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Kirikongo
Kirikongo is an archaeological site of 13 occupation mounds in the Mouhoun Bend, western Burkina Faso, inhabited ca. 100–1650 CE and excavated by Stephen Dueppen; known for a twelfth-century egalitarian revolution, iron production, and ritual mound formation.
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Kirikou and the Sorceress (Kirikou et la Sorcière) is Michel Ocelot's 1998 French-Belgian-Luxembourg animated film adapted from West African folk tales, with music by Youssou N'Dour, about a tiny boy saving his village from the sorceress Karaba.
Kiril Hristov
Kiril Hristov (Кирил Христов, 1875–1944) was a Bulgarian poet, playwright, and translator born in Stara Zagora, one of the most popular Bulgarian poets of the early twentieth century.
Kiril of Bulgaria
Kiril of Bulgaria, born Kiril Milov in 1997 in Dupnitsa, is a Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler and three-time European champion at 97 kg (2022, 2025, 2026).
Kirill A. Afonin
Kirill A. Afonin is a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who designs RNA and DNA nanoparticles for drug delivery and immune modulation.
Kirill A. Martemyanov
Kirill Martemyanov is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for mapping RGS protein regulation of GPCR signaling and identifying GPR158 as the first metabotropic glycine receptor.
Kirill Alexandrov
Kirill Alexandrov is an Australian molecular and synthetic biologist, CSIRO-QUT Inaugural Professor of Synthetic Biology at Queensland University of Technology since 2018, working on protein switches and diagnostics.
Kirill Dolzhenkov
Kirill Dolzhenkov (Кирилл Долженков), Russian winger born 2004 in Moscow, plays for Avangard Omsk in the KHL after CSKA; Columbus Blue Jackets 2022 fourth-round pick (109th overall), 198 cm, 101 kg, left shot.
Kirill Kaprizov (Кирилл Олегович Капризов)
Kirill Kaprizov (Кирилл Капризов), Russian NHL left wing for the Minnesota Wild; 2021 Calder winner, 2018 Olympic gold medalist, Wild's all-time leading goal scorer, and holder of the record eight-year, $136 million contract.
Kirill Naryshkin
Kirill Naryshkin (Кирилл Полуэктович Нарышкин) was a Russian boyar, father of Tsaritsa Natalia Naryshkina and grandfather of Peter the Great, exiled as a monk in 1682.
Kirill Prigoda
Kirill Prigoda (Кирилл Пригода) is a Russian breaststroke swimmer born in 1995 in St. Petersburg, a two-time Olympian and former short-course 200 m world record holder.
Kirill Razumovsky
Kirill Razumovsky (Кирилл Григорьевич Разумовский) was a Russian statesman of Cossack origin, the last Hetman of Little Russia from 1750 to 1764 and president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Kirill Shamalov
Kirill Shamalov is a Russian businessman who became Russia's youngest billionaire through shares in the petrochemicals company SIBUR and was sanctioned from 2018.
Kirill Zalessky
Kirill Zalessky (born 1980) is a Belarusian politician serving as Minister of Communications and Informatization since March 2025, appointed by President Alexander Lukashenko; he works on mobile coverage, digital education, and international cooperation.
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
The Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery (Кирилло-Белозерский монастырь) is a Russian Orthodox monastery on Lake Siverskoye in Kirillov, Vologda Oblast, founded around 1397 by the monk Kirill Belozersky.
Kirillov orbit method
The Kirillov orbit method, also called the orbit method, parametrizes the irreducible unitary representations of a Lie group by its coadjoint orbits; A. A. Kirillov introduced it in 1962.
Kirin Beverage
Kirin Beverage is the soft drink subsidiary of Japan's Kirin Holdings, responsible for producing non-alcoholic beverages and operating one of Japan's largest vending machine networks through its subsidiary Value Vendor Company.
Kirin Company
Kirin Company (Kirin Holdings, キリンホールディングス) is the Japanese beverage and pharmaceutical group descended from Japan Brewery (1885) and Kirin Brewery (1907), operating alcoholic beverages, non-alcoholic beverages and health science, and pharmaceuticals including Kyowa Kirin.
Kirinji
Kirinji (キリンジ) is a Japanese pop band formed in 1996 by the Horigome brothers, known for the song 'エイリアンズ' and a distinctive style called 'Kirinji-like'.
Kirinskoye Gas and Condensate Field
The Kirinskoye gas and condensate field (Киринское газоконденсатное месторождение) is an offshore Gazprom field off Sakhalin Island, discovered in 1992 and the site of Russia's first subsea gas production system.
Kirinyaga
Kirinyaga County, Kenya, a Mount Kenya region county also called Kirinyaga County, home to 610,411 people, agrarian economy of rice, coffee and tea, governed by Anne Waiguru, poverty rate 23.1% in 2022.
Kirinyaga Linea
Kirinyaga Linea, a 400 km linea on Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, near the equator at -1.8°, 128.8° W; IAU-approved 2010, named for Mount Kenya, the Kikuyu holy mountain of the god Ngai.
Kirio Fan Club
Kirio Fan Club (霧尾ファンクラブ) is a josei romantic-comedy manga by Chikyu no Osakana Ponchan, serialized on Comic Ruelle 2022–2024 in six volumes, about schoolgirls Aimi and Nami obsessing over classmate Kirio; adapted into a 2025 live-action drama and a 2026 Satelight anime on HIDIVE.
Kirishi GRES power station
Kirishi GRES (Киришская ГРЭС, Kirishskaya GRES) is a large gas-fired thermal power station in Kirishi, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, the largest in the country's Northwest region.
Kirisuto no Haka (キリストの墓)
Kirisuto no Haka (キリストの墓) is a site in Shingo Village, Aomori, Japan, where a legend from the forged Takeuchi documents claims Jesus fled crucifixion and is buried.
Kirit Doshi
Kirit Doshi is an Indian businessman and promoter of Waaree Energies, India's largest solar module manufacturer, where he plays a key role in project acquisition, development, and execution.
Kirit R Kanakiya
Kirit R Kanakiya is a Mumbai-based chartered accountant turned value investor, tracked by The Economic Times with a portfolio of 28 listed companies worth about Rs 7.03 billion (Rs 703 crore).
Kiritimati
Kiritimati (Christmas Island) is the world's largest atoll by land area, 388 km², in the Northern Line Islands, Kiribati; population 7,369 (2020), low-lying, drought-prone, former British and US nuclear test site, now a copra, fishing and bonefish fly-fishing economy.
Kirito (キリト) (Sword Art Online)
Kirito (キリト), real name Kazuto Kirigaya, is the protagonist of Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online series: the Black Swordsman trapped in the SAO death game, voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, star of ALO, GGO, and Underworld.
Kirk A. Peterson
Kirk A. Peterson is an American theoretical chemist at Washington State University known for developing correlation consistent Gaussian basis sets, including relativistic sets for heavy elements.