karl adolf eichmann

Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962) ;

karl adolph verner

Danish philologist (1846-1896) ;

karl alex muller

Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927) ;

karl augustus menninger

United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990) ;

karl baedeker

German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859) ;

karl barth

Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968) ;

karl czerny

Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857) ;

karl friedrich gauss

German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) ;

karl friedrich hieronymus von munchhausen

German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797) ;

karl gauss

German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) ;

karl gjellerup

Danish novelist (1857-1919) ;

karl gunnar myrdal

Swedish economist (1898-1987) ;

karl gustav jacob jacobi

German mathematician (1804-1851) ;

karl jaspers

German psychiatrist (1883-1969) ;

karl landsteiner

United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943) ;

karl linne

Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778) ;

karl marx

founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883) ;

karl menninger

United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990) ;

karl rudolf gerd von rundstedt

German field marshal in World War II who directed the conquest of Poland and led the Ardennes counteroffensive (1875-1953) ;

karl scheele

Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) ;

karl theodor jaspers

German psychiatrist (1883-1969) ;

karl von clausewitz

Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831) ;

karl von frisch

Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982) ;

karl waldemar ziegler

German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973) ;

karl wernicke

German neurologist best known for his studies of aphasia (1848-1905) ;

karl wilhelm scheele

Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) ;

karl wilhelm siemens

engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883) ;

karlfeldt

Swedish poet whose works incorporate Swedish customs and folklore (1864-1931) ;

karloff

United States film actor (born in England) noted for his performances in horror films (1887-1969) ;

karma

(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation ;

karnataka

state in southern India; formerly Mysore ;

karok

the Quoratean language of the Karok ; a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California ;

karol wojtyla

the first Pope born in Poland; the first Pope not born in Italy in 450 years (born in 1920) ;

karpov

Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951) ;

karsavina

Russian dancer who danced with Nijinsky (1885-1978) ;

kartik

the eighth month of the Hindu calendar ;

kartikeya

Hindu god of bravery ;

karttika

the eighth month of the Hindu calendar ;

karttikeya

Hindu god of bravery ;

karyokinesis

organic process consisting of the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis ;