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Karoline Leavitt

Karoline Leavitt (born 1998), New Hampshire Republican aide; 36th White House press secretary 2025–2026, youngest ever at 27; former Trump 2024 campaign press secretary, 2022 NH-01 congressional candidate, later MAGA Inc. adviser and Fox News contributor.

Karoline Mehalchick

Karoline Mehalchick, born 1976, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania since 2024, after a decade as its chief magistrate judge.

Karolinska University Hospital

Karolinska University Hospital (Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is Region Stockholm's university hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2004 and one of Europe's largest, with about 16,500 employees across sites in Solna and Huddinge.

Karolkiewicz family murders

Karolkiewicz family murders: July 24, 2026 familicide in Grand Haven Township, Michigan, in which Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife Amanda and six children, set the house on fire, and killed himself.

Károly Eötvös

Károly Eötvös (1842–1916) was a Hungarian lawyer and writer known as "the Vajda", who won the acquittal of the Jewish defendants in the 1883 Tiszaeszlár blood libel trial.

Károly Fatér

Károly Fatér (Fatér Károly, 1940–2020), Hungarian goalkeeper, Olympic gold medalist with Hungary's football team at the 1968 Mexico City Games, playing all six matches; 199 league games for Csepel SC, one national cap.

Károly Ferenczy

Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917) was a Hungarian painter who became a leading figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, blending French naturalism with Hungarian subjects and helping found modern Hungarian painting.

Karoly Guttler

Karoly Guttler (Károly Güttler, nicknamed Guti), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer born 1968 in Budapest; Olympic silver 100 m breaststroke Seoul 1988 and 200 m Atlanta 1996; 100 m breaststroke world record 1:00.95 (1993–1996).

Károly Kárpáti

Károly Kárpáti (Kárpáti Károly, born Károly Kellner, 1906–1996), Hungarian Jewish wrestler; 1936 Berlin Olympic gold and 1932 silver in lightweight freestyle; survived Hungarian labor camps, later national coach.

Károly Khuen-Héderváry

Károly Khuen-Héderváry (1849–1918) was a Hungarian count and statesman, ban of Croatia-Slavonia from 1883 to 1903 and twice prime minister of Hungary, remembered in Croatia as an enforcer of Magyarization.

Károly Kisfaludy

Károly Kisfaludy (Kisfaludy Károly, 1788–1830) was a Hungarian poet, dramatist, and painter, a founder of Hungarian national romanticism and the Hungarian comedy who edited the almanac Aurora.

Károly Kós

Károly Kós, born Károly Kosch (1883–1977), was a Hungarian architect, writer, and politician who created a national style from Transylvanian folk architecture and led Hungarian cultural life in Romania.

Károly Leiningen-Westerburg

Károly Leiningen-Westerburg, born Karl August, Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg, was a Hessian-born count who served as a general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and was executed at Arad in 1849.

Károly Lotz

Károly Lotz (Lotz Károly, 1833–1904) was a Hungarian painter of German birth, the leading monumental muralist whose frescoes decorate the Budapest Opera House, National Museum, and Parliament.

Karoly Palotai

Karoly Palotai (Palotai Károly, 1935–2018), Hungarian footballer and referee; Olympic gold captain at Tokyo 1964, later FIFA referee at three World Cups and four European club finals including the 1976 and 1981 European Cup finals.

Karoly Szittya

Károly Szittya (Szittya Károly, born Schäfer, 1918–1983), Hungarian water polo player and coach; Olympic silver 1948 and gold 1952, 21 caps, later master coach who won the 1967 Hungarian title with Újpesti Dózsa.

Károly Takács

Károly Takács (Takács Károly), Hungarian pistol shooter, 1910–1976, won 25 m rapid-fire pistol gold at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952 left-handed after losing his right hand to a 1938 grenade accident.

Károly Than

Károly Than (Carl von Than, Than Károly) was a Hungarian chemist who discovered carbonyl sulfide and is regarded as the founder of modern Hungarian scientific chemistry.

Karoly Varga

Károly Varga (Varga Károly), Hungarian sport shooter born 1955 in Budapest; won surprise gold in 50 m small-bore rifle prone at the 1980 Moscow Olympics with 599, equaling the world record despite a broken hand.

Károly Vécsey

Károly Vécsey was a Hungarian honvéd general of the 1848–49 revolution who took Arad fortress and was hanged last of the thirteen martyrs of Arad.

Károly Zsolnai-Fehér

Károly Zsolnai-Fehér is a computer graphics researcher with a 2020 PhD from TU Wien, known for Two Minute Papers, a YouTube channel summarizing AI research since 2015.

Karolyi Ranch

Karolyi Ranch, near Huntsville, Texas, was the USA Gymnastics women's national team training center from 2001 to 2018, run by Bela and Martha Karolyi, closed after the Nassar abuse scandal and later sold.

Karolyn Grimes

Karolyn Grimes is an American former child actress, born in 1940, best known as Zuzu Bailey in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), having appeared in 16 films as a child.

Karomama I

Karomama I was a Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Osorkon II of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, known from a Karnak stela and reliefs at Bubastis in the 9th century BC.

Karomama II

Karomama II was a queen of ancient Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, the wife of King Takelot II and mother of Osorkon, High Priest of Amun, around 850 BC.

Karomama Meritmut

Karomama Meritmut, also called Princess Karomama C, was a God's Wife and Divine Adoratrice of Amun at Thebes during Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, best known for her gold-inlaid bronze statue in the Louvre.

Karon

Karon (歌論) is the Japanese term for the theory and criticism of waka, the classical 31-syllable poetry of Japan, and for the books, called karonsho, containing that theory.

Karon Davis

Karon Davis (born 1977, Reno, Nevada) is an American sculptor in Los Angeles known for life-size plaster figures addressing race and history, and as co-founder of the Underground Museum with Noah Davis.

Karon O. Bowdre

Karon O. Bowdre, born 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001.

Karon Prunty

Karon Prunty (born 2001) is a New England Patriots cornerback drafted 171st overall in 2026 out of Wake Forest, after college stops at Kansas and North Carolina A&T; Third Team All-ACC in 2025.