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Kazimierz Pużak
Kazimierz Pużak was a Polish socialist politician who led the wartime underground PPS-WRN, chaired the Council of National Unity, and died in Rawicz prison in 1950.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz
Kazimierz Siemienowicz, known in Lithuanian as Kazimieras Simonavičius (c. 1600 – after 1651), was a Lithuanian military engineer whose 1650 artillery manual gave the first detailed designs for multi-stage rockets and rocket batteries.
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885–1969) was a Polish general and independence activist who served as chief of staff to Józef Piłsudski and commanded the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (1902–1959) was a Polish mathematician and professor at the Warsaw Polytechnic known for the Zarankiewicz problem and his crossing number conjecture for complete bipartite graphs.
Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич)
Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич), Ukrainian-born Polish avant-garde painter (1878 or 1879-1935), founder of Suprematism, exhibited Black Square at the 0.10 exhibition in Petrograd in December 1915 and wrote 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism'.
Kaziranga National Park (কাজিৰঙা ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় উদ্যান)
Kaziranga National Park (কাজিৰঙা ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় উদ্যান), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Assam, India, holds the world's largest greater one-horned rhinoceros population, high tiger density, and faces poaching, floods, and highway threats.
Kazım Ayvaz
Kazım Ayvaz (Kazim Ayvaz), Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler, born Rize 1938, died Helsingborg 2020; world champion 1958 and 1962 and 1964 Tokyo Olympic lightweight gold medalist.
Kazım Koyuncu
Kazım Koyuncu (1971–2005) was a Laz-origin Turkish musician and activist who blended Black Sea and Laz folk music with rock, fronting Turkey's first Laz-language rock band, Zuğaşi Berepe.
Kazım Taşkent
Kazım Taşkent (1894–1991) was a Turkish chemical engineer turned banker who founded Yapı ve Kredi Bankası in Istanbul in 1944, the first private bank of the Republican era.
KAZKA
KAZKA (Ukrainian: Казка) is a Ukrainian pop group formed in 2017, known for the song «Плакала», the first Ukrainian-language video to pass 500 million YouTube views.
Kazma
Kazma, also known as Kadhima, is an archaeological area in northern Kuwait on the al-Ṣabiyyah plateau, with an Early Islamic settlement and Bronze Age burial tumuli.
KazMunayGas
KazMunayGas (KMG) is Kazakhstan's vertically integrated national oil and gas company. Founded in 2002, it is majority owned by Samruk-Kazyna and holds stakes in Tengizchevroil, Kashagan, and Karachaganak.
Kazohinia
Kazohinia (Gulliver utazása Kazohiniában; Vojaĝo al Kazohinio) is a 1941 satirical dystopian novel by Hungarian engineer Sándor Szathmári, a Gulliver sequel contrasting the emotionless Hin society with the obsessive Behins.
Kazoku (華族)
Kazoku (華族) was Japan's Meiji-era hereditary peerage, created 1869 and reorganized by the 1884 Kazoku Act into five ranks below the imperial family; it staffed the House of Peers and was dissolved in 1947.
Kazoku Rei
The Kazoku Rei (華族令), Japan's 1884 Peerage Ordinance, created five hereditary ranks, prince through baron, held by court nobles, feudal lords, and men rewarded for service to the Meiji state.
Kazoo
Kazoo: a small tube instrument (mirliton) whose membrane buzzes as the player hums; attributed to Alabama Vest and Thaddeus Von Clegg in 1840s Georgia, mass-produced in Eden, New York from 1916.
KazTransOil
KazTransOil is the national trunk oil pipeline operator of Kazakhstan, established in 1997 and 90 percent owned by KazMunayGas, moving crude through a 5,197 km pipeline system to refineries, Europe, and China.
Kazuaki Chayama
Kazuaki Chayama (茶山 一彰) is a Japanese hepatologist, long a professor at Hiroshima University, known for work on hepatitis B drug resistance, hepatitis C therapy, and liver cancer genetics.
Kazuaki Ishihara
Kazuaki Ishihara (石原一彰), born 1963, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for asymmetric catalysis, including hafnium-catalyzed esterification and hypoiodite catalysis reported in Science.
Kazuchika Okada (オカダ・カズチカ)
Kazuchika Okada (オカダ・カズチカ), "The Rainmaker", Japanese professional wrestler; five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion with a record 720-day reign, first Japanese PWI 500 No. 1 (2017), NJPW star who joined AEW in 2024.
Kazuha (中村 一葉) (singer)
Kazuha (中村 一葉, Nakamura Kazuha, 카즈하), born 2003 in Osaka, is the Japanese singer-dancer of LE SSERAFIM who debuted May 2, 2022 with FEARLESS after 15 years of classical ballet training.
Kazuhiko Inoue (井上和彦)
Kazuhiko Inoue (井上和彦), born 1954 in Yokohama, is a veteran Japanese voice actor with B-Box. Debuting in Mazinger Z (1973) and starring as Joe Shimamura in Cyborg 009 (1979), he is known for Kakashi Hatake in Naruto, Nyanko-sensei in Natsume's Book of Friends, and Yamaoka Shiro in Oishinbo; a same-named military journalist (born 1963) is a separate person.
Kazuhiko Kinosita
Kazuhiko Kinosita (木下 一彦) is a Japanese biophysicist and Waseda University professor whose 1997 Nature paper showed that a single F1-ATPase molecule is a rotary motor.
Kazuhiko Koike
Kazuhiko Koike (小池 和彦) is a Japanese hepatologist and gastroenterologist who was a professor at the University of Tokyo until 2021, known for his hepatitis C research.
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda (前田 和彦) is a Japanese chemist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for oxynitride photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen with visible light.
Kazuhiko Nakagawa
Kazuhiko Nakagawa (中川 和彦) is a Japanese medical oncologist, director of the Cancer Center at Kindai University Hospital, known for leading RELAY, the first global lung cancer trial led by a Japanese principal investigator.
Kazuhiko Nakatani
Kazuhiko Nakatani (中谷一彦) is a Japanese chemical biologist, professor at Osaka University from 2005, known for small molecules that bind mismatched DNA and repeat sequences linked to disease.
Kazuhiko Nishijima
Kazuhiko Nishijima (西島和彦, 1926–2009) was a Japanese theoretical particle physicist who, with Tadao Nakano and independently of Murray Gell-Mann, discovered the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula relating hadron charge to strangeness, paving the way to the quark model.
Kazuhiko Takai
Kazuhiko Takai (髙井 和彦, born 1954 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Okayama University since 2005, known for the Takai olefination and organosodium cross-coupling chemistry.
Kazuhiko Umesono
Kazuhiko Umesono (梅園和彦) was a Japanese molecular biologist who, working in Ronald Evans's Salk Institute laboratory, discovered the 3-4-5 rule for nuclear hormone receptor DNA recognition.