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Kenneth Bryan Raper
Kenneth Bryan Raper (1908–1987) was an American mycologist who named and pioneered the study of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum and led USDA penicillin production research during World War II.
Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Duva Burke (1897–1993), American literary theorist and critic of Pittsburgh birth and Andover, NJ residence; founder of dramatism and the pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, purpose), author of A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives.
Kenneth C. Anderson (hematologist-oncologist)
Kenneth C. Anderson is an American hematologist-oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose work helped extend multiple myeloma survival from about 3 to over 7 years.
Kenneth C. Gorson
Kenneth C. Gorson is an American neurologist and neuromuscular specialist, Professor of Neurology at Tufts, known for New England Journal of Medicine reviews on paraproteinemic neuropathies and concussion.
Kenneth C. Griffin
Kenneth C. Griffin is an American investor who founded the Miami-based hedge fund Citadel in 1990 and co-founded Citadel Securities in 2002, leading both firms as chief executive.
Kenneth C. Kulander
Kenneth C. Kulander was an American computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who pioneered numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for atoms in intense laser fields.
Kenneth C. Slatton
Kenneth Clinton "Clint" Slatton (1970–2009) was an American engineer at the University of Florida who worked on lidar and radar remote sensing and won a PECASE award.
Kenneth Carey
Kenneth Anton Carey (1893-1981), American sailor and California Yacht Club member; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympics 8 metre class gold aboard Angelita after finishing second in trials; Berkeley law graduate.
Kenneth Carl Anderson
Kenneth Carl Anderson is an American hematologist-oncologist and multiple myeloma researcher who directs the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber and led preclinical work on bortezomib, FDA-approved in 2003.
Kenneth Carslaw
Kenneth Carslaw is a British atmospheric scientist, Professor at the University of Leeds, known for the GLOMAP global aerosol model and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.
Kenneth Case
Kenneth Case (1923–2006) was an American theoretical physicist known for work in neutron transport theory and plasma physics, and for wartime service on the Manhattan Project.
Kenneth Casner
Kenneth Casner is an American politician, a veteran from Elk Mountain, Wyoming, and the Democratic nominee for governor in 2026, his third bid for the office.
Kenneth Charles Hall
Kenneth Charles Hall is an American aerospace engineer at Duke University known for the harmonic balance method and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Chenault, also known as Ken Chenault, is an American business executive who was chairman and CEO of American Express from 2001 to 2018, then joined General Catalyst.
Kenneth Choi
Kenneth Choi (born 1971) is an American character actor from Chicago; known for Henry Lin on Sons of Anarchy, Jim Morita in Captain America, Judge Lance Ito in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and Chimney on 9-1-1.
Kenneth Claiborne Royall
Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1894-1971), North Carolina lawyer and brigadier general, was the last U.S. Secretary of War (July 1947) and first Secretary of the Army (1947-1949), known for defending the 1942 German saboteurs.
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), Baron Clark of Saltwood, British art historian, youngest Director of the National Gallery (1934–45), and presenter of the 1969 BBC series Civilisation; author of The Nude and Landscape into Art.
Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Clarke, also known as Ken Clarke, is a British Conservative politician who served as MP for Rushcliffe from 1970 to 2019 and held three great offices of state.
Kenneth Cole (designer)
Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer and activist, founded Kenneth Cole Productions in 1982 via a borrowed trailer truck, pioneered cause-related advertising on AIDS and homelessness, chairs amfAR, and owns the private brand.
Kenneth Connor
Kenneth Connor was a British stage, film, radio, and television actor, known for appearing in 17 of the original 30 Carry On films and as Monsieur Alfonse in 'Allo 'Allo.
Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Charles Cope (1931-2024), English actor and scriptwriter; played ghost detective Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Jed Stone in Coronation Street, and Ray Hilton in Brookside.
Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Copeland, also known as Ken Copeland, is an American televangelist who founded Kenneth Copeland Ministries in 1967 and leads the Word of Faith prosperity gospel movement.
Kenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham (born 1944, Dunfermline, Scotland) is a Scottish actor trained at RADA and the National Youth Theatre. Known for Shine on Harvey Moon, An Inspector Calls, Rome's Pompey, and the 2016 Olivier-winning The Father.
Kenneth Creer
Kenneth Creer (1925–2020) was a British geophysicist who pioneered palaeomagnetism, compiling the first apparent polar wander path in 1954, the first physical test of continental drift.
Kenneth Cusi
Kenneth Cusi is an Argentina-trained physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Florida, known for establishing the diabetes drug pioglitazone as a treatment for NASH.
Kenneth D. Bell, Sr.
Kenneth D. Bell, Sr., also known as Kenneth Davis Bell, Sr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in North Carolina since 2019.
Kenneth D. Bloch
Kenneth D. Bloch (1956–2014) was an American physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for research on atrial natriuretic peptide, nitric oxide, and BMP signaling.
Kenneth D. Irvine
Kenneth D. Irvine is a cell and developmental biologist at Rutgers University known for identifying the Fringe signaling molecule and for linking cytoskeletal tension to Hippo signaling.
Kenneth D. Jordan
Kenneth D. Jordan, also published as K. D. Jordan, is an American theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Pittsburgh known for work on water clusters and temporary anions.
Kenneth D. Karlin
Kenneth D. Karlin is an American bioinorganic chemist, the Ira Remsen Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for synthetic models of copper and heme-copper oxygen-processing proteins.