Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 – 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music.

Karel Svoboda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and began his career as a pop composer after abandoning medicine in his third year of university.

In 1969 he wrote a song titled "Lady Carneval" for Karel Gott, a major Czech pop star.

Some examples of these TV series are Vicky the Viking, Maya the Bee and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.

He also wrote scores for several musicals: Svoboda was found dead from gunshot wounds in the garden of his villa at Jevany on January 28, 2007.