Karol

Karol is a Polish and Slovak version of the name Charles or Carl. It is also used as a Polish translation of Charles or Karl, especially when referring to Charles Dickens (Polish: Karol Dickens), Karl Marx (Polish: Karol Marks) and Prince Charles (Polish: książę Karol).

People with the first name Karol

• Karol Adamiecki, a Polish economist, engineer and management researcher
• Karol Beck, a Slovak tennis player
• Karol J. Bobko, a Polish American NASA astronaut
• Karol Borsuk, a Polish mathematician
• Karol Dance, a Chilean television and radio personality, singer and actor
• Karol John Drewienkiewicz, a retired British Army Major-General
• Karol Gregorek, a Polish football player
• Karol Kennedy, an American figure skater
• Karol Kniaziewicz, a Polish general and political activist
• Karol Kučera, a Slovak tennis player
• Karol Libelt, a Polish philosopher, writer, and social and political activist
• Karol Lipinski, a Polish virtuoso violinist and composer
• Karol Marcinkowski, a Polish physician and social activist
• Karol Olszewski, a Polish chemist, mathematician and physicist
• Karol Rzepecki, a Polish bookseller, and social and political activist
• Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł, Grand Chancellor of Lithuania
• Karol Stanisław Radziwill a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, voivod of Vilnius and starosta of Lviv
• Karol Siroky, a Canadian politician
• Karol Szymanowski, a Polish pianist and composer
• Karol Świerczewski, a Polish Soviet military officer and general
• Karol Dominik Witkowski, a Polish-American portraitist & and genre painter, Karl Witkowski
• Karol Wojtyła, birth name of Pope John Paul II

People with the middle name Karol

• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, a famous Polish-Lithuanian military commander
• Adam Karol Czartoryski, a creator of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation
• Jozef Karol Hell, a Slovak mining engineer and inventor
• Józef Karol Lubomirski, a Polish noble
• Jan Karol Tarło, a Polish noble
• Aleksander Karol Waza (Alexander Charles Vasa), the fifth son of King Sigismund III Vasa and Constance of Austria

People with the last name Karol

• Davida Karol, an Israeli actress
• Tina Karol (stage name/pseudonym), a Ukrainian singer

Other

Arts

• Karol is also a short title of the movie biographies Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and Karol: The Pope, The Man, based on the early life of Pope John Paul II

Places

• Karol, Gujarat, a village on Saurashtra pensinsula in Gujurat, west India
• Karol State, a former Rajput petty princely state with seat in the above town