All articles starting with K

Kiko Mizuhara (水原希子)

Kiko Mizuhara (水原希子, Audrie Kiko Daniel), born 1990 in Dallas and raised in Kobe, is a Japanese-American model, actress, designer, and singer; Seventeen winner 2003, Norwegian Wood debut 2010, brands OK and kiiks.

Kiko Sanchez

Kiko Sanchez (Francisco Sánchez Luna, born 1965, Alicante) is a Spanish sailor, 470 class Olympic gold medalist at Barcelona 1992 with Jordi Calafat, twice 470 world champion, and a former Alicante city councilor.

Kikolo

Kikolo is a densely populated commune and urban district in the municipality of Cacuaco, on the northern edge of Luanda, Angola, best known for its large informal market.

Sep 29, 2026

Kikuchi diffraction

Kikuchi diffraction is an electron diffraction technique in which line-and-band patterns from inelastically scattered electrons determine crystal orientation, phase, and lattice parameters in the electron microscope.

Kikuchi disease (菊池病)

Kikuchi disease, also called Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, is a rare, self-limited lymph node inflammation causing tender neck swelling and fever, first described in Japan in 1972.

Oct 15, 2026

Kikuchi free energy

The Kikuchi free energy is a variational approximation introduced by Ryoichi Kikuchi in 1951, written as a sum of local free energies over clusters with overcounting subtracted.

Kikuchi Fuma

Kikuchi Fuma (菊池風磨, Fuma Kikuchi, born 1995 in Tokyo) is a Japanese idol, singer, and actor, a member of timelesz, the group known as Sexy Zone from 2011 to 2024.

Oct 22, 2026

Kikuchi Kan

Kikuchi Kan (real name Kikuchi Hiroshi) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and publisher who founded Bungei Shunjū in 1923 and created the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes.

Oct 22, 2026

Kikuchi Kan Prize

The Kikuchi Kan Prize (菊池寛賞) is an annual Japanese cultural award honoring achievement in literature, film, broadcasting, and publishing, named for the writer Kikuchi Kan and first awarded in 1939.

Oct 22, 2026

Kikuji Kawada

Kikuji Kawada (川田喜久治, born 1933) is a Japanese photographer and co-founder of the VIVO agency, best known for the 1965 photobook Chizu (The Map), a record of Japan's wartime memory.

Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏)

Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujiro no Natsu) is a 1999 Japanese road movie by Takeshi Kitano, starring Beat Takeshi and Yusuke Sekiguchi, in which a drifter escorts a nine-year-old boy to find his mother; it competed at Cannes 1999 and features Joe Hisaishi's theme "Summer".

Kikuko Inoue (井上喜久子)

Kikuko Inoue (井上喜久子), born 1964 in Kanagawa, is a Japanese voice actress, narrator, and singer known for Belldandy in Ah! My Goddess, Kasumi Tendo in Ranma 1/2, and her comic "17 years old" self-introduction.

Kikunosuke Toya

Kikunosuke Toya (戸谷菊之介) is a Japanese voice actor with Sony Music Artists, born 1998, known as Denji in Chainsaw Man and its Reze Arc film; 18th Seiyu Awards New Actor (2024) and 20th Lead Actor (2026) winner.

Kikuo (きくお) (musician)

Kikuo (きくお), born 1988, is a Japanese independent Vocaloid producer and electronic musician. Known for "Aishite Aishite Aishite" (2013), the first Vocaloid song to surpass 100 million Spotify streams, his sweet-but-dark toylike sound, and pioneering international Vocaloid-P tours.

Kikuyu

Kikuyu (Kĩkũyũ town) is a municipality in Kiambu County, Kenya, about 20 km northwest of Nairobi; 2019 census urban population 323,881, area 172.9 km², former Fort Smith, on the Mombasa–Malaba railway and Southern Bypass.

Kikuyu language

Kikuyu (Gĩkũyũ, also written Gikuyu) is a Bantu language of the Kikuyu–Kamba group spoken in central Kenya by the Agikuyu people, with roughly 6-7 million speakers and several mutually intelligible dialects.

Kikuyu people

The Kikuyu people, also called Agikuyu or Gikuyu, are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of central Kenya around Mount Kenya who form Kenya's largest ethnic group, at 17.1% of the population in 2019.

Oct 20, 2026

Kikwit

Kikwit, largest city of Kwilu Province, DR Congo, on the Kwilu River; colonial trade hub, city since 1970, epicenter of the 1995 Ebola outbreak (315 cases, 254 deaths), with population estimates from about 400,000 to 1.3 million.

Kíla Lord Cassidy

Kíla Lord Cassidy (born 2009, London) is a British actress, daughter of actors Elaine Cassidy and Stephen Lord. She broke out as Anna O'Donnell in The Wonder (2022), earning BIFA, IFTA, and London Critics' Circle nominations, and appears in The Conjuring: Last Rites.

Kilamba

Kilamba (Nova Cidade de Kilamba, Kilamba Kiaxi) is a Chinese-built satellite city about 30 km south of Luanda, Angola: 20,000 CITIC-built apartments financed by a USD 3.5 billion oil-backed Chinese credit line, inaugurated 2011, initially a near-empty 'ghost town' before price cuts filled it with middle-class residents.

Kilamuwa

Kilamuwa, also known as Kulamuwa, was the fifth king of Sam'al, an Iron Age kingdom at Zincirli Höyük in southern Turkey, known from his basalt stela with a Phoenician inscription, dated around 830 BCE.

Kilamuwa inscription

The Kilamuwa inscription, also called the Kulamuwa stele and cataloged as KAI 24, is a 9th-century BC Phoenician royal inscription of King Kilamuwa of Sam'al, found at Zincirli in 1902.

Kilamuwa sceptre

The Kilamuwa sceptre is a small gold object found at Zincirli, ancient Sam'al, engraved with a short 9th-century BC West Semitic inscription naming Kilamuwa, son of Ḥayya, king of Sam'al.

Kīlauea

Kīlauea, also known as Kilauea Volcano, is an active shield volcano on the Island of Hawaiʻi and one of the most active on Earth; its 2018 eruption destroyed over 700 structures.

Kilchurn Castle

Kilchurn Castle, at the NE end of Loch Awe, Argyll, is a ruined mid-15th-century Campbell of Glenorchy tower-house castle, converted in 1689 by the 1st Earl of Breadalbane into a garrison with Britain's oldest surviving mainland barracks, unroofed by about 1770.

Kilcoe Castle

Kilcoe Castle, a 15th-century MacCarthy tower house on Mannin Beg island in Roaringwater Bay, West Cork, fell to English forces in 1603 and was restored 1998-2004 by owner Jeremy Irons as a private residence.

Kiley Neushul

Kiley Neushul, American water polo attacker born 1993 in Goleta, California; 2016 Olympic gold medalist, three-time world champion, three-time NCAA champion at Stanford, two-time Cutino Award winner, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame class of 2024.

Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout: recurring fictional science-fiction writer in Kurt Vonnegut's novels, named for Theodore Sturgeon; first appears in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965); Philip José Farmer's Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) was published under his name.

Kili Pemba Sherpa

Kili Pemba Sherpa, also called Kilu Pemba Sherpa, was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer and guide from Beding, Rolwaling, who climbed all 14 eight-thousanders, summited Everest 15 times, joined the 2021 first winter K2 ascent, and died in the 2026 Broad Peak avalanche.