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Karine Clément
Karine Clément, born 1966, is a French physician-scientist and professor of nutrition at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and Sorbonne Université, known for work on the genetics of obesity and adipose tissue biology.
Karine Jean-Pierre
Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025, first Black and openly queer person in the role, later left the Democratic Party and wrote the memoir Independent.
Karine Ruby
Karine Ruby (1978–2009), French snowboarder, first woman to win Olympic snowboarding gold (Nagano 1998 giant slalom), six-time world champion, 67 World Cup wins; died in a Mont Blanc crevasse fall.
Karine Vanasse
Karine Vanasse, born 1983 in Drummondville, Quebec, is a Canadian actress and producer known for Emporte-moi, Polytechnique, Pan Am, Revenge, and Detective Lise Delorme in Cardinal, and host of The Traitors Canada.
Karines Reyes
Karines Reyes is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the 87th district in the Bronx, and a former oncology nurse at Montefiore Hospital.
Karingana ua karingana
Karingana ua karingana is a 1974 poetry collection by José Craveirinha, published in Lourenço Marques and regarded as a fundamental work of African poetry in Portuguese.
Karish Oil and Gas Field
The Karish Oil and Gas Field is an offshore Israeli natural gas field about 80 km west of Haifa, operated by Energean and producing since October 2022.
Karishma Kotak
Karishma Kotak (born 1982, London) is a British-Indian model, actress, and sports broadcaster; Kingfisher Calendar 2006, Bigg Boss 6 contestant, IPL presenter of over 60 leagues, and actress in Shankar Dada Zindabad, Kaptaan, Freaky Ali, and IRaH.
Karishma Tanna
Karishma Tanna (born 1983, Mumbai) is an Indian actress known for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Bigg Boss 8 first runner-up, and her Busan-winning role as Jagruti Pathak in Hansal Mehta's Netflix series Scoop (2023).
Karishma Vijay
Karishma Vijay is a British-Indian beauty entrepreneur from Ashford, Surrey, who founded the skincare-infused cosmetics brand Kishkin and won the twentieth series of The Apprentice in 2026, securing £250,000 from Lord Sugar.
Karisimbi
Karisimbi, also Mount Karisimbi, is the tallest Virunga stratovolcano on the DR Congo-Rwanda border, about 4,490-4,507 m, highest point of Rwanda, dormant since roughly 8050 BCE with potassic basanite-to-trachyte lavas.
Karisma Kapoor (करिश्मा कपूर)
Karisma Kapoor (करिश्मा कपूर), Hindi film actress born 1974 in Mumbai, debuted in Prem Qaidi (1991), starred in Raja Hindustani and Dil To Pagal Hai, won a National Film Award, and returned via OTT with Brown (2026).
Karisma Kapoor filmography
Karisma Kapoor filmography: Hindi cinema credits of Karisma Kapoor, debut Prem Qaidi (1991); 1990s hits Raja Hindustani, Dil To Pagal Hai; later OTT work Mentalhood, Murder Mubarak, Brown.
Karissa Sanbonmatsu
Karissa Sanbonmatsu is an American structural and computational biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies ribosomes, riboswitches, and long non-coding RNAs using supercomputer simulations.
Kariye Camii mosaics
The Kariye Camii mosaics are the early 14th-century mosaic decoration of the Chora church in Constantinople, commissioned by Theodore Metochites between about 1315 and 1321.
Karka II
Karka II (कर्क द्वितीय) was the last emperor of the Rashtrakuta dynasty of the Deccan, defeated in 973 by Tailapa II, whose Western Chalukyas seized the capital Manyakheta.
Karkabhat
Karkabhat: megalithic burial site near Balod, Chhattisgarh, India, also called Kahrabhat; over 800 cairn and menhir graves excavated 1990-91 by A.K. Sharma, dated to the first half of the first millennium BC, with no skeletons found.
Karkadann (كركدن)
Karkadann (كركدن, Persian kargadan) is the medieval Arabic-Persian one-horned legendary beast derived from Sanskrit khaḍga-dhenu, rhinoceros; described by al-Biruni, given healing horn powers by al-Qazwini, and fused with the unicorn in Islamic art.
Karkamani
Karkamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning from about 519 to 510 BC at Napata and buried in pyramid Nu. 7 at Nuri in northern Sudan.
Karkar (ancient city)
Karkar, also written Karkara, was a city of southern Mesopotamia, in present-day Iraq, identified with the mound of Tell Jidr between the ancient cities of Zabalam and Adab.
Karkar (volcano)
Karkar volcano, Papua New Guinea: forest-covered 19 x 25 km island stratovolcano, 1,839 m, in the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, with two nested calderas, the Bagiai cone, a fatal 1979 phreatic eruption, and 2012-2014 satellite ash plumes.
Karkhanis
The karkhanis (कारखानीस) was a Maratha fort officer, held by Kayastha families, who managed supplies, stores, and records from Shivaji's reign through the Peshwa era.
Karkheh
Karkheh (رود کرخه), third longest river of Iran, ~755 km, rises in the Zagros and ends in the Hur-al-Azim wetland on the Iraq border; basin of ~50,764 km², Karkheh Dam, declining flows.
Karki (film)
Karki (ಕರ್ಕಿ) is a 2024 Kannada drama directed by Pavithran, a remake of Pariyerum Perumal, starring Jai Prakash Reddy and Meenakshi Dinesh; released 20 September 2024, distinct from the Nepali film Karki Saina.
Karkinitska and Dzharylgatska Bays
Karkinitska and Dzharylgatska Bays (Каркінітська та Джарилгацька затоки), Ramsar Site no. 114 in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast and Crimea, designated 1976, 147,557 ha of shallow northern Black Sea bays, a Key Biodiversity Area and Important Marine Mammal Area, occupied since 2022.
Karkisa
Karkisa, also written Karkiya, is a land or people of western Anatolia known from Late Bronze Age Hittite texts and the Egyptian Kadesh list; its location, whether Caria or Mysia, remains disputed.
Karkota copper-plate charters of Kashmir
The Karkota copper-plate charters of Kashmir (कर्कोट ताम्रपत्र) are royal land-grant deeds engraved on copper plates, granting revenue-free land to Brahmins, deities, and religious establishments.
Karkota dynasty
The Karkota dynasty (कार्कोट वंश) ruled Kashmir from the early seventh century until 855 CE, founded by Durlabhavardhana and best known under Lalitaditya Muktapida, whose reign is recorded in Kalhana's Rajatarangini.
Karl A. Gschneidner Jr.
Karl A. Gschneidner Jr. (1930–2016) was an American metallurgist at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory known as "Mr. Rare Earth", who discovered the giant magnetocaloric effect in 1997.
Karl A. Piez
Karl A. Piez (1924–2006) was an American biochemist at the National Institute of Dental Research, NIH, who spent his career working out the chemistry and structure of collagen.