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Kimi ni Todoke (君に届け)
Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You) is a shojo romance manga by Karuho Shiina, serialized in Bessatsu Margaret from 2005/2006 to 2017, winner of the 2008 Kodansha Manga Award, adapted into anime (2009, 2011, 2024 Netflix season 3), a 2010 live-action film, and a 2023 Netflix drama.
Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi Räikkönen (Kimi Matias Räikkönen), Finnish F1 driver, the Iceman; 2007 World Champion with Ferrari by one point; 349 record starts, 21 wins, 103 podiums; raced Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, Alfa Romeo.
Kimi to Hanabi to Yakusoku to (君と花火と約束と)
Kimi to Hanabi to Yakusoku to (君と花火と約束と) is a 2026 Japanese animated film based on Kaoru Mado's 2025 novel, released by Shochiku and set during the Nagaoka Matsuri Grand Fireworks Festival.
Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover (きみは四葉のクローバー)
Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover (きみは四葉のクローバー, きみクロ) is a love-suspense manga by Kōshi in Weekly Shōnen Champion from 2024, in which Yotsuba rewinds time with a four-leaf clover watch to save the bullied Utsu Uiichi.
Kimi-Audio
Kimi-Audio is an open-source audio foundation model released by Moonshot AI in April 2025, built on a 7-billion-parameter language model and trained on over 13 million hours of audio.
Kimi-VL
Kimi-VL is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model released by Moonshot AI in April 2025, notable for activating only 2.8B of its 16B parameters while offering multimodal reasoning, long-context understanding, and agent capabilities.
Kimia
Kimia (Ridged Mosquito) is a valid mosquito genus, subfamily Culicinae, tribe Sabethini, named by Vu Duc Huong and Harbach in 2007 for five species formerly in Topomyia subgenus Suaymyia; type species K. decorabilis, larvae in bamboo, adults known only from reared specimens.
Kimia Alizadeh
Kimia Alizadeh (کیمیا علیزاده زنوزی), born 1998 in Karaj, Iran, is a taekwondo athlete, first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal (Rio 2016 bronze), who defected in 2020, competed for the Refugee Team in Tokyo, and won bronze for Bulgaria at Paris 2024.
Kimia Behpoornia
Kimia Behpoornia (born 1992) is an American actress, improviser, and writer from Los Angeles, known for Atypical, Abbott Elementary, Reboot, Hacks, Abby's, and Dropout appearances.
Kimigayo (君が代)
Kimigayo (君が代), usually translated 'His Majesty's Reign', is Japan's national anthem. Its lyrics come from a Heian-period waka in the Kokin wakashū (905), the oldest anthem lyrics; the 1880 melody (Oku/Hayashi, arranged by Franz Eckert) was legally designated by the 1999 flag-and-anthem law.
Kimihiko Hirao
Kimihiko Hirao (平尾 公彦), born 1945 in Niihama, Japan, is a Japanese theoretical chemist known for the SAC method, multireference perturbation theory, and long-range-corrected density functionals.
Kimihisa Yamamoto
Kimihisa Yamamoto (山元 公寿) is a Japanese polymer and materials chemist, professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for phenylazomethine dendrimers and the atom hybrid method.
Kimiko Glenn
Kimiko Glenn (born 1989, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress and singer, Brook Soso on Orange Is the New Black, voice of Peni Parker, Kiff, Baby Shark, and Niffty in Hazbin Hotel, Dawn in Broadway's Waitress, and debut EP Modern Dance as KIMIKO.
Kimiko Kasai (笠井紀美子)
Kimiko Kasai (笠井紀美子), born 1945 in Kyoto, is a retired Japanese jazz vocalist who recorded with Gil Evans, Cedar Walton, and Herbie Hancock (Butterfly, 1979) and whose 1977 album Tokyo Special links her to Japanese city pop.
Kimio Akagawa
Kimio Akagawa (赤川 公朗) is a Japanese neurophysiologist named by the 2013 Nobel Assembly among prior identifiers of the SNARE proteins; he cloned HPC-1, later shown to be syntaxin 1A.
Kimishige Ishizaka
Kimishige Ishizaka (石坂公成, 1925–2018) was a Japanese-born immunologist who, working with his wife Teruko, discovered immunoglobulin E in 1966, the antibody class that carries allergic reactivity, and later led the La Jolla Institute.
Kimito
Kimito (Finnish: Kemiö) was a municipality in Southwest Finland, named after Finland's largest coastal island, that merged with Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd in 2009 to form Kimitoön.
Kimitsu power station
Kimitsu power station (君津共同発電所, Kimitsu Cooperative Power Station) is a by-product-gas-fired thermal power station in Kimitsu, Chiba, Japan, located at the Nippon Steel Kimitsu Works steel mill.
Kimitsu steelworks
Kimitsu steelworks (君津製鐵所) is an integrated coastal iron and steel plant in Kimitsu, Chiba, Japan, founded in 1965 and owned by Nippon Steel, producing about 6.63 million tonnes of crude steel a year.
Kimiya-yi Sa'adat
Kimiya-yi Sa'adat (کیمیای سعادت, "The Alchemy of Happiness") is a Persian book on religious ethics and Sufism by the scholar Ghazali, completed around 1102–1106 and still widely read.
Kimmeridge Clay
The Kimmeridge Clay is a gray, organic-rich Jurassic marine mudstone outcropping from Dorset to Yorkshire and is the major oil source rock for the North Sea.
Kimmeridge Energy Engagement Partners
Kimmeridge Energy Engagement Partners (KEEP) is a family of New York-based private equity funds that invest in public energy companies to push for shareholder-focused change.
Kimmerikon
Kimmerikon (Κιμμερικόν, Kimmerium), ancient Bosporan town at Mt Opuk on the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, occupied late 6th century BC to 3rd century CE; a second Kimmerikon is placed in Taman; named for the legendary Cimmerians.
Kimnyoung Maze Park
Kimnyoung Maze Park (김녕미로공원, Gimnyeong Maze Park) is Korea's first maze park, on Jeju Island near Manjanggul Lava Tube, built of 3-meter Leylandii hedges, home to about 50 free-roaming cats, founded by American professor F.H. Dustin.
Kimo Leopoldo
Kimo Leopoldo, German-born Hawaiian heavyweight MMA fighter, 10-7-1 pro, 2-4 UFC; famous for pushing Royce Gracie at UFC 3 (1994), beat Tank Abbott at UFC 43, retired 2005.
Kimolos (settlement)
Kimolos (settlement): the ancient town of the Cycladic island Kimolos (Κίμωλος), at Ellinika and the islet Agios Andreas; inhabited from Mycenaean to early Christian times, now partly submerged, distinct from the modern island or the oil tanker named Kimolos.
Kimon Georgiev
Kimon Georgiev (Кимон Георгиев) was a Bulgarian officer and politician who twice served as prime minister, first after the 1934 coup and again after the 1944 Fatherland Front coup.
Kimon-class frigate
The Kimon class is a class of four frigates built by Naval Group for the Hellenic Navy, with lead ship HS Kimon commissioned in December 2025.
Kimono (着物)
The kimono (着物, 'thing to wear') is Japan's T-shaped, straight-seamed wrap garment secured with an obi. It evolved from the Heian kosode, became universal dress by the Edo period, and is now mainly ceremonial.
Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons (born 1975, St. Louis), now Kimora Lee, is an American model, designer, and founder of Baby Phat, the billion-dollar women's streetwear brand launched in 1999; Chanel muse to Karl Lagerfeld at 13 and reality TV star.