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Karla DeVito

Karla DeVito (born 1953, Mokena, Illinois) is an American singer and actress, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell tour vocalist, Broadway's Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, and co-writer of "We Are Not Alone" from The Breakfast Club.

Karla Estrada

Karla Estrada, the stage name of Carla Elago Ford, is a Filipino actress, singer, television host, and comedian, best known as the mother of Daniel Padilla.

Karla Faye Tucker

Karla Faye Tucker (1959–1998), American executed by Texas on 3 February 1998 for the 1983 pickaxe murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton; first Texas woman executed since the Civil War, converted to Christianity on death row.

Karla Homolka

Karla Homolka, Canadian offender in the Bernardo murders; with husband Paul Bernardo killed victims including her sister Tammy; received a controversial 12-year manslaughter plea bargain, secret 1993 trial, released July 2005.

Karla Kerlikowske

Karla Kerlikowske is an American physician-scientist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on mammography screening and breast cancer risk prediction.

Karla LaVey

Karla LaVey, also known as Karla Maritza LaVey, is the oldest daughter of Anton LaVey who founded the First Satanic Church in San Francisco in 1999.

Karla Linke

Karla Linke (born 1960, Dresden), East German breaststroke swimmer for SC Einheit Dresden; set 200 m breaststroke world records 2:37.44 and 2:34.99 at Vienna 1974, won 1975 Cali worlds silver and bronze, and placed 8th and 5th at Montreal 1976.

Karla May

Karla May is an American politician and Democrat who has represented St. Louis in the Missouri Senate's 4th district since 2019, after eight years in the Missouri House.

Karla Neugebauer

Karla M. Neugebauer is an RNA biologist at Yale University, where she directs the Center for RNA Science and Biomedicine and studies how RNA splicing is coordinated with transcription.

Karla Souza

Karla Souza, full name Karla Olivares Souza, is a Mexican actress known for How to Get Away with Murder and the Emmy-winning film La caída.

Karla's Choice

Karla's Choice is a 2024 Cold War spy novel by Nick Harkaway, son of John le Carré, continuing George Smiley's story and Karla's backstory in 1963, between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, published by Viking.

Karlamagnús saga

Karlamagnús saga, the Old Norse name for Charlemagne, is a thirteenth-century Old Norse compilation translating French chansons de geste about Charlemagne into a continuous biography of the emperor.

Karlee Grey

Karlee Grey (born 1994) is an American OnlyFans creator and former pornographic film actress, active 2014–present, with AVN, XRCO, and XBIZ nominations and studio honors from Cherry Pimps and Vixen.

Karlene A. Cimprich

Karlene A. Cimprich is an American cancer biologist who is Professor and Chair of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford, studying genome stability during DNA replication.

Karley Scott Collins

Karley Scott Collins (born 1999, Lake City, Florida) is an American country singer-songwriter and former child actress (The Class, Once Upon a Time). Signed to Sony Nashville, she released the EPs Hands on the Wheel and Write One and the 2025 debut album Flight Risk, co-produced with Nathan Chapman.

Karlheinz Schwarz

Karlheinz Schwarz is an Austrian quantum chemist and professor at TU Wien, co-developer of WIEN2k, a widely used code for calculating the electronic structure of solids.

Karlheinz Smieszek

Karlheinz Smieszek (born 1948, Kitzingen) is a West German small-bore rifle shooter who won 50 m prone gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics with 599/600, an equal Olympic and world record, ahead of Ulrich Lind; later GDO president.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), German avant-garde and electronic music pioneer, WDR Cologne studio director 1963-77, composer of Gesang der Juenglinge, Gruppen, and the seven-opera Licht cycle.

Karlie Kloss

Karlie Kloss (born 1992, Chicago) is an American supermodel, Victoria's Secret Angel from 2011, founder of the coding nonprofit Kode With Klossy, and wife of investor Joshua Kushner.

Karlie Redd

Karlie Redd (Karlie Keisha Lewis, born 1973 or 1974, New York City) is an American reality TV star, actress, rapper, and entrepreneur, an original cast member of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta for 11 seasons, known for Saints & Sinners, Top Five, and Redd Media Productions.

Karlis Lasmanis

Kārlis Pauls Lasmanis, Latvian 3x3 basketball player born 1994 in Ventspils; won first-ever men's Olympic 3x3 gold at Tokyo 2020 with the game-winning two-pointer, then MVP of Latvia's FIBA 3x3 World Cup 2026 title in Warsaw.

Kārlis Skalbe

Kārlis Skalbe (1879–1945) was a Latvian poet, writer, and politician best known as the master of the Latvian literary fairy tale and author of Winter Tales.

Kārlis Ulmanis

Kārlis Ulmanis was a Latvian politician who served as the country's first Prime Minister in 1918 and ruled as authoritarian leader from 1934 until the Soviet occupation of 1940.

Kārlis Zariņš

Kārlis Zariņš (Kārlis Reinholds Zariņš) was a Latvian diplomat and statesman who, granted extraordinary powers in 1940, led Latvia's diplomatic service in the West for 23 years during the Soviet occupation.

Karlman Wasserman

Karlman Wasserman (1927–2020) was an American exercise physiologist and physician who coined the term "anaerobic threshold" and pioneered cardiopulmonary exercise testing, leading the pulmonary division at Harbor-UCLA from 1967 to 1997.

Karlo

Karlo is a family of text-to-image diffusion models built by Kakao Brain, the AI unit of the Korean company Kakao, first released in December 2022.

Karlo Ressler

Karlo Ressler is a Croatian politician of the Croatian Democratic Union who has served in the European Parliament since 2019 and chairs its delegation to North Macedonia.

Karlo Stipanić

Karlo Stipanić (Карло Стипанић), born 1941 in Crikvenica, is a Croatian water polo goalkeeper who won Olympic silver for Yugoslavia at Tokyo 1964 and gold at Mexico City 1968, and starred for Mladost Zagreb.

Karlos Dansby

Karlos Dansby, NFL inside linebacker (2004-2017) for the Cardinals, Dolphins, Browns, and Bengals; Auburn product, 2004 second-round pick, 1,315 tackles, 43 sacks, 20 INTs, 2013 second-team All-Pro.

Karlos Nasar

Karlos May Nasar (Карлос Мей Насар), born 2004 in Paris, is a Bulgarian weightlifter, Paris 2024 89 kg Olympic champion, and holder of 15 world records, also world champion at 17 and in 2025 at 94 kg.