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Kay Panabaker
Kay Panabaker (Stephanie Kay Panabaker, born 1990, Orange, Texas) is an American former actress, sister of Danielle Panabaker, known for Summerland, Phil of the Future, and Read It and Weep; she retired from acting in 2012 and works as a zookeeper at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Kay Parker
Kay Parker (Kay Rebecca Taylor, 1944-2022), British-born Golden Age adult film star of the Taboo series, later a metaphysical counselor and author of Taboo: Sacred, Don't Touch.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison, American clinical psychologist at Johns Hopkins, Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders, co-author of the standard bipolar textbook and memoirist of An Unquiet Mind.
Kay Severin
Kay Severin (born 1967) is a German supramolecular and inorganic chemist who has been a full professor at EPFL in Lausanne since 2009, leading its Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry.
Kay Summersby
Kay Summersby (Kathleen Helen MacCarthy-Morrogh, 1908/1909–January 1975) was Dwight D. Eisenhower's Irish chauffeur, WAC lieutenant, and wartime secretary, later famous for disputed affair rumors and the ghostwritten memoir Past Forgetting.
Kay Tanaka
Kay Tanaka is a clinical biochemist at Yale University who described isovaleric acidemia, explained the biochemistry of Jamaican vomiting sickness, and established the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase enzyme family.
Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson (Katherine L. Fink, 1908/1909–1998), American singer, MGM vocal arranger and coach, creator of Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers, Maggie Prescott in Funny Face, and author of the Eloise books.
Kay Tye
Kay M. Tye is an American systems neuroscientist known for pioneering projection-specific optogenetics to study emotion and motivation. She has been a professor and Wylie Vale Chair at the Salk Institute since 2019.
Kay WalkingStick
Kay WalkingStick, born 1935 in Syracuse, New York, is a Cherokee Nation painter and retired Cornell professor whose landscape diptychs stencil Indigenous patterns to declare Native presence on the land.
Kay Worthington
Kay Worthington (Kay Frances Worthington-Teti), Canadian rower born 1959 in Toronto; three-time Olympian who won gold in women's coxless fours and eights at Barcelona 1992, the latter in world-record time.
Kay‐Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw, born 1950, is a physician and epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Gerontology at the University of Cambridge, known for large studies of nutrition and health in later life.
Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board
Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board, also cited as Kay v Ayrshire and Arran Health Board, is a 1987 House of Lords Scots delict case: an admitted 300,000-unit intrathecal penicillin overdose in a meningitis child was held not proven to have caused his deafness, and judges may not adopt untested causation theories.
Kaya 959
Kaya 959, formerly Kaya FM, is a commercial radio station broadcasting on 95.9 FM to Greater Johannesburg since 1997, aimed at the urban black middle class of Gauteng.
Kaya Chakrabortty (チャクラボルティ雅)
Kaya Chakrabortty (チャクラボルティ雅), born 2001 in Kobe, Japan, is a Japanese-Bangladeshi figure skater, EMT, and Miss Universe Japan 2024 who placed Top 30 at Miss Universe 2024; first titleholder of Bangladeshi heritage.
Kaya Jones
Kaya Jones (born 1984, Toronto, as Chrystal Neria) is a pop and gospel singer, ex-Pussycat Doll (2003-2005), featured on Jason Crabb's Grammy-winning Unexpected, now releasing Choose Life with Housenatic.
Kaya Maghan
Kaya Maghan (كايا ماغان) is a royal title of the Ghana empire meaning "king of the gold," and the name Soninke tradition gives its last king of Wagadu.
Kaya Scodelario
Kaya Scodelario (born 1992, London) is a Brazilian-British actress known as Effy Stonem in Skins, Teresa in Maze Runner, Carina Smyth in Pirates of the Caribbean, Susie Glass in The Gentlemen, and Laura Harrison in Netflix's Senna, her first Portuguese-language role.
Kaya-chan Isn't Scary
Kaya-chan Isn't Scary (カヤちゃんはコワくない, Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai) is Yuritaro's horror manga about a punch-wielding psychic kindergartner, published by Shinchosha, released in English by Seven Seas, and adapted into a 12-episode 2026 anime by East Fish Studio.
Kayak
Kayak (qajaq, qyaq): Inuit-developed 4,000-year-old skin-frame boat paddled seated with a double-bladed paddle; now a global craft for sprint, slalom, kayak cross, and Paracanoe racing.
Kayak (band)
Kayak is a Dutch progressive rock band formed in 1972 in Hilversum around Ton Scherpenzeel and Pim Koopman, known for Royal Bed Bouncer (1975), Phantom of the Night (1979), and Merlin (1981), with a comeback from 1999 onward.
Kayaking
Kayaking: paddling a decked boat with a double-bladed paddle from a seated position. Inuit skin-boat origins; MacGregor's 1866 Rob Roy; Olympic Canoe Sprint (1936), Slalom (1972), kayak cross (2024).
Kayako Saeki
Kayako Saeki (佐伯 伽椰子) is the fictional onryō antagonist of Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On/The Grudge franchise, a murdered housewife whose house-bound curse kills anyone who enters, portrayed chiefly by Takako Fuji.
Kayaköy
Kayaköy, in Greek Levissi (Λειβίσσι), is a mostly abandoned village in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, whose roofless stone houses were left empty by the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange.
Kayal (கயல்) (film)
Kayal (கயல்) is a 2014 Tamil romantic drama directed by Prabhu Solomon, starring newcomers Chandran and Anandhi, set against the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and released 25 December 2014.
Kayali (company)
Kayali, Arabic for "my imagination," is a Dubai-based fragrance brand founded in 2018 by Mona Kattan under Huda Beauty, and the top-selling fragrance brand at Sephora in 2025.
Kayalıdere
Kayalıdere, also printed Kayalidere, is an excavated Urartian fortress on a ridge of the Murat River in Muş Province, eastern Turkey, first excavated in 1965 and re-dug in 2018–2019 before dam flooding.
Kayalıpınar
Kayalıpınar, also known as Hittite Samuha (Šamuḫa), is a Bronze Age mound site in Sivas Province, Turkey, identified with Samuha by tablet finds in 2014 and notable as a cult place of the goddess Ištar/Šawoška.
Kayamkulam Kochunni
Kayamkulam Kochunni (കായംകുളം കൊച്ചുണ്ണി), the Robin Hood of Kerala, was a 19th-century Travancore outlaw born c. 1818 who robbed the rich, was captured through drugging, and died in custody in 1859; his legend comes chiefly from Kottarathil Sankunni's Aithihyamala and films of 1966 and 2018.
Kayamkulam Kochunni (2018 film)
Kayamkulam Kochunni (കായംകുളം കൊച്ചുണ്ണി) is a 2018 Malayalam epic period film by Rosshan Andrrews, written by Bobby-Sanjay, starring Nivin Pauly as the 19th-century highwayman with Mohanlal as Ithikkara Pakki; made on ₹45 crore, released 11 October 2018.
Kayan people (Myanmar)
Kayan (ကယန်း), also called Padaung or Long-Neck Karen, a Karenic people of Kayah State, Myanmar, with subgroups Padaung, Ghekho, Yinbaw, Zayein, Gheba; known for women's brass neck rings, 1897 Latin-script literature, and refugee tourism villages in Thailand.