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Knut Fridell
Knut Hilding Fridell (1908–1992), Swedish freestyle wrestler from Uddevalla; won gold in light-heavyweight (87 kg) at the 1934 Stockholm Europeans and the 1936 Berlin Olympics, first of six Swedish gold medalists there.
Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (Knut Pedersen, 1859–1952), Norwegian novelist and 1920 Nobel Literature laureate for Growth of the Soil; author of Hunger, pioneer of psychological modernism, and Nazi sympathizer who gave his medal to Goebbels.
Knut Holmann
Knut Holmann, born in 1968 in Oslo, is a Norwegian sprint kayaker who won six Olympic medals, including three golds in the K1 1000 meters, and successfully defended his Olympic title from 1996 to 2000.
Knut Johannesen
Knut Johannesen ("Kupper'n", born 6 November 1933, Oslo) is a Norwegian speed skater who won Olympic 10,000 m gold in 1960 with the first sub-16-minute world record (15:46.6) and 5,000 m gold in 1964.
Knut Kloster
Knut Kloster (1929–2020) was a Norwegian shipping executive who co-founded Norwegian Cruise Line in 1966 and converted the liner France into the world's largest cruise ship.
Knut Knudsen
Knut Knudsen, born 1950 in Levanger, Norway, is a Norwegian cyclist who won the 4000 m individual pursuit at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Norway's first cycling gold.
Knut Lundmark
Knut Lundmark was a Swedish astronomer who pioneered extragalactic distance measurement, published the first velocity–distance diagram for spiral nebulae, and directed Lund Observatory from 1929.
Knut Nordahl
Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl (1920–1984), Swedish footballer, brother of Bertil and Gunnar Nordahl; IFK Norrköping five-time champion, 1948 Olympic gold right back, 1950 World Cup bronze center half, AS Roma professional, Guldbollen 1949.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915–2007) was a Norwegian-born American comparative physiologist at Duke University, best known for showing how camels survive the desert and for the leading textbook Animal Physiology.
Knut Torell
Knut Emanuel Torell (1885–1966), Swedish gymnast and army officer with Stockholms GF; won gold in the Swedish system team event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, later a captain in the Norrland Artillery Regiment.
Knut Urban
Knut Urban, born 1941 in Stuttgart, is a German physicist at Forschungszentrum Jülich who made aberration-corrected electron microscopy practical, winning the Wolf and Kavli prizes.
Knute Rockne
Knute Rockne (1888-1931), Norwegian-born Notre Dame football coach, 105-12-5 record, .881 winning percentage, three national titles, popularized the forward pass, died in 1931 Kansas plane crash.
Knuth Becker
Knuth Becker (1891–1974) was a Danish novelist and poet whose nine-volume partly autobiographical cycle about Kai Gøtsche, published 1932–1956, is the largest of its kind in Danish literature.
Knuth–Bendix completion
Knuth–Bendix completion is an algorithm that tries to convert a set of equations into a confluent, terminating rewrite system, deciding the word problem by normal forms.
Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
The Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm, or KMP, is a string matching algorithm that turns the search string into a finite state machine, published by Knuth, Morris, and Pratt in 1977.
Knuth's up-arrow notation
Knuth's up-arrow notation, introduced by Donald Knuth in 1976, writes extremely large integers by extending exponentiation to tetration and higher repeated operations, and defines Graham's number.
Knuts Skujenieks
Knuts Skujenieks (1936–2022) was a Latvian poet and translator who wrote more than 800 poems during a seven-year sentence in Soviet labor camps in Mordovia, unpublished until 1990.
Knutstorp
Ring Knutstorp, a 2.079 km permanent road racing circuit at Kågeröd, Skåne, Sweden, FIA Grade 4, built by the Hyllinge club, asphalted 1963, extended 1970, revised 1980; hosted European F3 1976–1984 and the Svenskt Sportvagnsmeeting since 1974.
KNVB Cup
KNVB Cup (KNVB Beker, Dutch Cup): Netherlands' annual knockout football cup since 1898, open to pro and amateur clubs; Ajax record 20 titles; final at De Kuip since 1989; winner enters Europa League.
KNX (standard)
KNX is an open standard for home and building automation controlling lighting, heating, ventilation, blinds, and security, governed by the KNX Association in Brussels and standardized as ISO/IEC 14543-3.
Knygnešiai
The knygnešiai were Lithuanian book smugglers who carried banned Lithuanian-language printed matter from abroad into Lithuania during the Russian press ban of 1864 to 1904, keeping literacy and printing alive until its repeal in 1904.
Ko (கோ) (film)
Ko (கோ), also released in Telugu as Rangam, is a 2011 Tamil political action thriller directed by K.V. Anand, starring Jiiva as photojournalist Ashwin; it ran 175 days and grossed about Rs 50 crore.
Ko 2 (கோ 2)
Ko 2 (கோ 2) is a 2016 Tamil political thriller directed by Sarath Mandava, starring Bobby Simha, Nikki Galrani, and Prakash Raj; a remake of Telugu film Prathinidhi, released 13 May 2016, music by Leon James.
Ko Ji-yong
Ko Ji-yong (고지용, hanja 高志溶), born 1980, is a South Korean businessman and former singer, a member of first-generation K-pop boy band SechsKies (1997–2000); he skipped the 2016 YG contract, ran energy and advertising businesses, appeared on The Return of Superman, and later disclosed a liver health crisis and divorce.
Kō no Moronao
Kō no Moronao (高師直, died 1351) was a Japanese military commander and first shitsuji of the Muromachi bakufu under Ashikaga Takauji; he defeated Kitabatake Akiie and Kusunoki Masatsura and died in the Kannō Disturbance.
Ko Okumura
Ko Okumura (奥村康, born 1942) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Juntendo University School of Medicine, known for his 1988 Nature paper linking perforin to complement C9.
Ko Pha-ngan (เกาะพะงัน)
Ko Pha-ngan (เกาะพะงัน), also spelled Koh Phangan, is a Gulf of Thailand island in Surat Thani province, Thailand, about 122 km² and fifth-largest Thai island, famous for the monthly Full Moon Party at Haad Rin beach.
Ko Phuket
Ko Phuket (ภูเก็ต), Thailand's largest island in the Andaman Sea, about 543 km²; formerly Junk Ceylon, a tin-mining island, now a major tourism destination with 14.12 million visitors in 2025.
Ko Samui
Ko Samui (เกาะสมุย) is an island and district in Surat Thani Province in the Gulf of Thailand, and Thailand's third largest island after Phuket and Koh Chang.
Ko Shimamoto
Ko Shimamoto (島本功) was a Japanese plant molecular geneticist, professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, known for the first fertile transgenic rice and for identifying florigen receptors.