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Karl Nehammer
Karl Nehammer (born 1972, Vienna) is an Austrian ÖVP politician, Interior Minister 2020–2021 and Federal Chancellor 2021–2025 of an ÖVP–Green coalition, who resigned after failed coalition talks with SPÖ and NEOS following the 2024 election.
Karl Nesselrode
Karl Nesselrode (Карл Васильевич Нессельроде) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who headed the empire's foreign ministry for forty years, from 1816 to 1856, serving Alexander I and Nicholas I.
Karl Neukirch
Karl Neukirch (Karl Bruno Paul Neukirch, 1864–1941), Berlin master joiner and Berliner Turnerschaft gymnast; won two 1896 Athens Olympic golds in team parallel bars and team horizontal bar, later excluded by the German Gymnastics Association.
Karl O. Christe
Karl O. Christe (1936–2026) was a German-born American inorganic and fluorine chemist at the University of Southern California, known for the first chemical synthesis of elemental fluorine.
Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter is a German microbiologist, born 1941, and professor emeritus at Regensburg who coined "hyperthermophile" and cultivated over 1500 strains of heat-loving microbes.
Karl Oskar Medin
Karl Oskar Medin (1847–1927) was a Swedish pediatrician and professor at the Karolinska Institutet who first described poliomyelitis as an epidemic disease, from the 1887 Stockholm outbreak.
Karl Ove Knausgård
Karl Ove Knausgård (born 1968) is a Norwegian author and publisher, known for the six-volume autobiographical novel Min kamp/My Struggle (2009–2011), the Seasons quartet, and the Morning Star series.
Karl P. Cohen
Karl P. Cohen (1913–2012) was an American physicist who led uranium isotope-separation theory for the Manhattan Project and later served as General Electric's chief nuclear scientist.
Karl Paranya
Karl Paranya (born 1975) is an American middle-distance runner who competed for Haverford College, won nine NCAA Division III titles, and in 1997 became the first Division III athlete to break four minutes in the mile.
Karl Parts
Karl Parts was an Estonian military commander, born in 1886, who organized and led the army's armored trains in the War of Independence of 1918–1920, freeing Tapa and Tartu.
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist and taxonomist at the Field Museum in Chicago who described over 200 species and died in 1957 after a boomslang snakebite.
Karl Paul Link
Karl Paul Link (1901–1978) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who isolated dicumarol from spoiled sweet clover and developed the anticoagulant warfarin.
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician who founded modern statistics at University College London, introducing the chi-squared test and the correlation coefficient.
Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793), German novelist and aesthetician, author of the psychological novel Anton Reiser (1785–1790), editor of the Magazine for Empirical Psychology, and professor of aesthetics at the Berlin academy of art.
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg was an Austrian field marshal who commanded the allied armies against Napoleon at Leipzig in 1813 and captured Paris in 1814.
Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington (born 1972) is an English radio producer, TV presenter, actor, and author, the third voice of The Ricky Gervais Show on XFM and its 300-million-download podcast, star of An Idiot Abroad and Sick of It.
Karl Plagge
Karl Plagge (1897–1957), German Wehrmacht major commanding HKP 562 in Vilna, used work certificates and a 1944 warning to help 150–250 Jews survive the Holocaust; honored as Righteous Among the Nations.
Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was an Austrian-born economic historian and social theorist whose 1944 book The Great Transformation argued the self-regulating market is a utopia that cannot exist.
Karl Popper
Karl Popper, born Karl Raimund Popper in Vienna in 1902, was a philosopher of science known for falsifiability and for The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945).
Karl R. Andersen
Karl R. Andersen (Karl Rudolf Svend Andersen, 1899–1983), Danish artistic gymnast with Gymnastikforeningen Athen, Copenhagen; won team free-system gold for Denmark at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, his only Games.
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (1904–1984) was a Jesuit priest and one of the most prolific and influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, shaping Catholicism's entry into modernity.
Karl Reinhardt (German mathematician)
Karl August Reinhardt (1895–1941) was a German mathematician, professor at Greifswald, who classified plane-tiling polygons, named Reinhardt polygons, and completed part of Hilbert's eighteenth problem in 1928.
Karl Renner
Karl Renner was an Austrian Social Democratic politician and jurist who served as the first chancellor of the First Austrian Republic from 1918 to 1920.
Karl Ristikivi
Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977) was an Estonian novelist, poet, and literary historian whose debut novel Tuli ja raud (1938) made him a leading Estonian exile writer in Sweden.
Karl Robinson
Karl Robinson (born 1980) is an English football manager who led MK Dons to the 2014-15 Championship promotion, later managed Charlton, Oxford United, Leeds United, and Salford City, and was sacked by Salford in June 2026 after a play-off final loss.
Karl Rove
Karl Rove (born 1950, Denver), Republican strategist known as "the Architect," ran George W. Bush's Texas and presidential campaigns, served as White House Senior Advisor 2000–2007, founded American Crossroads, and now writes a Wall Street Journal column.
Karl Rudolf Hagenbach
Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801–1874) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and church historian at the University of Basel whose textbooks on theological encyclopedia and the history of doctrine were widely used in Europe and America.
Karl S. Pister
Karl S. Pister (1925–2022) was an American structural engineer and university administrator, dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and chancellor of UC Santa Cruz from 1991 to 1996.
Karl Sax
Karl Sax (1892–1973) was an American botanist and cytogeneticist, a National Academy of Sciences member and director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum whose X-ray studies of chromosome aberrations in Tradescantia helped found radiation cytology.
Karl Schmid (biochemist)
Karl Schmid (1920–2009) was a biochemist at Boston University School of Medicine who spent his career on human plasma glycoproteins, above all α1-acid glycoprotein (orosomucoid), first crystallized by him in 1953.