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David Kipnis
David M. Kipnis (1927–2014) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1967 quantification of the incretin effect underlies GLP-1 diabetes drugs.
David Kipping
David Kipping is a British-born astronomer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who leads the Cool Worlds Lab, developed exomoon detection methods, and reported the first exomoon candidates.
David Kirk
David L. Kirk (1934–2018) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for making Volvox a model system for studying multicellularity.
David Kirk (scientist)
David Kirk is a computer scientist who served as NVIDIA's chief scientist from 1997 to 2009, leading the development of GPU computing and high-performance PC graphics.
David Kirsch
David G. Kirsch is an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist, a University of Toronto professor known for sarcoma mouse models and the SU2C-SARC032 immunotherapy trial.
David Kisailus
David Kisailus is an American materials scientist and professor at UC Irvine who studies biomineralized composites and is known for his 2020 Nature study of the diabolical ironclad beetle.
David Klatzmann
David Klatzmann (born 1954) is a French immunologist and physician-scientist at Sorbonne Université and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, known for identifying the AIDS virus's cellular target and pioneering low-dose interleukin-2 therapy.
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld is an American physicist and systems neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying lasers and optics to rodent whisker sensing and cortical blood flow.
David Klenerman
David Klenerman is a British chemist at the University of Cambridge who, with Shankar Balasubramanian, invented sequencing-by-synthesis, founded Solexa in 1998, and won the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize.
David Klimstra
David Klimstra is an American pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal tumors who chaired pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering for ten years and co-founded the AI company Paige.
David Knopfler
David Knopfler, British singer-guitarist, co-founded Dire Straits in 1977, played rhythm guitar on its first two albums, left in 1980, and has released solo albums from Release (1983) to Skating on the Lake (2022).
David Koch
David Koch, also known as David Hamilton Koch, was an American billionaire who served as executive vice president of Koch Industries and funded a large conservative-libertarian political network.
David Koechner
David Koechner, also known as Dave Koechner, is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer born 1962 in Tipton, Missouri, known for Todd Packer on The Office, Champ Kind in Anchorman, one SNL season, and over 200 screen credits.
David Koepp
David Koepp (born 1963, Pewaukee, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter and director of Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, and Spielberg's Disclosure Day; third-ranked screenwriter by box office.
David Koloane
David Nthubu Koloane (1938–2019) was a South African painter, curator, and educator whose expressive works depicted Johannesburg's urban life under apartheid; he co-founded the FUBA Gallery, the Thupelo workshops, and the Bag Factory Artists' Studios.
David Komander
David Komander is a German-born biochemist and structural biologist who studies the ubiquitin system, discovered the deubiquitinase OTULIN, and has led the Ubiquitin Signalling Division at WEHI in Melbourne since 2018.
David Koresh
David Koresh, born Vernon Wayne Howell, was the American leader of the Branch Davidians, a Seventh-day Adventist offshoot near Waco, Texas, who died in the 1993 siege's fire.
David Korn (pathologist)
David Korn (1933–2024) was an American pathologist and research-policy leader who was dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and Harvard's inaugural vice provost for research.
David Kostelecky
David Kostelecký is a Czech sport shooter, born in Brno in 1975, who won the Olympic trap gold medal at Beijing 2008 and silver at Tokyo 2020.
David Kotol
David Kotol is a Swedish proteomics researcher who co-founded ProteomEdge, a 2023 Human Protein Atlas and SciLifeLab spinout selling isotope-labeled protein standards for absolute protein quantification by mass spectrometry.
David Krackhardt
David Krackhardt, born 1950 in Massachusetts, is an American organizational scholar at Carnegie Mellon University known for cognitive social structures, Simmelian ties, and the Krackhardt kite.
David Kreiner
David Kreiner (born 1981, Kitzbühel) is an Austrian former Nordic combined athlete, 2010 Vancouver Olympic team gold medalist and double 2011 Oslo world team champion, later an IFMGA mountain guide.
David Kriegman
David J. Kriegman is a computer scientist and professor at UC San Diego since 2002, known for Fisherfaces and illumination cone models in face recognition.
David Kross
David Kross (born 1990, Bargteheide, Germany; originally spelled Kroß) is a German actor known for Knallhart (2006), Krabat (2008), and as young Michael Berg in The Reader (2008), which won him the Cannes Trophée Chopard; later roles include War Horse, Simpel (Bavarian Film Award 2018), and Kafka.
David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz, American character actor (born 1978, Queens), known as Charlie Eppes on Numb3rs, Bernard in The Santa Clause, and Isidor Isaac Rabi in Oppenheimer; briefly paused acting in 2026.
David Krummenacker
David Krummenacker (born 1975) is a retired American middle-distance runner who won the 2003 World Indoor 800 m title, with personal bests of 1:43.92 and 3:31.93.
David Kushner (singer-songwriter)
David Kushner (David Alan Kushner II, born 2000, Chicago) is an American alt/indie singer-songwriter known for TikTok hits "Miserable Man", "Mr. Forgettable", and "Daylight"; EP Footprints I Found (2022), album The Dichotomy (2024), album Devotion (2026).
David Kustoff
David Kustoff, born in 1966, is the Republican U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district since 2017, after serving as U.S. Attorney for West Tennessee.
David L Stern
David L Stern is an American developmental and evolutionary biologist and HHMI Investigator known for showing that morphological evolution often acts through gene regulatory DNA.
David L. Allara
David L. Allara is an American chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Penn State, who won the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for helping create self-assembled monolayers.