Károly

Károly

Gender	masculine
Language(s)	Hungarian
Name day	January 28, November 4
Other gender
Feminine	Karola, Karolina
Origin
Language(s)	Germanic
Meaning	Free man
Other names
Nickname(s)	Karcsi
Cognate(s)	Carolus
Anglicisation(s)	Charles

Károly is a common Hungarian male given name. It is also sometimes found as a Hungarian surname. The origin of this name is the Turkic Karul, which means hawk. Nowadays 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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Károly
• All pages with titles containing Károly
• Károlyi, a Hungarian surname
• Karoli (disambiguation)
• Karola
• Karolj