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Kenny McCormick

Kenny McCormick, also known as Kenneth McCormick, is a fictional character in South Park who died in nearly every episode of its first five seasons.

Kenny Miller

Kenny Miller (Kenneth Miller, born 1979, Edinburgh) is a Scottish former striker and current coach who played for Hibernian, Rangers (three spells, 301 apps, 116 goals), Celtic, Wolves, Derby, Bursaspor, Cardiff and Vancouver Whitecaps, earning 69 Scotland caps with 18 goals, retiring at 40 in 2020.

Kenny Minchey

Kenny Minchey, American college football quarterback from Hendersonville, Tennessee; Pope John Paul II prep star, 2023 Notre Dame signee and CJ Carr's 2025 backup, who transferred to Kentucky under Will Stein in January 2026.

Kenny Monday

Kenny Monday (Kenneth Dale Monday, born 1961), American freestyle wrestler from Tulsa, Oklahoma; 1988 Olympic 74 kg gold medalist, first Black Olympic wrestling champion, 1989 World champion, 1992 Olympic silver, Morgan State head coach.

Kenny Ogungbe

Kenny Ogungbe, often called Keke, is a Nigerian broadcaster and record label executive who co-founded Kennis Music, credited with building modern Nigerian pop, and rose through DAAR Communications.

Kenny Omega

Kenny Omega (Tyson Smith) is a Canadian professional wrestler from Winnipeg, an AEW executive vice president and former AEW World Champion, formerly of DDT and New Japan, winner of the 2016 G1 Climax and first AEW Triple Crown champion.

Kenny Ortega

Kenny Ortega (Kenneth John Ortega, born 1950) is an American director, choreographer, and producer known for Dirty Dancing choreography, the High School Musical and Descendants Disney franchises, Newsies, Hocus Pocus, Michael Jackson's tours, Olympic ceremonies, and his 2019 Disney Legends induction.

Kenny Pickett

Kenny Pickett, NFL quarterback, Pitt star who set ACC records with 42 TD passes in 2021, drafted 20th overall by Pittsburgh in 2022; later Eagles, Raiders, Browns, Panthers.

Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers (Kenneth Ray Rogers, 1938–2020), American country-pop singer and actor, First Edition frontman, 24 country No. 1s, 120 million records, Country Music Hall of Fame 2013, "The Gambler."

Kenny Rogers Roasters

Kenny Rogers Roasters (KRR) is a rotisserie-chicken casual dining chain founded in 1991 by singer Kenny Rogers and former Kentucky governor John Y. Brown Jr. in Coral Springs, Florida; now Berjaya-owned and operating mainly in Asia and the Middle East.

Kenny Rollins

Kenny Rollins (Kenneth Herman Rollins, 1923-2012), American guard, 1948 Olympic basketball gold medalist and captain of Kentucky's 1948 NCAA champion Fabulous Five; later played for the Chicago Stags and Boston Celtics.

Kenny Sansom

Kenny Sansom (Kenneth Graham Sansom, born 1958) is an English former left-back, 86-cap England international 1979–1988, Crystal Palace and Arsenal (394 apps, 1987 League Cup), later diagnosed with dementia.

Kenny Smith

Kenny "The Jet" Smith (b. 1965, Queens), also called Kenneth Smith: retired NBA point guard, 1987 sixth pick, two Houston Rockets championships (1994, 1995), and longtime Inside the NBA analyst, now on ESPN and ABC.

Kenny Sol

Kenny Sol, born Rusanganwa Norbert, is a Rwandan Afrobeats and R&B singer and producer based in Kigali who rose from the boy band Yemba Voice to a solo career.

Kenny Stills

Kenny Stills, American NFL wide receiver (2013-2021) for the Saints, Dolphins, Texans, and Bills; 316 catches, 4,911 yards, 38 TDs; known for kneeling anthem protests and social justice activism.

Kenny Tete

Kenny Tete (Kenny Joelle Tete, born 1995, Amsterdam) is a Dutch right-back for Fulham FC, formerly of Ajax and Lyon; 2017 Europa League finalist, 2021-22 Championship winner, Netherlands international.

Kenny Vaccaro

Kenny Vaccaro, born 1991 in Brownwood, Texas, is a former NFL safety from the University of Texas; drafted 15th overall in 2013 by the Saints, later Titans, retired after eight seasons for esports.

Kenny vs. Spenny

Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian reality-comedy competition series starring Toronto friends Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, airing 2003-2010 on CBC, Showcase, and Comedy Central, in which each episode's loser performs a humiliation chosen by the winner.

Kenny Wallace

Kenny Wallace (Kenneth Lee Wallace, born 1963) is a retired American NASCAR driver and FS1 broadcaster from Arnold, Missouri; youngest Wallace brother, 904 national series starts, 9 Xfinity wins, no Cup wins.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American blues-rock guitarist whose 1995 debut Ledbetter Heights went platinum and whose band has six Grammy nominations.

Kenny Wormald

Kenny Wormald, full name Kenneth Edgar Wormald, is an American dancer and actor born in 1984, best known for playing Ren McCormack in the 2011 remake of Footloose.

Kenny-Caffey syndrome

Kenny-Caffey syndrome (KCS, Kenny syndrome) is a rare inherited bone dysplasia with short stature, medullary stenosis, and hypoparathyroid hypocalcemia; dominant FAM111A (type 2) and recessive TBCE (type 1) forms.

Kennyo Kōsa

Kennyo Kōsa (顕如光佐, 1543–1592) was a Jōdo Shinshū monk and the eleventh head of the Honganji school, who led its ten-year armed resistance against Oda Nobunaga in the Ishiyama War from Ōsaka.

Kennywood

Kennywood is a historic amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, founded in 1898 as a trolley park, a National Historic Landmark since 1987, known for the Jack Rabbit, Thunderbolt, Phantom's Revenge, and Steel Curtain coasters.

Keno

Keno is a lottery-style gambling game: players pick 1-10 or more spots from 80 numbers, 20 are drawn, and a paytable pays catches. Casino keno keeps 20-40 percent; lottery keno draws every few minutes.

Kenojuak Ashevak

Kenojuak Ashevak (ᑭᓄᐊᔪᐊ ᐊᓯᕙ; 1927–2013) was an Inuit artist from Kinngait, Nunavut, celebrated for prints of birds and spirit figures; her 1960 print The Enchanted Owl became one of Canada's most recognizable artworks.

Kenon Holdings Ltd

Kenon Holdings Ltd is a Singapore-incorporated holding company, listed in New York and Tel Aviv, whose primary asset is an approximately 46% stake in power producer OPC Energy.

Kenong Xu

Kenong Xu is a plant genomicist and Associate Professor at Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, who won a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for his work on apple fruit acidity genomics.

Kenorland

Kenorland is a hypothesized Neoarchean supercontinent, proposed in 1991, that joined North American cratons with Baltica and possibly Siberia before breaking up around 2.45 Ga.

Kenosha County

Kenosha County, Wisconsin: the state's southeasternmost county, created January 30, 1850 from Racine County; county seat Kenosha (formerly Southport); 2020 population 169,151, eighth of 72 Wisconsin counties; led by County Executive Samantha Kerkman and a 23-member board.