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Kabir Khan (कबीर ख़ान) (director)

Kabir Khan (कबीर ख़ान), Indian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer born in Hyderabad (sources give 1968 or 1971). Documentary filmmaker turned Bollywood director of Kabul Express, Ek Tha Tiger, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and '83; two-time National Award winner.

Kabir Lal

Kabir Lal (born 1961, Madras) is an Indian cinematographer and director active in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi cinema, known for Pardes, Taal (Filmfare Best Cinematography 2000), and Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.

Kabir Singh (कबीर सिंह)

Kabir Singh (कबीर सिंह) is a 2019 Hindi romantic drama by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, a remake of his Telugu hit Arjun Reddy, starring Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani; it earned over 276 crore nett in India amid major misogyny controversy.

Sep 19, 2026

Kabir'il (king of Dedan)

Kabir'il (Dadanitic kbrʾl, Arabic كبر إل), son of Mata'il, was one of the few named kings of Dedan in north-west Arabia, conventionally placed in the 6th century BC and known only from Dadanitic inscriptions.

Sep 23, 2026

Kabisurya Baladeba Rath

Kabisurya Baladeba Rath (କବିସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ ବଳଦେବ ରଥ) was an Odia and Sanskrit poet and court administrator of southern Odisha, active around 1789 to 1845, best known for the bilingual Kishorachandrananda Champu.

Kabita

Kabita (কবিতা, "Poetry") was a Bengali-language quarterly poetry magazine edited by Buddhadeva Bose in Calcutta from 1935 to 1961, the first Bengali magazine devoted exclusively to poetry.

KaBlam!

KaBlam! is a Nickelodeon animated sketch-comedy anthology (1996–2000) created by Mittenthal, McRobb and Viscardi, hosted by comic-book kids Henry and June, featuring Action League Now!, Sniz and Fondue, Life with Loopy and Prometheus and Bob.

Kablan N'Goma

Kablan Davy N'Goma, born 1995 in Mantes-la-Jolie, is a French-Congolese left-footed winger for Borneo FC Samarinda, signed 19 July 2026 after clubs in France, Czechia, Luxembourg, Romania, and Bahrain.

Kabobo Massif

Kabobo Massif (Mt Kabobo, Misotshi-Kabogo) is a 150-km mountain chain on western Lake Tanganyika, eastern DRC, reaching 2,701 m; an Albertine Rift biodiversity hotspot with endemic species such as the Kabobo Apalis and Rhinolophus willardi, now within Kabobo Natural Reserve.

Kabocha

Kabocha (カボチャ) is a Japanese-bred winter squash of Cucurbita maxima, named via Portuguese traders bringing squash from Cambodia; small, dark green, sweet, starchy, with half of Japan's 100,000–200,000 ton squash crop grown in Hokkaido.

Kabokuen

花木園 (kabokuen), Japanese flowering tree gardens; notable examples in Showa Kinen Park (about 200 tree and 200 herb species), Yokohama, Saitama, Ome, and Iizuka, planted for seasonal blossom viewing.

Kabongo

Kabongo is a town in Lomami territory, Haut-Lomami Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the name of the Luba chiefly dynasty that ruled there.

Kaboni Savage

Kaboni Savage (born 1975), Philadelphia drug trafficker who led the Kaboni Savage Organization in North Philadelphia; convicted in 2013 of 12 murders in aid of racketeering including the 2004 Coleman family firebombing, sentenced to death 13 times, commuted to life without parole by Biden in 2024.

Kabraia Mound

Kabraia Mound (Bhainsasur mound), Kabrai town, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh: a small ASI-protected mound with a ruined Chandella temple and old statue, near the Brahm Tal tank, protected since 1921.

Kabsa (كبسة)

Kabsa (كبسة), also called Makbous or Machboos in GCC states, is Saudi Arabia's spiced one-pot rice-and-meat dish, named from kabs (pressure), served communally with loomi, raisins, and nuts.

Oct 15, 2026

Kabsch algorithm

The Kabsch algorithm is a closed-form method for finding the rotation that best aligns two sets of points in the least-squares sense, published by Wolfgang Kabsch in 1976.

Sep 19, 2026

Kabti-ilani-Marduk

Kabti-ilāni-Marduk was a Babylonian poet and scribe of the Dabibi family, active around the eighth century BC, whom the Poem of Erra names as its composer.

Kabuki (歌舞伎)

Kabuki (歌舞伎) is a Japanese classical all-male theatre combining dance, music, and drama, founded in Kyoto in 1603 by Okuni; women were banned in 1629, and onnagata men play female roles, with mie poses, kumadori makeup, and revolving stages. UNESCO-listed in 2008.

Kabuki kyōgen

Kabuki kyōgen (歌舞伎狂言) is the Japanese term for a play performed in kabuki theater, also denoting the script itself; from the mid-Edo period kyōgen became a general word for drama.

Kabuki syndrome

Kabuki syndrome (Niikawa–Kuroki syndrome), a rare congenital histone-modification disorder caused by KMT2D or KDM6A variants, with distinctive facies, fetal fingertip pads, growth and developmental delay, and emerging targeted therapies.

Kabukichō (歌舞伎町)

Kabukicho (歌舞伎町) is Shinjuku, Tokyo's entertainment district, Japan's largest, founded 1948 by Suzuki Kihei around a never-built kabuki theater, rebuilt from 1945 bombing, later a red-light and nightlife center with Tokyu Kabukicho Tower (2023).

Kabul (district)

Kabul District, a district of Kabul Province (کابل), Afghanistan, containing the capital Kabul city; province of about 5 million people, ISO AF-KAB, 14–15 districts, 22 urban nahias.

Kabul (TV series)

Kabul (Kaboul) is a 2025 six-part English-language drama-thriller by Olivier Demangel and Thomas Finkielkraut about the August 2021 Taliban takeover, following the Nazany family and Western evacuators; €20m, 11-country European co-production filmed in Athens.

Kabul (کابل)

Kabul (کابل), capital of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush valley on the Kabul River. Grew from 500,000 (2001) to 5–6 million people; 80% informal settlements; severe groundwater crisis; Taliban-ruled since 2021.

Kabul Express

Kabul Express (काबुल एक्सप्रेस) is a 2006 Hindi road film, Kabir Khan's directorial debut for Yash Raj Films, about two Indian journalists taken hostage by an ex-Taliban Pakistani soldier in post-9/11 Afghanistan.

Kabul Zoo

Kabul Zoo (باغ وحش کابل) is a zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan, opened in August 1967 with German help and rebuilt with international aid after being ruined in the 1990s civil war.

Oct 3, 2026

Kabuliwala (1957 film)

Kabuliwala (কাবুলিওয়ালা), 1957 Bengali drama by Tapan Sinha adapting Tagore's 1892 story; Chhabi Biswas as Afghan peddler Rahamat; won President's Gold Medal and Berlin Silver Bear for Ravi Shankar's music.

Oct 3, 2026

Kabuliwala (काबुलीवाला) (1961 film)

Kabuliwala (काबुलीवाला) is a 1961 Hindi drama directed by Hemen Gupta, produced by Bimal Roy, adapted from Tagore's 1892 story, starring Balraj Sahni as Afghan dry-fruit seller Abdul Rehman Khan, with music by Salil Choudhury including Manna Dey's "Aye mere pyare watan".

Kabunakama dissolution edict

An 1841 edict of the Tokugawa shogunate dissolving the kabunakama merchant guilds to lower prices, a centerpiece of the Tenpō Reforms that was reversed in 1851.