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Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro is an American economist at UC Berkeley Haas known for the Shapiro–Stiglitz efficiency-wage model, network-effects work with Michael Katz, Information Rules with Hal Varian, and antitrust policy service.
Carl Stange
Carl Stange (1870–1959) was a German evangelical-Lutheran theologian who held the chair of systematic and practical theology at Göttingen and founded the Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie in 1909.
Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) was a German philosopher, psychologist, and musicologist, a founder of experimental psychology known for Tonpsychologie and the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology.
Carl Tanzler
Carl Tanzler (Georg Karl Tänzler, Count Carl von Cosel, 1877-1952), German-born Key West radiology technologist who exhumed tuberculosis patient Elena Milagro de Hoyos in 1933 and lived with her preserved corpse for seven years until the 1940 discovery; case dropped under the statute of limitations.
Carl Tepper
Carl Tepper is an American Republican politician who represents District 84 in the Texas House of Representatives, covering Lubbock County. A former Air Force C-130 flight engineer, he later worked in commercial real estate.
Carl Theodor Mirbt
Carl Theodor Mirbt (1860–1929) was a German Protestant church historian and missiologist, professor at Marburg and Göttingen, whose source collection Quellen zur Geschichte des Papsttums became a standard reference for Protestant theology students.
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (1883–1981), Georgia Democratic congressman for 50 years, chaired House Naval Affairs and Armed Services committees, authored the 1940 Two-Ocean Navy Act, and is the namesake of carrier CVN 70.
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz, full name Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (1780–1831), was a Prussian major-general and military theorist whose treatise On War, published posthumously in 1832, shaped strategic thought.
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist who edited Die Weltbühne, was imprisoned for exposing secret German rearmament, and received the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize as a Nazi prisoner.
Carl Weiss
Carl Austin Weiss (1906-1935), Baton Rouge physician and son-in-law of Judge Benjamin Pavy, shot Senator Huey Long in the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935; bodyguards killed Weiss instantly, and whether Weiss's bullet or a guard's killed Long remains disputed.
Carl Williams (criminal)
Carl Anthony Williams (1970-2010), Melbourne amphetamine trafficker and gangland war figure, ordered murders of Moran family rivals, received three consecutive life sentences, and was bashed to death in Barwon Prison.
Carl XVI Gustaf
Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, born 1946) is King of Sweden since 15 September 1973, the longest-reigning Swedish monarch, a ceremonial head of state under the 1974 constitution, married to Queen Silvia since 1976.
Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss is a German optics company founded in Jena in 1846 and headquartered in Oberkochen, making microscopes, medical technology, and lithography optics for microchips.
Carl-Erik Lagercrantz
Carl-Erik Lagercrantz is a Swedish entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the Stockholm firm Vargas with Harald Mix in 2014, building companies such as Northvolt, Stegra, Aira, and Syre.
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
Carl-Heinrich Rudolf Wilhelm von Stülpnagel (1886–1944), German general of infantry, 17th Army commander in the 1941 USSR invasion, Military Commander in occupied France 1942–1944, and executed 20 July 1944 plotter against Hitler.
Carl-Oskar Bohlin
Carl-Oskar Bohlin is a Swedish politician from the Moderate Party (Moderaterna). He holds the office of Minister for Civil Defence, overseeing civil defense and crisis preparedness.
Carla Anderson Hills
Carla Anderson Hills (Carla Hills) is an American lawyer who was HUD Secretary 1975-1977, the third female cabinet member, and U.S. Trade Representative 1989-1993, negotiating NAFTA and leading the Uruguay Round.
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born 1947) is a Swiss former magistrate, Swiss Attorney General from 1994, and UN chief prosecutor of the ICTY (1999-2007) and ICTR (1999-2003), known for the Milošević trial and her 2008 Kosovo organ-trafficking allegations.
Carla Delgado Gómez
Carla Delgado Gómez, known for decades as Carla Antonelli, is a Spanish politician, transgender rights activist, and former actress who became the first trans senator of Spain.
Carles Puigdemont
Carles Puigdemont is a Catalan journalist and politician, former president of the Generalitat (2016-2017) and mayor of Girona (2011-2016), who has lived in exile in Belgium since 2017.
Carleton (Ontario federal electoral district)
Carleton (federal electoral district 35020, Ontario): an Ottawa-area riding held by Pierre Poilievre 2015–2021 and won by Liberal Bruce Fanjoy in 2025 by 4,513 votes; renamed from Rideau—Carleton in 2014, redrawn in 2023.
Carleton College
Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota), founded 1866 as Northfield College, is a private liberal arts college with about 2,000 undergraduates, a 21.8% admit rate, 100% need met, and top-ranked undergraduate teaching.
Carleton in the 2025 Canadian federal election
Carleton (Ontario, district 35020) in the April 28, 2025 Canadian federal election: Liberal Bruce Fanjoy defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre by 4,513 votes on a 91-candidate ballot with 81.4% turnout.
Carleton S. Coon
Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981) was an American anthropologist, a professor at Harvard and then the University of Pennsylvania, best remembered for his controversial 1962 book The Origin of Races.
Carleton University
Carleton University, founded 1942 as Carleton College in Ottawa, is a public non-denominational university incorporated by the 1952 Carleton University Act. Distinguishing facts: bicameral governance, 30,675 students, $155.4M research funding, 188,000+ alumni.
Carlie's Law
Carlie's Law (H.R. 4150, 108th Congress) was a 2004 federal bill by Rep. Katherine Harris named for murder victim Carlie Brucia; it would have mandated revocation of federal probation for violent offenders but never became law.
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256, English Court of Appeal case holding a £100 influenza-reward advertisement was a binding unilateral offer accepted by performance, with the £1,000 Alliance Bank deposit negating puffery; leading precedent on unilateral contracts.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918), also called Carlisle Indian School, was the first US off-reservation federal Indian boarding school, founded by Richard Henry Pratt at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; over 7,800 children from 140+ tribes were forcibly assimilated there.
Carlisle Kennedy
Carlisle Kennedy is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina Senate from the 23rd district, a Lexington County lawyer who unseated incumbent Katrina Shealy in 2024.
Carlism
Carlism (Carlismo, Karlismo): Spanish traditionalist, legitimist movement founded 1833 for Don Carlos's Bourbon line against Isabella II; motto Dios, Patria, Fueros, Rey; three Carlist Wars; requetés in the 1936 Civil War; still active as Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista.