Arts and culture

Cariñosa

Cariñosa (kaɾiˈɲosa), a Philippine courtship folk dance of Spanish colonial origin in the Maria Clara suite, danced with fan and handkerchief in 3/4 time; traced to Panay, often but never officially called the national dance.

Sep 19, 2026

Carioca da Gema

Carioca da Gema is a samba and choro house at Avenida Mem de Sá 79 in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, opened in 2000 in a historic mansion.

Carita

Carita (Sanskrit चरित) is a genre of South Asian narrative literature recounting a central figure's life and deeds, composed from the 1st century CE onward.

Carita Pantun

Carita Pantun is a Sundanese oral epic tradition in which a performer called a juru pantun sings long narrative poems about the pre-Islamic kingdoms of Galuh and Pajajaran.

Carita Parahyangan

Carita Parahyangan ("Tale of Parahyangan") is a late 16th-century Old Sundanese manuscript on lontar palm leaves recounting the history of the Sunda lands and its kings.

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (1927–1959), American child actor from Paris, Illinois, played Alfalfa in Our Gang/Little Rascals from 1935 to 1940; later a dog breeder and hunting guide, shot dead in 1959 in a $50 debt dispute.

Carl A. P. Ruck

Carl A. P. Ruck, born in 1935, is an American classical scholar at Boston University who, with Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann, proposed that ergot supplied the psychoactive potion of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"

Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" is the Beach Boys' 18th studio album, released May 15, 1972 on Brother/Reprise; eight songs, 34 minutes, with Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar newly in the lineup, peaking at No. 50 in the US.

Carl Anderson (singer)

Carl Anderson (1945-2004), American singer and actor, full name Carlton Earl Anderson, famed as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway and film; also recorded "Friends and Lovers" with Gloria Loring. Distinct from country singer Carlton Anderson.

Carl Andre

Carl Andre (1935–2024) was an American minimalist sculptor and poet known for floor pieces of unmodified industrial materials, such as metal plates and bricks, arranged for viewers to walk on.

Carl Barât

Carl Barât (Carlos Ashley Raphael Barât), English musician born 1978 in Basingstoke, co-frontman of The Libertines, founder of Dirty Pretty Things and Carl Barât and the Jackals, solo artist and author of Threepenny Memoir.

Carl Barks

Carl Barks (1901–2000), the anonymous 'Good Duck Artist', wrote and drew over 500 Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge Disney comics, created Scrooge McDuck and Duckburg, and was later honored as a Disney Legend.

Carl Betz

Carl Betz (1921-1978), American actor, played Dr. Alex Stone on The Donna Reed Show (1958-66) and Emmy-winning attorney Clinton Judd in Judd for the Defense (1967-69).

Carl Cox

Carl Cox (born 1962), British DJ and producer, Three-Deck Wizard of UK acid house and techno, first DJ Magazine Top 100 number one in 1997, Intec label owner, Ibiza Space and UNVRS resident.

Carl Craig

Carl Craig (born 1969, Detroit), also known as 69, BFC, Psyche, Paperclip People, and Innerzone Orchestra, is a leading second-wave Detroit techno producer, founder of Planet E Communications (1991), co-creator of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and a 2008 Grammy-nominated remixer.

Sep 19, 2026

Carl Craig b2b Cajmere

Carl Craig b2b Cajmere is a back-to-back DJ pairing of Detroit techno pioneer Carl Craig and Chicago house producer Cajmere, booked at ARC 2025 and Movement Detroit 2026.

Carl de Souza

Carl de Souza, born 1949 in Rose Hill, Mauritius, is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose fiction explores identity and intercommunal tension in postcolonial Mauritius.

Carl Douglas

Carl Douglas (Carlton George Douglas, born 1942, Kingston, Jamaica) is a singer whose 1974 disco single "Kung Fu Fighting", recorded in ten minutes as a B-side with producer Biddu, topped UK and US charts and sold millions.

Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein, born Karl Einstein, was a German writer and art critic whose 1915 book Negerplastik pioneered the study of African sculpture as art in Europe.

Carl Erik Soya

Carl Erik Soya (1896–1983) was a Danish writer of satirical novels, plays, and screenplays, a radical renewer of Danish drama best known through film adaptations of his work.

Carl Fredricksen

Carl Fredricksen is the 78-year-old retired balloon salesman protagonist of Pixar's Up (2009), voiced by Edward Asner, who flies his house to South America with balloons; designed square-shaped, inspired by Spencer Tracy and George Booth cartoons.

Carl Friedrich Glasenapp

Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (1847–1915) was a Baltic German philologist, schoolteacher, and music writer in Riga, best known for the first monumental six-volume biography of Richard Wagner.

Carl Grimes

Carl Grimes is the son of Rick Grimes and a main protagonist of The Walking Dead in Image Comics and on AMC TV, played by Chandler Riggs. He survives into adulthood in the comics but dies of a walker bite in the show's season 8.

Carl Gustaf Estlander

Carl Gustaf Estlander (1834–1910) was a Finland-Swedish professor of aesthetics and modern literature who pioneered Finnish art history and helped found the Ateneum art museum.

Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) is an American novelist and Miami Herald columnist known for Florida-set satirical crime novels like Tourist Season, Strip Tease, and Skinny Dip, the Newbery Honor book Hoot, and award-winning investigative journalism; about 14 million US copies sold.

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866) was a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, and radical reformer, best known for the 1839 novel Det går an and his American exile.

Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle (Karl Lämmle, 1867–1939), German-born Jewish founder of Universal Pictures, pioneer of the Hollywood star system via Florence Lawrence, builder of Universal City in 1915, and rescuer of hundreds of Jewish refugees through affidavits.

Carl Lumbly

Carl Lumbly is an American stage, film, and television actor known for Detective Marcus Petrie on Cagney & Lacey, Marcus Dixon on Alias, M.A.N.T.I.S.'s first black TV superhero, and the Justice League voice of Martian Manhunter.

Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), German composer, conductor, and pianist born in Eutin; his Der Freischütz (Berlin, 1821) founded German Romantic opera, and his clarinet works for Heinrich Baermann remain repertoire staples.