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Kristers Aparjods
Kristers Aparjods, born in 1998 in Sigulda, Latvia, is a Latvian luger who won team relay bronze at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and five World Cup races.
Kristi Anseth
Kristi Anseth is an American chemical engineer and biomaterials scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies photopolymerizable hydrogels for growing cells in 3D.
Kristi Burke
Kristi Burke is an American politician, muralist, and YouTube creator who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Tennessee's 1st Congressional District in 2026, challenging Republican incumbent Diana Harshbarger.
Kristi DuBose
Kristi DuBose (born 1964) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Alabama since 2005, appointed by George W. Bush.
Kristi H. Johnson
Kristi Haskins Johnson, born 1980 in Oxford, Mississippi, is a US district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 2020, formerly Mississippi's first Solicitor General.
Kristi Lee
Kristi Lee (Theresa Ritz, born 1960) is an Indianapolis radio personality, co-host and news director of the syndicated Bob & Tom Show since 1987, with a six-month 2015–2016 absence and 2022 Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame induction.
Kristi Montgomery
Kristi Julian Montgomery (born 2004, Leeds) is a Scottish midfielder for Blackburn Rovers; first senior Scotland call-up 21 Sep 2026, replacing injured Tierney and McLean.
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem, South Dakota Republican politician, first female governor of the state (2019-2025), 8th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2025-2026) leading Trump's mass deportation program, fired March 2026 over a $220 million ad campaign and enforcement controversies, briefly Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
Kristi Yamaguchi
Kristi Yamaguchi (born 1971, Hayward, California) is an American figure skater, 1992 Albertville Olympic ladies' singles gold medalist, 1991 and 1992 World champion, and founder of Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream.
Kristian Alfonso
Kristian-Joy Alfonso (born 1963, Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American actress, former figure skater and model, known for Hope Williams Brady on Days of Our Lives (1983-2020) and Beyond Salem.
Kristian Andersen
Kristian G. Andersen is a Danish-born immunologist and genomicist at Scripps Research who studies how emerging viruses like SARS-CoV-2, Zika, and Ebola emerge and spread.
Kristian Birkeland
Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) was a Norwegian physicist whose 1896 solar-particle theory of the aurora founded space plasma physics, and who co-invented the Birkeland–Eyde nitrogen fixation process behind Norsk Hydro's fertilizer industry.
Kristian Blummenfelt
Kristian Blummenfelt is a Norwegian triathlete from Bergen who won the men's triathlon gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2021 World Triathlon Championship.
Kristian Bush
Kristian Bush (born 1970, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter and producer, co-founder of country duo Sugarland with Jennifer Nettles and folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim, Grammy winner for "Stay," and producer of Megan Moroney.
Kristian Campbell
Kristian Campbell (born 2002) is a Boston Red Sox infielder/outfielder, 2023 fourth-round pick from Georgia Tech, 2024 Minor League Player of the Year, who debuted on Opening Day 2025 and signed an early extension.
Kristian Helin
Kristian Helin is a Danish cancer researcher working on epigenetics who has led the Institute of Cancer Research in London since 2021 and identified the first E2F transcription factors.
Kristian Lien (footballer)
Kristian Strømland Lien (born 2001) is a Norwegian centre-forward at Djurgårdens IF, formerly of Groningen, on loan at Kristiansund and HamKam, with 15 goals in 23 matches in 2026.
Kristian Nairn
Kristian Nairn, also known as Hodor, is a Lisburn-born Northern Irish actor, DJ, and author who played Hodor in Game of Thrones (2011-2016) and Wee John Feeney in Our Flag Means Death, and runs the Rave of Thrones DJ tour; his memoir Beyond the Throne appeared in 2024.
Kristian Østervold
Kristian Østervold (1885–1960), Norwegian sailor of Bergens Seilforening; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 12m (1907 Rating) Open class aboard Atlanta with brothers Henrik, Jan, and Ole Østervold.
Kristian Prenga
Kristian Prenga, born 1991 in Orosh, Albania, is an Albanian heavyweight boxer and former two-time European kickboxing champion based in Edgewater, NJ. Record 20-2 with all 20 wins by KO; lost to Anthony Joshua by second-round KO in Jeddah, July 2026, after twice knocking him down.
Kristian R. Olson
Kristian R. Olson is an American internist and pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for founding CAMTech and co-inventing the AIR newborn resuscitator.
Kristian Reich
Kristian Reich is a German dermatologist and translational researcher in inflammatory skin diseases, guest professor at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of MoonLake Immunotherapeutics.
Kristian Sommer Thygesen
Kristian Sommer Thygesen, also published as Kristian S. Thygesen, is a computational materials scientist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark, leading the open C2DB database of 2D materials.
Kristian Tapaninaho
Kristian Tapaninaho, born in 1981, is a Finnish-British entrepreneur who co-founded Ooni, the Edinburgh maker of portable pizza ovens sold in more than 90 countries, in 2012.
Kristiansand
Kristiansand (formerly Christianssand) is a city and municipality in Agder, southern Norway, founded in 1641 by King Christian IV on a strict Renaissance grid (Kvadraturen). Agder's administrative center, about 119,000 inhabitants, port, Kjevik airport, Dyreparken, and Kunstsilo.
Kristianstad Basin
Kristianstad Basin: Late Cretaceous (Campanian, ~78 Ma) sedimentary basin in Scania, southern Sweden, also called the Kristianstadsbasin, with rocky-shore fossil localities Ivö Klack, Åsen, and Maltesholm; over 200 species, highest-latitude rudists, and clumped-isotope SST seasonality of 15–27 °C.
Kristianstad Basin oyster paleoclimate records
The Kristianstad Basin oyster paleoclimate records are seasonally resolved sea-surface temperature reconstructions from fossil oyster shells in southern Sweden, dating to the late Campanian, about 78 million years ago.
Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve
Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Skåne, southern Sweden, designated in 2005 and covering two thirds of Kristianstad Municipality around the lower River Helge å.
Kristiansund
Kristiansund (Kristiansund Ballklubb, KBK), Norwegian football club founded 2 September 2003 from a CFK-KFK-SpareBank 1 Nordmøre merger project; Eliteserien since 2016, home Nordmøre stadion.
Kristiansund Municipality
Kristiansund Municipality (Kristiansund kommune), Møre og Romsdal, Norway: island town, clipfish history, 1742 town charter, Frei merger 2008, oil base on Haltenbanken, 24,390 residents.