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Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing, born in 1943, is a German physicist who discovered the quantum Hall effect in 1980 and received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Klaus Voormann
Klaus Voormann, born Berlin 1938, German graphic designer, illustrator, bassist, and producer. Designed the Beatles' Revolver cover (1966 Grammy), played bass in the Plastic Ono Band, on Imagine, and at the Concert for Bangladesh; produced Trio.
Klaus Wagner
Klaus Wagner (1910–2000) was a German mathematician who worked in graph theory, known for his 1937 planarity theorem and his conjecture proved by Robertson and Seymour.
Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber (1936–2016) was a German-born biochemist who directed the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen from 1975 to 2004.
Klaus Wolfermann
Klaus Wolfermann (1946-2024), West German javelin thrower; 1972 Munich Olympic champion at 90.48m, beating Janis Lusis by 2 cm; world record 94.08m in 1973; six German titles.
Klaus-Michael Kühne
Klaus-Michael Kühne (1937–2026) was a German-born logistics entrepreneur who led Kuehne+Nagel for over half a century and held major stakes in Hapag-Lloyd, Lufthansa, and Brenntag.
Klaus‐Armin Nave
Klaus-Armin Nave is a German neuroscientist who studies myelin biology and neuron-glia interactions, directing the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen from 1999 to 2021.
Klaus‐Michael Debatin
Klaus-Michael Debatin, born 1952 in Karlsruhe, is a German pediatric hematologist-oncologist who helped discover the CD95 apoptosis pathway in 1989 and directed pediatrics at Ulm University Medical Center for 27 years.
Klavdia
Klavdia, full name Klavdia Papadopoulou (Κλαυδία), is a Greek singer of Pontic descent, born in 2002 near Athens, who represented Greece at Eurovision 2025, finishing 6th with 'Asteromáta'.
Klavdiya Boyarskikh
Klavdiya Boyarskikh (Клавдия Сергеевна Боярских), Soviet cross-country skier (1939–2009). Won all three women's events, 5 km, 10 km, and 3×5 km relay, at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics; two golds and a silver at the 1966 Oslo World Championships.
Klavdiya Mayuchaya
Klavdiya Mayuchaya, née Lapteva, was a Soviet javelin thrower who won gold at the 1946 European Championships and first threw the javelin beyond fifty meters in 1947.
Klavdiya Shulzhenko
Klavdiya Shulzhenko (Клавдия Шульженко), born in Kharkiv in 1906, was a Soviet estrada singer who gave over 2,500 wartime concerts and was famous for 'Blue Handkerchief'.
Klavdiya Tochonova
Klavdiya Tochonova (Клавдия Точёнова), Soviet shot putter, 1921-2004; 1952 Olympic bronze at 14.50 m and ratified world record holder 14.86 m from 1949; Leningrad blockade survivor.
Klavesin
Klavesin (Russian: Клавесин, "Harpsichord") is a family of Russian heavy autonomous underwater vehicles. Klavesin-1R, built by IMTP FEB RAS, entered Navy service; the larger Klavesin-2R-PM, by Rubin, is submarine-launched.
Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a Boston-based software company that automates marketing across email, SMS, and other channels for consumer brands. Founded in 2012, it went public in 2023.
Klāvs Elsbergs
Klāvs Elsbergs (1959–1987) was a Latvian poet, translator, and editor, the son of poet Vizma Belševica, who published two poetry collections and died at 28 in unclarified circumstances.
Klavs Jensen
Klavs Jensen, born in 1952, is a chemical engineer at MIT known for developing micro and mini flow reactors for pharmaceutical manufacturing and portable energy.
Klaw (character)
Klaw (Ulysses Klaue) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, Black Panther's archnemesis, debuting in Fantastic Four #53 (1966). A physicist turned being of living sound with a transducer hand, he killed T'Chaka and appears in the MCU played by Andy Serkis.
Klawock, Alaska
Klawock (Lâwaak) is a first-class Tlingit city on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, population 749. Site of Alaska's first salmon cannery (1878), home of the Klawock Cooperative Association, and the island's only airport.
Klax (video game)
Klax is a 1990 Atari Games arcade puzzle game by Mark Stephen Pierce and Dave Akers: catch tiles from a conveyor, drop them into a 5x5 well, and match three same-colored tiles across 100 waves; widely ported.
Klaxon
Klaxon is a trademarked brand of loud electromechanical horn or alerting device, patented by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1906, used mainly on cars and ships.
Klaxons
Klaxons were a London indie rock band formed in October 2005 in New Cross, leaders of the short-lived "new rave" tag and winners of the 2007 Mercury Prize for Myths of the Near Future; Surfing the Void (2010) and Love Frequency (2014) followed; disbanded 2015.
Klaxoon
Klaxoon is a French visual-collaboration software company founded in Rennes by Matthieu Beucher in 2015, best known for its workshop and whiteboard platform, acquired by Wrike in 2024.
Klay Thompson
Klay Thompson, NBA guard (born 1990), 4-time champion and 5-time All-Star with the Warriors as one of the Splash Brothers with Stephen Curry; No. 4 all-time in threes; later Mavericks, then Miami Heat from 2026.
KLC1
KLC1 (kinesin light chain 1, KNS2) is a human 14q32.33 gene encoding the cargo-binding light chain of the kinesin-1 motor; its N343 TPR residue determines JIP1 cargo specificity, and variants link it to schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
Klcp Domestic
Klcp Domestic, or KLCP Domestic Fund LP, is a family of Delaware private equity fund vehicles managed by Kennedy Lewis Management LP, a New York investment manager.
Klea Pineda
Klea Pineda (born 1999) is a Filipino actress, StarStruck season 6 Ultimate Female Survivor (2015), known as Muyak in Encantadia (2016), lead in Magkaagaw, and for Open Endings (2025); married to Katrice Kierulf.
Kleber Lucas
Kleber Lucas, born 1968 in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian gospel singer, pastor, and Latin Grammy winner known for "Deus Cuida de Mim".
Klebsiella
Klebsiella, a Gram-negative bacterial genus including Klebsiella pneumoniae, normally lives in human stool but causes healthcare-associated pneumonia, bloodstream, and wound infections, with rising carbapenem and cephalosporin resistance worldwide.
Klebsiella oxytoca
Klebsiella oxytoca, a Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae gut commensal and opportunistic pathogen, causes antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis via tilivalline and tilimycin toxins; part of a six-species complex, penicillin-resistant, unlike K. pneumoniae.