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Karl Kraus (writer)
Karl Kraus was an Austrian satirist, poet, and playwright who edited his own Vienna journal, Die Fackel, from 1899 to 1936, attacking press corruption and the decay of German.
Karl Kreutzberg
Karl Kreutzberg (1912-1977), German field handball goalkeeper from Düren, VfB 08 Aachen; won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the only Olympic field handball tournament, playing two matches and befriending Jesse Owens.
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) was a German fashion designer, creative director of Chanel from 1982 and Fendi from 1965, credited with reviving Chanel into a leading luxury house.
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), Austrian-born physician and immunologist, discovered the ABO blood groups in 1900–1901 and the Rh factor with Wiener, enabling safe blood transfusion; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930, Rockefeller Institute.
Karl Lark-Horovitz
Karl Lark-Horovitz, born Karl Horovitz (1892–1958), was an Austrian-born American physicist who built Purdue's physics department and whose germanium research laid groundwork for the transistor.
Karl Lashley
Karl Lashley (1890–1958) was an American psychologist and founder of neuropsychology who searched for the engram, the brain's physical trace of memory, through lesion experiments on rats and monkeys.
Karl Lenggenhager
Karl Lenggenhager (1903–1989) was a Swiss surgeon, full professor, and director of the Surgical University Clinic at the Inselspital in Bern from 1942 to 1971, known for introducing low-dose heparin prophylaxis against postoperative thrombosis in 1935.
Karl Lenhard Rudolph
Karl Lenhard Rudolph (K. Lenhard Rudolph) is a German physician-scientist in stem cell and aging research, leading a group at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena.
Karl Lennert
Karl Lennert (1921–2012) was a German pathologist at Kiel University who created the Kiel classification of non-Hodgkin lymphomas, the first built on immunological findings, and described Lennert lymphoma.
Karl Leo
Karl Leo is a German physicist at TU Dresden known for organic semiconductor doping, OLEDs, and organic solar cells, and winner of the 2021 European Inventor Award.
Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), German socialist lawyer and anti-militarist, son of SPD co-founder Wilhelm Liebknecht; sole Reichstag deputy to vote against war credits in December 1914, Spartacus League leader with Rosa Luxemburg, KPD co-founder, murdered 15 January 1919 in Berlin.
Karl Link
Karl Link (born 1942, Herrenberg) is a German track cyclist who won 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold and 1968 silver in the team pursuit, later a national coach and Stuttgart Olympic training center head; distinct from the bodybuilder and the warfarin chemist Karl Link.
Karl Lisch
Karl Lisch (1907–1999) was an Austrian ophthalmologist who led the eye department at the Wörgl hospital and gave his name to the Lisch nodule, an iris lesion that remains a diagnostic criterion for neurofibromatosis type 1.
Karl Loewenstein
Karl Loewenstein was a German constitutional lawyer who developed militant democracy theory in 1937. He later served as a professor of jurisprudence at Amherst College until 1961.
Karl Löwith
Karl Löwith (1897–1973), German philosopher and historian of philosophy, student of Husserl and Heidegger; author of Meaning in History (1949), which argued modern philosophies of history are secularized Christian eschatology, sparking the Löwith–Blumenberg debate.
Karl Lueger
Karl Lueger was an Austrian lawyer and politician who was mayor of Vienna from 1897 to 1910, founded the Christian Social Party, and used antisemitic rhetoric as a political strategy.
Karl M. Johnson
Karl M. Johnson (died October 2023) was an American physician and virologist who isolated Machupo virus, co-identified Hantaan virus, and led the 1976 commission that named Ebola virus.
Karl Malden
Karl Malden (Mladen George Sekulovich, 1912–2009), American Oscar-winning character actor of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, star of TV's The Streets of San Francisco, American Express pitchman, and AMPAS president 1989–1992.
Karl Malone
Karl Malone, "The Mailman" (born 1963), American power forward for the Utah Jazz (1985-2003) and Lakers; two-time NBA MVP, 14-time All-Star, 36,928 career points, second all-time at retirement, no championship.
Karl Maramorosch
Karl Maramorosch (1915–2016) was an American plant pathologist and virologist who showed that some plant pathogens multiply in insect vectors and pioneered insect cell culture, winning the 1980 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Karl Mark Ansel
Karl Mark Ansel, publishing as K. Mark Ansel, is an immunologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how RNA regulation shapes T cell responses.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818–1883), German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary, founder of historical materialism and the critique of capitalism; author of the theory of surplus value and alienation, collaborator of Engels, inspiration of twentieth-century communist regimes and modern socialist movements.
Karl Matter
Karl Matter is a Swiss-trained cell biologist, professor at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology since 2001, known for work on tight junctions and epithelial protein sorting.
Karl Mauch
Karl Mauch (1837–1875) was a German explorer and cartographer of southeastern Africa who reached Great Zimbabwe in 1871, producing its first scientific description and the first account of the Transvaal's geology.
Karl May
Karl May (1842–1912), German adventure novelist, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand; best-selling German-language author with over 100 million copies, wrote Wild West and Orient tales without visiting America.
Karl Mayer
Karl Mayer is a German family-owned textile machinery manufacturer based in Obertshausen, Hesse, founded by Karl Mayer in 1937 and estimated to hold 60 to 65 percent of the global high-performance warp knitting machine market.
Karl Menger
Karl Menger (1902–1985) was an Austrian-American mathematician, born in Vienna and later a professor in Chicago, who helped found dimension theory, introduced the Menger sponge, and proved Menger's theorem in graph theory.
Karl Meyer (biochemist)
Karl Meyer (1899–1990) was a German-born American biochemist who spent most of his career at Columbia University, isolated and named hyaluronic acid in 1934, and shared the 1956 Lasker Award.
Karl Miescher
Karl Miescher (1892–1974) was a Swiss chemist who spent his career at the pharmaceutical company Ciba in Basel and led the 1948 total synthesis of estrone.
Karl Mundt
Karl Earl Mundt (1900–1974), South Dakota Republican congressman and senator 1939–1973, anticommunist, acting chairman of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, co-sponsor of the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act, and South Dakota's longest-serving senator.