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Ken Pounds
Ken Pounds (Kenneth A. Pounds) is a British physicist who founded the University of Leicester's Space Research Group in 1960 and became known for work on X-ray reflection from accretion disks.
Ken R. Czerwinski
Ken R. Czerwinski is an American radiochemist and full professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, known for work on rutherfordium, technetium, and actinide chemistry.
Ken Raymond
Kenneth N. Raymond, born 1942 in Astoria, Oregon, is an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley known for siderophore iron transport, supramolecular assemblies, and MRI contrast agents; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Ken Rhee
Ken Rhee (Rhee Keun), former ROK Navy UDT/SEAL lieutenant and dual Korean-US SEAL training graduate, became a Korean TV personality via Fake Men and fought as a volunteer in Ukraine in 2022.
Ken Robinson (educationalist)
Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020), British educationalist, professor at the University of Warwick, chaired the UK's 1998 creativity commission; his 2006 TED talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" is TED's most-viewed talk; author of The Element and Creative Schools.
Ken Roczen
Ken Roczen, German-American motocross and supercross racer (Mattstedt, Germany), 2011 MX2 World Champion, 2014/2016 450MX champion, 2022-2023 WSX champion, and 2026 AMA 450SX champion on H.E.P. Suzuki.
Ken Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal (Kenneth Rosenthal) was an American entrepreneur who founded the St. Louis Bread Company in 1987, the bakery-café chain that became Panera Bread, and sold it in 1993.
Ken Rosewall
Ken Rosewall (born 2 November 1934, Sydney), nicknamed "Muscles", is an Australian tennis player who won 8 Grand Slam singles and 18 total major titles across amateur, professional, and Open eras, never won Wimbledon, and remains the oldest Open-era major champion at 37.
Ken Rozenboom
Ken Rozenboom (born 1951) is an American Republican politician serving as President pro tempore of the Iowa Senate, representing District 19 since his 2012 election.
Ken Russell
Ken Russell (1927-2011), British film director of Women in Love, The Devils, and Tommy; BBC Monitor biopics of composers, flamboyant controversial style, Oscar-nominated.
Ken S. Lau
Ken S. Lau (Ken Lau) is a molecular biologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who studies how colorectal cancer begins and evolves using single-cell and spatial mapping.
Ken Salazar
Ken Salazar (born 1955) is a Colorado Democrat who served as state attorney general, U.S. senator (2005–2009), 50th Secretary of the Interior (2009–2013), and U.S. ambassador to Mexico (2021–2025), the first Hispanic American elected statewide in Colorado.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa (Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, 1941–1995), Nigerian writer and television producer, led MOSOP, the Ogoni campaign against Shell's oil pollution in the Niger Delta, and was hanged with the Ogoni Nine on 10 November 1995 after a condemned trial.
Ken Schrader
Ken Schrader (born 1955, Fenton, Missouri), American racing driver; 1982 USAC Silver Crown and 1983 Sprint Car champion, 763 NASCAR Cup starts with 4 wins, Daytona 500 poles 1988-1990.
Ken Shamrock
Ken Shamrock (born Ken Kilpatrick, 1964), also Wayne Shamrock in Japan, American MMA fighter and pro wrestler; first King of Pancrase 1994, two-time UFC Superfight champion, UFC Hall of Famer 2003, and WWF Intercontinental Champion and 1998 King of the Ring.
Ken Sharma
Ken Sharma was an Indian-born American executive who co-founded the supply chain software company i2 Technologies in Dallas and served as its vice chairman until his death in 1999.
Ken Shi
Ken Shi is a Chinese venture capitalist and Founding Partner of 5Y Capital, which he co-founded with Qin Liu in 2008 after spinning it out of the Morningside Group.
Ken Shirasu
Ken Shirasu (白須 賢) is a Japanese plant immunologist who has led the Plant Immunity Research Group at RIKEN since 2006 and became Deputy Director of RIKEN CSRS in 2020.
Ken Shortman
Ken Shortman, born 1937 in Sydney, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, known for T-cell development and establishing discrete dendritic cell subpopulations.
Ken Sitzberger
Ken Sitzberger (Kenneth Robert Sitzberger, 1945-1984), American diver, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in men's 3 m springboard (159.90 points), 1963 Pan Am bronze, five-time NCAA champion at Indiana, later ABC diving commentator.
Ken Skupski
Ken Skupski is a retired British doubles tennis player from Liverpool, older brother of Neal Skupski. Seven ATP titles, career-high doubles No. 44 in 2010, 2010 Commonwealth Games silver, retired at Wimbledon 2022.
Ken Spain
Ken Spain (John Kenneth Spain, 1946-1990), American basketball player, Olympic gold medalist with the United States at the 1968 Mexico City Games, University of Houston center, later briefly with the ABA's Pittsburgh Condors.
Ken Stabler
Ken "Snake" Stabler (1945-2015), left-handed Alabama quarterback for the Raiders, Oilers, and Saints; 1974 NFL MVP, Super Bowl XI champion, Hall of Fame Class of 2016, posthumous Stage 3 CTE diagnosis.
Ken Starr
Ken Starr (1946–2022), American lawyer, D.C. Circuit judge, and 39th U.S. Solicitor General; independent counsel 1994–1999 whose Whitewater/Lewinsky Starr Report led to Clinton's impeachment; later Pepperdine dean, Baylor president, Epstein lawyer.
Ken Stott
Ken Stott (Kenneth Campbell Stott, born 1954 or 1955, Edinburgh) is a Scottish actor known for Rebus, The Vice, Takin' Over the Asylum, Balin in The Hobbit, and four Olivier Award nominations.
Ken Sugimori (杉森 建)
Ken Sugimori (杉森建, born 1966) is a Japanese artist, Game Freak co-founder, and Pokémon art director who designed the original 151 Pokémon and defined the franchise's visual style.
Ken Suson
Ken Suson, who performs as Felip, is a Filipino singer and lead vocalist of the P-pop boy group SB19, and a solo artist since 2021.
Ken Takakura (高倉健)
Ken Takakura (高倉健, real name Oda Goichi), 1931–2014, Japanese film actor and star of ninkyo eiga yakuza films at Toei; famous for Manhunt's success in China, The Yakuza, Black Rain, and Poppoya; 205 films total.
Ken Tanaka (chemist)
Ken Tanaka (田中健) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for asymmetric catalysis, carbohelicene synthesis, and the 2012 Mukaiyama Award.
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson (Kenneth Lane Thompson), born in 1943, is an American computer scientist who designed Unix at Bell Labs, created the B language, and co-created Go.