Carlos (given name)
Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name Charles, from the North Germanic Carl.
Royalty
- Carlos I of Portugal, second to last King of Portugal
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain
- Carlos II of Spain, last Habsburg King in Spain
- Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of King Philip II
- Carlos III, King of Spain from 10 August 1759 to 14 December 1788
- Carlos IV, King of Spain from 14 December 1788, until his abdication on 19 March 1808
- Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, first of the Carlist claimants to the throne of Spain
- Carlos (Calusa), king of the Calusa people of Florida
- Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain
- Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain
- Prince Carlos Hugo Roderik Sybren de Bourbon de Parme, son of Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma
- Carlos, Prince of Piacenza, son of Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma
People in media
- Carlos Alazraqui, American stand-up comedian and actor
- Carlos Bernard, American actor
- Carlos Braithwaite, African-American actor who was a cast member on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series You Can't Do That on Television
- Carlos Bustamante, Canadian television personality; former YTV host from 2002 to 2018 and current reporter of Entertainment Tonight Canada since 2017
- Carlos (DJ), UK Radio Presenter
- Carlos Caridad-Montero, Venezuelan film director
- Carlos Castro (journalist), Portuguese journalist & murder victim
- Carlos Irwin Estévez, American actor
- Carlos Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Carlos Mencia, comedian, host of Mind of Mencia on Comedy Central
- Carlos Ray Norris, American actor and martial artist
- Carlos Pesquera,, Puerto Rican civil engineer
- Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian director
- Carlos Watson (journalist), American television host, lawyer, and businessman
People in music
- Carlos Alomar, American guitarist, composer and arranger
- Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese fado singer
- Carlos Cavazo, guitarist in Quiet Riot
- Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and educator
- Carlos Dengler, American actor, bassist, and founding member of the band Interpol
- Carlos Gardel, prominent figure in the history of tango music
- Carlos Montoya, prominent flamenco guitarist
- Carlos PenaVega, American singer, dancer and actor
- Carlos Ponce, Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality
- Carlos Rivera, Mexican actor and singer
- Carlos Santana, Mexican musician, leader of the band Santana
- Carlos Vives, Colombian singer
- Carlos Ward, jazz alto saxophonist and flautist
People in sport
- Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player
- Carlos Basham Jr., American football player
- Carlos Brathwaite, former Barbados and West Indies cricketer known for being the holder of the accolade of being the man who hit four sixes to take the West Indies home against England in 2016.
- Carlos Davis, American football player
- Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, American football player
- Carlos Garay, American football player
- Carlos Henderson, American football player
- Carlos Hendricks, American football player
- Carlos Huertas Colombian racing driver
- Carlos Hyde American football player
- Carlos James (American football), American football player
- Carlos Joseph, American football player
- Carlos Menem Jr., Argentine rally driver
- Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player
- Carlos Muñoz (racing driver), Colombian racing driver
- Carlos Nieto, Italian-Argentine rugby union player
- Carlos Sainz, Spanish World Rally Championship driver, 1990 and 1992 champion.
- Carlos Sainz Jr., Formula 1 driver for Scuderia Ferrari
- Carlos Washington Jr., American football player
- Carlos Watkins, American football player
Baseball players
- Carlos Almanzar, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Bernier, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Carrasco (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Casimiro, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Castillo (baseball), American baseball player
- Carlos Corporán, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Cortes, American baseball player
- Carlos Crawford, American baseball player
- Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Diaz (catcher), American baseball player
- Carlos Diaz (pitcher), American baseball player
- Carlos Estévez (baseball), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Febles, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Fisher, American baseball player
- Carlos García (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos González (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Guevara, American baseball player
- Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Hernández (catcher), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Hernández (infielder), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Hernández (pitcher, born 1980), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Hernández (pitcher, born 1997), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
- Carlos Lezcano, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos López (baseball), Mexican baseball player
- Carlos Maldonado (catcher), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Maldonado (pitcher), Panamanian baseball player
- Carlos Marmol, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Martínez (infielder), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Martínez (pitcher, born 1982), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Martínez (pitcher, born 1991), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos May, American baseball player
- Carlos Méndez (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Mendoza (outfielder), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Monasterios, Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Moore, American baseball player
- Carlos Muñiz, American baseball player
- Carlos Pascual (baseball), Cuban baseball player
- Carlos Paula, Cuban baseball player
- Carlos Peguero, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Peña, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Pérez (baseball), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Pérez (catcher, born 1996), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Ponce (baseball), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Pulido, Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Quentin, American baseball player
- Carlos Quintana (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Reyes (baseball), American baseball player
- Carlos Rivera (baseball), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Rodón, American baseball player
- Carlos Rodríguez (infielder), Mexican baseball player
- Carlos Rosa, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Ruiz (baseball), Panamanian baseball player
- Carlos Santana (baseball), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Silva (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Torres (pitcher), American baseball player
- Carlos Triunfel, Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Valderrama (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Carlos Valdez (baseball), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Velázquez (baseball), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Villanueva (baseball), Dominican baseball player
- Carlos Zambrano, American baseball player
- Carlos Guenard, Guatemalan baseball player
Basketball players
- Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
- Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Carlos Delfino,, Argentine NBA basketball player
- Carlos Boozer,, American NBA basketball player
Cyclists
- Carlos Jaramillo, Colombian road cyclist
- Carlos Alberto Contreras, Colombian road cyclist
- Carlos Humberto Cabrera, Colombian road cyclist
- Carlos Silva (cyclist), Colombian cyclist
- Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
- Carlos Alzate, Colombian track and road cyclist
Fighters
- Carlos Augusto Filho, Brazilian mixed martial artist and kickboxer
- Carlos Valcárcel, Puerto Rican boxer
- Carlos Varela (wrestler), Cuban wrestler
- Carlos Julian Ortíz, Cuban freestyle wrestler
- Carlos Motta (judoka), Brazilian judoka
- Carlos Fonseca (boxer), Brazilian boxer
- Carlos Luis Campos, Venezuelan boxer
- Carly Colón, professional wrestler, WWE
- Carlos Condit, American mixed martial artist
- Carlos Honorato, Brazilian judoka
Footballers
- Carlos Abad, Spanish footballer
- Carlos Baleba, Cameroonian footballer
- Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
- Carlos Alberto Carvalho da Silva Júnior, Brazilian football forward
- Carlos Chaínho, Portuguese footballer
- Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
- Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
- Carlos Fernandes (footballer, born 1978), Portuguese football defender
- Carlos Fernandes (footballer, born 1979), Portuguese football goalkeeper
- Carlos Fernández (footballer, born 1984), Peruvian footballer
- Carlos Fernández (footballer, born 1996), Spanish footballer
- Carlos Gruezo (footballer, born 1975), Ecuadorian footballer
- Carlos Gruezo (footballer, born 1995), Ecuadorian footballer
- Carlos Guirland, Paraguayan football midfielder
- Carlos Isaac (footballer), Spanish footballer
- Carlos Martins (footballer), Portuguese footballer
- Carlos Muñoz Cobo, Spanish footballer, known as "Carlos"
- Carlos Muñoz (Chilean footballer), Chilean footballer
- Carlos Muñoz (Ecuadorian footballer), Ecuadorian footballer
- Carlos Muñoz (Mexican footballer), Mexican footballer
- Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
- Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese football manager
- Carlos Santos de Jesus, Brazilian football defender
- Carlos Pérez Salvachúa, Spanish football manager
- Carlos Soca, Uruguayan footballer
- Carlos Tevez, Argentine footballer
- Carlos Valderrama, Colombian football player known as ''El Pibe''
Gymnasts
- Carlos del Ser, Spanish trampolinist
- Carlos Yulo, Filipino artistic gymnast
Runners
- Carlos Moreno (athlete), Chilean track and field sprinter
- Carlos Patrício, Portuguese long-distance runner
- Carlos Retiz, Mexican long-distance runner
- Carlos Tarazona, Venezuelan long-distance runner
Swimmers
- Carlos Berrocal, Puerto Rican swimmer
- Carlos Ventosa, Spanish backstroke swimmer
Volleyball players
- Carlos Weber, Argentine volleyball player
- Carlos Carreño, Spanish volleyball player
- Carlos Teixeira, Portuguese volleyball player
- Carlos Tejeda, Venezuelan volleyball player
Other people
- Carlos Acosta, Cuban ballet dancer
- Carlos Agassi, Filipino actor, rap artist, host, and model
- Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, Prime Minister of Mozambique
- Carlos Arango Vélez,, Colombian politician
- Carlos Julio Villar Aleman, Cuban artist
- Carlos Anwandter, German political exile who immigrated to Chile
- Carlos Arroyo (architect), Spanish architect
- Carlos Arruza, Mexican bullfighter
- Carlos Bunga, Portuguese artist
- Carlos Camacho, first elected governor of Guam
- Carlos Cardoen, Chilean metallurgical engineer
- Carlos Castaneda, American author
- Carlos Cheppi, Argentine diplomat
- Carlos Cisneros, New Mexico state senator
- Carlos Cisneros, member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies
- Carlos Coolidge, governor of the State of Vermont
- Carlos Danger, 2013, alias used by New York City Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner for sexting
- Carlos Dominguez III, Filipino businessman
- Carlos Escudé, Argentine academic and writer
- Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- Carlos P. Garcia, eighth Filipino president and poet
- Carlos Ghosn, former chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance
- Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Brazilian mathematician
- Carlos Gutierrez, Cuban American, 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company
- Carlos Hathcock, US Marine Corps sniper
- Carlos Howard, Governor of West Florida between 1792 and 93
- Carlos Marighella, Brazilian leading thinker on urban guerrilla warfare
- Carlos Menchaca, American politician, New York City Mayoral candidate
- Carlos Pérez de Bricio, Spanish businessman and politician
- Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino politician who was formerly a president of the UN General Assembly
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994
- Carlos Simpson, American mathematician
- Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- Carlos Slim Domit, Mexican businessman and son of Carlos Slim Helú
- Carlos Solchaga, Spanish politician and businessman
- Carlos the Jackal, the nom de guerre of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a Venezuelan assassin and terrorist serving a life sentence for murder in France
- Carlos Urbizo, Honduran politician and economist
- Carlos Isagani Zarate, Filipino politician
Multiple people
Fictional characters
- Carlos, a character who appears in the show Barney & Friends
- Carlos, a character in the Sprout animated spin-off of The Good Night Show called Nina's World
- Carlos, a character in the video game Saints Row 2
- Carlos, a henchman to Le Chiffre in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale
- Carlos, a meerkat in the 2005 to 2008 Animal Planet television series Meerkat Manor
- Carlos, a character from the Subway Surfers
- Carlos, Cecil's husband from Welcome to Nightvale
- Carlos, a protagonist from the video game Zero Time Dilemma
- Carlos Bartolome, a character in Kadenang Ginto
- Carlos Benitez, a character in Abot-Kamay na Pangarap
- Carlos Casagrande, one of the main characters of the Nickelodeon animated television series The Casagrandes
- Carlos De Vil, son of Cruella in Descendants
- Carlos F. Fiero, a character from Dirty Linen
- Carlos Lopez, a character in the Transformers Unicron Trilogy, voiced by Matt Hill
- Carlos Miyamoto, one of the player characters in the SNES game, Final Fight 2
- Carlos Nieto, a paramedic in the television series Third Watch
- Carlos Oliveira (Resident Evil), one of the two protagonists in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
- Carlos Rivera, a boxer from the manga and anime series Ashita no Joe
- Carlos Ramon, a fictional character and is one of Ms. Frizzle's classmates, in the Scholastic book and television series The Magic School Bus
- Carlos Solis, a character from Desperate Housewives
- Carlos Vallerte, the character in two of the Power Rangers series
- Carlos Molina, a character in Netflix's Julie and the Phantoms
- Don Carlos, the main character of Schiller's eponymous play and the Verdi opera inspired by it, based on a fictional retelling of the Spanish infante's life.