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KITT
KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) is the sentient talking Trans Am of Knight Rider (NBC, 1982–1986), voiced by William Daniels, built from a 1982 Pontiac Firebird, and a lasting cultural reference for autonomous cars.
Kitt Falk Petersen
Kitt Falk Petersen is a Danish-trained physician and metabolism researcher, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at Yale since 2012, known for measuring insulin resistance and mitochondrial function in living humans.
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Kitt Peak National Observatory, also known as Kitt Peak Observatory, is a U.S. national astronomical observatory founded in 1958 on Kitt Peak in southern Arizona near Tucson.
Kitten
Kitten: a juvenile domestic cat from birth to 1 year, also called a baby cat or young feline. Defined by veterinary life-stage guidelines; eyes open at 7-10 days, socialization window 2-9 weeks, weaned by 8-10 weeks.
Kitten Natividad
Kitten Natividad (Francesca Isabel Natividad, 1948–2022), Mexican American burlesque dancer and actress, Miss Nude Universe 1970–1971, muse of Russ Meyer in Up! and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens; died in Los Angeles at 74.
KITTI
KITTI is a benchmark suite of real-world driving data for computer vision and autonomous driving research, released in 2012 from recordings made around Karlsruhe, Germany.
KITTI Odometry benchmark
The KITTI Odometry benchmark is the visual odometry and SLAM evaluation of the KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite, ranking vehicle ego-motion estimation methods from recordings made around Karlsruhe, Germany.
KITTI-360
KITTI-360 is a large-scale autonomous driving dataset, successor to KITTI, recorded in the suburbs of Karlsruhe, Germany, with camera, laser scanner, and GPS/IMU data and dense semantic annotations.
Kitti's hog-nosed bat
Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also called the bumblebee bat, is the sole species of family Craseonycteridae, the smallest bat and smallest mammal by length (29–33 mm, ~2 g), living in limestone caves of western Thailand and southeast Myanmar; Near Threatened.
Kittie
Kittie is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in 1996 in London, Ontario, by sisters Morgan and Mercedes Lander, who broke through with their 1999 debut album Spit.
Kittilä mine
Kittilä mine (Kittilän kaivos) is an underground gold mine in Lapland, northern Finland, operated by Agnico Eagle since 2009 and the largest primary gold mine in Europe.
Kitting (manufacturing)
Kitting in manufacturing is a parts-feeding policy in which all components for one unit of a product are grouped into kit containers and delivered together to the assembly line.
Kittur Chennamma (ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಚೆನ್ನಮ್ಮ)
Kittur Chennamma (ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಚೆನ್ನಮ್ಮ, 1778–1829), queen of Kittur in Karnataka, led the 1824 armed revolt against the East India Company after it rejected her adopted heir, defeating and killing Collector St. John Thackeray before her imprisonment at Bailhongal.
Kitty (actor)
Kitty (Raja Krishnamoorthy, born 1952) is an Indian Tamil film actor, director, and screenwriter who debuted in Nayakan (1987), acted in over 50 films including Baasha and Bombay, and directed Dasarathan and Krishna.
Kitty Carlisle
Kitty Carlisle (Kitty Carlisle Hart), born Catherine Conn (1910-2007), American actress and singer of A Night at the Opera, longtime To Tell the Truth panelist, Moss Hart's widow, and NYSCA chairwoman.
Kitty Castledine
Kitty Castledine (born 2002) is a British actress who plays Penny Branning on EastEnders. A LAMDA graduate, she has used a wheelchair since age seven after transverse myelitis, and advocates for disabled representation on screen.
Kitty Dukakis
Kitty Dukakis (Katharine Dickson, 1936-2025), wife of Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis; author of Now You Know and Shock, advocate for ECT, addiction recovery, Holocaust education, and refugees.
Kitty Duterte
Veronica "Kitty" Duterte, youngest daughter of Rodrigo Duterte and Honeylet Avanceña; filmed his March 2025 ICC arrest, campaigned for PDP-Laban in 2025, and defends the family at ICC and impeachment events.
Kitty Flanagan
Kitty Flanagan is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress (Full Frontal, Utopia, Fisk, Have You Been Paying Attention?), star and co-creator of the ABC sitcom Fisk as Helen Tudor-Fisk, multiple AACTA and Silver Logie winner, and author of 488 Rules for Life.
Kitty Foyle
Kitty Foyle is a 1940 RKO drama directed by Sam Wood, starring Ginger Rogers as a Philadelphia working woman, adapted from Christopher Morley's novel; Rogers won the Best Actress Oscar.
Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
The Kitty Hawk class was a class of four large, oil-fired aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy in the 1960s: Kitty Hawk, Constellation, America, and John F. Kennedy.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina: a town in Dare County on the Outer Banks, incorporated 1981, earlier called Chickahawk; site of the Wright brothers' first powered flight on December 17, 1903.
Kitty Likes to Dance
"Kitty Likes to Dance" is the fourth episode of Euphoria season 3, aired May 3, 2026 on HBO and HBO Max. Written and directed by Sam Levinson, it follows Rue becoming a DEA informant and introduces Kitty, played by Anna Van Patten.
Kitty McKane
Kitty McKane Godfree (Kathleen McKane), British tennis and badminton champion (1896-1992); won five Olympic tennis medals across 1920 and 1924, Wimbledon singles 1924 and 1926, and with husband Leslie Godfree the only married couple to win Wimbledon mixed doubles.
Kitty O'Neil
Kitty O'Neil (1946–2018) was a deaf American stuntwoman and racing driver, the first woman admitted to Stunts Unlimited, whose 512.71 mph women's land speed record stood until 2019.
Kitty Pryde
Kitty Pryde (Katherine Anne Pryde, Shadowcat) is a Marvel Comics X-Men superhero created by Claremont and Byrne in 1979, a Jewish teen from Deerfield, Illinois who phases through solid matter and became the X-Men's first teenage member.
Kitty van Male
Kitty van Male (born 1988, Amstelveen) is a Dutch field hockey forward; 116 caps, 39 goals; Olympic gold 2012 and silver 2016; European champion 2017; 2018 World Cup winner and top scorer with 8 goals.
Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells (Ellen Muriel Deason, 1919-2012), the Queen of Country Music, first woman to top the country charts with 1952's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"; 35 Top Ten hits, Hall of Fame 1976.
Kitty Winn
Kitty Winn (Katherine Tupper Winn), American actress born in Washington, D.C.; won 1971 Cannes Best Actress for The Panic in Needle Park, played Sharon in The Exorcist and its sequel, retired from acting in 1984.
Kitu Gidwani
Kitu Gidwani (Kaushalya Gidwani), Indian actress and model; Doordarshan star of Air Hostess, Swabhimaan, Shaktimaan; Best Actress, Festival des 3 Continents 1998 for Dance of the Wind; birth year disputed (1957 vs 1967).