Karl or Carl Schawerda (4 February 1869 in Újezd, Moravia – 11 September 1945 in Vienna) was an Austrian Czech entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Karl Schawerda was a physician of Czech origin, a gynecologist and entomologist mainly devoted to researching moths, but also has significant as an author describing some of the new forms of Parnassius apollo Linnaeus, 1758.