All articles starting with K

Katie Waissel

Katie Waissel, English singer and lawyer, X Factor UK 2010 finalist mentored by Cheryl Cole, placed 7th after four judge saves; later founded the OWHL Foundation and sued Syco.

Katie Wallace

Katie Wallace is an American Democratic politician who represents Colorado Senate District 17, covering Longmont, Lafayette, and Erie, and chairs the State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee.

Katie Weatherston (Katherine Marie Weatherston), Canadian ice hockey forward born 1983 in Thunder Bay; won Olympic gold at Turin 2006 (4 goals, 1 assist in 5 games), world gold 2007, silver 2008; Dartmouth College star.

Katie White

Katie White (born 1983, Lowton, England) is the English lead vocalist and guitarist of The Ting Tings, the indie pop duo behind the 2008 UK number-one album We Started Nothing and the hit "That's Not My Name".

Katie White (politician)

Katie White OBE, British Labour (Co-op) politician and Minister for Climate Transition at DESNZ since July 2026; Labour MP for Leeds North West since 4 July 2024; former Friends of the Earth Climate Change Act campaigner, DECC official, and WWF director.

Katie Wilson

Katie Wilson, 58th mayor of Seattle (took office January 2026), democratic socialist organizer who co-founded the Transit Riders Union in 2011 and unseated Bruce Harrell in November 2025 by 0.73 points, the closest mayoral margin since 1906.

Oct 20, 2026

Katieleo Corona

Katieleo Corona is a 210-km-wide corona on Venus at 12.5°S, 327.5°E, named for the Senufo creator goddess of Burkina Faso and adopted by the IAU in 1997.

Katihar (city)

Katihar (कटिहार) is a city in northeastern Bihar, India, headquarters of Katihar district (created 1973 from Purnia). Census 2011: 226,261 city, 240,838 urban agglomeration; major seven-line Northeast Frontier Railway junction.

Oct 20, 2026

Katihar (district)

Katihar district, Bihar, India; part of Purnia Division; independent district since 2 October 1973 (one source says 1976), split from Purnia; 3,056 sq km, population 3,071,029 (2011), Ganga-Kosi-Mahananda rivers, agrarian economy, flood-prone.

Katina Paxinou (Κατίνα Παξινού)

Katina Paxinou, also known as Ekaterini Konstantopoulou, was a Greek stage and film actress who won an Academy Award for For Whom the Bell Tolls in 1943.

Katinka Hosszú

Katinka Hosszú (Iron Lady), Hungarian swimmer born 1989 in Pécs; triple Olympic champion at Rio 2016 (100 back, 200/400 IM), four straight world 200/400 IM titles, 97 medals, retired January 2025.

Sep 23, 2026

Katip Celebi

Katip Celebi (كاتب جلبي), also known as Haci Halife, was a leading Ottoman historian, geographer, and bibliographer of seventeenth-century Istanbul who wrote Keshfu'z-zunun and Cihannuma.

Katipō

Katipō (Latrodectus katipo), New Zealand's endemic coastal dune widow spider; only native spider venomous to people, at risk-declining, absolutely protected, threatened by marram grass and the false katipō Steatoda capensis.

Katipunan

The Katipunan (Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, KKK) was a Philippine revolutionary secret society founded by Andrés Bonifacio in Manila on July 7, 1892, seeking independence from Spain by armed revolt; discovered in August 1896, it launched the Philippine Revolution and was absorbed into Aguinaldo's government at the Tejeros Convention in 1897.

Katiso Molefe

Katiso 'KT' Molefe, Johannesburg businessman and alleged 'Big Five' cartel leader named at the Madlanga Commission; murder accused in the Armand Swart and DJ Sumbody cases, on R400,000 bail, presumed innocent.

Katja Christ

Katja Christ, born 1972, is a Swiss lawyer and Green Liberal Party politician, a National Council member for Basel-Stadt since 2019 and its First Vice-President since 2025.

Sep 19, 2026

Katja Ebstein

Katja Ebstein, born Katharina Witkiewicz in 1945, is a German Schlager singer who took second and two third places at the Eurovision Song Contest for Germany.

Katja Herbers

Katja Herbers (born 1980) is a Dutch actress known as Kristen Bouchard in Evil, Grace/Emily in Westworld, and Helen Prins in Manhattan; trained at HB Studio and Theaterschool Amsterdam.

Katja Kohfeld

Katja Kohfeld is a German politician serving as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health since 2025, representing the ministry at national and international health policy events.

Katja Mast

Katja Mast is a German politician of the SPD who has represented Pforzheim in the Bundestag since 2005 and became a labor ministry state secretary in 2025.

Katja Nyberg

Katja Nyberg (born 1979, Stockholm) is a Norwegian former handball player, Olympic gold medalist 2008 and European champion 2004 and 2006; not the Swedish politician of the same name.

Oct 20, 2026

Katja Seizinger

Katja Seizinger (Katja Weber), born 1972 in Datteln, German alpine skier; three Olympic golds including back-to-back downhill titles 1994/1998, 36 World Cup wins, overall champion 1996 and 1998.

Katko v. Briney

Katko v. Briney is a 1971 Iowa Supreme Court decision holding that a landowner may not use a spring gun or other deadly device to protect unoccupied property.

Katl-Imi Mons

Katl-Imi Mons, a 120-km-wide mountain (mons) on Venus at 69S 126E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Khanty sun goddess of the Ob River Ugra, Siberia.

Katla (TV series)

Katla is an Icelandic Netflix supernatural thriller series, the first Icelandic Netflix original, created by Baltasar Kormákur and Sigurjón Kjartansson, premiering June 17, 2021 with eight episodes set in Vík after a subglacial volcanic eruption.

Katla (volcano)

Katla is a large subglacial volcano beneath the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap in southern Iceland, one of the country's most active, with its last confirmed eruption in 1918.

Katla UNESCO Global Geopark

Katla UNESCO Global Geopark (Katla Jarðvangur) is Iceland's first geopark, designated by UNESCO in 2015 on the south coast around Katla volcano, Mýrdalsjökull, and Eyjafjallajökull, covering 954,200 ha with the Eldgjá and Laki flood lava sites.

Katmai

Katmai (Mount Katmai) is a 2,047-m stratovolcano in Katmai National Park, Alaska, whose summit collapsed into a 3 x 4 km caldera during the 1912 Novarupta eruption, the twentieth century's largest.

Katmai National Park and Preserve

Katmai National Park and Preserve, established in 1918, is a national park in southwest Alaska protecting the 1912 Novarupta eruption site and the brown bears of Brooks Camp.