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Kat
Kat, Polish for "executioner", is a heavy and speed metal band formed in 1979 in Katowice, Poland, whose early albums helped inspire the first wave of Polish black metal.
Kat Abughazaleh
Kat Abughazaleh (Katherine Marie Abughazaleh, born 1999), also known as Kat Abu, is a Palestinian American journalist and former Media Matters video producer who ran for Congress in Illinois's 9th District, raised over $3 million, was indicted over ICE protests, and lost the 2026 Democratic primary to Daniel Biss.
Kat Cammack
Kat Cammack, born 1988, is an American Republican who has represented Florida's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2021, after running Ted Yoho's 2012 campaign.
Kat Copeland
Kat Copeland (Katherine Sarah Copeland, born 1990) is a British rower who won Olympic gold with Sophie Hosking in the women's lightweight double sculls at London 2012, the GB lightweight women's first Olympic title, and retired in 2019.
Kat DeLuna
Kat DeLuna (Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna, born 1987, Bronx) is a Dominican-American pop singer; her 2007 single "Whine Up" with Elephant Man topped Billboard's dance charts and went gold, followed by the albums 9 Lives, Inside Out, and Loading.
Kat Dennings
Kat Dennings (Katherine Victoria Litwack, born 1986, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American actress known for Max Black on 2 Broke Girls, Darcy Lewis in Thor and WandaVision, Dollface, and Shifting Gears.
Kat Foster
Kat Foster (born 1978, Oakland, California) is an American actress, writer, and director, known for 'Til Death, Jean Claude Van Johnson, Barry, CSI: Vegas, and the shorts Daughtering and Earthquake Note.
Kat Graham
Kat Graham (born 1989, Geneva) is a Swiss-born American actress, singer, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador known for Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries, Billboard dance hits, the NFT album Toro Gato, and the 2026 album K'Pelle.
Kat Sadler
Kat Sadler, stage name of British writer-actor-comedian Kat Davidson, creator and star of BBC Three's BAFTA-winning dark sitcom Such Brave Girls with sister Lizzie Davidson; also wrote for The Mash Report.
Kat Slater
Kat Slater (Kathleen Kat Moon, later Mitchell) is a fictional EastEnders character played by Jessie Wallace from September 2000. Known for the Zoe Slater mother revelation, the "You ain't my mother" scene, marriages to Alfie Moon and Phil Mitchell, and the 2017 spin-off Kat & Alfie: Redwater.
Kat Stewart
Kat Stewart (Katherine Louise Stewart, born 1972, Bairnsdale, Victoria) is an Australian actress known for Roberta Williams in Underbelly, Billie Proudman in Offspring, and Liz in Five Bedrooms; Red Stitch ensemble member since 2002, stage partner of director Sarah Goodes.
Kat Timpf
Kat Timpf, American comedian, writer, and Fox News analyst; co-host of Gutfeld! weeknights at 10 p.m.; two-time NYT bestselling author of You Can't Joke About That and I Used to Like You Until...; married to Cameron Friscia, one son born 2025.
Kat Von D
Kat Von D (Katherine Von Drachenberg, born 1982) is a Mexican-born American tattoo artist famous for black-and-gray portraits, the shows Miami Ink and LA Ink, High Voltage Tattoo, her Sephora makeup line, and winning the Sedlik Miles Davis tattoo copyright case.
Kat Zhang
Kat Zhang is a Partner focused on fintech at Lightspeed Venture Partners since March 2025, after investing at Upfront Ventures and working in bank supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
KAT-Coder
KAT-Coder is a line of agentic coding models from Kuaishou's KwaiKAT team, trained with reinforcement learning in executable code environments and released from October 2025.
KAT2B
KAT2B (PCAF, p300/CBP-associated factor) is a human GNAT-family lysine acetyltransferase gene at 3p24.3 encoding an 832-aa enzyme that acetylates H3K9/H3K14 and p53 K320, and is targeted by probes such as GSK4027.
KAT5
KAT5 (TIP60, HTATIP) is a human MYST-family histone acetyltransferase gene on 11q13.1, encoding the 60 kDa catalytic subunit of the NuA4 complex that acetylates H2A, H3, H4 and activates ATM in DNA repair.
KAT6-related intellectual disability-craniofacial anomalies-cardiac defects syndrome
KAT6-related intellectual disability-craniofacial anomalies-cardiac defects syndrome, also called Arboleda-Tham syndrome or KAT6A syndrome (ORPHA:457193, OMIM 616268), is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from de novo KAT6A variants, causing developmental delay, speech impairment, hypotonia, heart defects, and facial dysmorphism.
KAT6A
KAT6A (lysine acetyltransferase 6A, MOZ, MYST3) is a human MYST-family histone acetyltransferase gene on 8p11.21; germline variants cause Arboleda-Tham syndrome and translocations produce KAT6A-CREBBP fusion AML.
Kata
Kata (形, 型) is the fixed sequence of combat techniques used as a training form in Japanese martial arts such as karate, kendo, and judo, spanning solo and paired practice.
Kata Kolok
Kata Kolok, meaning 'deaf talk', is an endangered village sign language isolate used in Bengkala, Bali, where hereditary deafness made signing routine for deaf and hearing villagers.
Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta, also called the Olgas or Mount Olga, is a group of 28 conglomerate rock domes 32 km west of Uluru in Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, sacred to Aṉangu and jointly managed since the 1985 handback.
Kata'ib Hezbollah (كتائب حزب الله)
Kata'ib Hezbollah (كتائب حزب الله) is Iraq's most powerful Iran-backed Shia militia, a de facto IRGC-Qods Force branch formed 2005-2007, U.S.-designated in 2009, and the dominant faction of the Popular Mobilization Forces.
Katabasis
Katabasis (κατάβασις, also catabasis) is Greek for "descent"; in myth and literary studies, a living hero's journey to the underworld and return, as in Odysseus' Nekyia, Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, and modern works like R.F. Kuang's 2025 novel.
Katabasis (novel)
Katabasis is R.F. Kuang's sixth novel, a 2025 Harper Voyager dark academia fantasy in which Cambridge graduate students Alice Law and Peter Murdoch descend into the Eight Courts of Hell to retrieve their dead advisor's soul.
Katabatic wind
A katabatic wind, also called a fall wind or gravity wind, flows downhill when gravity pulls cold, dense air down slopes in mountainous and glacial regions.
Kataeb Party
Kataeb Party (Phalange Party, حزب الكتائب اللبنانية), Lebanese Christian party founded 1936 by Pierre Gemayel; motto "God, the Fatherland, and the Family"; led by Samy Gemayel; opposes Hezbollah.
Kataem O'Connor
Kataem O'Connor, born 2000 in Toronto, is a Canadian actor known as Adam Parker on Heartland, Emanuel Freeman in 40 Acres, and Constable Teddy Roberts on Murdoch Mysteries, with a 2026 Canadian Screen Award nomination.
Katagiri Katsumoto
Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元), 1556 to 1615, was a Japanese daimyo who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi, won fame as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, and later guarded Hideyori.
Katagum Emirate
Katagum Emirate is a traditional Muslim state in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, founded in 1807 as a Fulani jihad state during the Sokoto Jihad, with its seat at Azare.