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Konrad Wirnhier
Konrad "Conny" Wirnhier (1937-2002), West German skeet shooter; Olympic gold Munich 1972 and bronze Mexico City 1968, world champion 1965 and 1967, European champion 1968, creator of double trap.
Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995) was a German civil engineer who built the Z3 in 1941, the first working programmable computer, and created the Plankalkül high-level programming language.
Konso Cultural Landscape
Konso Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011, criteria iii and v) in the Konso highlands of southern Ethiopia, a 23,000 ha arid landscape of dry-stone terraces, walled paleta towns, moras, sacred forests, and waka funerary statues sustaining a 400-year living tradition.
Konso fortified villages
Konso fortified villages, called paletas, are walled hilltop towns of the Konso people of southern Ethiopia, built of dry stone and inscribed by UNESCO in 2011.
Konstancja Benisławska
Konstancja Benisławska, née Ryck (1747–1806), was a Polish-language poet of the Polish Livonian nobility, author of the religious verse collection Pieśni sobie śpiewane, published in Vilnius in 1776.
Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942) was a Russian Symbolist poet, perhaps the best-known living Russian poet of his era, who published 29 books and translated Poe, Shelley, and Whitman.
Konstantin Batygin
Konstantin Batygin, born in Moscow in 1986, is a Caltech professor of planetary science best known for the Planet Nine hypothesis, proposing a distant unseen planet.
Konstantin Chernenko (Константи́н Усти́нович Черне́нко)
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Константин Устинович Черненко), fifth General Secretary of the CPSU, led the USSR 13 February 1984 to 10 March 1985; Brezhnev protégé, General Department chief 1965–1982, continued Andropov's reforms, died after 13 months, succeeded by Gorbachev.
Konstantin Jireček
Konstantin Jireček (1854–1918) was a Czech historian and Slavist, a founder of Balkan studies who organized Bulgaria's school system and wrote the first complete history of the Bulgarians.
Konstantin Kisin (Константин Вадимович Кисин)
Konstantin Kisin (Константин Вадимович Кисин), born 1982 in Moscow, is a Russian-born British satirist, author and co-host with Francis Foster of the TRIGGERnometry podcast since 2018, author of An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.
Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Korovin (Константин Коровин; 1861–1939) was a Russian painter and theater designer regarded as the leading representative of Russian impressionism and chief artist of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Konstantin Leontiev
Konstantin Leontiev (Константин Николаевич Леонтьев) was a Russian conservative philosopher and writer, author of Byzantism and Slavdom in 1875, who became the monk Kliment in 1891.
Konstantin Loktev
Konstantin Borisovich Loktev (Константин Борисович Локтев), Soviet ice hockey right wing for CSKA Moscow; Olympic gold 1964, three World titles 1964-66, later CSKA and USSR coach, IIHF Hall of Fame 2007.
Konstantin Miladinov
Konstantin Miladinov (Константин Миладинов, 1830 to January 1862) was a poet and folklorist from Struga who compiled Bulgarian Folk Songs with his brother Dimitar and wrote the lyric T'ga za jug.
Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov, also known as Kostya Novoselov, is a Russian-British physicist who isolated graphene at Manchester in 2004, winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Andre Geim.
Konstantin Päts
Konstantin Päts was an Estonian statesman and lawyer who led the provisional government at Estonia's declaration of independence in 1918 and became the country's first President in 1938.
Konstantin Paustovsky
Konstantin Paustovsky (Константи́н Паусто́вский) was a Russian Soviet writer and master of lyrical prose, best known for the six-part autobiographical epic The Story of a Life.
Konstantin Pobedonostsev (Константин Петрович Победоносцев)
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (Константин Петрович Победоносцев), 1827–1907, Russian jurist and conservative statesman; ober-procurator of the Holy Synod 1880–1905, teacher of Alexander III and Nicholas II, critic of parliamentarism.
Konstantin Rokossovsky (Константин Константинович Рокоссовский)
Konstantin Rokossovsky (Константин Константинович Рокоссовский), Soviet and Polish marshal (1896–1968), commanded fronts at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration, survived Stalin's purges, led Poland's defense ministry 1949–1956, and commanded the 1945 Victory Parade.
Konstantin Severinov
Konstantin Severinov (Северинов Константин Викторович) is a Russian-American molecular biologist known for studies of bacterial RNA polymerase and CRISPR-Cas systems at Rutgers University and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Konstantin Sharovarov
Konstantin Grigoryevich Sharovarov (Константин Григорьевич Шароваров), born 1964 in Minsk, is a Soviet-Belarusian handball wing who won Olympic gold with the USSR at Seoul 1988, played two matches, scored two goals, and later coached BNTU-BelAZ.
Konstantin Sibold
Konstantin Sibold is a German techno DJ and producer from Stuttgart, born in 1987, who broke through in 2013 with the track "Madeleine" on Innervisions.
Konstantin Simonov
Konstantin Simonov (Константин Симонов) was a Soviet poet, novelist, and war correspondent whose 1941 lyric "Wait for Me" became a defining poem of the war against Nazi Germany.
Konstantin Sluchevsky
Konstantin Sluchevsky (Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky; 1837–1904) was a Russian poet and prose writer whose dark, philosophical verse was mocked by critics but later claimed by the Symbolists, especially Bryusov.
Konstantin Somov
Konstantin Somov, also known as Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Константин Андреевич Сомов), was a Russian painter and founding member of Mir Iskusstva, best known for The Lady in Blue.
Konstantin Stanislavski (Константин Сергеевич Алексеев)
Konstantin Stanislavski (Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev, 1863–1938), Russian actor, director, and teacher who co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and created the Stanislavski system of psychological-realistic actor training, the source of American Method acting.
Konstantin Stoilov
Konstantin Stoilov (Константин Стоилов) was a Bulgarian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served twice as prime minister of Bulgaria, normalizing political life after the Stambolov era and restoring relations with Russia.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский)
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was a Russian and Soviet schoolteacher in Kaluga who founded the theory of spaceflight, deriving the rocket equation and proposing liquid-propellant multistage rockets decades before any flew.
Konstantin Velichkov
Konstantin Velichkov (Константин Величков, 1855–1907) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, painter, and statesman who helped prepare the 1876 April Uprising and served as Minister of National Education from 1894.
Konstantin von Kaufman
Konstantin von Kaufman (Константин Петрович Кауфман) was a Russian general and the first governor-general of Turkestan from 1867 to 1882, directing the campaigns that made Bukhara and Khiva Russian protectorates.