Famous People with Name Karel

Karel Skalicka            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Skalicka: was a Czech–Argentine chess master.In 1924, he won a team gold medal for Czechoslovakia (Hromádka, Schulz, Vanek, Skalicka) in the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad in Paris. He took 3rd in group eliminations (Anatol Tschepurnoff won), and tied for 21-31st in

Karel Treybal            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Treybal: was a prominent Czech chess player of the early twentieth century.Treybal was born in Kotopeky, a village to the southwest of Prague in central Bohemia. He trained as a lawyer and became chairman of the district court in Velvary, a small town on the oppos

Karel Traxler            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Traxler: was a Czech chess master and composer of chess problems.He is best known for the ultra-sharp variation named after him, the Traxler Variation in the Two Knights Defense, which was first shown in the following game against Reinisch, played in Hostoun in 18

Karel Cudlín            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Cudlín: is a Czech photographer.Cudlín was born in Prague and started taking photographs in his teens. Borrowing his father's Exakta and supported by his uncle, a photography enthusiast, Cudlín soon started photographing the Gypsies of Žižkov, the suburb where he

Karel Loprais            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Loprais: is a Czech rally raid driver and multiple winner of the Rally Paris-Dakar in the truck category.

Rudolf Karel            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Rudolf Karel: was a distinguished Czech composer.Rudolf Karel was son of a poor railway employee. He studied composition from 1899 to 1904 with Antonín Dvorák and organ with Josef Klicka in Prague.