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Kenzo Craigie
Kenzo Craigie is a British racing driver competing in Italian F4 for R-ace GP as a Mercedes junior, best known as the 2024 FIA Karting World Champion in OK Junior.
Kenzo Kitakata
Kenzo Kitakata (北方謙三, Kitakata Kenzō) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1947, who made his name in hard-boiled fiction before writing large-scale historical novels like his 13-volume Sangokushi.
Kenzo Nakamura
Kenzo Nakamura (中村兼三), Japanese judoka born 1973 in Fukuoka; Olympic gold medalist at -71 kg, Atlanta 1996, and 1997 Paris world champion; youngest of three champion brothers; later Asahi Kasei head coach.
Kenzo Shirai
Kenzo Shirai (白井健三), "Mr Twist", Japanese artistic gymnast born 1996 in Yokohama; 2016 Olympic team gold and vault bronze, three-time world floor champion (2013, 2015, 2017), and holder of six eponymous FIG skills on floor and vault.
Kenzo Suzuki
Kenzo Suzuki (鈴木健三, KENSO), Japanese wrestler born 1974, ex-rugby international; NJPW debut 2000, one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with René Duprée in 2004, later AJPW's KENSO.
Kenzuishi and Kentoshi missions to Sui and Tang
The Kenzuishi and Kentoshi (遣隋使・遣唐使) were official Japanese embassies to Sui and Tang China, sent from 600 to 894, through which Japan imported Chinese institutions, culture, and technology.
Keo Motsepe
Keo Motsepe (Keoikantse Motsepe, born 1989, Pretoria) is a South African dancer and choreographer, eight-time South African Latin champion, first South African on Burn the Floor, and Dancing with the Stars' first black professional dancer.
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), formerly Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is a 2,873 ha man-made wetland in Rajasthan, India; a Ramsar site (1981), national park (1982), and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985) hosting about 375 bird species on the Central Asian flyway.
Keolis
Keolis is a French public transport operator, 70% owned by the SNCF Group, that runs bus, tram, metro, and rail networks for public authorities in 14 countries.
Keolu Fox
Keolu Fox is a Native Hawaiian geneticist and anthropologist at UC San Diego who studies Indigenous genomics and co-founded the Native BioData Consortium, the first Indigenous-led nonprofit research institute in the United States.
Keon Jae Lee
Keon Jae Lee (이건재) is a South Korean materials scientist and Endowed Chair Professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for flexible, self-powered electronics and battery-free deep brain stimulation.
Keondre Jackson
Keondre Jackson (born 2002, Freeport, Illinois) is an NFL safety for the Baltimore Ravens, an undrafted 2025 free agent from Illinois State, an FCS All-American, and a special teams standout who blocked a 59-yard field goal.
Keone Young
Keone Young (born 1947, Honolulu) is an American character and voice actor known for Mr. Wu in Deadwood, Commander Sato in Star Wars Rebels, Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe, and Chen Stormstout in World of Warcraft.
Keōpūolani
Keōpūolani was the supreme Hawaiian chiefess and wife of Kamehameha I, who helped end the ʻai kapu in 1819 and became the first Protestant convert.
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile, or Bra Willie (1938–2018), South African poet, ANC exile activist, and National Poet Laureate; author of My Name is Afrika (1971) and recipient of the 2008 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver.
Keōua Kuahuʻula
Keōua Kuahuʻula, also written Keōua Kūʻahuʻula, was a Hawaiian high chief of Kaʻū and Puna and the principal rival of Kamehameha I, killed in 1791.
Keowee
Keowee, meaning "mulberry grove place" in Cherokee, was the principal Lower Cherokee town in South Carolina, abandoned in 1760 and flooded by Lake Keowee in 1971.
Kep1er (케플러)
Kep1er (케플러) is a South Korean girl group formed in 2021 on Mnet's Girls Planet 999, debuting January 3, 2022 with First Impact; originally nine members, it renewed its contract in 2024 as a seven-member group under WAKEONE.
Kepa Arrizabalaga
Kepa Arrizabalaga (Kepa Arrizabalaga Revuelta), Spanish goalkeeper born 1994 in Ondarroa; Athletic Club, Chelsea's world-record £71m signing 2018, loans at Real Madrid and Bournemouth, Arsenal's No 13 since 2025, Spain's 2023 Nations League winner.
Kepez İlçesi
Kepez (Kepez İlçesi) is Antalya's most populous district, north of the city center, 629,479 residents in 2024 across 68 neighborhoods, 403.76 km², industrial origins from the 1955 Dokuma factory, district status in 2008, mayor Mesut Kocagöz since 2024.
Kephisia
Kephisia (Κηφισιά, Kifisia), an affluent suburb of Athens at the foot of Mount Pentelicus; an ancient Attic deme of Erechtheis, Roman summer retreat with Herodes Atticus' villa, and a 19th-century garden-city resort linked by the 1882 Therio railway.
Kepi
Kepi (képi, from Alemannic Käppi): a light military cap with a cylindrical cloth crown, flat top, visor, and chinstrap, derived from the shako, officially adopted by France in 1861, famous in Foreign Legion white form.
Keping Xie
Keping Xie is a pancreatic cancer researcher and professor at MD Anderson in Houston, known for a 1995 iNOS gene study and establishing KLF4's role in pancreatic carcinogenesis.
Kepler (Martian crater)
Kepler is a 233-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 46.76°S, 140.9°E, an IAU-approved complex crater with mapped impact melt-rich lithologies proposed as sampling targets for future missions.
Kepler (microarchitecture)
Kepler is an Nvidia GPU microarchitecture, the third-generation CUDA compute architecture succeeding Fermi, built on TSMC's 28-nanometer process and launched in 2012 with the GeForce GTX 680.
Kepler conjecture
The Kepler conjecture, now a theorem, states that no packing of equal spheres in space exceeds the density of about 74.05% achieved by stacking oranges in the usual pyramid way.
Kepler field
The Kepler field is a 115-square-degree patch of sky in Cygnus and Lyra that NASA's Kepler telescope monitored from 2009 to 2013 to find exoplanets.
Kepler K2
Kepler K2, also sold as the Forerunner K2 "Bumblebee", is a general-purpose industrial humanoid robot from Shanghai Kepler Robotics that debuted in 2024 and entered mass production in 2025.
Kepler problem
The Kepler problem asks for the motion of two bodies attracting with an inverse-square force, such as a planet and the Sun; its orbits are conic sections.
Kepler space telescope
Kepler was a NASA space telescope launched in 2009 to find exoplanets by detecting dips in starlight; it found over 3,200 planets before retiring in 2018.