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Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings, also called the May 4 massacre, occurred May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen fired 61-67 shots in 13 seconds at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine during anti-Vietnam War protests.
Kent State shootings photograph
The Kent State shootings photograph is a 1970 image by John Paul Filo of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over Jeffrey Miller, winning the 1971 Pulitzer Prize.
Kent State University
Kent State University, a public R1 research university in Kent, Ohio, founded 1910 as a normal school; eight-campus system of about 33,000 students, birthplace of liquid crystal display technology, site of the May 4, 1970 shootings.
Kent Steffes
Kent Steffes (born 1968, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American beach volleyball player who won the inaugural Olympic men's beach volleyball gold with Karch Kiraly at Atlanta 1996, won 110 pro tournaments, and is a 2025 International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee.
Kent Udell
Kent Udell is a retired engineering professor and groundwater remediation researcher who is the Democratic nominee for Utah's 3rd Congressional District in the 2026 U.S. House election.
Kent V. Flannery
Kent V. Flannery (born 1934) is an American archaeologist at the University of Michigan whose research covers the origins of agriculture and cultural evolution in Mesoamerica and the Near East.
Kent Williams (South Carolina politician)
Kent Williams is an American Democratic politician who has represented South Carolina Senate District 30 since 2005, after defeating a 12-year incumbent, and previously chaired the Marion County Board of Education.
Kent, Washington
Kent, Washington: Green River Valley city in King County, 6th largest in the state with 136,588 residents (2020). Aerospace hub home to Boeing and Blue Origin; incorporated 1890 after Kent County, England.
Kenta Kobashi
Kenta Kobashi (小橋建太), born 1967, Japanese retired pro wrestler; All Japan Four Pillars star, Triple Crown champion, and record 735-day GHC Heavyweight Champion in NOAH; retired May 2013.
Kenta Kobayashi
Kenta Kobayashi (小林健太), known as KENTA, Japanese pro wrestler born 1981, NOAH junior ace and GHC Heavyweight Champion, WWE's Hideo Itami, Bullet Club in NJPW, creator of Go 2 Sleep, returned to NOAH in 2025.
Kenta Maeda (前田健太)
Kenta Maeda (前田健太) is a professional Japanese starting pitcher who starred for eight seasons with Hiroshima, won the Eiji Sawamura Award twice, and spent nine seasons in MLB.
Kenta Shinohara (篠原健太)
Kenta Shinohara (篠原健太), Japanese manga artist born 1974, creator of Sket Dance, Astra Lost in Space (Manga Taishō 2019), and Witch Watch in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Kentaro Kawabe
Kentaro Kawabe (川邊健太郎) is a Japanese internet executive who was chief executive of Yahoo Japan from 2018 and chaired LY Corporation, operator of LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN.
Kentaro Miura (三浦建太郎)
Kentaro Miura (三浦建太郎, 1966–2021) was the Japanese manga artist who created the dark fantasy Berserk, serialized from 1989. Died of acute aortic dissection; series continues under Kouji Mori and Studio Gaga.
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi (山口 健太郎, born 1953) is a Japanese chemist and mass spectrometrist known for developing cold-spray ionization mass spectrometry, and a professor at Tokushima Bunri University since 2004.
Kentaro Yano (mathematician)
Kentaro Yano (1912–1993) was a Japanese differential geometer who spent his career at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and is known for Lie derivatives, concircular geometry, and the Bochner–Yano rigidity theorems.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (KCP), born 1993, is an American NBA shooting guard, 2013 eighth overall pick, two-time champion (Lakers 2020, Nuggets 2023), now with the Philadelphia 76ers after a Grizzlies buyout.
Kente cloth
Kente (also African Kente cloth) is the hand-woven strip cloth of the Asante and Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, woven on horizontal looms from silk, cotton or rayon, once reserved for royalty, and inscribed by UNESCO in December 2024.
Kentigern
Kentigern, also known as Mungo, is a sixth-century British bishop remembered as the founder and patron of the See of Glasgow, with his feast kept on 13 January.
Kentik Technologies, Inc.
Kentik Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based network observability company that analyzes network telemetry for enterprises and service providers; founded in 2014, it was acquired by Infoblox in 2026.
Kentin Mahe
Kentin Mahé (Kentin Alain Pierre-Marie Mahé), French handball centre back and left wing born 1991 in Paris, son of 1995 world champion Pascal Mahé; world champion 2015 and 2017, European champion 2014 and 2024, Olympic gold 2021, career played only in Germany and Hungary.
Kento Jini
Kento Jini is an Indian politician, a Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Arunachal Pradesh holding law, tribal affairs, and sports portfolios, and a two-time MLA from Aalo East.
Kento Momota (桃田賢斗)
Kento Momota (桃田賢斗), Japanese left-handed men's singles badminton player, two-time world champion (2018, 2019), 121 weeks at world No. 1, record 11 titles in 2019; career marked by a 2016 casino suspension, a 2020 car crash, and 2024 retirement.
Kento Nakajima
Kento Nakajima (中島健人, born 1994) is a Japanese singer and actor who spent 2011 to 2024 in the boy group Sexy Zone before going solo.
Kento Shiogai (塩貝 陸人)
Kento Shiogai (塩貝 健人), born 2005 in Tokyo, is a Japanese striker for VfL Wolfsburg. A former NEC Nijmegen super-sub with 14 goals in 42 games, he joined Wolfsburg in January 2026 and earned his first Japan call-up in March 2026.
Kento Yamazaki (山﨑賢人)
Kento Yamazaki (山﨑賢人), born 1994 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor with Stardust Promotion known for L in Death Note, Shin in the Kingdom films, Golden Kamuy, and Netflix's Alice in Borderland; 48th Japan Academy Prize lead actor winner.
Kenton County
Kenton County, Kentucky; named for Simon Kenton; formed 1840 from Campbell County, Kentucky's third most populous county (175,779 in 2025) with two county seats, Covington and Independence, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
Kenton J. Swartz
Kenton J. Swartz is an American biophysicist who has led the Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section at NINDS, NIH, since 2003, known for work on how voltage-gated ion channels sense membrane voltage.
Kenton Rodgers
Kenton R. Rodgers is an American bioinorganic chemist and professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo, known for spectroscopic studies of heme proteins and bacterial gas-sensing proteins.
Kentucky
Kentucky, the Bluegrass State, a commonwealth admitted June 1, 1792 as the 15th state; capital Frankfort. Economy spans manufacturing, bourbon ($9 billion yearly), coal (7th nationally), and new battery plants; population about 4.6 million.