All articles starting with K

Karel ende Elegast

Karel ende Elegast ("Charles and Elegast") is a Middle Dutch chivalric epic of about 1,400 verses in which an angel sends Charlemagne out stealing at night.

Karel Engliš

Karel Engliš (1880–1961) was a Czech economist and politician who served several times as Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia and founded the teleological school of economics.

Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940) was a Dutch cardiologist who held chairs at Groningen, Strasbourg, and Vienna, described partial heart block in 1899, and pioneered quinidine for atrial fibrillation.

Karel Gott

Karel Gott (1939–2019), Czech lyrical-tenor schlager and pop singer, the "Golden Voice of Prague" and "Sinatra of the East"; dominant Czechoslovak poll winner, 1968 Austrian Eurovision entrant, and star in both German states.

Sep 27, 2026

Karel Havlíček (Czech politician)

Karel Havlíček (born 1969) is a Czech economist and politician of the ANO party serving as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade.

Karel Havlíček Borovský

Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821–1856) was a Czech journalist, satirist, and poet who founded the first liberal Czech daily, Národní noviny, in 1848 and was interned at Brixen from 1851 to 1855.

Karel Hynek Mácha

Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836) was a Czech Romantic poet, prose writer, and dramatist, founder of modern Czech poetry, best known for the lyric-epic poem Máj (1836), published shortly before his death at 25.

Karel Jaromír Erben

Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) was a Czech poet, folklorist, and archivist, a leading figure of the Czech National Revival best known for the ballad collection Kytice (1853).

Karel Ježek

Karel Ježek, born 1973, is a Czech physician and neuroscientist at Charles University's Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, known for work on hippocampal place-cell maps and Alzheimer's models.

Karel Komárek

Karel Komárek is a Czech billionaire investor and founder of KKCG, a Prague investment group holding the lottery operator Allwyn, energy company MND, and IT group Aricoma.

Oct 21, 2026

Karel Mejta, Sr.

Karel Mejta Sr. (1928–2015), Czechoslovak rower from Třeboň; won gold in the men's coxed four at Helsinki 1952 with Havlis, Jindra, Lusk, and cox Koranda, the first Czechoslovak rowing Olympic gold.

Karel Petr

Karel Petr (1868–1950) was a Czech mathematician and professor at Charles University in Prague, considered a head of Czechoslovak mathematics, known for the Petr–Douglas–Neumann theorem generalizing Napoleon's theorem.

Karel Poborský

Karel Poborský, Czech right winger born 1972, record 118 caps and 8 goals, famous for the EURO '96 lob over Vítor Baía against Portugal; played for Manchester United, Benfica, Lazio, Sparta Praha; retired May 2007.

Karel Roden

Karel Roden (born 1962, České Budějovice) is a Czech actor from a five-generation acting family, a two-time Czech Lion Best Actor winner (Hlídač č. 47, Masaryk) known internationally as Rasputin in Hellboy and for Eastern European villain roles.

Karel Schoeman

Karel Schoeman (1939–2017) was a South African novelist, historian, and translator who wrote in Afrikaans, producing about 130 books, including nineteen novels, and winning the Hertzog Prize three times.

Karel Sellner

Karel Sellner (1873–1955) was a Czech teacher, school inspector, editor, and prose writer remembered chiefly for fiction set in Czech prehistory and the Mladá Boleslav region during the Counter-Reformation.

Karel Slavoj Amerling

Karel Slavoj Amerling (1807–1884) was a Czech physician, natural scientist, and educational reformer of the National Revival who founded the Budeč institute in Prague and co-founded the Ernestinum in 1871.

Karel Styblo

Karel Styblo, a physician who survived tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp, built the TB control model that WHO adopted as DOTS in the 1990s.

Sep 20, 2026

Karel Svoboda (neuroscientist)

Karel Svoboda (born 1965) is a Czech-born American neuroscientist who pioneered two-photon imaging of synapses in the living brain, shared the 2015 Brain Prize, and leads the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics in Seattle.

Karel the Elder of Žerotín

Karel the Elder of Žerotín (Karel starší ze Žerotín) was a Moravian nobleman, writer, and provincial hetman from 1608 to 1615, and a protector of Jan Amos Comenius.

Karel van de Woestijne

Karel van de Woestijne (1878–1929) was a Flemish poet, prose writer, and art and literary critic from Ghent, regarded as the leading Dutch-language symbolist in Flanders and its first major poet after Guido Gezelle.

Karelia (Карелия)

Karelia (Карелия) is a transnational region on the Finnish–Russian border: the Republic of Karelia in Russia and North and South Karelia in Finland, divided since the 1323 Treaty of Nöteborg and reshaped by WWII cessions.

Karelia Tobacco Company

Karelia Tobacco Company (Καπνοβιομηχανία Καρέλια Α.Ε.) is a Greek cigarette manufacturer in Kalamata, founded in 1888 by George and Stathis Karelias and controlled by the Karelias family.

Karelian Bear Dog

Karelian Bear Dog (Karjalankarhukoira), FCI breed 48, a Finnish black-and-white hunting spitz that holds elk and bear at bay by barking; bred from 1936, registered 1946, one of Finland's five native breeds, genetically closest to Laika breeds.

Karelian language

Karelian (karjalan kieli) is a critically endangered Balto-Finnic language of northwestern Russia and Finland, with varieties Karelian Proper, Livvi (Olonets), Ludic, and Tver' Karelian, some proposed as separate languages, distinct from Finnish though closest to its southern dialects.