Famous People with Name Karel

Karel Loprais            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Loprais: is a Czech rally raid driver and multiple winner of the Rally Paris-Dakar in the truck category.

Karel Roden            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Roden: is a Czech actor.Roden's father and grandfather were also actors. After study of theatrical art in Prague he had taken many roles in theatres and movies. Outside of the Czech Republic he is mostly known for character roles in Hollywood movies such as 15 Minutes (2001), Blade II (2002), Bulletproof Monk (2003), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), as Grigori Rasputin in Hellboy (2004), Running Scared (2006) and RocknRolla (2008).

Karel Jaromír Erben            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Jaromír Erben: was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection Kytice (Czech for The Bouquet), which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.

Karel Capek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Capek: was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921. Karel credited his brother, Josef Capek, as the true inventor of the word robot.

Karel Havlícek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Havlícek: was a Czech painter.He was born in Berlin where his parents had moved from Vienna in 1903 because his father Karel started to work in the state theatres as a scene designer. They moved to Czechoslovakia in 1923 and his father entered the Prague National Theatre as a stage setter. Karel Havlícek junior studied in Berlin and Prague Gymnasiums and influenced by his father and his friends (Cesar Klein, Pankok, Emil Pirchan, and Aravantinos) he was interested in art. However his father persuaded him to study law at Charles University and after graduation he started a career of an official.

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.