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Kenneth Tobey
Kenneth Tobey (1917-2002), American character actor of nearly 100 films and seven decades; best known as Captain Patrick Hendry in The Thing from Another World (1951) and star of the TV series Whirlybirds.
Kenneth Train
Kenneth Train is an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for the mixed logit model and his textbook Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation.
Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927–1980) was an English theater critic and writer, the National Theatre's first literary manager, celebrated for championing John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Kenneth V. Thimann
Kenneth V. Thimann (1904–1997) was an English-born American plant physiologist who isolated the plant hormone auxin and identified it as indole-3-acetic acid, winning the 1982 Balzan Prize.
Kenneth W. Bruland
Kenneth W. Bruland is an American chemical oceanographer at UC Santa Cruz known for clean trace-metal sampling techniques and work showing iron limits phytoplankton growth.
Kenneth W. Hamming
Kenneth W. Hamming (1918–2005) was an American power plant engineer who led the Chicago design firm Sargent & Lundy and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler is an American molecular geneticist at Johns Hopkins whose laboratory identified the APC gene, invented SAGE and digital PCR, and helped establish liquid biopsies.
Kenneth W. Mahaffey
Kenneth W. Mahaffey is an American cardiologist and clinical trials researcher who directs the Stanford Center for Clinical Research and is a Stanford associate dean.
Kenneth W. Warren
Kenneth W. Warren (1911–2001) was an American surgeon specializing in pancreas, liver, and biliary tract surgery who spent his career at the Lahey Clinic in Boston.
Kenneth Wachter
Kenneth W. (Ken) Wachter is an American mathematical demographer and statistician at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering demographic microsimulation and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Kenneth Walker III (running back)
Kenneth Walker III, born 2000, NFL running back; Wake Forest and Michigan State, 2021 Doak Walker Award; Seahawks 2022 second-round pick (41st), Super Bowl LX MVP, now Kansas City Chiefs.
Kenneth Walsh (molecular biologist)
Kenneth Walsh is an American molecular biologist known for showing that adiponectin protects the heart, and now leads the Hematovascular Biology Center at the University of Virginia.
Kenneth Watson (physicist)
Kenneth Marshall Watson (1921–2023) was an American theoretical physicist, a UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, known for scattering theory.
Kenneth Welsh
Kenneth Welsh (Kenneth Clifford Welsh), Canadian stage, film, and TV actor (1942–2022), trained at the National Theatre School, played Hamlet at Stratford, and was best known as villain Windom Earle in Twin Peaks; Gemini and Genie winner, Member of the Order of Canada.
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), English comic actor and diarist; star of over twenty Carry On films and radio's Round the Horne and Just a Minute; famous for camp voice, diaries, and 1988 barbiturate overdose.
Kenneth Zaret
Kenneth S. Zaret is an American developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for discovering pioneer transcription factors and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Kenneth Μ. Moser
Kenneth M. Moser (1928–1997) was an American pulmonary physician who founded and led the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UCSD from 1968 to 1997.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania: Chester County borough of about 6,000, the Mushroom Capital of the World, where surrounding farms grow over 60% of U.S. mushrooms since William Swayne's 1880s greenhouse experiment.
Kennett, California
Kennett, California (Wintu: Munuktsiraw) was a copper and gold mining boomtown in Shasta County, disincorporated in 1931 and submerged about 400 feet under Shasta Lake by 1944 after Shasta Dam's construction.
Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man, the Ancient One to five Columbia Plateau tribes, is a roughly 8,500-year-old adult male skeleton found in 1996 in the Columbia River, Washington. His 2015 genome showed Native American ancestry, closest to the Colville, leading to NAGPRA repatriation and reburial in 2017.
Kennewick, Washington
Kennewick, Washington: largest of the Tri-Cities, on the Columbia River in Benton County. Incorporated 1904; 2020 population 83,921; retail hub; site of the 9,200-year-old Kennewick Man find.
Kenney Jones
Kenney Jones (born 1948, Stepney, London) is an English rock drummer, founding member of Small Faces, drummer with Faces and the Who (1978-1989), later the Law and the Jones Gang.
Kenning
Kenning (Old Norse kenningar): metaphorical two-term compound substituting for a noun in Old Norse and Old English poetry, e.g. whale-road for the sea; base word plus determinant, riddle-like, richest in skaldic verse and Beowulf.
Kennington
Kennington is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth, south London, formerly a royal manor of the Duchy of Cornwall. Known for Kennington Common, the 1848 Chartist rally, Kennington Park, the Oval cricket ground, the Imperial War Museum, and the Northern line branch split.
Kenny Albert
Kenny Albert is an American sportscaster, the son of Marv Albert, who calls NFL and MLB games for Fox and leads NHL play-by-play on TNT.
Kenny Anderson (basketball)
Kenny Anderson (born 1970) is an American former NBA point guard, 1991 draft's No. 2 pick by the New Jersey Nets, 1994 All-Star, 14 seasons, career 12.6 points and 6.1 assists per game.
Kenny Aronoff
Kenny Aronoff (born 1953, Albany, New York) is an American rock drummer, Mellencamp's drummer 1980-1996 and a top session player on 300 million records sold, including "Jack & Diane."
Kenny Atkinson
Kenny Atkinson, or Kenneth Neil Atkinson, is an American basketball coach who leads the Cleveland Cavaliers and won the 2024-25 NBA Coach of the Year Award.
Kenny Baker (English actor)
Kenny Baker (Kenneth George Baker, 1934–2016), English actor 3 ft 8 in tall, played R2-D2 inside the costume in six Star Wars films from 1977 and Paploo the Ewok; also appeared in Time Bandits, The Elephant Man, and Willow; distinct from the 1921–1999 British jazz trumpeter of the same name.
Kenny Beats
Kenny Beats, stage name of Kenneth Charles Blume III, is an American record producer from Greenwich, Connecticut, known for collaborations with Denzel Curry and Rico Nasty.