Károly

Károly is a common Hungarian male given name. It is also sometimes found as a Hungarian surname. Károly is considered the equivalent of English Karl or Charles (because the Latin Carolus is very close to Károly).

Given names

 * Charles I of Hungary (1288–1342), in Hungarian Károly Róbert, King of Hungary and Croatia
 * Károly Aggházy (1855–1918), Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer
 * Károly Andrássy (1792–1845), Hungarian politician
 * Károly Bajkó (1944–1997), Hungarian Olympic wrestler
 * Károly Balzsay (born 1979), Hungarian boxer
 * Károly Bartha (Minister of Defence) (1884–1964), Hungarian colonel general and politician
 * Károly József Batthyány (1697–1772), Hungarian general, field marshal and ban (viceroy) of Croatia
 * Károly Binder (born 1956), Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and educator
 * Károly Brocky (1808–1855), Hungarian painter
 * Károly Doncsecz (1918–2002), Slovene potter
 * Károly Ecser (1931–2005), Hungarian weightlifter
 * Károly Eperjes (born 1954), Hungarian actor
 * Károly Ferencz (1913–1984), Hungarian wrestler
 * Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917), Hungarian painter
 * Károly Frenreisz (born 1946), Hungarian singer and songwriter
 * Károly Gesztesi (1963–2020), Hungarian actor
 * Károly Grósz (1930–1996), Hungarian politician
 * Károly Hieronymi (1836–1911), Hungarian engineer and politician
 * Károly Horvath (born 1947), Hungarian singer known as Charlie
 * Károly Kárpáti (1906–1996), Hungarian Olympic wrestling
 * Károly Kerkapoly (1824–1891), Hungarian politician and Minister of Finance
 * Károly Kernstok (1873–1940), Hungarian painter
 * Károly Kisfaludy (1788–1830), Hungarian dramatist and artist
 * Károly Knezić (1808–1849), Hungarian Army general
 * Károly Kós (1883–1977), Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician
 * Károly Leiningen-Westerburg (1819–1849), German general in the Hungarian Army
 * Károly Lotz (1833–1904), German-Hungarian painter
 * Károly Makk (1925–2017), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
 * Károly Markó the Elder (1793–1860), Hungarian painter
 * Károly Reich (1922–1988), Hungarian artist
 * Károly Sándor (1928–2014), Hungarian footballer
 * Károly Simonyi (1916–2001), Hungarian physicist, father of Charles Simonyi
 * Károly Szabó (1916–1964), Austro-Hungarian assistant of Raoul Wallenberg in rescuing Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
 * Károly Takács (1910–1976), Hungarian Olympic sport shooter
 * Károly Tersztyánszky (1854–1921), Austro-Hungarian general in World War I
 * Károly Than (1834–1908), Hungarian chemist
 * Károly Vécsey (1803–1849), Hungarian Army general
 * Károly Zipernowsky (1853–1942), Austrian-born Hungarian engineer

Surnames

 * David Karoly (born 1955), Australian atmospheric scientist
 * Jenő Károly (1886–1926), Hungarian footballer