Famous People with Name Karel

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.

Rudolf Karel            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Rudolf Karel: was a distinguished Czech composer.Rudolf Karel was son of a poor railway employee. He studied composition from 1899 to 1904 with Antonín Dvorák and organ with Josef Klicka in Prague.

Johannes Franciscus Abraham Karel            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Johannes Franciscus Abraham Karel: is a University Professor (universiteitshoogleraar) of logic at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and professor of philosophy at Stanford University (at CSLI). He was awarded the Spinozapremie in 1996.

Jozef Karel            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Jozef Karel: was a former Slovak football midfielder and then coach. He played for SAC Secovce, Snaha Košice, Slávia Prešov, ŠK Bratislava and shortly for Red Star Saint-Ouen on a loan. He was selected to the France Football Top 20 Midfielders on the World in 1965.

William Karel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

William Karel: is a French film director and author. He is known for his historical and political documentaries. After studying in Paris, Karel emigrated to Israel where he lived for about 10 years in a kibbutz. Returning to France in 1981, he turned to photography and worked for more than ten years as a photo-reporter for several agencies like Gamma (1972-1976) and Sygma (1976-1983). Then he started to direct movies.

Gijsbert Karel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gijsbert Karel: was a conservative Dutch statesman. He was the brother of Dirk van Hogendorp the elder and the father of Dirk van Hogendorp the younger.He was part of the Driemanschap (Triumvirate) that invited William I of the Netherlands to become Prince of the new independent Netherlands in 1813. He served as Prime Minister from 1813 to 1814, and headed the commission that wrote the Constitution of the Netherlands of 1814.