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Khamsing Srinawk

Khamsing Srinawk (คำสิงห์ ศรีนอก), pen name Lao Khamhom, is a Thai short-story writer from northeastern Thailand, born in 1930 and named National Artist in Literature in 1992.

Khamtai Siphandone (Lao: ຄຳໄຕ ສີພັນດອນ; 1924–2025) was a Lao revolutionary commander and politician who led the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and served as Prime Minister and then President of Laos until 2006.

Sep 19, 2026

Khamudi

Khamudi, also written Khamudy, was the last king of the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty, ruling from Avaris until his defeat by Ahmose I ended Hyksos rule around 1540 BC.

Sep 19, 2026

Khamure

Khamure was a king of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, ruling in the eastern Nile Delta. He is known only from scarab seals bearing his royal name.

Khamzat Chimaev (Хамзат Хизарович Чимаев)

Khamzat Chimaev (Хамзат Хизарович Чимаев), nicknamed Borz, Chechen-born UFC fighter based in Sweden and the UAE; middleweight champion 2025, lost title and unbeaten 15-0 record to Sean Strickland at UFC 328, May 2026.

Khan (surname)

Khan surname: from the Turkic-Mongolic title khan or khaan, meaning ruler or sovereign, borne by Genghis Khan; now a very common Muslim surname, especially in South Asia, Pakistan, and Central Asia.

Khan (title)

Khan (ḵān) is a Turkic title of rulership and nobility, related to khagan (ḵāqān), supreme ruler; first recorded khagan in 265 CE among the Xianbei; later a Safavid governor rank, Qajar honorific, and today a widespread surname.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is an American nonprofit educational organization founded by Sal Khan in 2008 that provides free online courses in math, science, and more, in over 55 languages.

Khan al-Khalili

Khan al-Khalili (خان الخليلي) is a realist novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published 1945 or 1946, about the Akif family's wartime move from Sakakini to Cairo's Khan al-Khalili district, love, tuberculosis, and loss.

Khan Bahadur

Khan Bahadur (خان بہادُر), an honorary British Indian title of Persian origin for Muslim and Parsi subjects, one rank above Khan Sahib, equivalent to Rai Bahadur for Hindus, with a Title Badge from 1911.

Khan Bahadur Khan

Khan Bahadur Khan (خان بہادر خان) was a Rohilla Afghan leader who headed the 1857 rebellion at Bareilly, ruled Rohilkhand for a year, and was hanged in 1860.

Khan Jahan Lodi

Khan Jahan Lodi (خاں جہاں لودی) was an Afghan noble who served the Mughal emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan as a commander and Deccan governor, then rebelled and was killed.

Khan Kene

Khan Kene is the epithet of Kenesary Kasymuly, the last khan of the Kazakhs, and the title of Mukhtar Auezov's 1928 drama and Ilyas Esenberlin's 1969 novel.

Khan Noonien Singh

Khan Noonien Singh is Star Trek's genetically engineered tyrant of the 1990s Eugenics Wars, first played by Ricardo Montalbán in "Space Seed" (1967) and The Wrath of Khan (1982), later by Benedict Cumberbatch, with a 2025 Star Trek: Khan audio series.

Oct 15, 2026

Khan Research Laboratories

Khan Research Laboratories, also called Kahuta Research Laboratories, is Pakistan's principal uranium enrichment facility and a main nuclear weapons laboratory at Kahuta near Islamabad, founded by Abdul Qadeer Khan in 1976.

Khan Shaykhun chemical attack

The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack was a 2017 sarin attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib Province, Syria, killing dozens and attributed to Syrian forces.

Khan Sir (खान सर)

Khan Sir (खान सर), Faizal Khan, is a Patna-based educator and YouTuber who founded Khan GS Research Centre and Khan Global Studies, known for low-fee coaching and Hindi teaching; subject of 2026 FIR and coaching rivalry controversies.

Oct 21, 2026

Khān Yūnis

Khān Yūnis (خان يونس), second-largest city in the southern Gaza Strip and seat of its governorate; founded 1387 by Mamluk emir Yunis al-Dawadar; municipality since 1917; heavily razed in the war since 2023.

Khan Zaman

Khan Zaman (خان زماں), also known as Ali Quli Khan, was a Mughal noble and governor of Jaunpur under Akbar whose Uzbek rebellion was suppressed by imperial troops.

Khan-i Jahan Maqbul

Khan-i Jahan Maqbul (خان جہاں مقبل) was a Kakatiya commander of Warangal, captured in 1323, who rose to become wazir of the Delhi Sultanate under Firoz Shah Tughluq.

Khan-i-Jahan Junan Shah

Khan-i-Jahan Junan Shah (خان جہاں جونان شاہ) was vizier to the Tughluq sultan Firuz Shah in Delhi and patron of several mosques, including the Khirki Mosque.

Sep 24, 2026

Khana Ratsadon

Khana Ratsadon (คณะราษฎร), the People's Party, was a Siamese group founded in Paris in 1927 whose 1932 coup ended King Prajadhipok's absolute rule; it governed until 1947.

Oct 20, 2026

Khānaqīn

Khānaqīn (Xaneqîn), Kurdish-majority city in Diyala, Iraq, on the Alwand River near Iran; disputed under Article 140, site of Iraq's first 1927 oil refinery, population about 175,000.

Khanate

A khanate, also known as a khaganat, is a polity ruled by a khan. Historians most often use the term for the Mongol Empire's successor states, including the Yuan, Ilkhanate, Golden Horde, and Chagatai Khanate.

Sep 24, 2026

Khanate of Astrakhan

The Khanate of Astrakhan (Астраханское ханство) was a Tatar state on the lower Volga that emerged from the Golden Horde and was annexed by Russia in 1556.

Khanate of Bukhara

The Khanate of Bukhara was a Sunni Uzbek state in Transoxiana from 1500 to 1920 under the Abu'l-Khayrid, Janid, and Mangit dynasties, with its capital at Bukhara.

Khanate of Kazan (Казан ханлыгы)

The Khanate of Kazan (Казан ханлыгы), also called the Kazan khanate, was a Turkic-Muslim state on the middle Volga, founded around 1437 by Uluğ-Muhammed and conquered by Muscovy in 1552.

Khanate of Khiva

The Khanate of Khiva, also known as the Khanate of Khorazm, was a Central Asian state in the Khorezm oasis on the lower Amu Darya from the early 16th century until 1920.

Khanate of Kokand

The Khanate of Kokand (Uzbek Қўқон хонлиги) was an Uzbek state in the Ferghana valley of Central Asia from 1709 to 1876, spanning modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.