This time in First Names First the North German male name Carl, very popular throughout ages. Variants of it include the Spanish Carlos, Italian Carlo, French Carle, Swedish and German Karl, Finnish Kaarlo, among others. But here we concentrate only at Carl and Karl.
Carl Gyllenhielm* soldier/politician – Sweden (1574)
Carl Gustaf Wrangel* military commander/statesman – Uppsala, Sweden (1613)
Carl Piper* nobleman/statesman – Stockholm, Sweden (1647)
Carl Bonde* royal counselor/ambassador – Stockholm, Sweden (1648)
Carl Cronstedt* nobleman/the last surviving general of Charles XII of Sweden – Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1672)
Carl XII* King of Sweden from age 15/”the Warrior King” – Three Crowns Castle, Stockholm, Sweden (1682)
Carl Gustaf Tessin* count/politician/orator – Stockholm, Sweden (1695)
Carl August Thielo* Danish organist/composer/theater entrepreneur – Sachsen, Germany (1702)
Carl von Línné* botanist/ zoologist – Råshult, Sweden (1707)
Carl Heinrich von Heineken* royal librarian/historian – Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire (1707)
Carl Gustaf Pilo* artist/painter – Runtuna, Sweden (1711)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach* musician/composer/5th child of JSB – Weimar (1714)
Carl Gustaf Ekeberg* physician/ chemist/explorer – Djursholm, Sweden (1716)
Carl Fredrik Pechlin* Swedish politician/demagogue – Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (1720)
Carl Gotthard Langhals* architect/designer of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate – Landeshut, Silesia, German Empire (1732)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf* violinist/composer/ silvologist – Laimgrube, Austria (1739)
Carl Michael Bellman* songwriter/composer/musician – Stockholm, Sweden (1740)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele* Swedish-German pharmaceutical pioneering chemist – Stralsund, Pomerania, Roman Empire (1742)
Carl Peter Thunberg* botanist/apostle of Carl Linnaeus – Jönköping, Sweden (1743)
Carl Stenborg* opera singer/composer/ theater director – Stockholm, Sweden (1752)
Carl Frederik von Breda* portrait painter – Stockholm, Sweden (1759)
Carl Johan Idestam* civil servant/senator – Sweden-Finland (1759)
Carl Johan Stjernvall* officer/governor of Viipuri/father of Aurora Karamzin – Padasjoki, Sweden-Finland (1764)
Carl Petter Hällström** cartographer/active both in Finland and Sweden – Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1774)
Carl Friedrich Gauss* German mathematician/physicist – Brunswick, The Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1777)
Carl Ludvig Engel* architect (Empire style) – Charlottenburg, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1778)
Carl Otto Mörner* courtier/instrumental in making the French Jean Baptiste Bernadotte the King of Sweden – Uppsala, Sweden (1781)
Carl Henrik Anckarsvärd* Swedish count/military man/ politician – Sveaborg, Sweden-Finland (1782)
Carl Friedrich Bruch* German ornithologist – Zweibrücken (1789)
Carl Daniel von Haartman* physician/gynaecologist/father of 24 – Turku, Sweden-Finland (1792)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Berg* German farmer/non-fiction writer – Friedrichsschwerz, Holy Roman Empire (1793)
Karl Eichwald* geologist/physician/naturalist – Mitau, Courland Governate (1795)
Carl Henrik Boheman* entomologist/great-grandfather of actor Erland Josephson – Jönköping, Sweden (1796)
Carl Gustaf Wolff* merchant/ shipowner/statesman – Noormarkku, Sweden-Finland (1800)
Carl August von Steinheil* German physicist/ astronomer/ inventor – Ribeauvillé, Alsace, France (1801)
Carl Peter Mazer* portrait painter – Stockholm, Sweden (1807)
Carl Johan Tawaststjerna* officer in the Russian army in Finland – Stockhom, Sweden (1812)
Carl Zeiss* optician/scientific instrument maker/ businessman – Weimar, German Confederation (1816)
Carl Frans Gabriel von Haartman* personal physician of Aleksandra Fjodorovna, wife of tsar Nikolai I – Turku, GD of Finland (1819)
Carl Abraham Pihl* Norwegian civil engineer/railway pioneer – Stavanger, Sweden-Norway (1825)
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal* psychiatrist – Berlin, Germany (1833)
Carl Bloch* painter – Copenhagen, Denmark (1834)
Carl Robert Mannerheim* count/manor owner/father of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim – Viborg, GD of Finland (1835)
Carl Jacobsen* brewer/Carlsberg brewery was named after him/philanthropist – Copenhagen, Denmark (1842)
Carl Josef Bayer* chemist/simplified the production of aluminium – Silesia, Austrian Empire (1847)
Carl Kämp* restaurateur/founder of Hotel Kämp in Helsinki – Tuusula, GD of Finland (1848)
Carl Larsson* painter – Stockholm, Sweden (1853)
Carl von Heideken* physician/founder of the Heideken maternity hospital in Turku – Pori, GD of Finland (1856)
Carl August Ehrensvärd* Navy admiral/ politician/M – Tosterup Castle, Sweden (1858)
Carl Nielsen* composer/conductor – Sortelung, Fyn, Denmark (1865)
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim* general/ statesman/6thP – Askainen, GD of Finland (1867)
Carl Schuhmann* gymnast/OG – Münster, North German Confederation (1869)
Carl Bosch* chemist/N/ engineer – Cologne, German Empire (1874)
Carl Milles* sculptor – Lagga, Knivsta, Sweden (1875)
Carl Gustav Jung* psychologist/ philosopher – Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland (1875)
Carl Kempe* tennis player/businessman – Stockholm, Sweden (1884)
Karl Behr* tennis player/banker/ survivor of the Titanic – New York, NY USA (1885)
Carl von Ossietzky* journalist/pacifist/N – Hamburg, German Empire (1889)
Carl Lutz* diplomat/credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during WW2 – Walzenhausen, Switzerland (1895)
Carl Ferdinand Cori* biochemist/N – Prague, Austria-Hungary (1896)
Carl-Gustaf Rossby* Swedish-American inventive meteorologist – Stockholm, Sweden (1898)
Carl Barks* cartoonist/ painter/the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories – near Merrill, OR USA (1901)
Carl David Anderson* physicist/N – New York, NY USA (1905)
Carl Johan Bernadotte* Prince – Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden (1916)
Carl J. Seiberlich* naval aviator/first one to qualify to land on an aircraft carrier – Jenkintown, PA USA (1921)
Carl Reiner* stand-up comedian/ actor/director – The Bronx, NY USA (1922)
Carl Perkins* singer-songwriter – Tiptonville, TN USA (1932)
Carl Kasell* radio personality/NPR – Goldsboro, NC (1934)
Carl Sagan* astronomer/ science popularizer – Brooklyn, NY USA (1934) pic
Carl Bernstein* investigative journalist – Washington D.C. USA (1944)
Carl Wilson* singer (the Beach Boys) – Hawthorne, CA USA (1946)
Carl Weathers* Am. football player/actor – New Orleans, LA USA (1948)
Carl Kjellgren* actor/director – Borås, Sweden (1956)
Carl Brewer* politician/mayor – Wichita, KS USA (1957)
Carl Lewis* athlete/sprinter/WC/OG – Birmingham, AL USA (1961)
Carl Philip Bernadotte* Prince of Sweden – Stockholm, Sweden (1979)
Carl Söderberg* hockey player/WG – Malmö, Sweden (1985)
Carl Hagelin* hockey player/SC – Nykvarn, Sweden (1988)
Updated 6.3.2023