Karl Anderson (disambiguation)

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Karl Anderson (born 1980) is an American wrestler

Karl Anderson may also refer to:

Karl Anderson is a former American alpine skier who competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics.

Karl Walter Anderson was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Karl Ricks Anderson is a Latter-day Saint historian whose specialty is the Kirtland period in the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. He is a brother of Richard Lloyd Anderson and they were the second recipients of the Junius F. Wells Award from the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation in 2006.

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