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Karl Warner
Karl DeWitt Warner (1908-1995), American 400m runner for Yale; won 1932 Olympic 4x400m relay gold, setting world records of 3:11.8 and 3:08.2 on the third leg; distinct from Damian Warner.
Karl Weierstraß
Karl Weierstraß (Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass) was a German mathematician, born in Ostenfelde in 1815 and working in Berlin, who rebuilt analysis on arithmetical foundations and constructed the theory of complex functions.
Karl Welte
Karl Welte (born 1942 in Tettnang, Germany) is a German pediatric hematologist who took G-CSF from laboratory purification to the standard treatment for severe congenital neutropenia.
Karl Wendlinger
Karl Wendlinger, Austrian racing driver born 1968 in Kufstein; 1989 German F3 champion, Mercedes junior, 41 F1 starts 1991-1995 (Leyton House, March, Sauber); Monaco 1994 coma crash; 1999 FIA GT champion, 2000 Daytona 24 Hours winner.
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt is a German inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, a Max Planck director in Mülheim from 1994, known for high-valent iron and manganese complexes, metalloenzyme models, and noninnocent ligands.
Karl Wieseler
Karl Wieseler, also known as Karl Georg Wieseler, was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament theology at Kiel and Greifswald whose 1843 synopsis fixed a crucifixion date of AD 29.
Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902) was a Baltic German anatomist whose name survives in the Kupffer cell, the liver's resident macrophage, though he misidentified the cells he described in 1876.
Karl Wittmaack
Karl Wittmaack (1876–1972) was a German otorhinolaryngologist who founded the Pneumatisationslehre theory of temporal-bone pneumatization, assembled a collection of over 1700 temporal bones, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Karl Wolf
Karl Wolf, born Karl Abou Samah in Beirut in 1979, is a Lebanese-Canadian pop and R&B singer best known for his 2008 cover of Toto's "Africa."
Karl Wolff
Karl Wolff (1900-1984), SS-Obergruppenführer, Himmler's chief of staff and SS liaison to Hitler, later Highest SS and Police Leader in Italy, negotiated Operation Sunrise, the 1945 secret surrender of German forces in Italy to OSS officer Allen Dulles, and escaped Nuremberg prosecution until his 1964 Munich trial.
Karl Y. Bilimoria
Karl Y. Bilimoria is an American surgical oncologist and health services researcher who led the FIRST Trial of resident duty hours and became chair of surgery at Indiana University in 2022.
Karl Yune
Karl Yune (born 1975, Washington D.C.) is an American actor of Korean descent, brother of Rick Yune; known as Maseo Yamashiro/Sarab in Arrow season 3 (19 episodes), Tak Mashido in Real Steel, Koichi in Memoirs of a Geisha, and Tran in Anacondas; Columbia University theater graduate.
Karl Ziegler
Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Giulio Natta for polymer discoveries and directed the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim.
Karl Zsigmondy
Karl Zsigmondy (1867–1925) was an Austrian mathematician who spent his career at the Vienna Technische Hochschule and is known for Zsigmondy's theorem on primitive prime divisors.
Karl-Anthony Towns
Karl-Anthony Towns, born 1995 in Edison, New Jersey, is an NBA center-forward, 2015 first overall pick, former Timberwolves star, and 2026 NBA champion with the New York Knicks.
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957) was a German physical chemist who discovered the spin isomers of hydrogen with Paul Harteck in 1929 and became the first director of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen.
Karl-Gerät
Karl-Gerät, also known as Mörser Karl, was a German self-propelled siege mortar of World War II, built by Rheinmetall and armed with a 60 cm gun.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge (born 1955, Lippstadt), German forward and executive; Bayern's second-highest scorer (162 Bundesliga goals), Euro 1980 winner, Bayern CEO 2002-2021, ECA chairman 2008-2017, now Bayern supervisory board member.
Karl-Henrik Robèrt
Karl-Henrik Robèrt is a Swedish physician and cancer researcher who founded The Natural Step in 1989 and co-developed the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, a planning method built on four sustainability principles.
Karl-Hermann Geib
Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949) was a German physical chemist who in 1943 developed the dual-temperature Girdler sulfide process for producing heavy water, developed in parallel with Jerome S. Spevack.
Karl-Marx-Hof
Karl-Marx-Hof is a municipal housing complex in Vienna's Heiligenstadt district, built between 1927 and 1930 to designs by Karl Ehn, and one of the largest Red Vienna estates.
Karl-May-Gesellschaft
The Karl-May-Gesellschaft (KMG), or Karl May Society, is a German literary society founded in 1969 to study the life and work of writer Karl May, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand.
Karl-Otto Koch
Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), SS-Standartenführer, commanded Sachsenburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Majdanek; convicted by an SS court of murdering three prisoners and embezzlement, he was the only camp commandant executed by the SS, shot at Buchenwald on 5 April 1945.
Karl-Peter Hopfner
Karl-Peter Hopfner, born 1968, is a German structural biologist and biochemist who directs the Gene Center at LMU Munich and studies DNA repair enzymes and chromatin remodelers.
Karl‐Heinz Klempnauer
Karl-Heinz Klempnauer is a German molecular biologist known for his work on the myb oncogene, and was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Münster from 1997 to 2022.
Karl‐Heinz Kück
Karl-Heinz Kück is a German cardiologist and electrophysiologist who led cardiology at Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg for 25 years and the VTACH and FIRE AND ICE trials.
Karla (film)
Karla (2006) is an American true-crime drama directed by Joel Bender, starring Laura Prepon as Karla Homolka and Misha Collins as Paul Bernardo; originally titled Deadly, it was pulled from the Montreal World Film Festival and released in Canada January 20, 2006 amid boycotts.
Karla A. Kirkegaard
Karla A. Kirkegaard (born 1954) is a virologist who studies positive-strand RNA viruses, known for establishing the copy-choice mechanism of RNA virus recombination in poliovirus.
Karla Caves
Karla Caves, also Karle Caves, near Lonavala, Maharashtra: Buddhist rock-cut complex whose Cave 8 Great Chaitya Hall, about 45 m long with 37 octagonal columns and 2,000-year-old wooden roof ribs, is among India's largest chaityagrihas.
Karla Crome
Karla Crome (born 1988) is a British actress and writer known for Misfits, Under the Dome, Carnival Row, Am I Being Unreasonable?, and Toxic Town, and for writing Safe and The Stranger.