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Kiernan Fagan
Kiernan Fagan (born 2002, Boston) is an American freestyle skier who won boys' slopestyle gold and big air silver at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics; also a fitness model and actor in The Fagan Twins.
Kiernan Shipka
Kiernan Shipka, American actress known as Sally Draper on Mad Men and Sabrina Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; also stars in Wildflower, Totally Killer, Longlegs, and HBO's Industry.
Kieron Burke
Kieron Burke is a theoretical chemist and physicist at UC Irvine, best known as co-creator of the 1996 PBE density functional, a standard of computational chemistry.
Kieron Dyer
Kieron Courtney Dyer (born 1978, Ipswich), English midfielder; Ipswich Town, Newcastle United (£6m, 1999), West Ham, QPR, Middlesbrough; 33 England caps; retired 2013; now Southend United head coach.
Kieron Pollard
Kieron Pollard (born 1987), Trinidadian West Indies all-rounder and T20 specialist; five IPL titles with Mumbai Indians, first to 500 T20 appearances, T20 history's leading run-scorer, now MI London coach in The Hundred.
Kierra Sheard
Kierra "Kiki" Sheard-Kelly, American gospel singer from Detroit, daughter of Karen Clark-Sheard; first new artist to debut at No. 1 on Billboard Top Gospel Albums with I Owe You (2004); Grammy-winning, BMI Impact Award honoree.
Kiersey Clemons
Kiersey Nicole Clemons (born 1993) is an American actress, singer, and producer known for Dope (2015), Iris West in Zack Snyder's Justice League and The Flash, and May in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
Kiersten Stead
Kiersten Stead is a venture capital investor and scientist who co-founded and serves as Managing Partner of DCVC Bio, DCVC's life-science arm, having previously invested at Monsanto Growth Ventures.
Kiesza
Kiesza, born Kiesa Rae Ellestad, is a Canadian singer and dancer known for her house-pop sound. Her 2014 single "Hideaway" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
Kietrz
Kietrz, German Ketsch, a town in Opole Voivodeship, Poland, home of the prehistoric multicultural burial ground with over 4,000 graves, the largest Bronze Age and early Iron Age necropolis in Central Europe.
Kieu Cong Tien
Kieu Cong Tien (Kiều Công Tiễn) was a Vietnamese general who assassinated his superior, Duong Dinh Nghe, in 937, seized power, and was killed by Ngo Quyen.
Kieu Phu
Kieu Phu (Kiều Phú) was a Vietnamese scholar and official who became a Hoang giap laureate under King Le Thanh Tong and helped compile Lĩnh Nam chích quái.
Kiev Monastery of the Caves
The Kiev Monastery of the Caves (Киево-Печерский монастырь) is a monastery founded near Kiev in 1051 by Anthony of the Caves and shaped by Theodosius of the Caves.
Kiev offensive (1920)
The Kiev offensive was a 1920 Polish-Soviet War campaign in which Polish and Ukrainian forces under Józef Piłsudski captured Kiev before a Soviet counteroffensive drove them out.
Kiev Psalter
The Kiev Psalter, also called the Kyiv or Spiridon Psalter, is an illuminated Church Slavonic psalter completed in Kyiv in 1397, one of the most famous East Slavic manuscripts.
Kiev Synopsis
The Kiev Synopsis (Киевский синопсис) is a compact history of Rus' first printed in 1674 at the Kiev Cave Lavra press, the standard Russian history textbook for much of the 18th century.
Kiev Uprising of 1113
The Kiev Uprising of 1113 (Киевское восстание 1113 года) was a mass rising in Kiev after Prince Svyatopolk's death, ended when Vladimir Monomakh took the throne.
Kiev-class aircraft carrier
The Kiev class, Soviet Project 1143 Krechyet, was a class of four hybrid warships built for the Soviet Navy from 1970 to 1987, the first Soviet ships able to operate fixed-wing aircraft.
Kiev-Mohyla Academy
Kiev-Mohyla Academy (Києво-Могилянська академія) was Ukraine's leading Orthodox school, founded by Peter Mohyla in 1632; it educated the Cossack Hetmanate's elite until its closure in 1817.
Kievan Chronicle
The Kievan Chronicle (Киевская летопись) is an Old Russian chronicle covering 1118 to about 1200, preserved as the middle part of the Hypatian Chronicle and attributed to Moses of Kiev's Vydubitsky Monastery.
Kievan Rus' (Русь)
Kievan Rus' (Русь) was the first East Slavic state, centered on Kiev from 882, uniting East Slavic tribes; Christianized in 988; ended as a unified polity with the 1237–1240 Mongol invasion; legacy contested by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
Kievo-Pechersk Lavra
Kievo-Pechersk Lavra (Киево-Печерская лавра), the Monastery of the Caves, is an Orthodox monastery near Kiev founded in 1051 by Anthony of the Caves and developed into the leading monastery of early Rus' under Theodosius.
Kievskaia Starina
Kievskaia Starina (Киевская старина, "Kyivan Antiquity") was a monthly historical and literary journal published in Kyiv from 1882 to 1906, the first multidisciplinary historical journal in Ukraine.
Kievskaya (Koltsevaya line)
Kievskaya (Киевская) is a station on the Koltsevaya (Circle) line of the Moscow Metro, opened on 14 March 1954 and decorated with 18 large mosaic panels on Russian-Ukrainian unity.
Kiewit Corporation
Kiewit Corporation, also known as Peter Kiewit Sons, is an employee-owned construction and engineering firm founded in 1884 in Omaha, Nebraska, where it remains headquartered.
KIF11
KIF11 (Eg5, kinesin spindle protein, KNSL1) is a human gene at 10q23.33 encoding the kinesin-5 homotetrameric motor that separates spindle poles in mitosis; mutations cause MCLMR syndrome and inhibitors target it in cancer.
KIF1A
KIF1A: neuron-specific kinesin-3 motor gene on 2q37 driving anterograde axonal transport; pathogenic variants cause KAND, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with no cure.
KIF23
KIF23, also called MKLP1 or CHO1, is a human kinesin-6 motor protein gene at 15q23 driving cytokinesis via the centralspindlin complex; mutations cause congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type III, and overexpression marks poor cancer prognosis.
KIF2C
KIF2C, also called MCAK or KNSL6, is a human kinesin-13 motor protein that depolymerizes microtubules from ends using ATP, corrects kinetochore attachments in mitosis, aids DNA repair, and is overexpressed in many cancers.
KIF5A
KIF5A (kinesin family member 5A), gene at 12q13.3 encoding a neuron-specific kinesin-1 motor protein for anterograde axonal transport; variants cause SPG10, CMT2, ALS, and NEIMY, with domain-specific genotype-phenotype correlations.