Karl (also Carl) is a variant of the given name Charles (see there).

People[link]

Royalty[link]

See Carl (name)#Notable people or Charles#Royalty for royalty with similar names.

• Karl of Austria - last Austrian Emperor
• Karl der Große - commonly known in English as Charlemagne

Karl as first name[link]

• Karl (mythology), the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology, see Ríg (Norse god)
• Karl Auerbach, computer scientist
• Karl Bartos, German musician
• Karl Becker, German engineer and officer
• Karl Becker, German painter
• Karl Becker, German philologist
• Karl Benz, German engineer
• Karl Blossfeldt, German artist
• Karl Briullov, Russian Painter
• Karl Davies, English actor
• Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), German admiral
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer
• Karl Haushofer, German geopolitician
• Karl Hess, American comedian
• Karl Jaspers, German philosopher
• Karl-Otto Koch, German Nazi commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen
• Karl Kraus, Austrian writer
• Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
• Karl Kruszelnicki, Australian television and radio personality
• Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
• Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician
• Karl Lucas.English Actor and Comedian
• Karl Malden (1912–2009), American actor
• Karl Malone, American basketball player
• Karl Marx, Prussian philosopher, father of communism
• Karl Pilkington, English podcaster, author and former radio producer, star of The Ricky Gervais Show and An Idiot Abroad
• Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher
• Karl Power, British prankster
• Karl Rapp, German engineer
• Karl Rove, American political advisor
• Karl Stromberg, fictional James Bond villain
• Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
• Karl Virtanen (born 1971), Sweden-Finnish journalist
• Karl Edward Wagner, American writer, editor and publisher
• Karl Walken, fictional Black Cat mayor
• Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician
• Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver

Karl as surname[link]

• Coby Karl, American basketball player
• George Karl, American basketball coach

In myth[link]

• Karl, giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island

Other uses of Karl[link]

• Karl-Gerät, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War.
• Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Karl (comedy prize), Austrian comedy prize
• KARL, the KAiserslautern Register Transfer Language, a register transfer language
• Mörser Karl was a series of German 600mm mortars designed to bombard heavily fortified positions during World War II
• Korean Amateur Radio League
• KARL is the name of the software used by the KARLProject as an open source Knowledge Management Systems

Ships[link]

• ST Karl, Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST Empire Henchman

See also[link]

• Carl (name)
• Carol (disambiguation)
• Churl (also churl, ceorl, carl), freeman peasant in the Scandinavian caste system
• Karl-Heinz

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Karl Gorman Taylor, Sr.
Karl G. Taylor, Sr., Medal of Honor recipient
Born	(1939-07-14)July 14, 1939 Laurel, Maryland
Died	December 8, 1968(1968-12-08) (aged 29) Killed in action in Vietnam
Place of burial	Independence Cemetery, Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1959-1968
Rank	Staff Sergeant
Unit	1st Battalion 6th Marines, 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines
Battles/wars	Vietnam War
Awards	Medal of Honor Purple Heart

Karl Gorman Taylor, Sr. (July 14, 1939 – December 8, 1968) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the United States' highest military decoration – the Medal of Honor – for his actions in Vietnam in December 1968.

Biography[link]

Karl Taylor was born on July 14, 1939 in Laurel, Maryland. He graduated from Arundel Junior High School in 1953, then attended Arundel Senior High School for three years until 1956. After leaving high school, he was employed by a construction company as a Tournapull-Scraper Operator. In 1961, he received a high school equivalency diploma from the Armed Forces Institute in Madison, Wisconsin.

He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps along with his brother, Walter William Taylor, at Recruiting Station Baltimore on January 15, 1959. Upon completion of recruit training with the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, he went on to infantry combat training with the 1st Infantry Training Regiment, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. After completing infantry training in July 1959, he was assigned duty as a rifleman, section leader, and a platoon guide, successively, with Company A, 1st Battalion 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. He was promoted to private first class on July 1, 1959; to Lance Corporal on March 1, 1960; and to Corporal on October 24, 1960. From January until February 1962, he attended the Drill Instructor School at Parris Island, then served as a Drill Instructor at 2nd Recruit Training Battalion until January 1963.

After this enlistment tour was over, Cpl Taylor returned to inactive duty for three months and was with the 4th Marine Corps Reserve and Recruitment District at Philadelphia. On March 26, 1963, he returned to active duty at Marine Corps Base Quantico, and served as Assistant Police Sergeant and, later, Police Sergeant, Guard Company, Service Battalion, Marine Corps Schools. He was promoted to sergeant on December 1, 1963.

Transferred to the 3rd Marine Division, in August 1964, Sgt Taylor saw a one-year tour of duty in the Vietnam war as rocket section leader and platoon guide, with Company G, 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines. Reassigned to Sub Unit #2, Headquarters Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, in August 1965, he served as an instructor for the NCO Leadership School until the following November.

Upon his return to the United States in January 1966, Sgt Taylor returned to Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, for duty as Candidate Company Platoon Sergeant and Platoon Sergeant of Company A, Officer Candidate School. He was promoted to staff sergeant on September 1, 1966. In February 1968, he returned to the Far East and the 3rd Marine Division, this time for duty as platoon Sergeant and Company Gunnery Sergeant of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment. While participating in Operation Meade River on December 8, 1968, he was mortally wounded, while charging an enemy machine gun bunker to allow his platoon to rescue wounded Marines. He was able to take out the enemy position just before he was killed. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

On February 16, 1971, President Richard Nixon, in a White House ceremony, presented SSgt Taylor's Medal of Honor to his family — his wife, daughter, age 8, and two sons, age 7 and 4.^[1]

He was buried in Independence Cemetery at Independence Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Awards and honors[link]

Taylor's decorations include:

• SSgt. Karl Taylor's son Kevin followed his father's footstep, enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1984. In 1997, he was with the Construction Equipment Repair Branch, MCB Quantico, Virginia.^[2]

• Karl G. Taylor, Sr. has his name inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Panel 37W, Row 070.^[3]

• The Marine Corps League's detachment #1084 — the SSgt Karl G. Taylor Detachment — is named in honor of the Medal of Honor recipient.^[4]

Medal of Honor citation[link]

The President of the United States in the name of the Congress takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to

for service as set forth in the following CITATION:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a Company Gunnery Sergeant during Operation MEADE RIVER in the Republic of Vietnam on the night of 8 December 1968. Informed that the commander of the lead platoon had been mortally wounded when his unit was pinned down by a heavy volume of enemy fire, Staff Sergeant Taylor along with another Marine, crawled forward to the beleaguered unit through a hail of hostile fire, shouted encouragement and instructions to the men, and deployed them to covered positions. With his companion, he then repeatedly maneuvered across an open area to rescue those Marines who were too seriously wounded to move by themselves. Upon learning that there were still other seriously wounded men lying in another open area, in proximity to an enemy machine gun position, Staff Sergeant Taylor, accompanied by four comrades, led his men forward across the fire-swept terrain in an attempt to rescue the Marines. When his group was halted by devastating fire, he directed his companion to return to the company command post; whereupon he took his grenade launcher and, in full view of the enemy, charged across the open rice paddy toward the machine gun position, firing his weapon as he ran. Although wounded several times, he succeeded in reaching the machine gun bunker and silencing the fire from that sector, moments before he was mortally wounded. Directly instrumental in saving the lives of several of his fellow Marines, Staff Sergeant Taylor, by his indomitable courage, inspiring leadership, and selfless dedication, upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

/S/ RICHARD M. NIXON

See also[link]

	Biography portal
	United States Marine Corps portal

• List of Medal of Honor recipients
• List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War

References[link]

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Marine Corps.

Inline

General

• "Staff Sergeant Karl Gorman Taylor, Sr., USMC, Who's Who in Marine Corps History, History Division, United States Marine Corps. Retrieved on 2009-08-05". http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Whos_Who/Taylor_KG.htm. Retrieved September 29, 2010. 
• "SSgt Karl G. Taylor, Medal of Honor, 1968, Operation Meade River, Medal of Honor citation. Retrieved on 2006-06-25". http://www.usmc.mil/moh.nsf/000003c919889c0385255f980058f5b6/0000033ba9f47a7385255fa600517e58?OpenDocument. Retrieved September 29, 2010. ^{[dead link]}
• "Karl G. Taylor, Sr.". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7242551. Retrieved 2008-10-27. 
• ""An Extraordinary Man", profile of Karl G. Taylor. Retrieved on 2006-06-25". http://home.earthlink.net/~tigr/moh.htm. Retrieved September 29, 2010. 

Karl Urban
Urban at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010.
Born	Karl-Heinz Urban (1972-06-07) 7 June 1972 (age 40) Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present

Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June,^[1][2] 1972) is a New Zealand actor.

He is known for playing Éomer in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 2009 film Star Trek and Caesar on Xena: Warrior Princess. He played Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick, the Russian assassin Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy, and Ghost in Pathfinder and won acclaim for his performances in New Zealand films The Price of Milk and Out of the Blue.

Early life[link]

Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, a German immigrant, owned a leather goods store, and his mother once worked for Film Facilities in Wellington, through which the young Urban was exposed to classic New Zealand cinema and developed an interest in the film industry.^[3] Urban attended St Mark's Church School, where he showed an early love for public performance. His first acting role came at age eight, when he had a single line in one episode of the New Zealand television series 'Pioneer Woman'. Though continuing to take part in school stage productions, he did not act professionally again until after high school.

He attended Wellington College from 1986–1990, then Victoria University of Wellington in the Bachelor of Arts programme for one year, but left to pursue his acting career. Over the next few years, he landed several theatre roles in the Wellington area, and eventually he moved to Auckland, where he was offered many guest roles in local shows (one of which was playing a heroin addict in the police drama Shark in the Park). The role which launched him to local fame was that of gay paramedic Jamie Forrest in the hit New Zealand TV series Shortland Street. He appeared on the show for the 1993–1994 season.

Urban then moved to Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia in 1995, returning to New Zealand the following year.^[4]

Career[link]

New Zealand roles[link]

As well as appearing in films and television shows, Urban had various roles in theatre productions and TV advertisements. In February/March 1998, he was in a play called The Herbal Bed at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland. In August 1998, he played Mark Antony in Auckland Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The following year he starred in the Auckland Theatre Company's production of the New Zealand classic Foreskin's Lament.

Urban was seen on the internationally syndicated American TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and on its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess, in which he played the recurring roles of both Cupid and Julius Caesar from 1996 to 2001. Both shows were filmed in New Zealand. In 2001 he appeared in the offbeat rural romance The Price of Milk, for which he received his first nomination at the New Zealand Qantas Film and Television Awards. Urban later won acclaim for his portrayal of policeman Nick Harvey in Out of the Blue, a dramatisation of New Zealand's Aramoana massacre, for which he won the Qantas Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2008.

International roles[link]

Urban's first Hollywood role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. Since then, he has worked on many high-profile movies, including the second and third installments of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Two Towers and The Return of the King), The Bourne Supremacy, The Chronicles of Riddick and Star Trek.

The Hollywood Reporter speculated that Urban was one of several actors being considered for the part of British secret service agent 007 in Casino Royale, directed by fellow New Zealander Martin Campbell.^[5] The role eventually went to Daniel Craig.

Urban at the premiere of Peter Jackson's King Kong in Wellington, New Zealand

Urban played John "Reaper" Grimm in Universal Pictures' Doom (based on the classic first-person shooter video game Doom), which was released on 21 October 2005. In 2007 he starred in the Viking adventure Pathfinder. A longtime fan of Westerns,^[6] Urban appeared as Woodrow Call in Comanche Moon, the CBS miniseries prequel to Lonesome Dove, in January 2008.

In 2009, he played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, a role famously originated by DeForest Kelley, in the eleventh Star Trek film.^{[7][8][9][10]} A fan of the Star Trek franchise since childhood, Urban actively pursued a role in the film.^[11] His performance was widely embraced by the Star Trek fan community for its faithfulness to the spirit of Kelley's McCoy.^[12]

In 2009, Urban appeared as himself in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade, discussing his sword-wielding experience in films such as The Lord of the Rings.^[13]

Urban next appeared as CIA agent William Cooper in RED, adapted from the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name and co-starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren.^[14] He portrayed Black Hat, a villainous priest-turned-vampire, in the film adaption of the Korean manhwa Priest, released in 3-D in 2011.^[15]

In July 2010, Urban was cast as law-enforcing comic book hero Judge Dredd for the upcoming film entitled Dredd. In an interview with Shave Magazine, Urban described it as a "high-octane, action-fueled film... about the day in the life of Dredd." The film is directed by Pete Travis, with a script by Alex Garland.^[16]

Urban is currently filming the ensemble thriller Loft, a remake of the Belgian film of the same name. Filmed in New Orleans and Belgium, it is helmed by the director of the 2008 original, Erik Van Looy.^[17]

Personal life[link]

Urban married Natalie Wihongi (who was his makeup artist on The Privateers)^[18] in September 2004. Together they have two sons: Hunter, born November 2000, and Indiana ('Indy'), born January 2005^[19] and named for the eponymous hero of the Indiana Jones franchise,^[20] which Urban has cited as among his favorite films.^[21] They live in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Herne Bay.^{[citation needed]}

Urban serves as a celebrity ambassador for KidsCan, a charity which currently supports over 16,000 disadvantaged children all over New Zealand by providing them with essentials such as food, coats and shoes.^[22]

He is an avid fan of rugby union; in particular, the New Zealand All Blacks national team.^[23]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Karl Urban

• Karl Urban at the Internet Movie Database
• Karl Urban at AllRovi
• Karl Urban at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Karl Urban Interview at www.sci-fi-online.com

Olivia Thirlby
Thirlby on the set of New York, I Love You, 2008
Born	(1986-10-06) October 6, 1986 (age 25) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2006–present

Olivia Thirlby (born October 6, 1986) is an American actress best known for her role as Leah, the best friend of Ellen Page's character in the 2007 film Juno.^[1] In June 2008, Thirlby was described by Vanity Fair magazine as a member of "Hollywood's New Wave".^[2]

Personal life[link]

Thirlby was born in New York City, to an advertising executive mother and a contractor father.^[3][4] She was raised in Manhattan's East Village, attending school at Friends Seminary in the city's Gramercy neighborhood, where she graduated in a class of 57 students.^[1] She also attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in upstate New York, and Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (the Long Island summer arts camp also attended by Natalie Portman and Mariah Carey). She took classes at the American Globe Theatre, and briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she completed a stage combat course with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat (BASSC).^[5]

Thirlby is a participant in iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project. In a new interview with Brooklyn Magazine (with photos shot by iO), Thirlby publicly came out as bisexual and stated why she decided to be a part of a civil rights photography project that focuses on people who are "anything but 100 percent straight."^[6]

Film career[link]

While still in high school, Thirlby was offered a role in The Secret. In 2006, she made her film debut in United 93 and her television debut in Kidnapped.

In 2007, she starred as Leah, the best friend of the title character, in the critically acclaimed Juno. Around this time, she and her Juno costar Ellen Page were slated to star as the respective title characters of Jack & Diane. The film is a tale of two young women who fall in love, the heat of the romance unlocking lycanthropy in Thirlby's character, Jack. Both dropped out of the film before production, and the cast was replaced numerous times over. As of 2010, Jack & Diane has entered production with an entirely new cast and no involvement from Thirlby or Page.

In the Sundance Audience Award-winning film The Wackness, a mid-1990s period piece, she plays Stephanie, a marijuana-smoking "popular girl" from New York City. Thirlby stars opposite Josh Peck, who plays a drug dealer. Ben Kingsley stars as her stepfather. The film was released in the U.S. on July 3, 2008.^[1]

Thirlby was cast in the Judd Apatow-produced, David Gordon Green-directed stoner comedy, Pineapple Express, as Seth Rogen's character's girlfriend, but was replaced by actress Amber Heard after rehearsing for the film.^[7] She will however reunite with Gordon Green on the animated TV pilot Good Vibes.^[8]

She made her stage debut in Farragut North, a play by Beau Willimon at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. The Off-Broadway production ran from October 22, 2008 – November 29, 2008 with official opening on November 12^[9] and transferred to the Geffen Playhouse in June 2009.

Thirlby appears in the 2009 HBO series Bored To Death. She voices promotional video excerpts from the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher which since October 2008 have regularly been posted to YouTube.^[10]

Thirlby appeared in the 2011-released film Margaret. She is attached to star in Christmas In New York for Arlen Faber director John Hindman^[11] as well as For Ellen for Bradley Rust Gray,^[12] She starred also in The No Game, The Manners of Madness and Parts Per Billion.^[13] Thirlby starred in the Russian science-fiction film The Darkest Hour, released in 2011, directed by Chris Gorak, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.^[14] Thirlby was also cast in the lead role of Max in the upcoming drama comedy The Other Side after Lindsay Lohan reportedly dropped the project.

Alongside Karl Urban in the title role, Thirlby has been cast as Judge Cassandra Anderson in the new film adaptation of Judge Dredd currently in production^[15] and in The Movie being directed by Luke Eberl.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Olivia Thirlby

• Olivia Thirlby at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile at Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces Of Independent Film 2006"

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (April 2011)

Natalie Sara Massenet was born in Los Angeles in May 1965, the daughter of Bob Rooney (an American journalist) and Barbara Jones (a model for Chanel). She spent her early childhood in Paris before moving back to Los Angeles in 1976 with her father.^[2] In 1997 she met her husband, Arnaud Massenet (an investment banker) at the Notting Hill Carnival. A month later, she moved from LA to be with him.^[3]

Career[link]

Natalie Massenet started working as a fashion editor at Women's Wear Daily in 1993 (aged 27) and later in 1996 at The Tatler. She left there in 1998 to go freelance and started up Net-a-Porter. In April 2010 she sold her share of Net-a-Porter to Swiss luxury goods group Richemont for an estimated £50m. She remains as Net-a-Porter's executive chairman, and it is understood that she will reinvest £15m back into the business alongside Richemont.^[4] In June 2010 she announced that she was starting up a similar website for men, entitled 'Mr Porter'.^[5]