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Kolbeinn Sigþórsson
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (born 1990, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic retired striker; 64 caps, 26 goals for Iceland, Ajax and AZ forward, scorer of Iceland's winner against England at Euro 2016; retired 2022.
Kolberg (film)
Kolberg (1945) is Veit Harlan's Agfacolor propaganda epic for Joseph Goebbels, dramatizing the Prussian town's 1806-07 resistance to Napoleon. The most expensive Nazi-era film (about 8.5 million Reichsmarks), it premiered 30 January 1945 in Berlin and besieged La Rochelle and failed as propaganda.
Kolbjörn Skarsgård
Kolbjörn Skarsgård (born 2012), Swedish child actor, youngest son of Stellan Skarsgård and Megan Everett-Skarsgård; debuted as young Clark in Netflix's Clark, first lead as vampire Walter in SVT's Färjan (Blood Cruise, 2025).
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a 1974–75 ABC horror series starring Darren McGavin as reporter Carl Kolchak, spun off from the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker and its 1973 sequel The Night Strangler; it inspired The X-Files.
Kolchak's Government
Kolchak's Government (Верховное правление Колчака) was the anti-Bolshevik Russian government established at Omsk by a November 1918 coup, with Admiral Alexander Kolchak as Supreme Ruler until his overthrow.
Kolchak's Siberian offensive and the Great Retreat
Kolchak's Siberian offensive (Весеннее наступление Колчака) was Admiral Kolchak's spring 1919 White drive from Siberia toward the Volga, repulsed by the Red Army that April.
Kolda
Kolda is a region of Senegal in eastern Casamance, created in 1984 and reduced in 2008 when Sédhiou separated; it has some 941,000 inhabitants and Senegal's highest poverty rate.
Kolding
Kolding, Danish city in Southern Jutland at the head of Kolding Fjord, 25 km south of Vejle; first recorded 1231, home of Koldinghus castle, harbor since 1843, municipality of about 96,000.
Kole T. Roybal
Kole T. Roybal is an American immunologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for engineering synthetic Notch receptors that give T cells customized therapeutic response programs.
Kolguyev Island
Ostrov Kolguyev (Колгуев, formerly Kholgola) is a Russian Arctic island in the southeastern Barents Sea, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, northeast of the Kanin Peninsula: tundra island of about 5,200 km², Nenets population in Bugrino, oil production since the 1980s, and a 2013–2014 reindeer collapse from over 12,000 to 153 animals.
Kolhapur (district)
Kolhapur district, southernmost district of Maharashtra, India, headquarters Kolhapur city on the Panchganga river. Area 7,685 sq km, 2011 population 3,876,001, 12 talukas; known for Ambabai temple, Kolhapuri chappals, sugar cooperatives, and Ichalkaranji textiles.
Kolhapur (कोल्हापूर)
Kolhapur (कोल्हापूर) is a city in southwestern Maharashtra, India, former capital of the Kolhapur princely state, on the Panchganga river; 549,236 residents in 2011, known for sugar, textiles, Kolhapuri chappals, and Hupari silver.
Kolhapur Mound
Kolhapur Mound, the Brahmapuri hill (ब्रह्मपुरी) in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, is an archaeological mound on the Panchaganga river, excavated 1945-46 by Deccan College, famed for a hoard of 102 Indian and Graeco-Roman bronzes including a Poseidon statuette.
Kolhapur State
Kolhapur State (कोल्हापूर भोंसले) was a Maratha princely state ruled by a cadet branch of the Bhonsle dynasty from 1710 until its merger into India in 1949.
Kolhörster (lunar crater)
Kolhörster is a 78.78 km-wide impact crater on the lunar far side at 10.79°S, 115.01°W, charted on LAC-71 and named by the IAU in 1970 for German cosmic-ray physicist Werner Kolhörster (1887–1946).
Koli people
Koli people (कोली), also Son Koli, Mahadeo Koli, are a cluster of fishing and agricultural castes and tribes of western India, about 12 million people in Maharashtra and Gujarat, with 39 surviving Koliwada villages in Mumbai.
Kolias Corona
Kolias Corona is a 200-km-wide corona, a quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 16.5°S, 207.9°E in quadrangle V-38, named for a Greek goddess and IAU-approved in 2003.
Kolibri Pistol
The Kolibri Pistol is an Austrian semi-automatic pocket pistol designed by watchmaker Franz Pfannl around World War I, firing the smallest centerfire cartridge ever produced.
Kolica Atarakua
Kolica Atarakua (Kolica Atárakua, Kolitza) is a two-player race board game of the Purépecha people of Michoacán, Mexico, played with four stick dice; documented in 1944 and likened to patolli.
Koliivshchyna
Koliivshchyna (Коліївщина) was a haidamak uprising of 1768–1769 in Right-Bank Ukraine against Polish-Lithuanian rule, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Gonta and suppressed by joint Russian and Polish forces.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatian politician and diplomat, fourth President of Croatia 2015–2020 and first woman in the office; earlier foreign minister and first female NATO Assistant Secretary-General.
Kolja Hebenstreit
Kolja Hebenstreit is a Berlin technology founder and early-stage investor, known as a co-founder of Delivery Hero in 2011 and of Team Europe and Point Nine Capital.
Kolkata (কলকাতা)
Kolkata (কলকাতা), formerly Calcutta until 2001, is the capital of West Bengal on the Hooghly River, former capital of British India, India's third largest metropolitan area with over 15 million people, governed by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Kolkata Kalyani Airport
Kolkata Kalyani Airport, also called the Kalyani Greenfield Airport, is a proposed second airport for Kolkata, announced in 2026, to be built near Kalyani in Nadia district.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), IPL franchise from Kolkata, India, founded 2008, owned by Knight Riders Sports (Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Jay Mehta); three IPL titles (2012, 2014, 2024), home ground Eden Gardens, captain Ajinkya Rahane.
Kolkata Metro (কলকাতা মেট্রো)
The Kolkata Metro (কলকাতা মেট্রো), also known as the Calcutta Metro, is the rapid transit system of Kolkata, India, and the first metro railway in the country, opened in 1984.
Kolkata railway station
Kolkata railway station, also known as Chitpur station, is a long-distance passenger terminal in north Kolkata, India, opened in 2006 as the city's third rail terminal after Howrah and Sealdah.
Kolkata-class destroyer
The Kolkata-class destroyer, also known as Project 15A, is a class of three stealth guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy, built at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai between 2014 and 2016.
Kolkheti
FC Kolkheti-1913 Poti (Kolkheti Poti) is a Georgian football club founded 30 November 1913 in Poti; 24 top-flight seasons since 1990, two 1990s UEFA Cup appearances, relegated in 2025 and now in Erovnuli Liga 2.
Kolkhoz
A kolkhoz (колхоз, "collective farm") was a nominally cooperative agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union, dominant from forced collectivization in 1929 and reorganized, not formally abolished, after 1991.