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Krishna Kumar (actor)
Krishna Kumar (കൃഷ്ണ കുമാർ), born 1968 in Thiruvananthapuram, is a Malayalam film and TV actor known for the serial Sthree, films like Kaavalan and One, and NFDC chairman from April 2026; distinct from the Bhojpuri actor, producer Krishan Kumar, and writer K.R. Krishna Kumar.
Krishna Kumari (actress)
Krishna Kumari, or T. Krishna Kumari, was an Indian actress who starred in about 150 Telugu films from the 1950s through the 1970s and received the President's Award.
Krishna lifting Govardhana
Krishna lifting Govardhana is a legend episode in which Krishna holds up Mount Govardhana near Mathura to shelter cowherds from Indra's storm, widely depicted in sculpture.
Krishna Mandapa
The Krishna Mandapa is a 7th-century Pallava granite bas-relief at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, depicting Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana to shelter a village of cowherds and cattle from torrential rain sent by Indra.
Krishna Mehra
Krishna Mehra is a venture capital investor serving as AI Partner at Elevation Capital in Silicon Valley, where he leads Enterprise AI investing after joining from Meta in December 2024.
Krishna Mohan Banerjea
Krishna Mohan Banerjea (1813–1885) was a Bengali scholar, social reformer, and Anglican clergyman who converted from Hinduism in 1832 and championed the fulfilment theory of Christianity.
Krishna P. Singh
Krishna P. Singh is an American mechanical engineer who founded Holtec International, whose patented systems serve over 140 nuclear plants worldwide, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Krishna Patrika
Krishna Patrika (కృష్ణా పత్రిక) is a Telugu-language newspaper founded in 1902 at Machilipatnam, which became the preeminent political weekly of Andhra during the freedom struggle and a major patron of Telugu literature.
Krishna Prasad Tenneti
Krishna Prasad Tenneti is an Indian politician of the Telugu Desam Party and a member of the Lok Sabha for Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, first elected in 2024.
Krishna Raja Sagara (ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜಸಾಗರ)
Krishna Raja Sagara, or KRS dam, is a masonry dam on the Kaveri river at Kannambadi, Karnataka, India, built under Sir M. Visvesvaraya between 1911 and 1932.
Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಒಡೆಯರ್)
Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, also called Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar (ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಒಡೆಯರು; 1884–1940), was Maharaja of Mysore from 1902 to 1940, known for the University of Mysore, the KRS dam, early electrification, and welfare reforms.
Krishna Reddy (artist)
Krishna Reddy (1925–2018) was an Indian-born American printmaker, sculptor, and teacher who co-developed color viscosity printing at Atelier 17 in Paris and later founded New York University's printmaking department.
Krishna River (कृष्णा नदी)
Krishna River (कृष्णा नदी), third-longest river of India, rises in the Western Ghats near Mahabaleshwar and flows about 1,400 km to the Bay of Bengal; a 258,948 km² basin shared by Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh under tribunal awards.
Krishna Shroff
Krishna Shroff (born 1993, Mumbai) is an Indian fitness entrepreneur and reality TV personality, daughter of Jackie Shroff and sister of Tiger Shroff. She co-founded MMA Matrix gyms and the Matrix Fight Night promotion, and was runner-up on Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 and Chhoriyan Chali Gaon.
Krishna Sobti
Krishna Sobti (कृष्णा सोबती; 1925–2019) was an Indian Hindi novelist known for bold women characters and Punjabi-inflected prose; she won the Jnanpith Award in 2017 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zindaginama.
Krishna V. Shenoy
Krishna V. Shenoy, also known as Krishna Shenoy, is an American neuroscientist and neural engineer at Stanford University who co-founded Neuralink and led brain–computer interface research.
Krishna's Butterball (வான் இறை கல்)
Krishna's Butterball (Vaan Irai Kal) is a roughly 250-ton natural granite boulder balanced on a slope at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, within the UNESCO Pallava monument group, held stable by center of gravity, friction, and erosion history.
Krishnabodha Ashrama
Krishnabodha Ashrama (श्री कृष्णबोधाश्रम) was a Hindu monastic head, the 44th Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, installed in 1953 as a rival claimant and in office until 1973.
Krishnachandra Ray of Nadia
Krishnachandra Ray (কৃষ্ণচন্দ্র রায়) was the zamindar of Nadia in Bengal, 1710 to 1783, who allied with Robert Clive against Nawab Sirajuddaula and patronized Sanskrit learning.
Krishnadasa Kaviraja
Krishnadasa Kaviraja (কৃষ্ণদাস কবিরাজ) was a Bengali Vaishnava poet and theologian who settled in Vrindavana and wrote the Chaitanya Charitamrita, the chief hagiography of Chaitanya.
Krishnadevaraya
Krishnadevaraya (Krishna Raya, Crisnarao), Tuluva-dynasty emperor of Vijayanagara at Hampi, reigned 1509–1529; won Raichur (1520) against Bijapur, wrote the Telugu Amuktamalyada, patronized the Ashtadiggajas, and built tanks and temples.
Krishnadevaraya's Gulbarga campaign
Krishnadevaraya's Gulbarga campaign (गुलबर्गा अभियान) was the Vijayanagara offensive of 1512 in which Emperor Krishnadevaraya stormed Gulbarga fort, defeated Barid-i-Mamalik at Bidar, and restored the Bahmani sultan Mahmud Shah.
Krishnadevaraya's Kalinga campaign
Krishnadevaraya's Kalinga campaign was the Vijayanagara emperor's war against the Gajapati kingdom of Orissa, from the attack on Udayagiri in 1513 to peace in 1518.
Krishnadevaraya's Kalinga War
Krishnadevaraya's Kalinga War was the campaign fought by the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya against the Gajapati kingdom of Orissa, opening with the siege of Udayagiri in 1513.
Krishnagatha
Krishnagatha (കൃഷ്ണഗാഥ), also called Krishnappattu or simply Cherussery, is a Malayalam narrative poem on the life of Krishna, composed by Cherusseri Namboothiri in the court of Kolathunadu around 1475 in simple Malayalam in the manjari meter.
Krishnah Gravidez
Krishnah Marie Gravidez, Filipina beauty queen from Baguio; Miss World Philippines 2024, Top 8 and Miss World Asia at Miss World 2025 in Hyderabad, India; Universal Records artist behind the single Rainbow.
Krishnaism
Krishnaism is the scholarly label for the Hindu traditions in which Krishna, rather than Vishnu in general, is the object of supreme devotion, not a single system.
Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad
Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad (कृष्णाजी अनंत सभासद) was a Maratha courtier who served Rajaram at Jinji and wrote the Sabhasad Bakhar, the earliest chronicle of Shivaji's life.
Krishnakanter Will
Krishnakanter Will (কৃষ্ণকান্তের উইল) is an 1878 Bengali social novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay about a love triangle among Rohini, Bhramar, and Govindalal, and a set text in West Bengal universities.
Krishnakarnamrita
Krishnakarnamrita (Kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta, "nectar for Krishna's ears") is a medieval Sanskrit devotional poem of short ardent verses praising the youthful Krishna, ascribed to the poet Bilvamaṅgala, also called Līlāśuka, and cherished across India, especially in Bengal.