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Kayou
Kayou (卡游) is a Chinese trading-card and pan-entertainment company founded by Li Qibin and headquartered in Shanghai, holding 71.1% of China's trading-card market by 2024 gross merchandise value.
Kayqubad I
Kayqubad I (Ala al-Din Kayqubad bin Kaykhusraw, 1188–1237), sultan of the Saljuqs of Rum 1220–1237, its apogee: conquered Alanya, seized Sudak, defeated Jalal al-Din at Yasiçimen, submitted to Ogedei, poisoned in 1237.
Kaysaniyya
The Kaysaniyya (الكيسانية) were a Shi'i sect founded by al-Mukhtar in Kufa during his revolt of AH 66–67, revering Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya as imam and Mahdi.
Kaysar
Kaysar (Қайсар), FC Kaysar Kyzylorda, Kazakh football club founded 1968 in Kyzylorda; two-time Kazakhstan Cup winner (1998/99, 2019), plays at Kaysar Arena (11,000) and Muratbayev Stadium.
Kayse Jama
Kayse Jama is an American Democratic politician who represents Oregon State Senate District 24, covering East Portland plus Damascus, Boring, and North Clackamas County, and serves as the Senate's Majority Leader.
Kayser Kamal
Barrister Kayser Kamal (কায়সার কামাল), born 1972, is a BNP politician and Supreme Court barrister, MP for Netrokona-1 since 2026 and Deputy Speaker of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, previously State Minister for Land.
Kayseri
Kayseri: Central Anatolian Turkish province and industrial city at the foot of Mount Erciyes (3,916 m); 1,458,991 people (2025), 15th most populous; ancient Kültepe-Kanesh, Seljuk second capital, furniture and textile manufacturing hub.
Kayserispor
Kayserispor, also known as Kayseri Spor Kulübü, is a Turkish professional football club founded in 1966 and based in Kayseri, where it plays at the Kadir Has stadium.
Kaysone Phomvihane
Kaysone Phomvihane (Lao: ໄກສອນ ພົມວິຫານ) was a Lao revolutionary who led the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 to 1992 and was Laos' first Prime Minister.
Kaytranada
Kaytranada (Louis Kevin Celestin, born 1992, Haiti; raised in Montreal) is a DJ and producer blending house, hip-hop, R&B, and disco; albums 99.9%, Bubba, Kaytraminé, Timeless, AIN'T NO DAMN WAY!; Polaris Prize winner.
Kayumars
Kayumars (کیومرث), regnal title Shamsuddin, was an infant son of the paralyzed Sultan Qaiqabad enthroned in Delhi in 1290 and deposed by Jalal-ud-din Khalji, ending the Mamluk line.
Kayvan Novak
Kayvan Novak (born 1978, London) is a British-Iranian actor and comedian, creator of Fonejacker and Facejacker, BAFTA winner, and star as Nandor the Relentless in What We Do in the Shadows (2019–2024).
Kayvan R. Keshari
Kayvan R. Keshari, also published as Kayvan Rahimi Keshari, is a biochemist and professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies cancer metabolism and hyperpolarized MRI.
Kayvon Thibodeaux
Kayvon Thibodeaux, New York Giants outside linebacker No. 5, drafted fifth overall in 2022 from Oregon; 19 college sacks, unanimous All-American, 23.5 NFL sacks, JREAM Foundation founder.
Kayyonnyadi Taila
Kayyonnyadi Taila (Kayyonyadi/Kayyanyadi Taila) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame oil from Sahasrayogam and Chikitsa Manjari, applied externally for premature greying of hair (Palithya) and head, eye, and dental disorders.
Kayzo Unleashed XL
Kayzo Unleashed XL is a live stage production by American DJ Kayzo, fusing bass music with a live rock band, debuted at Ultra Music Festival in 2023.
Kaz Crossley
Kaz Crossley (Kazimir Samita Crossley, born 1995), English reality TV personality and former makeup artist. Love Island series 4 (2018, third place), Celebrity Ex on the Beach (2022), winner of The Challenge UK and World Championship 2023, Love Island: All Stars 2025.
Kazaa
Kazaa, also known as Kazaa Media Desktop, was a peer-to-peer file-sharing application released in 2001 that attracted over 4.2 million simultaneous users before a 2006 settlement shut it down.
Kazaam
Kazaam is a 1996 Touchstone fantasy comedy starring Shaquille O'Neal as a 3,000-year-old rapping genie freed from a boom box by 12-year-old Max Connor; directed by Paul Michael Glaser, grossed $18.9M, critically panned, and confused with a nonexistent Sinbad film "Shazaam".
Kazachi Stan (Казачий стан)
Kazachi Stan (Казачий стан, Kosakenlager) was a WWII collaborationist Cossack organization in the Wehrmacht and SS, founded November 1943 in Kirovohrad under ataman Sergei Pavlov, later led by Domanov, active in Belarus and northern Italy, surrendered to the British in 1945.
Kazachnaya Kraina
Казачная краіна is Belarusian for fairyland, the translation of German Märchenland and English fairyland. It names a Malivur theme park near Lahoysk, an Orsha children's park with a Karatkevich monument, and a children's fairy-tale book.
Kazakh alphabets
The Kazakh alphabets, also called Kazakh script, are the writing systems used for Kazakh: Arabic until the 1920s, Latin from 1929, and Cyrillic since 1940, with a return to Latin under way.
Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
The Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, created in 1920 as the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, was an autonomous republic of Soviet Russia with its capital at Orenburg.
Kazakh banking crisis 2008
The Kazakh banking crisis 2008 was the solvency collapse of Kazakhstan's largest banks after a credit boom, leading to state takeovers of BTA and Alliance Bank.
Kazakh famine of 1921–1922
The Kazakh famine of 1921–1922 was a mass famine in the Kazakh ASSR under early Soviet rule, killing about one million Kazakhs and reducing livestock herds by 83 percent.
Kazakh famine of 1930–1933
The Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, known in Kazakh as Asharshylyq (Ашаршылық), was a mass famine under forced collectivization that killed about a third of all Kazakhs.
Kazakh Khanate (Қазақ хандығы)
Kazakh Khanate (Қазақ хандығы), also Qazaq Khanate, a Central Asian steppe polity founded 1465–1466 by Jani Beg and Giray after breaking from the Uzbek Khanate; a nomadic confederation that later split into three hordes under Russian encroachment.
Kazakh language
Kazakh (қазақ тілі, Qazaq tili) is a Kipchak Turkic language, the state language of Kazakhstan, with ~12.8 million speakers (2009). Closest to Karakalpak and Nogai; Cyrillic script since 1940 with a planned Latin transition from 2025.
Kazakh language revival
The Kazakh language revival (қазақ тілі) is the set of state policies since 1989 restoring Kazakh as Kazakhstan's state language after Soviet Russification made Russian dominant.
Kazakh literature
Kazakh literature (қазақ әдебиеті) is the oral and written literature of the Kazakh people in Kazakh and Russian, from oral epics through zhyrau poetry to Abai Qunanbaiuly, its modern classic.