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Keith Gordon
Keith Gordon (born 1961, New York City) is an American actor turned director, known for acting in Dressed to Kill, Christine, and Back to School, and for directing A Midnight Clear, Mother Night, and episodes of Homeland, Fargo, Dexter, and Better Call Saul.
Keith Grasman
Keith Grasman is an American wildlife toxicologist and Professor of Biology at Calvin University who studies how PCBs suppress the immune systems of Great Lakes fish-eating birds.
Keith Green
Keith Green (1953–1982), American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; CCM pioneer, Decca child star, founder of Last Days Ministries, died in a 1982 plane crash.
Keith Gull
Keith Gull (born 1948) is a British parasitologist and Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Oxford whose research defined the cell biology of trypanosomes, the parasites that cause sleeping sickness.
Keith H. Coats
Keith H. Coats (1934–2016) was an American petroleum engineer who pioneered numerical reservoir simulation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Keith Haring
Keith Haring (1958–1990), American artist and activist of the 1980s New York downtown scene; known for Subway Drawings, Radiant Baby, Pop Shop, AIDS activism, and the Keith Haring Foundation.
Keith Harris (ventriloquist)
Keith Harris (1947–2015), English ventriloquist and comedian, creator of Orville the Duck (insured for £100,000) and Cuddles the Monkey; star of BBC's The Keith Harris Show and the 1982 No 4 hit "Orville's Song".
Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton, born in 1942, is a British psychiatrist and suicidologist who founded Oxford's Centre for Suicide Research; his work on paracetamol pack-size limits helped cut poisoning deaths by 43%.
Keith Head
Keith Head is a Canadian economist at the University of British Columbia, known for research on the gravity model of trade and foreign direct investment.
Keith Hernandez
Keith Hernandez, born 1953, American MLB first baseman for Cardinals, Mets, and Indians; 1979 NL co-MVP, 11 straight Gold Gloves (1978–88), 1982 and 1986 World Series champion, .296 career hitter, and a prominent Hall of Fame snub.
Keith Hodgson
Keith Hodgson (born 1947) is an American chemist, a Stanford professor and SLAC photon science researcher who pioneered synchrotron X-ray studies of metalloprotein metal centers, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Keith Hudson
Keith Hudson (1946–1984) was a Jamaican reggae producer and singer from Kingston, known as the "Dark Prince of Reggae" for the 1974 dub album Pick a Dub.
Keith Hunter Jesperson
Keith Hunter Jesperson, the "Happy Face Killer," is a Canadian-American long-haul trucker who murdered at least eight women, 1990-1995, signing anonymous letters with smiley faces; incarcerated in Oregon since 1995.
Keith J. Sainsbury
Keith J. Sainsbury is a marine ecologist and fisheries scientist known for work on continental shelf ecosystems, who spent his career at CSIRO and won the 2004 Japan Prize.
Keith J. Stevenson
Keith J. Stevenson is an American physical electrochemist who studied at Utah and was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 2000 to 2015.
Keith Jackson
Keith Jackson (1928-2018), American ABC sportscaster, folksy voice of college football, "Whoa, Nellie!"; first Monday Night Football play-by-play announcer, 15 Rose Bowls, first live Soviet sports broadcast.
Keith Jardine
Keith Jardine, nicknamed "The Dean of Mean", is an American mixed martial artist who competed in the UFC from 2005 to 2010, beating Forrest Griffin and Chuck Liddell.
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born 1945, Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz pianist and composer on ECM, creator of The Köln Concert, the bestselling solo piano recording, and leader of the Standards Trio; strokes in 2018 ended his performing career.
Keith Jarrett discography
Keith Jarrett discography: catalog of the American pianist's recordings, centered on ECM since 1971's Facing You, including The Köln Concert (1975, ~4 million copies), his quartets, Standards Trio, and classical albums.
Keith K. Millheim
Keith K. Millheim is a petroleum and drilling engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 and awarded the 2006 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal.
Keith Kelley
Keith Kelley is an American politician and Republican member of the Alabama Senate from District 12, elected in 2022 after nearly thirty years as a real estate broker.
Keith Kellogg
Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr., retired US Army lieutenant general, Vietnam veteran with the Silver Star, commanded the 82nd Airborne; NSC chief of staff, acting national security adviser, Pence's NSA adviser, and Trump's Ukraine envoy.
Keith Lee (wrestler)
Keith Lee, American professional wrestler from Wichita Falls, Texas; former NXT North American and NXT Champion, AEW World Tag Team Champion with Swerve Strickland; "Limitless" big man; inactive since December 2023.
Keith Levene
Keith Levene (Julian Keith Levene, 1957–2022), English guitarist and founding member of the Clash and Public Image Ltd; his metallic, discordant guitar work on Metal Box defined post-punk and influenced U2 and My Bloody Valentine.
Keith M. Channon
Keith M. Channon is a British cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine at Oxford, known for research on nitric oxide, coronary heart disease genetics, and the QR4 risk algorithm.
Keith Matthews (parasitologist)
Keith R. Matthews is a University of Edinburgh professor of parasite biology known for discovering quorum sensing in African trypanosomes and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2020.
Keith Michell
Keith Michell (1926–2015), Australian-born actor of stage, film, and television; won Emmy and BAFTA as Henry VIII in The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Chichester Festival Theatre artistic director 1974–77.
Keith Miller with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
Keith Miller's 1948 England tour with Bradman's 'Invincibles': unbeaten in 34 matches, Ashes won 4-0; Miller starred in the first Test, then bowled little due to a back injury.
Keith Mitchell (musician)
Keith Mitchell was an American rock drummer active in the 1980s Los Angeles scene. He was a founding member of Mazzy Star and was known for his restrained drumming style.
Keith Moffat
Keith Moffat is a Scottish-born biophysicist and protein crystallographer who came to the University of Chicago in 1990, known for developing time-resolved crystallography and founding the synchrotron facility BioCARS at Argonne.