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 (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkaːroj] ^ⓘ) 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).^[1]

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

References

^ Fercsik Erzsébet – Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája – Budapest 2009, ISBN 9789639902183

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[1] Fercsik Erzsébet – Raátz Judit: Keresztnevek enciklopédiája – Budapest 2009, ISBN 9789639902183

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