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Kerstin Göpfrich
Kerstin Göpfrich is a physicist and synthetic biologist who has been a full professor at Heidelberg University's ZMBH since 2022, working on DNA and RNA nanotechnology for synthetic cells.
Kerstin Griese
Kerstin Griese is a German politician of the SPD who has served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs since 2018.
Kerstin Koppen
Kerstin Köppen (Kosbab, Holtmeyer), German rower born 1967 in Rathenow, won Olympic gold in the 1992 double sculls with Kathrin Boron and the 1996 quadruple sculls, plus five world titles and the 1998 Thomas Keller Medal.
Kerstin Kowalski el Qalqili
Kerstin Kowalski el Qalqili (Kerstin Kowalski, Kerstin El-Qalqili), German rower born 1976 in Potsdam, twin of Manja Kowalski; won Olympic gold in the women's quadruple sculls at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 plus three world titles.
Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is a Swedish geneticist and professor of comparative genomics at Uppsala University who led the 2005 dog genome sequencing and the Zoonomia project comparing 240 mammalian genomes.
Kerstin Muller
Kerstin Müller (Kerstin Muller), German rower born 1969 in Halle (Saale), SC DHfK Leipzig; gold in women's quadruple sculls at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in 6:20.18, 1993 world silver, later Barmer health consultant.
Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger
Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger (born 1988) is a Swiss legal and medical scholar who has been professor of regulation in law, medicine, and technology at the University of Zurich since 2022.
Kerstin Ott
Kerstin Ott, born 1982 in West Berlin, is a German Schlager and pop singer whose 2016 hit "Die immer lacht" made her breakthrough; she has sold about 1.5 million records.
Kerstin Thorvall
Kerstin Thorvall, full name Kerstin Hilma Margareta Thorvall (1925–2010), was a Swedish author and illustrator whose frank 1976 novel Det mest förbjudna is now a classic.
Kertabhumi
Kertabhumi, also Bhatara Prabhu Sri Kertabhumi, was a late Majapahit prince in eastern Java who seized the court from Suraprabhawa in 1468 and died in 1478.
Kertajaya
Kertajaya, also written Krtajaya, was the last king of Kediri in East Java, ruling until 1222, when his defeat by Ken Arok of Tumapel ended the kingdom and began the Singasari era.
Kertanegara
Kertanegara was the last king of Singhasari in eastern Java (1268–1292). He expanded Javanese power beyond Java and promoted a unique Shiva-Buddha cult before being killed by Jayakatwang.
KERTAU
Kertau (Tapkhan Peak, 塔普汗峰) is a 3,282 m ultra-prominent peak in Xinjiang, China, highest point of the Barlik/Dzungarian Gate range; possible first documented ascent by Taozhu Zhou in 2026. Distinct from Kertau, Malaysia.
Kerwan (crater on Ceres)
Kerwan is the largest confirmed impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres, about 280 km across, named for the Hopi spirit of sprouting maize. It is Ceres' oldest basin, hosts a mascon gravity anomaly, and defines the Kerwanan period.
Kerwyn Huang
Kerwyn Casey Huang is a biophysicist and LeRa Professor at Stanford University known for work on bacterial cell shape, gut microbiome organization, and NIH Director's awards.
Kes (film)
Kes (1969) is Ken Loach's British social-realist drama, adapted from Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about Barnsley schoolboy Billy Casper (David Bradley) training a kestrel; 7th in the BFI's 1999 greatest British films poll.
Kes (Star Trek)
Kes is a fictional Ocampa character on Star Trek: Voyager, played by Jennifer Lien; a nine-year-lifespan alien nurse who joined the crew in "Caretaker", befriended the Doctor, left in "The Gift" to make room for Seven of Nine, and returned vengefully in "Fury".
Kesalon
Kesalon, also spelled Chesalon (Hebrew כְּסָלוֹן), is a biblical town named once in Joshua 15:10 on Judah's northern boundary, identified since the nineteenth century with modern Kesla near Abu Ghosh.
Kesamutti Sutta
The Kesamutti Sutta, better known as the Kalama Sutta, is a discourse in the Aṅguttara Nikāya in which the Buddha tells the Kālāma people to test teachings for themselves.
Kesar Singh Chhibber
Kesar Singh Chhibber (ਕੇਸਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਛਿੱਬਰ) was an 18th-century Sikh chronicler from a family of hereditary diwans to the Gurus, author of the Bansavalinama, a 2,564-stanza genealogy of the ten Gurus completed in 1769–70.
Kesari (केसरी) (2019 film)
Kesari (केसरी), 2019 Hindi war film by Anurag Singh starring Akshay Kumar as Havildar Ishar Singh, dramatizes the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi, where 21 Sikh soldiers fought thousands of Pashtun tribesmen; it grossed about ₹208 crore worldwide.
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai (1889–1960) was a Malayalam writer, critic, and journalist, best known as editor of the newspaper Kesari and for turning readers toward European literature.
Kesari Chapter 2
Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh, a 2025 Hindi courtroom drama by Karan Singh Tyagi starring Akshay Kumar as C. Sankaran Nair, R. Madhavan, and Ananya Panday; released 18 April 2025, based on The Case That Shook the Empire, with a fictional central trial.
Kesari Singh Barhath
Kesari Singh Barhath (केसरी सिंह बारहठ), 1872 to 1941, was a Rajasthani revolutionary, poet, and educator known as Rajasthan Kesari, best known for the poem Chetavani ra Chungatya.
Kesari Veer
Kesari Veer (केसरी वीर) is a 2025 Hindi historical action drama directed by Prince Dhiman, starring Sooraj Pancholi as Hamirji Gohil, who fought the Tughlaq Empire to protect the Somnath Temple; released 23 May 2025 to negative reviews and a ₹1.89 crore India net total.
Kesastraan Melayu Tionghoa
Kesastraan Melayu Tionghoa, meaning Chinese-Malay literature, is the body of Malay writing by Peranakan Chinese of the Dutch East Indies, flourishing from the 1870s to the 1960s.
Kesatuan Melayu Muda
Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM, Young Malays Union) was a radical Malay nationalist society founded in Kuala Lumpur in 1938 by Ibrahim Yaacob, the first Malay left-wing political party.
Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala
Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, the Fundamental Rights Case, is a 1973 Supreme Court of India decision holding that Parliament's amendments cannot alter the Constitution's basic structure.
Kesecek Köyü inscription
The Kesecek Köyü inscription is an Aramaic funerary relief inscription from cliffs above the Cydnus river near Tarsus, Cilicia, now held in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Keşfü'z-Zünun
Keşfü'z-Zünun (Kashf al-Zunun) is a 17th-century Arabic bibliographic encyclopedia compiled by the Ottoman scholar Kâtib Çelebi, listing about 14,500 book titles by nearly 10,000 authors alphabetically.