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Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 健一)
Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 健一), alias Shinobu Tsukasa, born 1942, is the sixth kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate, leading it since 2005 after heading the Kodo-kai; he survived the 2015 split that formed a breakaway group.
Kenichi Soga
Kenichi Soga is a geotechnical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and director of its Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Kenichi Suzumura (鈴村 健一)
Kenichi Suzumura (鈴村 健一), born 1974, is a Japanese voice actor, singer, and head of the INTENTION agency, known for Shinn Asuka, Zack Fair, Obanai Iguro, and the AD-LIVE stage project.
Kenichi Yoshikawa
Kenichi Yoshikawa (吉川研一) is a Japanese biological physicist known for single-molecule studies of the coil–globule transition of giant DNA, and a professor at Doshisha University.
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (史上最強の弟子ケンイチ)
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (史上最強の弟子ケンイチ) is Syun Matsuena's martial arts manga serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 2002–2014 in 61 volumes, adapted into a 50-episode 2006 TMS anime, with a 2026 sequel Kenichi 2: Tatsujin-hen and 17 million copies in print.
Kenichiro Fumita
Kenichiro Fumita is a Japanese wrestler who won the Olympic gold at the Paris 2024 Games, having previously secured world titles in 2017 and 2019.
Kenichiro Itami
Kenichiro Itami (伊丹健一郎, born 1971) is a Japanese organic chemist, formerly professor at Nagoya University and now Chief Scientist at RIKEN, known for C–H activation and synthesizing carbon nanobelts.
Kenichiro Sato
Kenichiro Sato (佐藤研一郎) was a Japanese engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Kyoto semiconductor maker ROHM and served as its president for 52 years until 2010.
Kenichiro Ueno
Kenichiro Ueno is a Japanese politician serving as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. A Kyoto University graduate from Shiga Prefecture, he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2005.
Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle: ruined medieval and Tudor castle in Warwickshire, England, founded in the 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton, royal for centuries, site of the 1266 six-month siege, and Robert Dudley's Elizabethan palace for Elizabeth I.
Kenilworth Road
Kenilworth Road, Luton Town FC's stadium since 1905, capacity about 12,056, famous for the Oak Road away entrance through terraced houses; £10m 2023 Premier League upgrade; to be replaced by Power Court around 2028.
Kenites (קֵינִי)
Kenites (קֵינִי) were a semi-nomadic smithing people of southern Palestine and Sinai in the Hebrew Bible, linked to Jethro, the Rechabites, and the Midianite-Kenite hypothesis on Yahweh's origins.
Kenitra (القنيطرة)
Kenitra (القنيطرة) is a city in northwestern Morocco, built in 1912 as a French protectorate port, initially named Port-Lyautey, before its official renaming during independence in 1956.
Kenitra Province
Kenitra Province (إقليم القنيطرة) is a province of Morocco in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region on the Atlantic coast, named after its capital city and the most populous province in the country.
Keniya
Keniya (केणिय) was a matted-hair ascetic at Āpaṇa who hosted the Buddha and 1,250 monks, prompting a Vinaya rule allowing juices after noon; his hermitage hosted Sela's meeting with the Buddha.
Kenji Bekki
Kenji Bekki is a computational astrophysicist and professor at ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, known for supercomputer simulations of galaxy and star cluster formation.
Kenji Fujimoto (藤本健二)
Kenji Fujimoto (藤本健二, born 1947) is the pen name of a Japanese sushi chef who was Kim Jong-il's personal chef and confidant 1988–2001, fled to Japan, wrote the 2003 bestseller I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook, later returned to Pyongyang at Kim Jong-un's invitation, and ran the restaurant Takahashi.
Kenji Fukaya
Kenji Fukaya (深谷賢治, born 1959 in Yokohama) is a Japanese mathematician at Tsinghua University, best known for the Fukaya category and winner of the 2025 Shaw Prize.
Kenji Hata
Kenji Hata (畠賢治) is a Japanese materials scientist at Japan's AIST in Tsukuba, known for super growth, a water-assisted chemical vapor deposition method for carbon nanotubes reported in 2004.
Kenji Kabashima
Kenji Kabashima (椛島 健治) is a Japanese dermatologist and immunologist, professor and chair of dermatology at Kyoto University, known for research on skin immunity and nemolizumab trials.
Kenji Kangawa
Kenji Kangawa (寒川 賢治) is a Japanese biochemist and endocrinologist known for discovering the natriuretic peptide heart hormones and ghrelin, the appetite hormone, and for winning the 2008 Japan Academy Prize.
Kenji Kasahara
Kenji Kasahara (笠原 健治), born in 1975, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded MIXI, the Tokyo company behind the mixi social network and the mobile game Monster Strike.
Kenji Kimura
Kenji Kimura (木村憲治), born 1945 in Tokyo, is a Japanese volleyball player who won silver at the 1968 Olympics and gold at the 1972 Munich Games with Matsushita Electric, and later served as JVA president from 2015 to 2017.
Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口健二)
Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口健二, 1898-1956), Japanese film director active from the silent era to 1956; known for women-centered films, Osaka Elegy, Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, and three consecutive Venice Film Festival awards.
Kenji Nakagami
Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, 1946–1992) was a Japanese novelist from Shingu, Wakayama, who won the 1976 Akutagawa Prize for Misaki, the first winner born after World War II.
Kenji Nishioka
Kenji Manangan Nishioka (西冈健二), born 2001 in Quezon City, is a Filipino attacking midfielder. Edo All United and Manila Digger (2025/26 PFL champion, 14 league goals), then Isenmulang Kalteng; Philippines international from 2026.
Kenji Ogiwara
Kenji Ogiwara (荻原健司), born 1969 in Kusatsu, Japan, is a former nordic combined skier, two-time Olympic team gold medalist (1992, 1994), four-time world champion, and three-time World Cup overall winner (1993–1995) with 19 wins; later a Japanese lawmaker.
Kenji Ozawa
Kenji Ozawa (小沢健二), born in 1968, is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted in 1989 with Flipper's Guitar, then scored 1990s solo hits mixing hip-hop and soul into pop.
Kenji Sawada
Kenji Sawada (沢田研二), nicknamed "Julie" and called "the Japanese David Bowie," is a Japanese singer and actor born 1948 who fronted The Tigers, then sold 12.41 million solo singles.
Kenji Shibuya
Kenji Shibuya (渋谷 健司) is a Japanese physician and global health policy researcher, known for the 2011 Lancet paper on what made Japan's population healthy.