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Kathakata
Kathakata (কথকতা) is a Bengali performance tradition in which a solo storyteller, the kathak, recites and explains mythological stories from the Puranas, interspersed with song and acting.
Kathal (film)
Kathal: A Jackfruit Mystery (कटहल), 2023 Hindi satirical comedy directed by Yashowardhan Mishra, starring Sanya Malhotra as Inspector Mahima Basor investigating stolen jackfruits; Netflix, 19 May 2023, National Award winner.
Katharevousa (καθαρεύουσα)
Katharevousa (καθαρεύουσα) is the artificial, archaizing variety of Modern Greek that served as the official language of the Greek state until 1976, coexisting with spoken Demotic in diglossia and leaving lasting morphological traces in Standard Modern Greek.
Katharina Althaus
Katharina Althaus, since 2023 Katharina Schmid, German ski jumper born 1996 in Oberstdorf; two Olympic silvers (2018, 2022 normal hill), 2023 World Champion, seven world titles, 22 World Cup wins, retiring after 2026.
Katharina Dröge
Katharina Dröge, born 1984 in Münster, is a German Alliance 90/The Greens politician who has co-chaired the party's Bundestag group since 2021 and represents Cologne III.
Katharina Eichler
Katharina Eichler is a Drosophila connectomics researcher and group leader at Leipzig University since 2023, known for the larval mushroom body connectome and the 2024 adult fly brain wiring diagram.
Katharina Gallhuber
Katharina Gallhuber, Austrian alpine skier (SC Göstling-Hochkar, FIS 56367), slalom specialist; 2018 PyeongChang Olympic slalom bronze and team parallel silver; also competed at Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026.
Katharina Huber
Katharina Huber, Austrian alpine skier born 1995 in Leoben, slalom specialist with Sportunion Waidhofen an der Ybbs; double Olympic gold medalist (Beijing 2022 mixed team, Milan-Cortina 2026 team combined with Ariane Rädler), no World Cup win.
Katharina J. Franke
Katharina J. Franke is a physicist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin who studies single magnetic atoms and molecules on superconducting surfaces with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy.
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester, born 1969 in Bochum, is a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, known for the miniemulsion process.
Katharina Liensberger
Katharina Liensberger, Austrian alpine skier (born 1997, Feldkirch), slalom and giant slalom specialist; 2022 Olympic mixed team champion, 2021 double world champion, 2021 World Cup slalom title holder.
Katharina tunicata
Katharina tunicata (Wood, 1815), the black katy chiton, is a mopaliid chiton of the northeast Pacific, up to 12 cm, with a black girdle, algal grazing diet, summer spawning, and 61.2S hemocyanin.
Katharina von Bora
Katharina von Bora (1499–1552), later Katharina Luther, was a former Cistercian nun who escaped Nimbschen convent in 1523 and married Martin Luther on June 13, 1525. She ran the Wittenberg Black Cloister household, bore six children, and became the model of Protestant clerical marriage.
Katharine Birbalsingh
Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain's 'strictest headmistress', co-founded Michaela Community School in Wembley in 2014, chaired the Social Mobility Commission 2021-2023, and received a CBE in 2020.
Katharine C Abruzzi
Katharine C Abruzzi, also known as Katharine Boyer Compton Abruzzi, is an American Drosophila neurogeneticist at Brandeis University known for the TRIBE method and fly clock neuron research.
Katharine G. Frase
Katharine G. Frase is an American materials scientist who spent about 30 years at IBM and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Katharine Gorka
Katharine Gorka, also known as Katie Gorka, is an American policy adviser who served as a senior advisor at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019.
Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham (1917–2001), American publisher; led The Washington Post Company 1963–1991 and its newspaper 1969–1979; authorized the Pentagon Papers and Watergate coverage; memoir Personal History won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Katharine Gun
Katharine Gun, GCHQ Mandarin translator and whistleblower, leaked the 2003 NSA Koza memo asking GCHQ to spy on six UN Security Council delegations before the Iraq war vote; her Official Secrets Act prosecution collapsed in 2004.
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe, born 1972, is an atmospheric scientist, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, and Texas Tech professor known for communicating climate science through shared values.
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) was an American stage and screen actress, not to be confused with Audrey Hepburn. She won a record four best-actress Oscars from 12 nominations, co-starred with Spencer Tracy, and was once labeled box-office poison before her 1940 comeback in The Philadelphia Story.
Katharine Houghton
Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright born 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut; niece of Katharine Hepburn; film debut as Joey Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Golden Globe New Star nominee; Broadway credits include A Very Rich Woman and Our Town.
Katharine Isabelle
Katharine Isabelle, born Katharine Isobel Murray in 1981 in Vancouver, is a Canadian actress known for Ginger Snaps, American Mary, Freddy vs. Jason, and Hannibal's Margot Verger.
Katharine Mach
Katharine J. Mach is an American climate scientist known for research on climate change and armed conflict and on managed retreat, the planned movement of people out of hazardous places.
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (Kit, 1878-1951), Connecticut suffragist and birth control activist, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, legislative chair of the American Birth Control League, and mother of actress Katharine Hepburn.
Katharine McPhee
Katharine McPhee (Katharine Hope McPhee), American singer and actress born 1984; American Idol season 5 runner-up (2006); albums Katharine McPhee, Unbroken, Hysteria; starred in Smash, Scorpion, and Waitress on Broadway.
Katharine Page
Katharine (Kate) Page is a materials scientist and neutron scattering instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee professor who received a PECASE award in 2019.
Katharine Ross
Katharine Ross (born January 29, 1940), American actress known as Elaine Robinson in The Graduate and Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe winner for Voyage of the Damned, wife of Sam Elliott, also The Stepford Wives and Donnie Darko.
Katharine S. Hayden
Katharine S. Hayden, also known as Katharine Sweeney Hayden, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 1997.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) was an Australian novelist, playwright, and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, best known for The Pioneers, Working Bullocks, and Coonardoo.