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Khushi Hajare
Khushi Hajare (born 2012), also known as Baby Khushi, is an Indian child actress in Hindi and Marathi films. She won multiple awards for Ved (2022), played young Geeta in Munjya (2024), and stars as Sunny Deol's daughter Tanno in Batwara 1947 (2026).
Khushi Kapoor
Khushi Kapoor (born 2000, Mumbai), daughter of Boney Kapoor and Sridevi, sister of Janhvi Kapoor; Indian actress whose debut was Betty Cooper in Netflix's The Archies (2023), followed by Loveyapa and Nadaaniyan (2025). Not the 2023 Telugu film Kushi.
Khushqadam
Khushqadam (خشقدم) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt who reigned from 1461 to 1467, the first sultan of Rumi, or Anatolian and Greek, origin, after deposing al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad.
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, 1915–2014), Indian novelist, historian and journalist, author of Train to Pakistan and A History of the Sikhs; editor of the Illustrated Weekly and Hindustan Times; Rajya Sabha member 1980–86; Padma Vibhushan 2007. Not the contemporary Chandigarh author of the same name.
Khusrau II's flight to and restoration by Maurice
Khusrau II's flight to and restoration by Maurice (خسرو پرویز) was the escape of the Sasanian king Khusrau II from usurper Bahram Chobin to Emperor Maurice in 590.
Khusrau Malik
Khusrau Malik (خسرو ملک) was the last sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from Lahore over the Punjab from about 1160 until the Ghurid capture of the city in 1186.
Khusrau Mirza (خسرو میرزا)
Khusrau Mirza (خسرو میرزا), eldest son of Mughal emperor Jahangir and grandson of Akbar; rebelled in April 1606, was blinded in 1607, and died in Khurram's custody at Burhanpur in 1622; Guru Arjan's alleged blessing of him preceded the Guru's execution.
Khusrau-Shah
Khusrau-Shah (خسروشاه) was the penultimate sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from about 1157 to 1160, during which the Ghaznavids lost southeastern Afghanistan to the Ghurids.
Khusrau's rebellion
Khusrau's rebellion (खुसरो का विद्रोह) was the 1606 revolt of Prince Khusrau Mirza, son of Mughal emperor Jahangir, who raised supporters in the Punjab and was defeated within a month, captured, and blinded.
Khusraw Pasha
Khusraw Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who directed the empire's military reform for roughly nine years as serasker from 1827, and was trusted by Sultan Mahmud II.
Khust Raion
Khust Raion (Хустський район) is a district of Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Khust; established 17 July 2020, it covers 3,179.6 km² with 268,303 people in 143 settlements and 13 hromadas.
Khutala Coal Mine
Khutala Coal Mine, also known as Khutala Colliery, is a large underground bord-and-pillar thermal coal mine in the Witbank coalfield near Ogies, Mpumalanga, South Africa, operated by Seriti Power.
Khutar Shabli
Хутар Шаблі (Khutar Shabli) is a Belarusian farmstead and open-air music venue in Malaye Zapruddze, Valozhyn district, 80 km from Minsk, founded by producer Uladzimir Shablinski and known for the Vольнае паветра ethno-festival, Druzhba Festival, and a 2013 fire and rebuild.
Khutba
Khutba (خطبة, plural khutab) is a formal public oration in Arabic tradition, a major genre of classical Arabic prose that ranges from pre-Islamic tribal harangues to the formal religious sermon institutionalized in Islam.
Khutoot
Khutoot (خطوط), meaning "letters," is the Urdu term for letters and for the literary genre of Urdu letter writing known as maktub nigari, made a modern genre by Mirza Ghalib.
Khutor
Khutor (Russian хутор, Ukrainian хутір): a single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe, promoted by the Stolypin reforms and largely eliminated by Soviet collectivization and 1939 resettlement decrees.
Khutughtu Khan Kusala
Khutughtu Khan Kusala (忽都笃汗), also known as Borjigin Heshila or Emperor Mingzong, was the ninth Yuan emperor, reigning about eight months in 1329 before his sudden death.
Khutulun
Khutulun (Qutulun, c. 1260–1306), daughter of Qaidu Khan and great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan, was a Mongol warrior princess famed via Marco Polo for wrestling suitors for 100 horses each and for fighting the Yuan Dynasty.
Khuvsgul Lake Biosphere Reserve
Khuvsgul Lake Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2022 in northern Mongolia around Khuvsgul Lake (Hövsgöl nuur), Mongolia's deepest lake holding about 70% of the country's fresh water, covering 1,512,038 ha with 7,016 residents.
Khuwat ibn Jubayr
Khuwat ibn Jubayr (خوات بن جبير), also transliterated Khawwat, was an Ansari Companion of Muhammad from Medina, known as the brother of Abdullah ibn Jubayr, the archer commander at Uhud.
Khūy
Khūy (خوی, also Khoy/Khoi) is a city and county seat in West Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran, near the Turkish border; a historic frontier trading center, home of Šams-e Tabrizi's tomb, ruled long by the Donboli family, population 225,931 (2016).
Khuzayma ibn Thabit
Khuzayma ibn Thabit (خزيمة بن ثابت) was an Ansar companion of Muhammad honored as Dhu al-Shahadatayn because his single testimony counted as two witnesses; he was killed fighting for Ali at Siffin in 657.
Khuzestan
Khuzestan (خوزستان), southwestern Iranian province on the Persian Gulf and Iraq border; heartland of ancient Elam, holder of most of Iran's oil, capital Ahvaz, population about five million with a large Arab minority.
Khvandamir
Khvandamir (خواندمیر), born Ghiyas al-Din ibn Humam al-Din al-Husayni, was a Persian historian of Herat who served Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal courts and wrote the universal history Habib al-Siyar.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (ხვიჩა კვარაცხელია)
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (ხვიჩა კვარაცხელია), Georgian winger born 2001 in Tbilisi; "Kvaradona"; Napoli Serie A MVP 2023, PSG number 7, 2025 and 2026 Champions League winner, Euro 2024 with Georgia.
Khvoshkuh
Khvoshkuh (Khvoshkūh, Khush Kuh) names several mountains: a 2,830 m peak in Afghanistan recorded by the NGA, a 2,650 m Iranian summit, and the alternative name of Kūh-e Poshtkūh (2,575 m) in Hormozgan, Iran.
Khvostov Incident
The Khvostov Incident, known in Japanese as Bunka Rokō jiken, was a series of Russian attacks on Japanese settlements on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in 1806 and 1807.
Khwab-nama of Tipu Sultan
The Khwab-nama (خوابنامہ), or Register of Dreams, is a Persian manuscript in which Tipu Sultan of Mysore recorded 37 of his own dreams, dated 1785 to 1798.
Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh
Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh (খ্বৈরাকপম চৌবা সিংহ) was a Manipuri poet, novelist, and critic born at Imphal, remembered as a pioneer of modern Manipuri literature whose historical novel Lavangalata (1939) is a landmark of Manipuri prose.
Khwaja Abdul Hamied
Khwaja Abdul Hamied, often cited as K. A. Hamied, was an Indian chemist and businessman who founded the pharmaceutical company Cipla in Bombay in 1935.