Karel as First Name

Karel Leendert Miljon            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Karel Leendert Miljon: a Dutch boxer, who won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

Karel Appel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch
Karel Appel: was a Dutch painter and sculptor

Karel Doorman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch
Karel Doorman: was a Schout-bij-nacht (the Dutch equivalent of a Rear Admiral) during World War II.

Karel Van Het Reve            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch
Karel Van Het Reve: was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.He was born in Amsterdam and was raised as a communist. He lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime. With his help, work of dissident Andrei Sakharov was smuggled to the west, and his Alexander Herzen Foundation published dissident Soviet literature.

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