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Kenneth D. Mandl
Kenneth D. Mandl is an American pediatrician and biomedical informatician who directs CHIP at Boston Children's Hospital, holds a Harvard professorship, and won a PECASE award for automated biosurveillance.
Kenneth D. Roeder
Kenneth D. Roeder (1908–1979) was an English-born insect physiologist at Tufts University, a founding figure of American insect physiology and a pioneer of neuroethology, best known for showing how noctuid moths hear bats.
Kenneth D. Tartof
Kenneth D. Tartof is a molecular geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia known for Drosophila work on ribosomal RNA genes, position-effect variegation, and trans-sensing effects.
Kenneth D. Taylor
Kenneth D. Taylor (1934–2015), Canadian ambassador to Iran 1977–1980, sheltered six escaped American diplomats for 79 days during the 1979 hostage crisis and exfiltrated them on Canadian passports in the Canadian Caper, later consul-general in New York and Nabisco executive.
Kenneth D. West
Kenneth D. West, born in 1953, is an American econometrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for the Newey-West estimator and for work on forecast evaluation and asset prices.
Kenneth David Mandl
Kenneth David Mandl is an American pediatrician and biomedical informatician who directs the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital and is known as the architect of SMART on FHIR.
Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth E. Boulding (Kenneth Ewart Boulding, 1910–1993) was an English-born economist and social scientist who worked in economics, general systems theory, and peace research, teaching at Michigan and Colorado Boulder.
Kenneth E. Hagin
Kenneth E. Hagin (1917–2003) was an American Pentecostal preacher known as the father of the Word of Faith movement and founder of Rhema Bible Training Center.
Kenneth E. Haughton
Kenneth E. Haughton is an American mechanical engineer who led IBM's Winchester disk drive program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (1920–2004) was a Canadian computer scientist who created the APL programming language, later its successor J, and won the 1979 ACM Turing Award.
Kenneth E. Sherman
Kenneth E. Sherman is an American hepatologist and Gould Professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, first author of the 2011 ILLUMINATE telaprevir trial for hepatitis C.
Kenneth E. Stinson
Kenneth E. Stinson is an American civil engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led the Omaha construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. as chairman and CEO.
Kenneth E. Warner
Kenneth E. Warner is an American health economist at the University of Michigan, a leading scholar of tobacco control elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1996.
Kenneth E.L. McColl
Kenneth E.L. McColl, also known as Kenneth E. McColl, is a Scottish gastroenterologist at the University of Glasgow known for research on Helicobacter pylori infection and peptic ulcer disease.
Kenneth Eugene Martin
Kenneth Eugene Martin is an American electric power engineer at Electric Power Group in Pasadena, California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Kenneth F. Holtby
Kenneth F. Holtby (c. 1922–2013) was an American aeronautical engineer at Boeing who helped design the 747, led the 747, 757, and 767 programs, and retired in 1987.
Kenneth F. Maxcy
Kenneth F. Maxcy (1889–1966) was an American epidemiologist who showed that the mild typhus of the southeastern United States was flea-borne murine typhus, carried by rats.
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., known as Frank McKenzie, is a retired four-star Marine general who commanded U.S. Central Command from 2019 to 2022, overseeing the Soleimani strike and the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
Kenneth F. Reinschmidt
Kenneth F. Reinschmidt (1938–2018) was an American civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991, who worked at MIT, Stone & Webster, and Texas A&M University.
Kenneth F. Ripple
Kenneth F. Ripple, also known as Kenneth Francis Ripple, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Kenneth F. Schulz
Kenneth F. Schulz is an epidemiologist and clinical-trials methodologist, Distinguished Scientist at FHI 360 in Durham, North Carolina, and first author of the CONSORT 2010 reporting guidelines for randomized trials.
Kenneth Faried
Kenneth Faried, "The Manimal", American forward-center from Newark and Morehead State; NCAA modern-era rebounding leader, 2011 first-round pick (22nd, Nuggets), 2014 FIBA World Cup gold medalist, later Panathinaikos and Baskonia.
Kenneth Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg, American attorney and mediator, Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (2001-2004, over $7 billion distributed), later administrator of the BP oil spill, Virginia Tech, Boston Marathon, GM, and Boeing victim funds.
Kenneth Fisher
Kenneth Lawrence Fisher, known as Ken Fisher, is an American investor born in 1950 who founded Fisher Investments in 1979, pioneered the price-to-sales ratio, and wrote Forbes's longest-running column.
Kenneth Fong
Kenneth Fong is a Chinese American molecular biologist and entrepreneur who founded Clontech Laboratories in 1984, sold it to Becton Dickinson for $200 million in 1999, and founded Kenson Ventures.
Kenneth Fuchs
Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is an American tonal composer, University of Connecticut composition professor, Juilliard-trained student of Babbitt and Diamond, and 2018 Grammy winner for Best Classical Compendium for his Naxos LSO album Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'.
Kenneth G. C. Smith
Kenneth G. C. Smith, known as Ken Smith, is an Australian clinical immunologist and nephrologist who has been the seventh Director of WEHI in Melbourne since April 2024.
Kenneth G. Caulton
Kenneth G. Caulton was an American inorganic and organometallic chemist who spent his career at Indiana University Bloomington, known for transition metal hydride chemistry and C–H and C–F bond activation.
Kenneth G. Mann
Kenneth G. Mann, born Kenneth Gerard Mann, is an American biochemist and hemostasis researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, known for the prothrombinase complex.
Kenneth G. Saag
Kenneth G. Saag is an American rheumatologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for osteoporosis trials and as the 85th President of the American College of Rheumatology.