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Contemporary Notables of the name Karel (post 1700) +

  • L. Albert Karel, American Democratic Party politician, Member of Wisconsin State Assembly from Kewaunee County 1
  • John D. Karel (1878-1959), American Republican politician, Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1930-34; defeated, 1934; Member of Michigan State House of Representatives from Kent County 1st District, 1945-50 2
  • John C. Karel, American Democratic Party politician, Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, 1912, 1914; Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, 1916 2
  • John Karel, American politician, U.S. Consul General in SAINT Petersburg, 1897 2
  • Boudewijn Karel Boom (1903-1980), Dutch botanist
  • Louis Karel Dupré (1925-2022), Belgian Catholic phenomenologist and religious philosopher, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor in Yale University's religious studies department from 1973 to 1998, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Willem Karel Dicke (1905-1962), Dutch pediatrician who was the first to develop the gluten-free diet
  • Karel Vítezslav MaĊĦek (1865-1927), Czech painter, architect, illustrator and art professor
  • Karel Burkert (1909-1991), Czech football goalkeeper who played for Czechoslovakia in the 1938 FIFA World Cup


  1. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 6) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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