The present Grand Master of the Austrian order is Karl von Habsburg; that of the Spanish order is the King of Spain.
Karl Marx | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Habsburg | House of Habsburg | Alexander von Humboldt | Habsburg Monarchy | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Lars von Trier | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Ferdinand von Mueller | Paul von Hindenburg | Karl G. Heider | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Karl Jenkins | Erich von Stroheim | Max von Sydow |
Famous guests over the years have included General Fulgencio Batista, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, deposed emperor Karl von Habsburg, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the missionary Albert Schweitzer, and dramatist George Bernard Shaw.