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Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin von Neurath (1873-1956), German diplomat, Hitler's first foreign minister (1932-1938) and Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1943), sentenced to 15 years at Nuremberg, released 1954.
Konstantin Voskoboinik (Константин Павлович Воскобойник)
Konstantin Pavlovich Voskoboinik (Константин Павлович Воскобойник), 1895–1942, Soviet engineer and physics teacher, first burgomaster of the Lokot self-government and founder of the National Socialist Party of Russia "Viking"; killed by Saburov's partisans, succeeded by Kaminsky.
Konstantin Vsevolodovich
Konstantin Vsevolodovich (Константин Всеволодович) was a Rurik prince, eldest son of Vsevolod the Big Nest, who won the grand principality of Vladimir at Lipitsa in 1216.
Konstantin Vyrupayev
Konstantin Vyrupayev (Константин Вырупаев), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler from Irkutsk; 1956 Melbourne Olympic bantamweight gold and 1960 Rome featherweight bronze; first Siberian Olympic champion; later coach and namesake of the Irkutsk memorial tournament.
Konstantin Wecker
Konstantin Wecker is a German singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer born in Munich in 1947, known for the 1977 ballad "Willy" and a fifty-year career of political song.
Konstantin Y. Bliokh
Konstantin Y. Bliokh is a theoretical physicist working on spin–orbit interactions of light and wave momentum, an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Centre since 2024.
Konstantina M. Stanković
Konstantina M. Stanković is an American otolaryngologist and auditory neuroscientist who became chair of otolaryngology at Stanford in 2021, researching gene therapy and other approaches to hearing restoration.
Konstantine Buhler
Konstantine Buhler is a venture capitalist and Seed/Early-stage partner at Sequoia Capital since December 2019, known for early-stage AI investments including Verkada, CaptivateIQ, XBOW, and Xaira.
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (კონსტანტინე გამსახურდია) was a Georgian novelist, one of the most influential 20th-century Georgian writers, known for the modernist Dionysus' Smile and historical novels of medieval Georgia.
Konstantinos Argyros
Konstantinos Argyros (Κωνσταντίνος Αργυρός) is a Greek pop and laiko singer from Athens, active since 2008, and the most-listened Greek artist on Spotify with over 450 million streams.
Konstantinos Arvanitis
Konstantinos Arvanitis is a Greek SYRIZA politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and Vice-Chair of The Left group since 2024.
Konstantinos Chatzidakis
Konstantinos Chatzidakis (Kostis Chatzidakis, Greek: Κωστής Χατζηδάκης) is a Greek politician of New Democracy who serves as Vice President of the Government and previously sat in the European Parliament.
Konstantinos Christoforou
Konstantinos Christoforou (Κωνσταντίνος Χριστοφόρου), born 1977 in Limassol, is a Cypriot singer-songwriter who represented Cyprus at Eurovision in 1996, 2002 with the boy band One, and 2005.
Konstantinos Fotopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Φωτόπουλος)
Konstantinos Fotopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Φωτόπουλος), known as Kosta, is a Greek-born American sentenced to death in Florida in 1990 for orchestrating two 1989 murders with his lover Deidre Hunt.
Konstantinos Kanaris (Κωνσταντίνος Κανάρης)
Konstantinos Kanaris (Κωνσταντίνος Κανάρης), born on Psara 1793/1795, died 1877, Greek fireship captain of the 1821 Revolution who burned the Ottoman flagship off Chios in 1822, killing admiral Kara Ali, and later served five times as Greek Prime Minister, dying in office in 1877.
Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstantinos (Kostas) Kenteris, Greek sprinter born 1973 in Mytilene; Olympic 200m champion Sydney 2000 (20.09), world champion 2001, European champion 2002 (19.85 NR); career ended by the 2004 Athens missed-tests doping case.
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντόπουλος) is a Greek-American cell biologist and bioengineer at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds the inaugural William H. Schwarz Professorship and studies cancer metastasis.
Konstantinos Kostoulas (Κωνσταντίνος Κωστούλας)
Konstantinos Kostoulas (Κωνσταντίνος Κωστούλας), Greek centre-back born 2005 in Athens; Olympiacos academy, Rio Ave loan, OFI Crete since 2025; not the Brighton striker Charalampos Kostoulas.
Konstantinos Mavropanos (Κωνσταντίνος Μαυροπάνος)
Konstantinos Mavropanos (Κωνσταντίνος Μαυροπάνος), Greek centre-back born 1997 in Athens; PAS Giannina, Arsenal, VfB Stuttgart, then West Ham from 2023; 2025/26 Hammer of the Year; Greece international since 2021.
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, often published as Kostas T. Konstantinidis, is a microbial genomics researcher at Georgia Tech who proposed average nucleotide identity for defining bacterial species.
Konstantinos Tasoulas
Konstantinos Tasoulas is a Greek politician who has been President of Greece since March 2025, having earlier served as an MP for Ioannina, a minister, and Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.
Konstanty Kalinowski
Konstanty Kalinowski (Канстанцін Каліноўскі) was a revolutionary democrat and leader of the January Uprising of 1863–1864 in Lithuania and Belarus, hanged in Vilnius in 1864.
Konstanty Ostrogski
Konstanty Ostrogski (c. 1460–1530) was a Grand Hetman of Lithuania who led the Polish-Lithuanian army to victory over Muscovy at the Battle of Orsha in 1514.
Konstanz
Konstanz (Constance), a university city of about 87,000 in Baden-Württemberg on Lake Constance's southern shore, bordering Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; largest city on the lake, seat of the Council of Constance 1414–1418.
Kont
The kont is the Haitian folktale, a Creole oral narrative performed at evening gatherings with the call and response formula Krik? Krak!, and later adapted for page and stage.
Kontagora Emirate
Kontagora Emirate is a traditional emirate in northwestern Niger State, Nigeria, founded in the mid-nineteenth century by the Fulani leader Umaru Nagwamatse and ruled by the Sarkin Sudan.
Kontakt-5
Kontakt-5 (Контакт-5) is a Soviet second-generation explosive reactive armor first fitted to the T-80U in 1985, and the first ERA designed to defeat kinetic energy tank rounds as well as shaped-charge warheads.
Kontek
Kontek is a 600 MW high-voltage direct current submarine and underground interconnector linking eastern Denmark's grid on Zealand with Germany, in operation since 1995 between Bjæverskov and Bentwisch.
Kontes Robot Indonesia
Kontes Robot Indonesia (KRI) is an annual national robotics competition for Indonesian higher-education students, first held in 2003 and organized by Puspresnas, whose flagship KRAI division selects Indonesia's team for the ABU Robocon.
Kontinent (journal)
Kontinent (Континент, "Continent") was a quarterly Russian literary, social-political, and religious journal founded in Paris in 1974 by the émigré writer Vladimir Maximov and later published in Moscow.