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Kaʻimi Fairbairn

Kaʻimi Fairbairn (born 1994) is an American football placekicker for the Houston Texans, whom he joined as an undrafted free agent out of UCLA in 2016.

Kaʻiulani

Kaʻiulani (Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn, 1875–1899), last crown princess and heir apparent of the Kingdom of Hawaii under Queen Liliʻuokalani; educated in England, protested the 1893 overthrow, engaged to Prince Kawānanakoa, died at 23 at ʻĀinahau.

Kai (musician, born 1993)

Kai (海), rock musician born 1993, leader of Japanese alternative metal band Esprit D'Air and Sisters of Mercy guitarist; distinct from EXO's Kai (Kim Jong-in, born 1994) and other mononymous artists named Kai.

Kai (name)

Kai is a masculine given name of uncertain northern European origin, possibly a Frisian diminutive of Gerhard, Nicolaas, Cornelis, or Gaius, also an independent Hawaiian name meaning sea, and a common Chinese name; popular in the US since the 2010s.

Kai (김종인) (entertainer, born 1994)

Kai (카이), born Kim Jong-in (김종인) 1994 in Suncheon, South Korea, is an SM Entertainment singer-dancer-actor, main dancer of EXO and member of SuperM. Solo since 2020: KAI (开), Peaches, Rover, Wait On Me.

Kai Asakura (朝倉海)

Kai Asakura (朝倉海), born 1993, is a Japanese UFC bantamweight and former two-time RIZIN bantamweight champion who lost a flyweight title fight to Alexandre Pantoja in his UFC debut at UFC 310.

Kai Bakker

Kai Bakker (born 1991) is a Dutch software engineer and cofounder and CTO of DataSnipper, an Amsterdam audit automation company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2024.

Kai Behrend

Kai Behrend is a mathematician at the University of British Columbia working on moduli spaces, known for the virtual fundamental class and the Behrend function.

Kai C. Wollert

Kai C. Wollert is a German cardiologist who has been professor of Molecular and Translational Cardiology at Hannover Medical School since 2010, known for the BOOST trial and GDF-15.

Kai Cenat

Kai Cenat (born 2001) is an American Twitch streamer and AMP member, the platform's most-subscribed and most-followed streamer, known for Mafiathon subathons, coining "rizz," the 2023 Union Square giveaway riot, and Streamer University.

Kai Forbath

Kai August Forbath, born 1987, UCLA kicker and 2009 Lou Groza Award winner; NFL placekicker 2012-2020 for seven teams, set rookie record of 17 consecutive field goals, 86.4 percent career accuracy.

Kai G. Zinn

Kai G. Zinn, also published as Kai Zinn, is a molecular biologist at Caltech whose lab maps interactions among human and Drosophila cell surface proteins.

Kai Greene

Kai Greene (Leslie Kai Greene, born 1975, Brooklyn) is a retired American IFBB professional bodybuilder, three-time Arnold Classic winner (2009, 2010, 2016) and three-time Mr. Olympia runner-up (2012–2014), known for his rivalry with Phil Heath.

Kai Hansen

Kai Hansen (born 1963, Hamburg) is a German power metal guitarist, singer, and songwriter, co-founder of Helloween and founder of Gamma Ray, known for Walls of Jericho, the Keeper albums, Land of the Free, and the 2026 solo album Born With A Hammer.

Kai Havertz

Kai Havertz (Kai Lukas Havertz, born 1999, Aachen) is a German forward/midfielder for Arsenal and Germany (63 caps, 25 goals). Youngest to 100 Bundesliga apps; Chelsea's £71m 2021 Champions League final match-winner; £65m Arsenal signing in 2023.

Kai Johan Jiang

Kai Johan Jiang is a China-born entrepreneur with Swedish citizenship who founded National Electric Vehicle Sweden and bought Saab Automobile's assets from bankruptcy in 2012.

Kai Johnsson

Kai Johnsson, born 1963, is a German and Swiss chemical biologist directing the Department of Chemical Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg since 2017.

Kai Jones

Kai Jones (Kai Martinez Jones), Bahamian center-forward born 2001 in Nassau; 19th pick of 2021 NBA Draft by Knicks, traded to Hornets; later Clippers, 76ers, Mavericks, and Anadolu Efes; Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year at Texas.

Kai Ka'us

Kai Ka'us (Kay Kavus, کیکاووس) names several figures: the Ziyarid prince Kai Ka'us ibn Iskandar (1021–1098), author of the Qābūs-nāma; Seljuk sultan Izz al-Din Kai-Ka'us I of Rum; a mythical Shahnama shah; and an ancient Iranian place.

Kai Kahele

Kai Kahele, born Kaialiʻi Kahele in 1974, is an American politician and Air National Guard officer who served one term as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Hawaii.

Kai Kara-France

Kai "Don't Blink" Kara-France (born 1993, Auckland) is a New Zealand UFC flyweight and City Kickboxing fighter, 25-12 (1 NC), who lost interim and undisputed flyweight title fights to Brandon Moreno (2022) and Alexandre Pantoja (2025).

KAI KF-21 Boramae

The KAI KF-21 Boramae (보라매, KF-X) is a twin-engine 4.5-generation multirole fighter developed by Korea Aerospace Industries for South Korea with Indonesia, with first deliveries to the air force in 2026.

Kai Knechtel

Kai Knechtel (born 1980) is a German compound archer from Uelzen, listed for Great Britain in 2012, who shot the 2014 European Championships, 2015 Worlds and World Cup, and holds a WAE team record.

Kai Kroeger

Kai Kroeger (born 2002) is an American NFL punter for the Houston Texans, No. 38. A left-footed South Carolina punter (2020–24), school-record 11,823 punting yards, fake-pass threat, undrafted 2025, Saints 2025, traded to Houston 2026.

Kai Li

Kai Li (李凯) is a Princeton University computer scientist and National Academy of Engineering member known for distributed shared memory, deduplication storage, and co-leading ImageNet.

Kai M. Siegbahn

Kai M. Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist at Uppsala University who won half of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing high-resolution electron spectroscopy, known as ESCA.

Kai Mahler

Kai Mahler (born 1995, Fischenthal, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss freestyle skier in big air, slopestyle, and halfpipe; 2012 Youth Olympic halfpipe gold medalist, 2014 Sochi Olympian, four X Games Big Air medals, two World Cup big air wins, retired 2020.

Kai Medtech (励楷科技)

Kai Medtech (励楷科技), legally Shanghai Likai Technology, is a Chinese medical device company founded in 2019 by Liu An in Shanghai, making neurovascular interventional devices like guidewires and thrombectomy systems.

Kai Montinola

Kai Montinola (Kaisha Denniel Quilario Montinola, born 2006) is a Filipino singer, actress and model from Cebu City, 4th Big Placer of Pinoy Big Brother: Gen 11, Star Magic artist, debut EP Kaileidoscope, voice of Hangganan Ko for Disney's live-action Moana.

Kai N. Scott

Kai N. Scott, also known as Kai Niambi Scott, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2023.