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Kevin Zegers
Kevin Joseph Zegers (born 1984, Woodstock, Ontario) is a Canadian actor known for Air Bud, Transamerica (Cannes Chopard Trophy 2006), Gossip Girl, The Rookie: Feds, The Madison, and Heated Rivalry season 2.
Kevin Zeroli
Kevin Zeroli, Italian midfielder born 2005 in Busto Arsizio; AC Milan academy product and former Primavera captain, Serie A debut 2023, later loans at Monza, Juve Stabia, and Südtirol.
Kevin Zhang
Kevin Zhang is a venture capital investor and partner at Bain Capital Ventures who invests at inception stage in fintech and developer products, after leading product at Fundera.
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Kevin-Prince Boateng (born 1987, Berlin) is a retired Ghanaian midfielder who played for 15 clubs including Hertha BSC, Tottenham, AC Milan, and Barcelona, won the 2011 Serie A, and earned 15 Ghana caps.
KevJumba
KevJumba is the YouTube channel of Kevin Wu, a Chinese-American vlogger who started in 2006 in Sugar Land, Texas, reached YouTube's top five most-subscribed channels by 2008, appeared on Amazing Race 17 with his father, and ran the Jumbafund charity channel.
Kevlar
Kevlar is the DuPont trademark for poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, a synthetic fiber five times stronger than steel by weight, discovered by Stephanie Kwolek in 1965 and used in bullet-resistant vests.
Kevon Looney
Kevon Looney (born 1996) is an NBA center/forward, 2015 first-round pick, three-time champion with the Golden State Warriors (2017, 2018, 2022), later Pelicans and Lakers, known for offensive rebounding and screen-setting.
Kevork Chavush
Kevork Chavush (Գևորգ Չավուշ), born Gevorg Ghazaryan, was an Armenian fedai commander in the Ottoman Empire who fought in Sasun until his death in 1907.
Kevork Malikyan
Kevork Malikyan (born 1943, Diyarbakır) is a British-Armenian actor and teacher, trained for the priesthood in Istanbul, known for Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Max in Mind Your Language, Midnight Express, and Parvus in Payitaht: Abdülhamid.
Kevyn Aucoin
Kevyn Aucoin (1962–2002), American celebrity makeup artist from Shreveport, Louisiana; author of Making Faces and Face Forward, pioneer of mainstream contouring, and founder of the 2001 Kevyn Aucoin Beauty cosmetics line.
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) is a UNESCO World Heritage botanic garden in southwest London, founded in 1759, holding over 50,000 living plants, a seven-million-specimen Herbarium, and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
Kew Gardens, Queens
Kew Gardens is a Queens, New York City neighborhood, a planned early-1900s garden suburb by the Man family, named after London's Kew Gardens, with prewar Tudor housing, about 24,500 residents, and borough courts.
Kew Observatory
Kew Observatory, long known as the King's Observatory, is a Grade I listed building in Richmond, London, built in 1769 for George III to observe the transit of Venus.
Kew Palace
Kew Palace is the oldest building within the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, a Grade I listed former summer home of King George III.
Kewal Singh Dhillon
Kewal Singh Dhillon is an Indian politician and industrialist who became president of the BJP in Punjab in 2026, after serving as a Congress MLA from Barnala from 2007 to 2017.
Kewan Lacy
Kewan Lacy (born 2006, Dallas, Texas) is an Ole Miss running back, transferred from Missouri; set Ole Miss single-season records in 2025 with 306 carries, 1,567 yards, 24 touchdowns; 2027 NFL Draft prospect.
Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant
The Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant was a Westinghouse pressurized-water reactor on Lake Michigan in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, which operated from 1974 until Dominion shut it down for economic reasons in 2013.
Keweenaw Peninsula
The Keweenaw Peninsula is the northernmost peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, projecting northeast into Lake Superior, whose native copper deposits yielded 5 Mt of copper from 1845 to 1968.
Kewen
Kewen (克文, 1025–1102), often called Zhenjing Kewen, was a Northern Song dynasty Chan Buddhist monk of the Huanglong branch of the Linji school and a principal dharma heir of Huanglong Huinan.
Kewpie
Kewpie: cherubic cupid-like cartoon character created by Rose O'Neill, debuted in Ladies' Home Journal December 1909; doll patented 1913, made in German bisque from 1912; also Japan's KEWPIE Mayonnaise brand.
Kewpie Chasma
Kewpie Chasma is a 467-km-long canyon (chasma) on Ariel, a moon of Uranus, centered at 28.3S 326.9E, IAU-named in 1988 after British spirit babies, part of Ariel's north-south rift and spreading-center system.
Kexin
Kexin (Kex2 protease, EC 3.4.21.61) is the calcium-dependent subtilisin-like serine protease encoded by KEX2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; it cleaves proproteins at paired basic residues and is the prototype of the PCSK proprotein convertase family.
Kexinmeide
科信美德, formally Beijing Kexinmeide Biomedical Science and Technology, is a Beijing biopharmaceutical startup founded in 2014 by former Amgen scientist Yan Hai to develop the diabetes antibody drug REMD-477.
KEXP
KEXP, formerly KCMU, is a listener-supported, non-commercial music radio station in Seattle at 90.3 FM, founded in 1972 as a University of Washington student station.
Key
Key: a highly polysemous English word with 19 analyzed senses unified by the notion of something of primary importance; also names linguistic terms including statistical keyword, keyness, cultural keyword, and keyconcept.
Key (basketball)
The key, also known as the free throw lane, is the rectangular area surrounding a basketball basket; the NBA widened it from 6 to 12 feet in 1951.
Key (company)
Key (VisualArt's/Key) is a Japanese visual novel studio founded by former Tactics staff Jun Maeda, Shinji Orito, and Itaru Hinoue; creator of Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, and Summer Pockets, with soundtracks on Key Sounds Label.
Key (entertainer)
Key (Kim Ki-bum, born 1991) is a SHINee member and SM Entertainment soloist known for the retro trilogy Bad Love, Gasoline, Killer, KEYLAND concerts, and variety shows Amazing Saturday and Home Alone.
Key (music)
Key (music): the tonal center of a work, defined by tonic plus mode; also called musical key. 24 major/minor keys; distinct from scale and mode; key color, modulation, and equal temperament.
Key & Peele
Key & Peele: Comedy Central sketch comedy series (2012-2015, five seasons) by MADtv alumni Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele; Emmy-winning show behind Luther the anger translator, East/West College Bowl, and Substitute Teacher.