Karel Engliš was a Czech economist, political scientist and founder of teleological economic theory.
Engliš was the first rector of Masaryk University in Brno from 1919 to 1920, and from 1947 to 1948 was rector of Charles University in Prague. Together with Alois Rašín, he was significantly involved in the Czechoslovakian currency reform after World War I as Minister of Finance. From 1934 to 1938 he was governor of the Czechoslovak National Bank.