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Kossuth Prize
The Kossuth Prize (Kossuth-díj) is Hungary's highest state award for achievement in culture and the arts, founded by the National Assembly in 1948 and named after Lajos Kossuth.
Kost Levytsky
Kost Levytsky (Кость Левицький, 1859–1941) was a Ukrainian lawyer and political leader in Galicia, first head of government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918.
Kosta Koufos
Kosta Koufos (Konstantine Demetrios Koufos), born 1989 in Canton, Ohio, is a 7-foot American center; Ohio State one season, 2008 first-round pick (23rd, Utah Jazz), 11 NBA seasons, 686 games, 5.7 ppg, 5.0 rpg, later CSKA Moscow, Olympiacos, and G League Ignite.
Kostal
Kostal is a German family-owned technology group headquartered in Lüdenscheid, founded by Leopold Kostal in 1912, supplying automotive electrical components and making solar inverters and battery storage systems.
Kostanay
Kostanay (Қостанай, formerly Kustanai, briefly Nikolaevsk) is a city on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan, founded 1879-1880, regional center, population 278,555 (2026), major grain and automotive industry hub.
Kostant partition function
The Kostant partition function is a representation theory function counting the ways a weight can be written as a sum of positive roots, introduced by Bertram Kostant in 1958.
Kostas Antetokounmpo
Kostas Antetokounmpo (Κώστας Αντετοκούνμπο), born 1997 in Athens, Greek forward, 2018 draft's 60th pick, 2020 NBA champion with the Lakers, first Greek-born NBA title winner, now with Aris Betsson until 2029.
Kostas Kostarelos
Kostas Kostarelos is a nanomedicine researcher and professor in Barcelona and Manchester, known for liposomes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene as medical materials and for analyzing the nanoscale COVID-19 vaccines.
Kostas Manolas
Kostas Manolas (Κωνσταντίνος Μανωλάς) is a Greek center-back born in 1991, best known for leading AS Roma's defense and scoring the 2018 goal that eliminated Barcelona.
Kostas Tsimikas
Kostas Tsimikas (Κώστας Τσιμίκας), born 1996 in Thessaloniki, Greek left-back; Liverpool FC No.21 since 2020 from Olympiacos; 2022 FA Cup-winning penalty, 2024-25 Premier League, 2025-26 Roma loan.
Kostas Tzoumas
Kostas Tzoumas (Κώστας Τζούμας), Greek computer scientist from Ioannina; co-founder and CEO of Berlin's Data Artisans, commercializer of Apache Flink; PhD from Aalborg; sold to Alibaba for a reported 90 million euros in 2019, renamed Ververica.
Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
The Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, also called the BKT transition, is a phase transition in two-dimensional systems where vortex–antivortex pairs unbind, proposed in 1973 and recognized by the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kostiantyn Dankevych
Kostiantyn Fedorovych Dankevych (Костянтин Данькевич; 1905, Odesa – 1984, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian and Soviet composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, named People's Artist of the USSR in 1954.
Kostiantynivka Raion
Kostiantynivka Raion (Костянтинівський район) was a district in northern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, with its administrative center the city of Kostiantynivka; it was abolished on 18 July 2020.
Kostis Palamas
Kostis Palamas (Κωστής Παλαμάς, 1859–1943) was a Greek poet, customarily called the national poet of Greece, who wrote the Olympic Hymn for the 1896 Games.
Kostmann syndrome
Kostmann syndrome (infantile genetic agranulocytosis, severe congenital neutropenia type 3) is a rare autosomal recessive HAX1-related neutropenia with ANC below 500 cells/mm3, neonatal bacterial infections, and promyelocyte maturation arrest.
Kostolac power station
The Kostolac power station is a lignite-fired complex at Kostolac on the Danube in northeastern Serbia, operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije and supplying roughly 17.7 percent of the country's electricity.
Kostroma Coronae
Kostroma Coronae: a 230-km-wide corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 40.6°N, 7.6°E, in quadrangle V-8; IAU-approved 2003 and named for an East Slavic spring and fertility deity.
Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma Oblast (Костромская область), a Central Federal District oblast of Russia formed 13 August 1944 with center Kostroma; 60.2 thousand km², about 571,900 people (2023), depopulating Non-Chernozem region with forestry, manufacturing, and Golden Ring tourism.
Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma (Кострома), city and administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia, on the Volga 340 km from Moscow, a Golden Ring river port; founded traditionally in 1152, cradle of the Romanov dynasty, population about 277,000.
Kostromskaya
Kostromskaya (Razmennye kurgans), burial mound group near stanitsa Kostromskaya, Krasnodar Krai, Russia; excavated by Veselovsky in 1897; early Scythian 7th-century-BC grave with 22 sacrificed horses and the Hermitage's famous gold stag plaque.
Kostromskaya GRES power station
Kostromskaya GRES (Костромская ГРЭС) is a gas-fired condensing power station in Volgorechensk, Russia, operated by Inter RAO – Electrogeneratsiya, and is the third-largest thermal power plant in Russia.
Kostromskaya stag
The Kostromskaya stag is a gold Scythian plaque of a recumbent stag, found in 1897 near Kostromskaya in the northern Caucasus and held in the Hermitage.
Kostya Ostrikov
Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov is a physicist who pioneered the field of plasma nanoscience, using low-temperature plasmas for nanotechnology, and has been a professor at Queensland University of Technology since 2015.
Kostya Tszyu
Kostya Tszyu (Konstantin Borisovich Tszyu, Константин Борисович Цзю), born 1969 in Serov, Soviet-born Australian boxer; undisputed junior welterweight champion 2001-2005, IBHOF Class of 2011, father of Tim and Nikita Tszyu.
Kostyor
Kostyor (Костёр, "The Bonfire") is a Russian monthly children's literary and artistic magazine founded in Leningrad in 1936 on the poet Samuil Marshak's initiative, the only children's magazine published during the siege of Leningrad.
Kostyrino (Ukraine)
Kostyrino (Kostyrine, Костирине) is a village in Kerch district, Crimea, Ukraine; the former Crimean Tatar village Cyongelek, renamed in 1945 after the Tatar deportation. Distinct from Kostryna in Zakarpattia.
Koşuk
Koşuk is the name for lyric, epic, and pastoral poems of pre-Islamic Turkic oral tradition, sung with the kopuz at hunting ceremonies and feasts and preserved by Kaşgarlı Mahmud.
Kosuke Hagino
Kosuke Hagino (萩野 公介) is a retired Japanese swimmer who won four Olympic medals, including 2016 400 m individual medley gold in an Asian record 4:06.05.
Kosuke Kitajima
Kosuke Kitajima (北島 康介) is a Japanese former breaststroke swimmer who won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, a consecutive-Games sweep no one else has matched.