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Kehua Bio-Engineering

Kehua Bio-Engineering (Shanghai Kehua Bio-Engineering Co.) is a Chinese in vitro diagnostics company in Shanghai, founded in 1981 and in 2004 the first Chinese IVD company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Keʻeaumoku II

Keʻeaumoku II (George Cox Kahekili Keʻeaumoku, circa 1784–1824) was a Hawaiian high chief who served as Governor of Maui under Kamehameha I and fought at the Battle of Nuʻuanu.

Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi

Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi (c. 1736–1804) was a Hawaiian high chief of the Kona district of Hawaiʻi Island, a military leader who helped raise Kamehameha I to power.

Keʻelikōlani

Ruth Keʻelikōlani (Ruth Keanolani Kanāhoahoa Keʻelikōlani), 1826–1883, Hawaiian princess and Governor of Hawaiʻi island, descendant of Kamehameha I, defender of Hilo in the 1880–1881 Mauna Loa eruption, and bequeather of 353,000 acres to Bernice Pauahi Bishop.

Kei car

The kei car, or keijidōsha (軽自動車, "light automobile"), is a Japanese legal category of very small cars and trucks with 660 cc engines, created in 1949.

Kei Hirose

Kei Hirose (廣瀬敬, born 1968) is a Japanese high-pressure geophysicist at the University of Tokyo, known for the 2004 discovery of post-perovskite and for laser-heated diamond-anvil cell experiments reaching Earth's center conditions.

Sep 19, 2026

Kei Inoo

Kei Inoo (伊野尾慧), born 1990 in Saitama, is a Japanese singer and actor in Hey! Say! JUMP, also a television presenter, stage actor, and published author.

Kei Kamara

Kei Kamara (Kei Ansu Kamara), born 1984 in Kenema, Sierra Leone, is a retired striker who scored 147 MLS regular-season goals (second all-time) for a record 12 MLS clubs, won two US Open Cups, and captained Sierra Leone.

Kei Nishikori (錦織圭)

Kei Nishikori (錦織圭), born 1989 in Shimane, Japan, is a Japanese tennis player, career-high world No. 4, 2014 US Open finalist, Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, 12 ATP titles, retiring after the 2026 season.

Kei Sato

Kei Sato (佐藤佳) is a Japanese virologist and professor of systems virology at the University of Tokyo, known for characterizing SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron.

Kei school

The Kei school (慶派) was a Japanese school of Buddhist sculptors, active from the late Heian through the Edo period, best known for realistic Kamakura works by Unkei and Kaikei.

Kei truck

A kei truck, known in Japan as keitora, is a small pickup truck built to Japan's kei-car rules, ubiquitous in Japanese farming, forestry, and delivery.

Keian Edict

The Keian Edict (慶安御触書) is a Japanese directive of 32 articles, traditionally dated 1649 and attributed to the Edo shogunate, regulating peasant farm management and conduct.

Keian Incident

The Keian Incident (慶安事件), also called the Keian no Hen, was a planned 1651 uprising of rōnin against the Tokugawa shogunate, led by Yui Shōsetsu and crushed before it began.

Keiber Lamadrid

Keiber Alberto Lamadrid Briceño (born 2003, Caracas) is a Venezuelan left winger who moved from Deportivo La Guaira to West Ham United in January 2026, the first direct Liga FUTVE-to-Premier League transfer, with 2 Venezuela caps.

Keibul Lamjao National Park

Keibul Lamjao National Park, Manipur, India: the world's only floating national park, 40 km² on Loktak Lake's phumdis, last home of the endangered Sangai deer, threatened by the Ithai barrage.

Keichō Embassy

The Keichō Embassy (慶長遣韓使) of 1607 was the first Joseon Korean diplomatic mission to the Tokugawa shogunate, received by shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in Edo and restoring relations between Korea and Japan.

Keichō gold and silver coins

Keichō gold and silver coins (慶長金銀) are the coinage issued by Tokugawa Ieyasu from 1601, the first currency of unified style and weight in Japan, circulating until 1695.

Keichō land redistribution

The Keichō land redistribution was Tokugawa Ieyasu's large-scale reallocation of daimyo domains after his victory at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, laying the territorial base of the Edo shogunate.

Keichō land survey

The Keichō land survey (慶長検地, Keichō kenchi) covers surveys carried out in Japan during the Keichō era, including Hideyoshi's final Taikō surveys of 1598 and the Tokugawa shogunate's first surveys from 1601.

Keichū

Keichū (契沖, 1640–1701) was a Shingon Buddhist monk and classical scholar of early Edo Japan who pioneered the philological study of the Man'yōshū, Japan's oldest poetry anthology.

Keider Montero

Keider Montero, Venezuelan right-handed starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers; signed 2016, MLB debut May 29, 2024 vs Pittsburgh; 2024 complete-game shutout vs Colorado, 2025 ALDS save.

Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾)

Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾, 1958–2026), Japanese mystery writer and former Nippondenso engineer; 1985 Edogawa Rampo Prize debut, Naoki Prize for The Devotion of Suspect X; Detective Galileo series; over 100 million copies in print in Japan.

Keiichi Fukuda

Keiichi Fukuda (福田恵一) is a Japanese cardiovascular scientist and regenerative medicine researcher, professor emeritus at Keio University who founded the iPS cell heart therapy company Heartseed.

Keiichi I. Nakayama

Keiichi I. Nakayama (中山敬一) is a Japanese cancer biologist at Kyushu University and Institute of Science Tokyo known for p27 knockout mice and ubiquitin ligases.

Sep 27, 2026

Keiichi Ishii

Keiichi Ishii, born 1958 in Tokyo, is a Japanese politician serving as Vice-Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2026, after leading Komeito and serving as transport minister.

Keiichi Namba

Keiichi Namba (難波啓一) is a Japanese structural biologist and biophysicist at Osaka University who solved the first atomic structures of macromolecular assemblies without crystallization, winning the 2012 Japan Academy Prize.

Oct 21, 2026

Keiichi Suzuki

Keiichi Suzuki (鈴木恵一), Japanese speed skater (1942–2025), 500 m specialist; two world records (39.2, 38.71), three Olympics 1964–1972, 1972 oath taker, later JSF vice president. Not the judoka Keiji Suzuki or musician Keiichi Suzuki.