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Carl Michael Bellman
Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and singer, one of Sweden's national poets, best known for Fredman's Epistles (1790) and Fredman's Songs.
Carl Orff
Carl Orff (Karl Heinrich Maria Orff, 1895–1982) was a German composer and music educator, famous for Carmina Burana (1937) and the Orff-Schulwerk music education method; distinct from other namesakes by his Munich birth, Günther-Schule work, and Dießen foundation.
Carl Palmer
Carl Palmer, born 1950 in Birmingham, England, is the English progressive rock drummer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia, known for the first electric drum solo on 'Toccata' and touring as the last surviving ELP member.
Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins (1932-1998), the King of Rockabilly, was a Sun Records singer-songwriter-guitarist who wrote and first recorded Blue Suede Shoes, a 1956 million-seller, and influenced the Beatles.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), C.P.E. Bach, second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, was a German composer of the Empfindsamer Stil, keyboard virtuoso, author of the Versuch treatise, and composer of 52 concertos.
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner (1922–2020), American comedian, writer, director, and actor; Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mel Brooks's 2000 Year Old Man partner, director of The Jerk.
Carl Rinsch
Carl Erik Rinsch is an American film and commercial director, a Ridley Scott protégé whose debut feature 47 Ronin (2013) flopped, and who was convicted in 2025 of defrauding Netflix of $11 million for the unfinished series White Horse and sentenced to 30 months.
Carl Robert Jakobson
Carl Robert Jakobson (1841–1882) was an Estonian writer, teacher, and activist who led the radical wing of the national awakening and founded Sakala, the first Estonian-language political newspaper.
Carl Ruiz
Carl "The Cuban" Ruiz (April 4, 1975 – September 21, 2019) was an American celebrity chef, La Cubana owner, and Food Network judge who won Guy's Grocery Games Season 12.
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), American poet, journalist, folk song collector, and Lincoln biographer of the Chicago literary renaissance; author of Chicago Poems, The American Songbag, and the Pulitzer-winning Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.
Carl Solomon
Carl Solomon (1928-1993), American writer and Ace Books editor, associate of the Beat Generation, dedicatee of Ginsberg's "Howl"; published Mishaps, Perhaps (1966), More Mishaps (1968), and Emergency Messages (1989).
Carl Spitteler
Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) was a Swiss poet who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature for his epic Olympischer Frühling, and whose 1914 speech defending Swiss neutrality became a founding text of Swiss self-understanding.
Carl the Collector
Carl the Collector is a PBS KIDS animated series premiering November 14, 2024, created by Zachariah OHora. It follows Carl, an autistic raccoon collector in Fuzzytown, the network's first autistic lead, with autistic friends Lotta and Paolo.
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), American writer, New York Times music and dance critic, novelist of Nigger Heaven (1926), and Gertrude Stein's literary executor; from 1932 he made over 15,000 portraits of Harlem Renaissance and other cultural figures.
Carl Wayne
Carl Wayne (Colin David Tooley, 1943-2004), Birmingham singer and actor: lead vocalist of The Move (Flowers in the Rain, Blackberry Way), narrator of Blood Brothers, and lead singer of The Hollies 2000-2004.
Carl Weathers
Carl Weathers (1948-2024), American actor, director, and former NFL/CFL linebacker; Apollo Creed in four Rocky films, Predator, Happy Gilmore, and Emmy-nominated Greef Karga in The Mandalorian.
Carl Weitbrecht
Carl (Karl) Weitbrecht (1847–1904) was a German writer, literary historian, and clergyman who held the chair of aesthetics and German literature in Stuttgart and championed the Swabian school.
Carl Wilson
Carl Wilson (Carl Dean Wilson), 1946-1998, American singer-guitarist and youngest Wilson brother, co-founder of the Beach Boys; lead guitarist, live music director from the mid-1960s, and lead vocalist on 'Good Vibrations,' 'God Only Knows,' and 'Kokomo'.
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) was a German playwright and writer whose folk-styled dramas, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick and Des Teufels General, made him a leading German-language dramatist.
Carl Zuckmayer Medal
The Carl Zuckmayer Medal (German: Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille) is the highest cultural award of Rhineland-Palatinate, conferred annually since 1979 on 18 January for merits around the German language.
Carl's First Sentencing
"Carl's First Sentencing" is episode 9 of Shameless US season 5 (aired March 15, 2015), written by Etan Frankel, directed by Christopher Chulack, in which Carl gets a one-year juvie sentence and Frank guides his dying doctor Bianca.
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food chain founded in 1941 by Carl and Margaret Karcher from a $326 hot dog cart, known for charbroiled burgers, sister brand of Hardee's under CKE Restaurants, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
Carla Abellana
Carla Abellana (Carla Angeline Reyes Abellana, born 1986, Manila) is a Filipino GMA Network actress, granddaughter of Delia Razon, known for Rosalinda, My Husband's Lover, Stolen Life, and PAWS animal welfare advocacy.
Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni, born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi in 1967, is an Italian-French singer-songwriter and former fashion model who was First Lady of France from 2008 to 2012.
Carla Connor
Carla Connor, later Carla Connor-Swain, is a fictional Coronation Street character played by Alison King since 2006; Underworld factory owner, née Donovan, known for the rape and psychosis storylines and her marriage to Lisa Swain.
Carla Guevara Laforteza
Carla Guevara Laforteza (Maria Carla Helena Amado Guevara-Laforteza), born 1975, is a Filipino musical theater actress and singer, a five-time Aliw awardee who played Kim and Gigi in London's Miss Saigon (1995–1997) and is the mother of KATSEYE leader Sophia Laforteza.
Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino (Carla Neill Gugino), American actress born 1971 in Sarasota, Florida; known for Spy Kids, Watchmen, Gerald's Game, The Haunting of Hill House, and The Fall of the House of Usher, plus stage work.
Carla Hall
Carla Hall (born 1964, Nashville) is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality: Top Chef finalist and All-Stars Fan Favorite, co-host of ABC's The Chew (2011-2018), 2015 Daytime Emmy winner, and Food Network baking-show judge.
Carla Harvey
Carla Harvey, Detroit-born vocalist, co-founded Butcher Babies with Heidi Shepherd, later fronting The Violent Hour and Lords of Acid; also a licensed mortician and author.
Carla Morrison
Carla Morrison (Carla Patricia Morrison Flores), Mexican indie pop singer-songwriter born 1986 in Tecate, Baja California; three-time Latin Grammy winner whose 2012 song Disfruto surpassed 400 million Spotify streams and went viral in Italy in 2026.