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Karl Schnabl
Karl Schnabl (born 1954, Villach, Austria) is an Austrian ski jumper and sports medicine physician; first Austrian Olympic ski jumping gold, large hill, Innsbruck 1976, plus normal hill bronze.
Karl Schochlin
Karl Schochlin (1894–1974) was a Swiss rower who won the 1928 Olympic gold medal in the coxed pair, rowing with his brother Hans, and took nine European medals.
Karl Schönherr
Karl Schönherr (1867–1943) was an Austrian physician-turned-playwright, a leading figure of Tyrolean folk drama whose Glaube und Heimat (1910) and Der Weibsteufel (1914) won the Grillparzer Prize.
Karl Schulze
Karl Schulze, German rower born 1988 in Dresden, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the men's quadruple sculls (London 2012, Rio 2016), 2015 world and 2013 European champion, retired in coastal rowing in 2025.
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist who, while serving on the Russian front in World War I, found the first exact solution to Einstein's field equations of general relativity.
Karl Sigmund
Karl Sigmund, born 1945 in Lower Austria, is an Austrian mathematician and pioneer of evolutionary game theory who taught at the University of Vienna from 1974 to 2013.
Karl Stefanovic
Karl Stefanovic, also known as Karl Stefanović, is an Australian television presenter and podcaster who co-hosted Nine's Today show from 2005 until leaving the network in June 2026.
Karl Stein (mathematician)
Karl Stein (1913–2000) was a German mathematician, professor at Munich from 1955, whose 1951 definition of Stein manifolds became a foundational object of complex geometry.
Karl Strupp
Karl Strupp (1886–1940) was a German jurist, a leading interwar specialist in international law, and professor at Frankfurt until the Nazis dismissed him in 1933.
Karl Sudhoff
Karl Sudhoff (1853–1938) was a German physician who became Germany's first professor of medical history in 1905 and founded the world's first institute for it, in Leipzig.
Karl Sverkersson
Karl Sverkersson (Karl VII), Swedish king of the Sverker dynasty, died 12 April 1167 on Visingsö. Son of Sverker the Elder; king of the Geats c. 1158, all Sweden from 1161; murdered by Knut Eriksson.
Karl Swedberg
Karl Swedberg is a Swedish cardiologist and Senior Professor at the University of Gothenburg who first reported survival benefits of four heart failure drug classes.
Karl Swenson
Karl Swenson (1908–1978) was an American character actor of Swedish descent, a network radio star (Lorenzo Jones, Our Gal Sunday, Mr. Chameleon), voice of Merlin in Disney's The Sword in the Stone, and Lars Hanson on Little House on the Prairie.
Karl Theodor Albert Liebner
Karl Theodor Albert Liebner (1806–1871) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Göttingen, Kiel, and Leipzig and served as court preacher in Dresden from 1855.
Karl Theodor Keim
Karl Theodor Keim (1825–1878) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar and church historian who taught at Zurich and Gießen and wrote a three-volume life of Jesus.
Karl Thieme
Karl Thieme (1862–1932) was a German Lutheran theologian and associate professor at the University of Leipzig, known for a 1909 booklet on the Zwickau theses controversy.
Karl Thopia
Karl Thopia, also known as Karl Topia, was an Albanian feudal prince who ruled central Albania from 1359 until his death in 1388 and captured Durrës in 1368.
Karl Toko Ekambi
Karl Toko Ekambi (Karl Louis-Brillant Toko Ekambi), Cameroonian winger-striker born 1992 in Paris; Angers, Villarreal, Lyon, Saudi and Qatari clubs; 51 Cameroon caps, 13 goals, AFCON 2021 standout.
Karl Touton
Karl Touton (1858–1934) was a German dermatologist who practiced in Wiesbaden, gave his name to the Touton giant cell, and described hundreds of new Hieracium taxa.
Karl Tryggvason
Karl Tryggvason, born 1947, is an Icelandic medical biochemist and nephrology researcher who discovered nephrin, the gene behind congenital nephrotic syndrome, and was Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Karolinska Institutet from 1994 to 2014.
Karl Ullmann
Karl Ullmann (Carl Christian Ullmann, 1796–1865) was a German Reformed theologian of the mediating school, a professor at Heidelberg who co-founded Theologische Studien und Kritiken in 1828.
Karl Uno Ingard
Karl Uno Ingard, known as K. Uno Ingard, was a Swedish-born physicist and acoustician who spent his career at MIT, working in acoustics and plasma physics.
Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban (born 1972, Wellington) is a New Zealand actor known for Éomer in The Lord of the Rings, Bones in Star Trek, Dredd, Skurge in Thor: Ragnarok, and Billy Butcher in The Boys (2019–2026).
Karl Vennberg
Karl Gunnar Vennberg (1910–1995) was a Swedish poet and critic, a leading figure of the 1940s modernist fyrtiotalism movement, and winner of the 1972 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Karl von Auwers
Karl Friedrich von Auwers (1863–1939) was a German organic chemist who coined the term stereochemistry in 1888 and directed the chemical institutes at Greifswald and Marburg.
Karl von Frisch
Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) was an Austrian zoologist who decoded the honeybee waggle dance, showing how bees communicate food locations, and shared the 1973 Nobel Prize.
Karl von Habsburg
Karl von Habsburg is an Austrian media entrepreneur and politician who served as an MEP for the ÖVP from 1996 to 2004 and currently heads the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Karl von Hase
Karl von Hase, or Karl August von Hase, was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who taught at the University of Jena from 1830 to 1883.
Karl W. Butzer
Karl W. Butzer (1934–2016) was a German-born American geographer and geoarchaeologist who pioneered geoarchaeology, studied ancient Egypt's environment, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
Karl Wallenda
Karl Wallenda (1905-1978), German-born founder of the Great Wallendas and Flying Wallendas high-wire troupe, Ringling headliner from 1928, seven-person pyramid creator, died falling from a wire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.