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Kayanu-Hime Corona
Kayanu-Hime Corona is a 150-km-wide corona on Venus at 33.5°N, 57°E, named in 1994 for a Shinto grain goddess; a volcano-tectonic ring feature mapped in quadrangle V-09 near the crater Potanina.
Kayanza Province
Kayanza is a commune of Butanyerera Province in northern Burundi, on the highlands of the Great Rift Valley seam on the Nile-Congo divide; its economy rests on coffee, tea, and food crops.
Kayapó oral literature
Kayapó oral literature is the body of myths, tales, and oratory transmitted by speech among the Mebêngôkre (Kayapó) people of the Brazilian Amazon, a Jê-speaking people.
Kayar
Kayar (കയർ, "Coir") is a 1978 Malayalam epic novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, chronicling two and a half centuries of social change in Kuttanad, Kerala, across hundreds of characters; an English translation, Coir, appeared in 1997.
Kayastha (कायस्थ)
Kayastha (कायस्थ) are north, central, and east Indian scribal communities traditionally tied to writing, administration, and record-keeping, distinguished by contested varna rank, high colonial-era literacy, and regional groups such as Bengali, Bihari, and Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas.
Kayasthadya varti
Kayasthadya varti (Kāyasthādya vartti, Kayasthadi varti) is a classical Ayurvedic collyrium from Caraka Samhita Cikitsasthana 10.46-47, a goat's-urine-triturated herbal wick applied inside the eyelids for apasmara, unmada, snake bite, and poisoning.
Kayattam
Kayattam (കയറ്റം), also titled A'hr, is a 2019 Malayalam experimental adventure film by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, starring and co-produced by Manju Warrier. Shot on an iPhone in the Himalayas with songs in the invented language Ahr Samsa; shown at Busan 2020 and IFFK 2021 but never theatrically released.
Kayavarohan Mound
Kayavarohan (Karvan) Mound, Vadodara district, Gujarat: an ASI centrally protected Ancient Site (Excavated), notified 1954, tied to Lakulisha and the Pashupata sect, with finds from the early centuries CE.
KayBlack
KayBlack is the stage name of Kaique Menezes, a Brazilian trapper from São Paulo whose 2023 EP Contradições made him the most-listened rapper on Spotify Brasil.
Kaybob South Oil and Gas Field
Kaybob South is an oil and gas field in west-central Alberta, Canada, discovered in 1961, producing sour gas and condensate from the Swan Hills Formation.
Kayce Smith
Kayce Smith (born 1988) is an American sports broadcaster and Barstool Sports and SiriusXM personality, host of the Barstool College Football Show, Pro Football Football Show, and Unnecessary Roughness; Texas A&M graduate, former ESPN/SEC Network and NBC Sports Boston reporter, cancer survivor.
Kaycee Madu
Kaycee Madu (Kelechi Madu), Nigerian-born Canadian lawyer and Alberta UCP politician; MLA for Edmonton-South West 2019–2023; Canada's first Black justice minister and deputy premier; resigned over a 2021 call to Edmonton's police chief after a traffic ticket.
Kayden Carter
Kayden Carter, ring name of Allyssa Lane (born 1988, Winter Park, Florida), American wrestler and former Shaw University NCAA Division II basketball champion; WWE NXT and WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Katana Chance, later Lacey Lane in AEW.
Kayden Kross
Kayden Kross (Kimberly Nicole Rathkamp, born 1985) is an American adult film director, writer, and former performer; founder of Vixen Media Group's Deeper imprint, co-founder of TrenchcoatX, and two-time AVN Director of the Year.
Kayden McDonald
Kayden McDonald, Houston Texans nose tackle (DT) drafted No. 36 overall in 2026 out of Ohio State; unanimous 2025 All-American, Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year, 65 tackles and 9 TFL in 2025, compared to DJ Reader.
Kaydon Bearings
Kaydon Bearings is a brand of thin section ball bearings and slewing ring bearings, founded in Muskegon, Michigan, in 1941 and owned by SKF since 2013.
Kaye Adams
Kaye Adams (born 1962, Falkirk) is a Scottish TV and radio presenter, Loose Women anchor since 1999 and BBC Radio Scotland morning host 2010-2025, dismissed after a bullying investigation.
Kaye Ballard
Kaye Ballard (Catherine Gloria Balotta, 1925-2019), American actress, comedian, and singer; starred with Eve Arden in The Mothers-in-Law (1967-69), played Angie Pallucci on The Doris Day Show, originated Helen of Troy in The Golden Apple, and first recorded Fly Me to the Moon.
Kaye D. Lathrop
Kaye Don Lathrop was an American nuclear physicist known for discrete-ordinates, or Sn, methods; he won the 1976 E. O. Lawrence Award for neutron transport computer codes.
Kaye Furo
Kaye Furo (Kaye Furo Tamuno Iyowuna), Belgian centre-forward born 2007; Club Brugge academy product, 2026 Belgian champion, signed by Brentford in January 2026; Belgium youth international also eligible for Nigeria.
Kaye Hall
Kaye Hall (Kaye Marie Hall-Greff, born 1951, Tacoma, Washington), American swimmer; 1968 Olympic gold in 100 m backstroke (world record 1:06.2) and medley relay, bronze in 200 m backstroke; first woman under 1:00 for 100-yard backstroke.
Kaye Singleton
Kaye Singleton is an American actress, writer, producer, and showrunner based in Atlanta. Known as Simone Winter on Tyler Perry's The Oval and Josie on Saints & Sinners; creator and showrunner of the allblk anthology Covenant and owner of Road 106 Films.
Kaye Wellings
Kaye Wellings is a British social scientist and Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, best known as founder of the Natsal surveys.
Kayelekera uranium mine
The Kayelekera uranium mine is an open-pit uranium mine in Karonga District, northern Malawi, built by Paladin Energy, run from 2009 to 2014, and restarted in 2025.
Kayes
Kayes is a first-order administrative region of western Mali, the first created in the country in 1960, with its capital at Kayes city on the Senegal River.
Kayes, Kayes
Kayes, Kayes: city in western Mali, capital of Kayes Region on the Senegal River, 495 km northwest of Bamako; first capital of French Sudan, Dakar-Niger railway hub, gold-mining trade center under 2025 JNIM blockade.
Kayfabe
Kayfabe: professional wrestling's convention of presenting staged matches and storylines as real, once a strict code of silence rooted in carnival culture, now a shared suspension of disbelief that performers and fans maintain and occasionally break.
Kaygus Chasmata
Kaygus Chasmata: an IAU-approved (1985) chasma, or rift trough system, on Venus at 49.6°N, 52.1°E, about 503 km across, named for the Siberian mythological ruler of forest animals.
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor, born 1963 to a Kurdish family, is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer who co-founded Dastan and Masters of Persian Music and won a Grammy with the Silkroad Ensemble.
Kayilan
Kayilan (கயிலன்) is a 2025 Tamil investigative thriller, Arul Ajit's directorial debut, starring Sshivada as an NIA officer and Ramya Pandian as a newsreader; released 10 October 2025, distinct from the 2025 Tamil drama Kaayal.