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John Kay (musician)
John Kay (Joachim Fritz Krauledat, born 1944) is the German-born Canadian frontman of Steppenwolf, whose 1968 hit Born to Be Wild introduced heavy metal to lyrics; he led the band from 1967 to its 2018 retirement and later runs the Maue Kay Foundation.
John Keats
John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet and trained surgeon-apothecary at Guy's Hospital. Author of the 1819 odes, Endymion, and the 1820 volume; coined negative capability; died of tuberculosis at 25.
John Keble
John Keble (1792–1866) was an Anglican priest, theologian, and poet who originated the Oxford Movement; his 1827 verse collection The Christian Year became a devotional bestseller.
John Keenan (Massachusetts state senator)
John F. Keenan is an American Democratic politician who has represented the Norfolk and Plymouth district in the Massachusetts Senate since 2011, after serving on the Quincy City Council.
John Keller
John Keller refers to several athletes: John Herman Keller Jr. (born 1965), US Olympic handball player at Atlanta 1996; a Kansas basketball player who won 1952 Olympic gold; a Canadian 1932 Olympic boxer; and a Nashville hockey forward.
John Kemény
John Kemény, also János Kemény, was a Transylvanian nobleman, soldier, and diplomat elected Prince of Transylvania on 1 January 1661 and killed in battle in 1662.
John Kempe
John Kempe (c. 1380–1454) was an English cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, twice Lord Chancellor of England and a central figure in Henry VI's government until his death in 1454.
John Kendrick-Jones
John Kendrick-Jones is a molecular biophysicist who identified myosin regulatory light chains and how their phosphorylation controls filament assembly, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1970.
John Kennedy (Louisiana politician)
John Neely Kennedy (born 1951), Louisiana Republican U.S. senator since 2017, former five-term state treasurer, Democrat turned Republican in 2007; distinct from President John F. Kennedy.
John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), New Orleans novelist, wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, failed to publish it, died by suicide, and won the posthumous 1981 Pulitzer Prize after Walker Percy's intervention.
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian-born Harvard economist and ambassador to India, wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State and coined countervailing power.
John Kenneth Stille
John Kenneth Stille was an American chemist at Colorado State University whose studies of palladium-catalyzed organotin coupling gave organic chemistry the Stille reaction; he died in a 1989 airline crash.
John Kerr (actor)
John Kerr (John Grinham Kerr), 1931-2013, American stage, film and TV actor; Tony-winning original Tom Lee in Tea and Sympathy on Broadway and screen, Lt. Cable in South Pacific, later a California lawyer.
John Kerr (governor-general)
Sir John Robert Kerr (1914–1991), 18th Governor-General of Australia 1974–77, former Chief Justice of NSW; dismissed Gough Whitlam's government on 11 November 1975, the only such dismissal in Australian history.
John Kerr (pathologist)
John Kerr, full name John Foxton Ross Kerr, was an Australian pathologist who discovered apoptosis, named it in 1972, and spent his career at the University of Queensland.
John Kerr (physicist)
John Kerr (1824–1907) was a Scottish physicist and mathematical lecturer in Glasgow who discovered the electro-optic Kerr effect in 1875 and the magneto-optic Kerr effect.
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born 1943) is an American diplomat and politician: 68th U.S. Secretary of State (2013–2017), 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, 28-year senator, Vietnam Navy veteran, and Biden's first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (2021–2024), known for the Iran nuclear deal and Paris climate accord.
John Key
John Key (born 1961) is a former New Zealand prime minister and National Party leader (2006-2016), the 38th PM, who won the 2008, 2011 and 2014 elections, managed the Christchurch rebuild, expanded China trade, and resigned in December 2016, succeeded by Bill English.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer, stage name Al Sobrante, is an American punk-rock drummer who was Green Day's original drummer from 1988 to 1990, playing on the debut album 39/Smooth.
John Kim
John Kim is a fundraising executive and investor, known as Chief Client Officer and Managing Director at General Catalyst from 2019 to 2025, then Chair and President of Corporate Development at Lila Sciences.
John King (journalist)
John King, American political journalist, CNN chief national correspondent, former AP chief political correspondent, anchor of Inside Politics and John King USA, famed for CNN's Magic Wall election-night analysis since 2008.
John Kingman
John Kingman is a British mathematician who founded coalescent theory in population genetics and proved Kingman's formula in queueing theory and the subadditive ergodic theorem.
John Kinsella
John Pitann Kinsella, American freestyle swimmer from Oak Park, Illinois; 1968 Olympic 1500m silver, 1972 relay gold, first under 16 minutes for 1500m (1970), and World Professional Marathon Champion 1975-1979 who swam the English Channel in 9:10.
John Kirby (actor)
John Kirby (1950/1951 – July 15, 2026) was an American acting coach and bit-part actor, son of Bruce Kirby and brother of Bruno Kirby, Caviezel's longtime coach, nicknamed Actor's Guardian Angel.
John Kirby (admiral)
John F. Kirby, retired U.S. Navy rear admiral (lower half), served as chief spokesman at the Pentagon, State Department, and White House; NSC strategic communications coordinator from 2022, later University of Chicago Institute of Politics director.
John Kirby (attorney)
John Kirby (attorney), full name John Joseph Kirby Jr. (1939-2019), American lawyer who won Nintendo's Donkey Kong case against Universal in 1984, namesake of Nintendo's Kirby character, and DOJ civil rights worker under John Doar.
John Kiriakou
John Chris Kiriakou is an American former CIA officer who became the first to confirm publicly, in 2007, that the agency waterboarded detainees under the terror-war interrogation program.
John Kirtland Galt
John Kirtland Galt was an American solid-state physicist who spent 1948 to 1974 at Bell Laboratories, then led research at Sandia National Laboratories until retiring in 1985.
John Kissel (Connecticut politician)
John Kissel is an American Republican politician representing Connecticut's 7th Senate district, where he is serving his 16th term as a Chief Deputy Senate Republican Leader.
John Kitto
John Kitto (1804–1854) was an English Biblical scholar and popular religious writer, totally deaf from age 12, known for The Pictorial Bible and the Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.