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Keiō Reforms
The Keiō Reforms (慶応の改革) were the Tokugawa shogunate's final attempt to reform its army and bureaucracy under shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu, cut short by the imperial restoration of January 1868.
Keio University (慶應義塾大学)
Keio University (慶應義塾大学) is a private Tokyo university founded in 1858 by Yukichi Fukuzawa, Japan's first modern institution of higher learning, with 10 faculties, 14 graduate schools, about 34,000 students, six campuses, and an AI-Native University initiative.
Keipert syndrome
Keipert syndrome (nasodigitoacoustic syndrome, OMIM 301026) is a rare X-linked recessive disorder caused by GPC4 loss-of-function variants, with facial dysmorphism, broad thumbs and great toes, and variable hearing loss and intellectual disability.
Keir Dullea
Keir Dullea (born May 30, 1936, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor who played astronaut Dr. David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its 1984 sequel, after a 1960s career of troubled-young-man roles in David and Lisa, The Thin Red Line, and Bunny Lake Is Missing.
Keir Gilchrist
Keir Gilchrist (born 1992, London) is an English-born Canadian actor known as Marshall Gregson in United States of Tara and Sam Gardner in Netflix's Atypical, and for lead roles in It's Kind of a Funny Story and It Follows.
Keir Hardie
James Keir Hardie (1856–1915), Scottish miner and trade unionist, Britain's first independent Labour MP (West Ham, 1892), chairman of the ILP founding conference (1893), and first leader of the Labour Party in the Commons (1906).
Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell (born 1978, Sydney) is an Australian actor, writer, and director, not the Irish politician Kieran O'Donnell. Known for Todd Cleary in Wedding Crashers (2005), Veck in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and his directorial debut Marmalade (2024).
Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC, barrister and former Director of Public Prosecutions (2008-2013), led Labour from April 2020 and served as UK Prime Minister from 5 July 2024 to 20 July 2026, winning a 411-seat landslide before resigning amid U-turns, the Mandelson affair and record-low approval.
Keira conquest of Kordofan
The Keira conquest of Kordofan was the 1780s extension of Keira rule from the sultanate of Dar Fur over Kordofan by Sultan Muhammad Tayrab, making the sultanate the dominant Sahel power until 1821.
Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley, English actress, star of Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Netflix's Black Doves; twice Oscar-nominated, OBE, married to Klaxons musician James Righton.
Keira Walsh
Keira Walsh (born 1997, Rochdale) is an English holding midfielder for Chelsea and England, a double EURO winner (2022, 2025), ex-Barcelona record signing, EURO 2022 final player of the match, and an MBE recipient with over 100 England caps.
Keiran Lee
Keiran Lee (Adam Lee Diksa, born 1984, Derby) is a British adult film performer, director, and producer under a long Brazzers contract, AVN Hall of Fame inductee, $1M-insured, returned to the UK in 2025.
Keiretsu
Keiretsu, also known as the keiretsu system, are large clusters of Japanese companies tied together by cross-shareholding and long-term transactions, dominating Japan's economy from the 1950s to the early 2000s.
Keiriadai
Keiriadai (Κειριάδαι, Ceiriadae), an Attic deme of the tribe Hippothontis near Athens, located outside the Themistoclean walls west of the Hill of the Nymphs; attested in prytany lists and by residents such as Echesthenes.
Keirin (競輪)
Keirin (競輪, "racing wheels") is a track cycling sprint race behind a motorized pacer, an Olympic event since 2000 and Japan's licensed betting sport since 1948.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-report personality questionnaire developed by American psychologist David Keirsey and first published in 1978, classifying people into four temperaments.
Keisai Eisen
Keisai Eisen (渓斎英泉) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist known for sensual portraits of women and for his share of the Kiso Kaidō landscape series with Hiroshige.
Keisean Henderson
Keisean Henderson is an American college football quarterback for the Houston Cougars, a five-star recruit from Spring, Texas who became the highest rated recruit in Houston football history.
Keisei Electric Railway
Keisei Electric Railway (京成電鉄) is a Japanese private railway operator in Chiba and eastern Tokyo, best known for the Skyliner express linking central Tokyo to Narita Airport.
Keisha Buchanan
Keisha Kerreece Fayeanne Buchanan, born 1984, is a British singer-songwriter and founding member of the Sugababes, the only original member until her 2009 departure, and returned for the trio's 2019 reunion.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 1990) is a New Zealand Māori actress of Ngāti Porou, Tainui, and Ngāpuhi descent, Oscar-nominated for Whale Rider (2002), later Obara Sand in Game of Thrones and Hana Gibson in FBI: Most Wanted.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms, 60th mayor of Atlanta (2018-2021) and second woman elected to the office, later Biden senior adviser and Democratic nominee for Georgia governor in 2026, facing Rick Jackson.
Keisuke Goda
Keisuke Goda (合田 圭介) is a Japanese photonics and biomedical optics researcher, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo since 2012, known for ultrafast optical imaging and intelligent image-activated cell sorting.
Keisuke Honda (本田圭佑)
Keisuke Honda (本田圭佑), born 1986, Japanese left-footed attacking midfielder; CSKA Moscow and AC Milan No. 10, 2011 Asian Cup MVP, scored at three World Cups, later Cambodia manager and FC Jurong player.
Keisuke Kuwata
Keisuke Kuwata (桑田佳祐), born 1956 in Chigasaki, Japan, is a singer-songwriter, vocalist and chief songwriter of Southern All Stars, and a solo artist since 1987.
Keisuke Nagao
Keisuke Nagao (永尾 圭介) is a Japanese physician-scientist who studies how hair follicles organize skin immunity and became dermatology chair at Keio University in 2026.
Keisuke Suzuki
Keisuke Suzuki (鈴木啓介) is a Japanese organic chemist known for the total synthesis of complex natural products, winner of the 2015 Japan Academy Prize and a Japan Academy member since 2018.
Keisuke Tajima
Keisuke Tajima (但馬 敬介) is a Japanese organic electronics researcher who leads a polymer research team at RIKEN, known for his 2011 Nature Materials study of organic solar cell interfaces.
Keita Baldé
Keita Baldé Diao (born 1995, Arbúcies, Spain) is a Senegalese forward from La Masia who played for Lazio, Monaco, Inter, Sampdoria, Cagliari, and Monza, and won AFCON 2021 with Senegal.
Keita dynasty
The Keita dynasty, founded by Sundiata Keita around 1230, ruled the Mali Empire, which reached its height under Mansa Musa I in the early fourteenth century.