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Klara Hitler
Klara Hitler (Klara Pölzl, 1860–1907), Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler; third wife and second cousin of Alois Hitler; six children, two survived; died of breast cancer in Linz in December 1907, treated by the Jewish physician Eduard Bloch.
Klara Killermann Bartos
Klára Killermann-Bartos (Killermann Klára, Bartos Győzőné, 1929–2012), Hungarian breaststroke swimmer; three-time Olympian (1952–1960), 1954 European 200 m breaststroke bronze medalist, and holder of three 4×100 m medley relay world records.
Klarälven
Klarälven (Trysilelva in Norway) is a 460 km river flowing from the Norwegian fells through Värmland, Sweden, into Lake Vänern at Karlstad. Sweden's last log-driving river until 1991, now regulated by 11 hydropower dams and used for timber raft tourism.
Klarna
Klarna, also known as Klarna Bank, is a Swedish fintech company founded in 2005 that lets shoppers pay online immediately, later, or in installments, earning most revenue from retailer fees.
Klaros
Klaros (Κλάρος, Clarus): ancient Greek oracle sanctuary of Apollo in Ionia, in the territory of Kolophon near Notion, Turkey. Peak in Hellenistic and Roman times; male seer drank sacred spring water in an underground adyton; excavated from 1907.
Klas Lestander
Klas Lestander (1931–2023), Swedish biathlete from Arjeplog, won the first Olympic biathlon gold, the 1960 Squaw Valley 20 km individual, with the only clean 20-for-20 shooting despite the 15th-fastest ski time.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844–1916) was a Swedish journalist, politician, and pacifist who shared the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize with Fredrik Bajer and founded the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society in 1883.
Klas Tybrandt
Klas Tybrandt is a Swedish professor of materials science who heads the Soft Electronics group at Linköping University, known for ionic circuits and stretchable gold-nanowire electrodes for neural interfaces.
Klask
Klask is a two-player Danish magnetic dexterity tabletop game invented by Mikkel Bertelsen in 2013, combining air hockey and foosball; players steer strikers with under-board magnets, first to 6 points wins, with a World Championship since 2017.
Klasky Csupo
Klasky Csupo, Inc. is a Hollywood animation studio founded in 1982 by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó. It animated The Simpsons' first three seasons, created Rugrats, and produced the first non-Disney animated film to top $100 million.
Klass
Klass is a Haitian kompa band formed in Miami in 2012 by drummer and producer Jean Hérard Richard, known as Richie, after leaving Zenglen, and fronted by lead singer Pipo.
Klaudia Kazimierska
Klaudia Kazimierska (born 2001, Włocławek) is a Polish 1500m runner based in Eugene, Oregon; Polish record holder (3:54.05), 2026 Diamond League Final and World Ultimate champion, European silver medallist.
Klaudia Tanner
Klaudia Tanner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party who serves as Federal Minister for Defence, leading the Austrian Armed Forces and military service reform.
Klaudianon
Klaudianon, the ancient name of the Roman fort-and-quarry settlement at Mons Claudianus, Jabal Fatira, Egypt's Eastern Desert; granodiorite quarried for Rome, attested in ostraca, active mainly Trajanic-Hadrianic.
Klaus (film)
Klaus (2019) is Sergio Pablos's hand-drawn Netflix animated Christmas film, the streamer's first animated feature, about postman Jesper and toymaker Klaus in Smeerensburg; BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee.
Klaus & Klaus
Klaus & Klaus is a German party-schlager duo from northern Germany, formed in 1982 by Klaus Baumgart and Klaus Büchner and best known for the hit "An der Nordseeküste".
Klaus Aktories
Klaus Aktories is a German physician and pharmacologist known for work on bacterial protein toxins targeting Rho GTPases and the actin cytoskeleton, and professor at Freiburg from 1995 to 2018.
Klaus Badelt
Klaus Badelt is a German film score composer and producer, born 1967 in Frankfurt, best known as the credited composer of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and for his Media Ventures apprenticeship under Hans Zimmer.
Klaus Balkenhol
Klaus Balkenhol (Nikolaus Balkenhol, born 6 December 1939, Velen) is a German dressage rider and trainer; Olympic team gold 1992 and 1996 and individual bronze 1992 on police horse Goldstern, later German and US national dressage coach.
Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie (Nikolaus Barbie, 1913–1991), the "Butcher of Lyon," was SS head of the Lyon Gestapo 1942–1944, responsible for Jean Moulin's torture, the Izieu children's raid, and deportations to Auschwitz; later a US CIC informant, he fled to Bolivia as Klaus Altmann and was convicted in France in 1987.
Klaus Bechgaard
Klaus Bechgaard (1945–2017) was a Danish chemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who, with Denis Jérôme, discovered the first organic superconductor in 1979.
Klaus Biemann
Klaus Biemann (1926–2016) was an Austrian-born American chemist at MIT who pioneered organic mass spectrometry, led the Viking molecular analysis experiment on Mars, and developed mass spectrometric protein sequencing that laid the groundwork for proteomics.
Klaus Bittner
Klaus Bittner (born 23 October 1938, Görlitz) is a German rower of the Ratzeburg-Kiel "Goldachter" who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at Rome 1960, the first non-US eights gold since 1900, and silver at Tokyo 1964.
Klaus Clusius
Klaus Clusius (1903–1963) was a German physical chemist who invented the thermal diffusion column with Gerhard Dickel in 1938, a device for separating gases and stable isotopes.
Klaus D. Timmerhaus
Klaus D. Timmerhaus (1924–2011) was an American chemical engineer and cryogenics researcher who spent 42 years on the University of Colorado Boulder faculty and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver (born 1947, Hall in Tirol, Austria), won 10m platform gold at 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympics after 1964 silver; only diver with three successive Olympic titles in one event.
Klaus Dieter Ludwig
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig, nicknamed Lucky, East German rowing coxswain (1943-2016); Olympic silver in coxed fours at Munich 1972, gold in the eights at Moscow 1980, and seven World Championship medals.
Klaus Dieter Neubert
Klaus-Dieter Neubert (born 1949, Oberwiesenthal) is an East German rowing coxswain, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed pair at Munich 1972 with Gunkel and Lucke, fourth at Mexico 1968, later a GDR foreign-trade official.
Klaus Eichmann
Klaus Eichmann, born 1939 in Kassel, is a German immunologist who showed antibody idiotype specificity is inherited through heavy-chain-linked genes, and directed the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg from 1981 to 2004.
Klaus F. Rabe
Klaus F. Rabe (born 1957) is a German pulmonologist and professor of pulmonary medicine at Kiel, known for the ETHOS COPD trial and dupilumab severe asthma trial.