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Kenson Ventures; founder of Clontech Laboratories
Kenson Ventures is a Palo Alto, California venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Kenneth S. Fong, the biochemist who built Clontech Laboratories and sold it to Becton Dickinson.
Kensuke Hirata
Kensuke Hirata is a Japanese physicist at the University of Tokyo who was first author of Kamiokande-II's landmark papers on the 1987 supernova neutrino burst and solar neutrinos.
Kensuke Kondoh
Kensuke Kondoh (近藤健介, born 1993), also romanized Kondo, Japanese NPB outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and formerly the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters; Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist and 2023, 2026 World Baseball Classic Japan selection.
Kensuke Sasaki (佐々木健介)
Kensuke Sasaki (佐々木健介, born 1966) is a Japanese retired pro wrestler; first man to hold the IWGP, Triple Crown, and GHC heavyweight titles, 7-time world champion, retired February 2014 after losing to Katsuhiko Nakajima.
Kensuke Ushio
Kensuke Ushio (牛尾憲輔), born in Tokyo in 1983, is a Japanese composer and electronic musician who records solo as agraph and scored A Silent Voice and Chainsaw Man.
Kent
Kent: county in extreme south-east England, bordering London, Surrey and East Sussex, with Medway unitary authority inside its bounds. Largest non-metropolitan local authority area; 2024 population 1,639,000; four unitary councils planned from 2028.
Kent (cigarette)
Kent is a cigarette brand launched by P. Lorillard in March 1952, named for president Herbert A. Kent. Its original Micronite filter (1952 to about 1956-57) contained crocidolite asbestos; the brand is now a BAT global brand.
Kent A. Sepkowitz
Kent A. Sepkowitz, also known as Kent Sepkowitz, is an American infectious diseases physician who spent nearly four decades at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Kent Bazemore
Kent Bazemore (born 1989) is an American guard-forward, undrafted from Old Dominion in 2012, who played 10 NBA seasons for the Warriors, Lakers, Hawks, Trail Blazers, and Kings, averaging 8.2 points per game.
Kent Beck
Kent Beck, born 1961, is an American software engineer, author, and consultant known for rediscovering test-driven development, founding extreme programming, co-creating JUnit, and signing the Agile Manifesto.
Kent Bennett
Kent Bennett is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in Boston who invests in B2B software and consumer companies, best known for backing Toast and Blue Apron.
Kent Bernard
Kent Bernard (Kent Bede Bernard, 1942-2025), Trinidadian 400m sprinter, Tokyo 1964 Olympic 4x400m relay bronze medallist, 1966 Commonwealth 4x440y relay gold and 440y silver medallist, Hummingbird Gold Medal recipient.
Kent Berridge
Kent Berridge is a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, known for distinguishing reward "wanting" from "liking" in the brain and for the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction.
Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad, Democratic U.S. senator from North Dakota 1987-2013, former state tax commissioner and long-time Budget Committee chairman; architect of Conrad-Gregg fiscal task force and Bowles-Simpson commissioner.
Kent County, Delaware, United States
Kent County, Delaware: central of Delaware's three counties, county seat Dover (state capital), founded 1680 as St. Jones County, renamed Kent 1682; 181,851 residents in 2020, Levy Court government, agriculture and Dover AFB economy.
Kent County, Michigan, United States
Kent County, Michigan: West Michigan county with county seat Grand Rapids, organized 1831 and named for Chancellor James Kent. Fourth most populous Michigan county, 675,232 residents (2025 estimate), 21 townships, AAA credit rating.
Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
Kent County, Rhode Island: central-county created 1750 from Providence County; seat East Greenwich; largest city Warwick; five towns; 170,363 people (2020), 2nd of 5 RI counties; FIPS 44003.
Kent F. Hansen
Kent F. Hansen is an American nuclear engineer, professor of nuclear engineering at MIT, known for reactor kinetics methods and a system dynamics model of the Hanford waste cleanup.
Kent Ford (astronomer)
W. Kent Ford Jr. (April 8, 1931 – June 18, 2023) was an American astronomer and instrumentalist at Carnegie's DTM whose image-tube spectrograph enabled Vera Rubin's evidence for dark matter.
Kent Hovind
Kent Hovind, known as Dr. Dino, is an American young-Earth creationist evangelist who founded Creation Science Evangelism and was convicted of federal tax charges in 2006.
Kent Hrbek
Kent Hrbek, born 1960, Minneapolis, is a former Twins first baseman (1981-1994), 293 career home runs, two World Series titles (1987, 1991), number 14 retired by Minnesota; not in Cooperstown.
Kent J. Dawson
Kent J. Dawson, born in 1944 in Ogden, Utah, is a senior United States district judge of the District of Nevada, appointed by President Clinton in 2000.
Kent Lewandrowski
Kent Lewandrowski is an American clinical pathologist, Associate Chief for Laboratory and Molecular Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard professor, known for point-of-care testing research.
Kent McCord
Kent McCord (born Kent Franklin McWhirter, 1942) is an American actor known as Officer Jim Reed on Adam-12 (1968–1975) with Martin Milner; later Galactica 1980, Predator 2, Farscape; SAG first Vice President and 1999 Ralph Morgan Award recipient.
Kent Mitchell
Kent Mitchell (Henry Kent Mitchell II, born 1939) is an American coxswain who won coxed-pairs bronze at Rome 1960 and gold at Tokyo 1964 with Conn Findlay, plus two national titles; later a rowing administrator, Hall of Fame inductee, and attorney.
Kent Monkman
Kent Monkman is a Cree artist born in 1965, known for large-scale paintings that reframe colonialism and Indigenous experience, often through his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Kent Rock
Kent Rock is a small island (49 m elevation) off the south western shore of Cape Barren Island, Furneaux area, Tasmania, Australia; a navigation channel beside it leads to a recognised anchorage, and it appears on chart Aus 798.
Kent School
Kent School (Kent, Connecticut) is an independent Episcopal college-preparatory boarding and day school founded in 1906 by Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill; 520 students in grades 9-12 plus PG, motto Simplicity of Life, Directness of Purpose, Self-Reliance. Distinct from Kent Denver School, Kent School Maryland, and Duke of Kent School.
Kent Smith
Kent Smith is an American Democratic politician who has represented Ohio's 21st Senate District since 2023 and serves as Senate Democratic Whip, after four terms in the Ohio House.
Kent State Golden Flashes football
Kent State Golden Flashes football: Kent State University's NCAA Division I FBS team in the Mid-American Conference, founded 1920, playing at Dix Stadium (opened 1969, 25,319 seats), MAC champions in 1972, alma mater program of Nick Saban, Jack Lambert, and Julian Edelman.