Carl Jerome English (born 2 February, 1981) is a Canadian professional basketball player player Alba Berlin of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). He stands 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) tall and plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He had unsuccessful tryouts for the NBA, with the Indiana Pacers (2003) and the Seattle SuperSonics (2004).

When he was five, English lost his parents in a house fire. He had four brothers, from whom he was separated following his parents' death. He went to live with his aunt and uncle in Patrick's Cove-Angels Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador following this incident. Basketball became an outlet and English would spend hours shooting on an outdoor hoop that backed onto a remote highway.

As English improved at basketball he sought to attract interest from American colleges so he moved to the Greater Toronto Area, where he lived with his cousin, and attended Oakville's Saint Thomas of Aquinas High School. Due to a school dispute affecting extra-curricular activities, he went mostly unnoticed until the summer of 1999, when English toured with a Canadian All-Star team and caught the eye of a few Division I schools. Baylor, Notre Dame and Hawaii were all impressed by what they saw: a six-foot five-inch (196 cm) athlete with significant range on his jump shot. English had the option of returning for another year of high school but chose a late summer scholarship offer from the NCAA Division I University of Hawaii. He became the third native Newfoundlander to play Division I basketball, following brothers Tim Beckett (who played four years at Hofstra University) and Steve Beckett (who played one year, 1996–97, at the University of New Hampshire. Like English, the Becketts also left Newfoundland to attract interest from US schools, transferring from Mount Pearl Senior High to Long Island Lutheran High School.

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