Famous People with Name Karol

Karol Jets            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Karol Jets: is a professional ice hockey player currently living and playing in the United Kingdom.He progressed through the junior system to play for the senior team in 00-01 and in 01-02 the team earned promotion to the Slovak Extra league for the 02-03 season. Man

Karol Križan            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Karol Križan: is a professional Slovak ice hockey goaltender.In the play of Modo against Timrå IK he scored a goal and recorded a shutout at the same time. He also led Modo to the Swedish Championship in 2007 with the help of his backup Michal Zajkowski, on 17 December

Karol Rómmel            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Karol Rómmel: was a Polish and Russian military officer, sportsman and horse rider. He competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics (in the Russian team), the 1924 Summer Olympics, and in the 1928 Summer Olympics (for Poland). As a military officer he served with distinction i

Karol Beck            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Karol Beck: is a male tennis player from Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. He has been ranked as high as 36th in the world. On October 25, 2004, Beck lost in the final of the St. Petersburg Open to Mikhail Youzhny, 6-2, 6-2. On February 13, 2006 the Internat

Karol Estelle Kennedy Kucher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karol Estelle Kennedy Kucher: was an American pair skater. With her brother, Peter, she won five U.S. Championship titles from 1948-1952. Known as "The Kennedy Kids," they won the World Championship in 1950, and the silver medal in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Jeno Károly            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Jeno Károly: was a Hungarian footballer and later manager born in Budapest, outside of his homeland he is particularly noted for being the first manager of Agnelli-era Juventus. As a player, Károly appeared for two local Budapest clubs, including the powerful MTK Buda

Béla Károlyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Béla Károlyi: is a world-renowned Romanian gymnastics coach. He possesses Romanian and American citizenship. Together with his wife, Márta, (sometimes called Martha), Károlyi has coached both the United States and Romanian Olympic teams to medal success. He was born in Cluj, Romania.

Márta Károlyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Márta Károlyi: is a Romanian gymnastics coach of Hungarian ethnicity. Together with her husband, Béla, Károlyi has trained nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and six U.S. national champions, including Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Nadia Comaneci, Kim Zmeskal and Dominique Moceanu.

Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi: was briefly Hungary's leader in 1918-19 during an ill-fated spell of democracy. He served as Prime Minister between November 1-16, 1918 and as President between November 16, 1918 – March 21, 1919.The Károlyi family were an illustrious extremely wealthy, Roman Catholic aristocratic family that had played an important role in Hungarian life since the 17th century. He was born in Fót, Austria-Hungary in what is today Hungary. In his youth, he had been a wastrel, but as he grew older, he became determined to devote himself to more serious pursuits. In 1909, he became the President of the OMGE (National Agricultural Society), the main rural organization of the nobility. Initially, a supporter of the existing political and social system in Hungary, Károlyi gradually drifted ever more and more left-wing during his career.