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Ken Follett
Ken Follett (born 1949, Cardiff) is a Welsh bestselling author of spy thrillers and historical epics, known for Eye of the Needle, The Pillars of the Earth, and the Kingsbridge and Century series, with over 198 million books sold.
Ken Foree
Ken Foree (Kentotis Alvin Foree), American actor born 1948 in Indianapolis, best known as Peter Washington in Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), Roger Rockmore on Kenan & Kel, and roles in The Devil's Rejects and Halloween (2007).
Ken Freeman
Ken Freeman, born Kenneth Charles Freeman in 1940, is an Australian astronomer at Mount Stromlo Observatory who was among the first to show spiral galaxies contain dark matter.
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is a roboticist, artist, and entrepreneur who is a distinguished professor at UC Berkeley, directs the AUTOLAB, and co-founded Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics.
Ken Goldin
Ken Goldin is an American sports memorabilia and trading-card dealer who founded Goldin Auctions in 2012, sold over $2 billion in memorabilia, and stars in Netflix's King of Collectibles (2023).
Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr. (born 1969, Donora, Pa.), 'The Kid', MLB center fielder; drafted first overall 1987 by Seattle; 630 home runs, 1997 AL MVP, 10 Gold Gloves; Hall of Fame 2016 with record 99.3% vote.
Ken Griffey Sr.
Ken Griffey Sr. (George Kenneth Griffey, born 1950, Donora, PA), MLB outfielder 1973-91 for the Reds, Yankees, Braves, and Mariners; two-time World Series champion with the Big Red Machine and first father-son MLB teammate with Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Hakuta
Ken Hakuta, known to children as Dr. Fad, is a Korean-born American entrepreneur who made a fortune marketing the Wacky WallWalker toy in the 1980s.
Ken Ham
Ken Ham, born 1951, is an Australian-born young-earth creationist and evangelist who founded Answers in Genesis, built the Creation Museum, and opened the Ark Encounter in 2016.
Ken Harrelson
Ken "Hawk" Harrelson (born 1941) is a former MLB first baseman/outfielder and White Sox television broadcaster (1982-85, 1990-2018), 2020 Ford C. Frick Award winner, famous for homerism and catchphrases like "He gone!".
Ken Henry
Ken Henry (Kenneth Charles Henry, 1929-2009), American speed skater; 1952 Oslo Olympic 500 m gold in 43.2, World 500 m champion 1949 and 1952, lit the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic Flame, later a golf professional.
Ken Hensley
Ken Hensley (Kenneth William David Hensley, 1945-2020), English keyboardist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of Uriah Heep 1970-1980; wrote "Easy Livin'", "Lady in Black", "July Morning"; later Blackfoot and solo career.
Ken Hoang
Ken "SephirothKen" Hoang, Vietnamese American Super Smash Bros. Melee international champion from Westminster, California, who competed on Survivor: Gabon in 2008 and was blindsided before the finale.
Ken Howard
Ken Howard (Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr., 1944–2016), American actor, Tony winner for Child's Play, Emmy winner for Grey Gardens, star of The White Shadow, and first elected president of SAG-AFTRA.
Ken Howery
Ken Howery (Kenneth A. Howery) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and Founders Fund and served as US Ambassador to Sweden and Denmark.
Ken Inoki
Ken Inoki is a Japanese-born molecular biologist and physician-scientist at the University of Michigan whose 2002 to 2006 papers showed how TSC2 integrates growth-factor, energy, and Wnt signals to regulate mTORC1.
Ken Jacobson
Ken Jacobson, full name Kenneth A. Jacobson, was a cell biologist and biophysicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill best known for developing FRAP.
Ken Jenkins
Ken Jenkins (born 1940, Dayton, Ohio) is an American character actor, co-founder of Actors Theatre of Louisville, and playwright, best known as Dr. Bob Kelso on Scrubs (2001–2010); also Homefront, Matewan, The Abyss, and Cougar Town. Not to be confused with Ken Jennings or other namesakes.
Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings, American Jeopardy! champion and host; record 74-game 2004 streak worth $2.52 million, 2020 Greatest of All Time winner, interim host from November 2020, author of Brainiac.
Ken Jeong
Ken Jeong (Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong, born 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and licensed physician known as Leslie Chow in The Hangover, Ben Chang on Community, creator-star of Dr. Ken, and a Masked Singer panelist.
Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)
Ken Kennedy (Kenneth W. Kennedy, 1945–2007) was an American computer scientist at Rice University whose compiler optimization research helped ordinary scientists use supercomputers; he founded Rice's computer science department.
Ken Kercheval
Ken Kercheval (Kenneth Marine Kercheval, 1935–2019), American actor, played Cliff Barnes, J.R. Ewing's rival, on Dallas 1978–1991 and its 2012–2014 revival; Broadway and film credits, Soap Opera Digest Award winner.
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey (1935–2001), American novelist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Merry Pranksters leader of the 1964 Furthur bus trip and Acid Tests, later an Oregon farmer and author of Sailor Song.
Ken King
Ken King is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 88th district, covering 19 Panhandle and South Plains counties.
Ken Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler is an American cancer geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who co-invented digital PCR, pioneered liquid biopsy methods, and co-founded Haystack Oncology with Bert Vogelstein.
Ken Kirzinger
Ken Kirzinger (Kenneth Kirzinger, born 1959, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian stunt coordinator and actor, the Jason Voorhees of Freddy vs. Jason (2003) and co-creator of UBCP/ACTRA's Stunt Actor category.
Ken Kratz
Ken Kratz, former Calumet County, Wisconsin district attorney (1992-2010) and Steven Avery special prosecutor, resigned in 2010 after sexting a domestic abuse victim; his license was suspended four months in 2014.
Ken Kutaragi
Ken Kutaragi (久多良木健) is a Japanese engineer and former Sony executive known as the "Father of the PlayStation", who led Sony Computer Entertainment before retiring in 2007.
Ken Lee (meme)
Ken Lee is a 2008 viral meme from Bulgarian singer Valentina Hasan's Music Idol audition, a phonetic mishearing of "Without You" ("Can't live") that drew millions of YouTube views.
Ken Leung
Ken Leung (梁振邦, born 1970) is an American actor known for Miles Straume in Lost, Eric Tao in HBO's Industry, and films Rush Hour, Saw, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.