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K. Balaji (கிருஷ்ணமாசரி பாலாஜி)
K. Balaji (கிருஷ்ணமாசரி பாலாஜி, 1934-2009), Tamil actor-producer of Sujatha Cine Combines who produced Billa and remade Hindi hits with Sivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth, and Kamal Haasan; not the director Karri Balaji or RJ Balaji.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless, born 1941, is an American chemist at Scripps Research who founded click chemistry and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 and 2022.
K. Beichhua
K. Beichhua is an Indian politician who serves as President of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mizoram and is a member of its Legislative Assembly.
K. Bhagyaraj (கிருஷ்ணசாமி பாக்யராஜ்)
K. Bhagyaraj (Krishnasamy Bhagyaraj, 1953–2026), Tamil cinema's "King of Screenplay" (திரைக்கதையின் மன்னன்), was a Tamil film director, screenwriter, and actor known for middle-class dramas like Andha 7 Naatkal and Mundhanai Mudichu.
K. Birgitta Whaley
K. Birgitta Whaley (K. B. Whaley), born 1956, is an American-based theoretical chemical physicist at UC Berkeley, director of its Quantum Information and Computation Center, known for decoherence-free subspaces.
K. C. Jones
K.C. Jones (1932-2020), American basketball guard and coach; won 8 NBA titles as a Celtics player, 2 as assistant, 2 as Celtics head coach (1984, 1986); 522-252 record, Hall of Fame 1989.
K. C. Kesava Pillai
K. C. Kesava Pillai (കെ.സി. കേശവപിള്ള, 1868–1913) was a Malayalam poet, playwright, and composer from Paravoor, Kerala, best known for the mahakavya Kesaveeyam and the musical drama Sadarama.
K. C. S. Paniker
K. C. S. Paniker (Kovalezhi Cheerampathoor Sankaran Paniker, 1911–1977) was an Indian painter who led the Madras Art Movement and founded the Cholamandal Artists' Village.
K. C. Veerendra Puppy
K. C. Veerendra Puppy (ವೀರೇಂದ್ರ ಕೆ.ಸಿ. ಪುಪ್ಪಿ), born 1974, is an INC MLA from Chitradurga, Karnataka, and a casino owner arrested by the ED in 2025 over illegal betting and money laundering, later released on bail.
K. C. Venugopal
K. C. Venugopal, born 1963, is an Indian National Congress politician from Kerala who represents Alappuzha in the Lok Sabha and serves as Congress general secretary (organization), chairing the Committee on Public Accounts.
K. Chandrashekar Rao (కల్వకుంట్ల చంద్రశేఖర్ రావు)
K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR, కల్వకుంట్ల చంద్రశేఖర్ రావు), born 1954, founded the Telangana Rashtra Samithi in 2001 and was Telangana's first Chief Minister from 2014 to December 2023, now BRS president.
K. Chandru
Justice K. Chandru, retired Madras High Court judge and former CPI(M) labour lawyer, disposed of about 96,000 cases, inspired the film Jai Bhim, and led the 2023 Tamil Nadu anti-caste school commission.
K. Christopher García
K. Christopher Garcia is an American structural immunologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, an HHMI Investigator since 2005, known for the first T cell receptor structures.
K. Craig Kent
K. Craig Kent is an American vascular surgeon who led UVA Health as CEO until resigning in February 2025 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
K. D. Aubert
K.D. Aubert (Karen Denise Aubert, born 1978, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American actress and model, the Fanta Strawberry Fantana, known for Friday After Next, Soul Plane, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
K. D. Jadhav
K. D. Jadhav (Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, "Pocket Dynamo"), Indian freestyle wrestler, 1948 and 1952 Olympics; won bantamweight bronze at Helsinki 1952, independent India's first individual Olympic medal.
K. D. Tocher
K. D. Tocher (Keith Douglas Tocher) was a British operational research scientist who built the General Simulation Program in 1958 and wrote the first book on computer simulation.
K. Dane Wittrup
K. Dane Wittrup, known as Dane Wittrup, is a chemical and biological engineer at MIT who developed yeast surface display and applies protein engineering to cancer immunotherapy.
K. E. Gnanavel Raja
K. E. Gnanavel Raja (கே.இ ஞானவேல்ராஜா), born 1986, is a Tamil film producer and distributor, founder of Studio Green (2006), producer of Paruthiveeran and Kanguva, and relative of actors Sivakumar, Suriya, and Karthi.
K. E. Prakash
K. E. Prakash, born 1976, is an Indian DMK politician who has represented the Erode constituency of Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
K. E. van Holde
K. E. van Holde, or Kensal Edward van Holde, was an American biochemist at Oregon State University best known for describing the nucleosome core particle and chromatin structure.
K. Eric Drexler
K. Eric Drexler, also known as Kim Eric Drexler, is an American engineer, born in 1955, who founded molecular nanotechnology; his 1986 book Engines of Creation popularized it.
K. Ferdinand Braun
K. Ferdinand Braun (Karl Ferdinand Braun) was a German physicist who invented the cathode-ray tube and shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marconi.
K. Frank Austen
K. Frank Austen (1928–2023) was an American immunologist who spent his career at Harvard Medical School, co-characterized slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis, and led allergy research at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
K. G. Arunraj
K. G. Arunraj, doctor and ex-IRS officer, is Tamil Nadu's Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Minister in the TVK government of C. Joseph Vijay; TVK MLA for Tiruchengodu since 2026.
K. G. George
K. G. George (Kulakkattil Geevarghese George, 1945/1946–2023) was a Malayalam film director and FTII graduate, pioneer of middle cinema; directed Swapnadanam, Yavanika, Adaminte Variyellu, Irakal; won nine Kerala State awards and the 2015 J.C. Daniel Award.
K. G. Kenye
K. G. Kenye is an Indian politician from Nagaland and a Naga People's Front minister holding the Power and Parliamentary Affairs portfolios in the state government.
K. G. Subramanyan
K. G. Subramanyan (Kalpathi Ganpathi Subramanyan; 1924–2016) was an Indian painter, muralist, sculptor, writer, and teacher who shaped post-independence Indian art at Santiniketan and Baroda.
K. Gopinath
K. Gopinath, born in 1962 in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, is an Indian National Congress politician elected to the Lok Sabha from Krishnagiri in 2024, after serving in the state assembly.
K. H. Ara
K. H. Ara (Krishnaji Howlaji Ara, 1914–1985) was an Indian painter and a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group, known for still lifes and female nudes.