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Kenneth MacAlpin
Kenneth MacAlpin (Gaelic: Cináed mac Ailpín), remembered as Kenneth I, was king of Dál Riata and then the Picts, ruling until his death in 858.
Kenneth MacDonald (English actor)
Kenneth MacDonald (1950–2001), Manchester-born English character actor, played Gunner Nobby Clark in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and pub landlord Mike Fisher in Only Fools and Horses; died of a heart attack in Hawaii. Distinct from the American namesake (1901–1972).
Kenneth Mars
Kenneth Mars (1935-2011), American character actor and comedian; Franz Liebkind in The Producers and Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein; voice of King Triton and Grandpa Longneck.
Kenneth Martin O'Hara
Kenneth Martin O'Hara is an American experimental atomic physicist, formerly Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, known for ultracold fermionic lithium-6 gases, Efimov physics, and a 2005 PECASE award.
Kenneth Mather
Kenneth Mather (1911–1990) was a British geneticist who founded the Birmingham school of biometrical genetics, coined the term polygene, and became the University of Birmingham's first professor of genetics in 1948.
Kenneth McDuff
Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Broomstick Killer, was a Texas serial killer sentenced to death for a 1966 triple murder, commuted, paroled in 1989 amid prison overcrowding, murdered more women, and was executed in 1998.
Kenneth McGriff
Kenneth 'Supreme' McGriff, Queens drug kingpin and founder of the Supreme Team gang based at the Baisley Park Houses; convicted in 2007 of racketeering, two murder-for-hire killings, and narcotics trafficking, sentenced to life without parole.
Kenneth McIntosh (pediatric virologist)
Kenneth McIntosh is an American pediatric virologist and infectious-disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard, known for early HIV diagnosis in infants and childhood pneumonia.
Kenneth McK. Eldred
Kenneth McKechnie Eldred (1929–2012) was an American engineer known for noise and vibration control in aircraft, ships, and rockets, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Kenneth McKay
Kenneth Gardiner McKay (1917–2010) was a Canadian-born physicist and Bell Labs executive known for his research on avalanche breakdown in silicon and germanium, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
Kenneth McMillan (actor)
Kenneth McMillan (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 1989), American character actor from Brooklyn; Gimbels manager turned Broadway and screen player; memorable as the Dune Baron Harkonnen; distinct from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan.
Kenneth Mees
Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1882–1960) was a British-born photographic scientist who founded and directed the Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York, from 1912 until his retirement in 1955.
Kenneth Millett
Kenneth Millett is an American mathematician and emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara, co-discoverer of the 1985 HOMFLY knot polynomial and developer of the average crossing number.
Kenneth Mitchell (actor)
Kenneth Mitchell (1974–2024), Canadian actor; played Klingons Kol, Kol-Sha, and Tenavik plus Aurellio on Star Trek: Discovery, Eric Green on Jericho, and Joseph Danvers in Captain Marvel; died of ALS at 49.
Kenneth Mopper
Kenneth Mopper, also published as K. Mopper, is a marine and analytical environmental chemist at Old Dominion University whose 1991 Nature paper helped establish marine photochemistry.
Kenneth More
Kenneth More (Kenneth Gilbert More, 1914-1982), English film and stage actor, CBE, Britain's biggest 1950s movie star: Genevieve, Doctor in the House, Reach for the Sky, A Night to Remember, later The Forsyte Saga and Father Brown.
Kenneth Murphy
Kenneth M. Murphy is an American immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Kenneth Murray (molecular biologist)
Sir Kenneth Murray (1930–2013) was a British molecular biologist at the University of Edinburgh who developed the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine, co-founded Biogen, and gave away his vaccine royalties.
Kenneth N. Han
Kenneth N. Han is a hydrometallurgist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology who won the 2002 AIME Robert H. Richards Award.
Kenneth N. Raymond
Kenneth N. Raymond, born 1942 in Astoria, Oregon, is an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley known for siderophore iron transport, plutonium sequestering agents, and MRI contrast agents.
Kenneth N. Stevens
Kenneth N. Stevens (1924-2013), MIT Clarence J. LeBel Professor Emeritus of EECS, originator of the quantal theory of speech, author of Acoustic Phonetics, and 1999 National Medal of Science laureate.
Kenneth N. Timmis
Kenneth Nigel Timmis, born in 1946, is a British molecular microbiologist known for plasmid biology and engineered pollutant-degrading bacteria, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.
Kenneth Nichols
Kenneth David Nichols was a US Army major general and civil engineer who, as Manhattan Project district engineer under General Leslie Groves, built the plants producing the first atomic bombs.
Kenneth Noye
Kenneth Noye (born 1947), English criminal and gold fence in the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery; acquitted of killing DC John Fordham in 1985, jailed for handling the gold, and convicted in 2000 of murdering Stephen Cameron on the M25; released 2019.
Kenneth O. Emery
Kenneth O. Emery (1914–1998) was an American marine geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for mapping continental margins and showing that relative sea-level change varies by location.
Kenneth O'Donnell
Kenneth P. O'Donnell (1924-1977), American political aide; Harvard football teammate of Robert F. Kennedy; JFK's appointment secretary and gatekeeper, ExCom member during the Cuban missile crisis, manager of RFK's 1968 campaign.
Kenneth Offit
Kenneth Offit is an American medical oncologist and cancer geneticist who leads clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan Kettering and identified the most common Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA founder mutation.
Kenneth Olden
Kenneth Olden, born 1938 in Parrottsville, Tennessee, is an American cell biologist known for fibronectin research and for directing the NIEHS from 1991 to 2005.
Kenneth Paigen
Kenneth Paigen (1927-2020) was an American geneticist known for studying developmental gene regulation in mice and for directing The Jackson Laboratory in Maine from 1989 to 2003.
Kenneth Parcell
Kenneth Ellen Parcell, also Kenneth the Page, is the fictional NBC page played by Jack McBrayer on 30 Rock (2006–2013); a running joke, confirmed in the 2090 finale flash-forward, presents him as immortal and later NBC president.