Q10.
Karl Bahre
Karl Bähre (Karl Bahre), German water polo player (1899-1960) of Wasserfreunde 98 Hannover; won gold with Germany at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, leading German scorer, 33 internationals, four German titles.
Karl Barth
Karl Barth (1886–1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian, often called the most important of the twentieth century, known for the unfinished Church Dogmatics and the Barmen Declaration.
Karl Benrath
Karl Benrath (1845–1924) was a German Protestant church historian and professor who studied the Reformation in Italy, holding the church history chair at the University of Königsberg from 1890.
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), German sculptor, teacher, and photographer of magnified plant forms; Neue Sachlichkeit pioneer whose 1928 book Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature) made him famous.
Karl Bodmer
Karl Bodmer (Johann Carl Bodmer, 1809–1893) was a Swiss painter known for watercolors of Plains Indian peoples made on a Missouri River expedition from 1832 to 1834.
Karl Börjesson
Karl Börjesson, born 1982, is a professor of chemistry at the University of Gothenburg working at the border of chemistry and physics on strong exciton–photon coupling, triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion, and covalent organic framework films.
Karl Brabenec
Karl Brabenec is an American Republican member of the New York State Assembly from the 98th district, covering parts of Orange and Rockland counties, elected in 2014.
Karl Brandt
Karl Franz Friedrich Brandt (1904–1948), German physician, SS-Gruppenführer, and Hitler's escort physician from 1934; as Reich Commissioner for Sanitation and Health he directed the Nazi euthanasia program and forced experiments, and was executed after the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.
Karl Brugmann
Karl Brugmann (1849–1919) was a German Indo-European linguist, professor at Leipzig from 1887, and leader of the Neogrammarians, whose 1878 manifesto asserted that sound laws admit no exceptions.
Karl Bryullov
Karl Bryullov (Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в), born Karl Brulleau, was a leading Russian academic painter whose The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) won him broad European fame.
Karl Christian Johann Holsten
Karl Christian Johann Holsten (1825–1897) was a German Protestant theologian of the Tübingen School who devoted his career to reconstructing the theology of Paul the Apostle.
Karl Compton
Karl Compton (1887–1954) was an American physicist known for electron physics and photoelectric-effect research, a Princeton professor, and MIT's ninth president from 1930 to 1948.
Karl Cook
Karl Cook (born 1990) is an American show jumping rider from Rancho Santa Fe, California; Olympic team silver medalist at Paris 2024 aboard Caracole de la Roque, trained by Eric Navet, son of Intuit founder Scott Cook.
Karl Darlow
Karl Darlow, born 1990 in Northampton, is a Welsh goalkeeper at Manchester United since July 2026, formerly of Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Hull City, and Leeds United, with 15 Wales caps.
Karl Davies
Karl Davies (born 1982, Greater Manchester) is an English actor who played Robert Sugden in Emmerdale (2001–2005, 2009 return), Lyle Anderson in Kingdom, Daniel Cawood in Happy Valley, and Tim Bailie in The Tower.
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American neuroscientist and practicing psychiatrist at Stanford University, known for creating optogenetics and hydrogel-tissue chemistry and for sharing the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Karl Denke
Karl Denke, called the Cannibal of Ziębice, was a German serial killer believed to have killed 20 to 40 vagrants in Münsterberg, Silesia, before his suicide in 1924.
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe is an American funk and jazz-funk jam band formed in 1998 by saxophonist Karl Denson, growing out of San Diego's acid-jazz scene.