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Kenji Shimaoka
Kenji Shimaoka (嶋岡健治), born 1949 in Tokyo, is a Japanese volleyball setter who won 1968 Olympic silver and 1972 Munich gold, later JVA president 2017-2022 and FIVB board member; not the triathlete NENER Kenji.
Kenji Tanigaki (谷垣健治)
Kenji Tanigaki (谷垣健治), Japanese action director and director born 1970 in Nara, trained at the Kurata Action school, built his career in Hong Kong with Donnie Yen, directed all five Rurouni Kenshin films' action, won the 2018 Golden Horse and 2022 Hong Kong Film Awards, and directed The Furious (2026).
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe (渡邊賢司) is a Japanese physicist at NIMS in Tsukuba known for growing the high-purity hexagonal boron nitride crystals used worldwide as substrates for two-dimensional materials.
Kenjiro Tsuda (津田健次郎)
Kenjiro Tsuda (津田健次郎, born 1971) is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Osaka, debuting in 1995, famous as Seto Kaiba and Kento Nanami, 15th Seiyuu Awards male lead winner, and plaintiff in Japan's first voice-publicity-rights ruling against an AI clone.
Kenjutsu (剣術)
Kenjutsu (剣術) is classical Japanese swordsmanship, the samurai art of combat with the katana, transmitted through koryu schools via two-person kata with bokken; distinct from iai (the draw) and the historical origin of modern kendo.
Kenk Boğazı
Kenk Boğazı (Kenk Gorge) is an Euphrates cliff site in Gaziantep Province, Turkey, bearing a destroyed Neo-Assyrian rock relief and inscription of Shalmaneser III (857-856 BC) commemorating his defeat of Ahuni of Bit-Adini, distinct from the nearby Karasu relief.
KenKen (賢賢)
KenKen (賢賢), also called Calcudoku or Mathdoku, is a 3×3 to 9×9 Latin-square logic puzzle with arithmetic cages, invented in 2004 by Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto.
Kenkichi Iwasawa
Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917–1998) was a Japanese mathematician who founded Iwasawa theory, the study of class-group growth in infinite towers of number fields, and proved the Iwasawa decomposition of Lie groups.
Kenkō (Mercurian crater)
Kenkō is a 105-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 21.35°S, 16.16°E, named for Japanese writer Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1352) and approved by the IAU in 1976.
Kenley Jansen
Kenley Jansen, Curaçao-born MLB closer (born 1987, Willemstad), ex-catcher converted 2009; Dodgers saves leader (350), 2020 World Series champion, fourth all-time in saves, pitched for Dodgers, Braves, Red Sox, Angels, Tigers.
Kenli 10-1 Oil Field
Kenli 10-1 Oil Field is an offshore oil field in the southern Bohai Sea, China, operated by CNOOC with peak output of about 36,000 barrels per day from 2015.
Kenli 16-1 Oil Field
Kenli 16-1 Oil Field (垦利16-1油田) is an offshore oil field in China's southern Bohai Sea with 730 million barrels of reserves, discovered in 2014 and producing since 2021.
Kenly Kiya Kato
Kenly Kiya Kato (born 1972, Los Angeles) is a U.S. district judge for the Central District of California, confirmed November 7, 2023, after serving as a magistrate judge there since 2014; former federal public defender and solo practitioner.
Kenmochi Hidefumi
Kenmochi Hidefumi, also known as ケンモチヒデフミ, is a Japanese trackmaker, composer, and DJ born in 1981 in Saitama Prefecture who writes all the music for Wednesday Campanella.
Kenmon taisei
Kenmon taisei (権門体制) is a theory of the medieval Japanese state proposed by Kuroda Toshio in 1963, holding that court, temples and shrines, and warriors ruled jointly.
Kenmore (brand)
Kenmore is an American household appliance brand created by Sears, whose name first appeared on a 1913 sewing machine and which once accounted for 25 percent of major appliances sold in the United States.
Kenmu Nenchū Gyōji
Kenmu Nenchū Gyōji (建武年中行事) is a three-volume Japanese record of annual imperial court ceremonies, compiled by Emperor Go-Daigo around 1334 to revive lapsed court ritual.
Kenmu Restoration
The Kenmu Restoration (建武の新政) was the period of direct imperial rule in Japan from 1333 to 1336, when Emperor Go-Daigo governed after overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate.
Kenmu Shikimoku
The Kenmu Shikimoku (建武式目) is a seventeen-article political program issued by Ashikaga Takauji on 11 November 1336, widely taken as the founding moment of the Muromachi bakufu.
Kenn Gerdes
Kenn Gerdes is a Danish microbiologist and retired professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for discovering post-segregational killing and for his work on bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems and antibiotic persistence.
Kenna Harris
Kenna Harris, also credited McKenna Harris or Kenna Jean Harris (born 1994), an American Pixar filmmaker: story lead on Luca, director-writer of Ciao Alberto, story supervisor on Inside Out 2, and co-director and co-writer with Andrew Stanton of Toy Story 5 (2026). Distinct from same-named business professionals.
Kennametal
Kennametal is an American industrial technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded by metallurgist Philip M. McKenna in Latrobe in 1938, that makes tungsten carbide cutting tools and wear-resistant components.
Kennebec County
Kennebec County, Maine: central Maine county established February 20, 1799 from Lincoln County, county seat Augusta (state capital), 123,642 residents in 2020, 867.47 square miles, FIPS 23011.
Kennebunkport, Maine
Kennebunkport, Maine, a York County town (3,629 residents, 2020) on the southern coast, settled as Cape Porpoise in 1653, known for shipbuilding history, its 1976 National Register historic district, Dock Square, and the Bush family's Walker's Point compound.
Kennecott Utah Copper
Kennecott Utah Copper is a copper mining, smelting, and refining company wholly owned by Rio Tinto, centered on the Bingham Canyon Mine near Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kennecott, Alaska
Kennecott, Alaska (also Kennicott): abandoned copper-mining company town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park; mined 1901-1938, produced 591,535 short tons of copper, now a National Historic Landmark tourist site.
Kennedy (commentator)
Kennedy (Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, born 1972) is an American libertarian TV and radio commentator, former MTV VJ hosting Alternative Nation 1992-1997, and Fox Business host of Kennedy (2015-2023), now a Fox News Media contributor and podcast host.
Kennedy (upcoming TV series)
Kennedy is an upcoming eight-episode Netflix drama from Chernin Entertainment, based on Fredrik Logevall's JFK biography, starring Michael Fassbender as Joe Kennedy Sr., showrun by Sam Shaw, directed partly by Thomas Vinterberg, filming 2026, expected 2027.
Kennedy and Heidi
"Kennedy and Heidi" is the 18th episode of the sixth season of The Sopranos, first aired in 2007, in which Christopher Moltisanti dies in a car crash.
Kennedy Blades
Kennedy Alexis Blades (born 2003, Chicago) is an American freestyle wrestler, 2024 Paris Olympic silver medalist at 76 kg and 2025 world bronze medalist at 68 kg, now wrestling for Iowa.