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Kryptonite (3 Doors Down song)
Kryptonite is 3 Doors Down's 2000 debut single from The Better Life, written by Brad Arnold at 15 in math class; it hit number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Alternative for 11 weeks.
Kryptos
Kryptos, Jim Sanborn's 1990 encrypted copper sculpture at CIA headquarters, Langley: four ciphers (K1-K4), three solved by 1999, K4 cracked via Smithsonian documents in 2025, archive auctioned.
Krysta Rodriguez
Krysta Rodriguez (born 1984, Orange, California) is an American stage and screen actress who originated Wednesday Addams on Broadway and Ilse in the Deaf West Spring Awakening revival, played Ana Vargas on Smash and Liza Minnelli in Netflix's Halston, and runs a dressing-room design business.
Krystal (film)
Krystal is a 2017 American comedy-drama, also known as Keep Coming Back, directed by and co-starring William H. Macy, with Rosario Dawson and Nick Robinson; released April 13, 2018 by Paladin, it grossed $37,516 and scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Krystal (restaurant)
Krystal is an American quick-service restaurant chain founded in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1932, known for small square hamburgers called sliders and concentrated in the South.
Krystal Ball
Krystal Ball is an American progressive political commentator, former 2010 Virginia congressional candidate and MSNBC contributor, now co-host of Breaking Points with Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Kyle & Friends with Kyle Kulinski.
Krystal Jung (정수정)
Krystal Jung (정수정, Jung Soo-jung), born 1994 in San Francisco, is a Korean-American singer-actress: lead vocal of f(x) (debut 2009), actress in The Heirs, Prison Playbook, and Cobweb, and solo artist since the 2025 single album Solitary.
Krystal Keith
Krystal Keith (Krystal Ladawn Covel Sandubrae, born 1985), American country singer-songwriter from Norman, Oklahoma, daughter of Toby Keith; debut album Whiskey & Lace (2013) on Show Dog-Universal, known for "Daddy Dance with Me" and the Boulder EP.
Krystal Klear
Krystal Klear is the alias of Declan "Dec" Lennon, an Irish DJ and producer from Dublin, based in New York, best known for the 2018 dance hit "Neutron Dance".
Krysten Ritter
Krysten Ritter (born 1981) is an American actress known for Jane Margolis in Breaking Bad, Chloe in Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, and Marvel's Jessica Jones, returning in Daredevil: Born Again; also author of Bonfire and Retreat.
Krystian Bielik
Krystian Bielik, born 1998 in Konin, is a Polish footballer, a centre-back and defensive midfielder. Arsenal, Derby County (£8m), Birmingham City, West Brom, Cardiff; Poland at the 2022 World Cup.
Krystle Carrington
Krystle Carrington (also Krystle Grant, Krystle Jennings) is the female lead of ABC's Dynasty (1981–1989), played by Linda Evans in 206 episodes as Blake Carrington's wife and Alexis's rival, winning a Golden Globe.
Krystle D'Souza
Krystle D'Souza (born 1990, Mumbai) is an Indian actress known for Jeevika Vadhera in Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai, Belan Wali Bahu, film debut Chehre (2021), and winning The Traitors India season 2.
Krystyna Kacperczyk
Krystyna Kacperczyk (born 1948, Kętrzyn), Polish sprinter and hurdler, 1972 Munich Olympian, set the first official women's 400 m hurdles world record (56.51, 1974) and a second (55.44, 1978).
Krystyna Keleman
Krystyna Keleman is a Drosophila neurogeneticist who studies how learning is converted into long-term memory in fruit flies; she was a Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2013 to 2022.
Krystyna Pyszková
Krystyna Pyszková, Czech model and law student from Třinec, is the 71st Miss World, crowned 9 March 2024 in Mumbai; she won Miss Czech Republic 2022, runs the Pyszko Foundation for education, and passed the crown to Thailand's Opal Suchata in 2025.
Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek, alias Christine Granville (1908–1952), Polish-born SOE and MI6 agent in WWII; ran courier lines from Hungary, freed Cammaerts from the Gestapo, and was murdered in London in 1952.
Kryvbas
Kryvbas (FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) is a Ukrainian football club founded 1959 in Kryvyi Rih, dissolved 2013, revived 2020 under President Zelensky's initiative, UPL bronze medalists 2023/24 and Conference League participant 2024.
Kryve Ozero Raion
Kryve Ozero Raion (Кривоозерський район), a former district of Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Kryve Ozero; established 1923, transferred to Mykolaiv Oblast 1954, abolished 17 July 2020 and merged into Pervomaisk Raion.
Kryvyi Rih (Кривий Ріг)
Kryvyi Rih (Кривий Ріг), industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, center of the Kryvyi Rih Iron-ore Basin; 431 km², about 600,000 people, Zelenskyy's hometown, hit repeatedly since 2022.
Kryzhopil Raion
Kryzhopil Raion (Крижопільський район), a 1923–2020 district in southern Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, centered on the railway settlement of Kryzhopil; 884 km², 40,907 residents (2001), grain and sugar-beet farming.
Krzemieniec Lyceum
Krzemieniec Lyceum, also the Volhynian Lyceum (Liceum Krzemienieckie), was a Polish higher school in Kremenets, Volhynia, from 1805 to 1831, founded by Tadeusz Czacki as a half-university for the nobility.
Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region
Krzemionki (Krzemionki Opatowskie) is a UNESCO World Heritage serial property in Świętokrzyskie, Poland: four Neolithic to Early Bronze Age striped flint mining sites (3900–1600 BCE) with over 4,000 shafts, chambers over 500 m², and axes traded 650 km; discovered 1922 by Jan Samsonowicz.
Krzysztof Arciszewski
Krzysztof Arciszewski (1592–1656) was a Polish nobleman, soldier, and engineer who commanded Dutch forces conquering northeastern Brazil and later served as General of the Crown Artillery.
Krzysztof Belczyński
Krzysztof Belczyński was a Polish theoretical astrophysicist who predicted stellar black hole masses and merger rates later confirmed by the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.
Krzysztof Bolesta
Krzysztof Bolesta is a Polish politician and former European Commission official serving as Secretary of State at Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment, appointed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Krzysztof Bosak
Krzysztof Bosak (born 1982) is a Polish politician, co-leader of the Confederation party and Deputy Marshal of the Sejm since 2023; he was the party's 2020 presidential candidate.
Krzysztof Fidelis
Krzysztof Fidelis is a computational structural biologist who directs the Protein Structure Prediction Center at UC Davis and co-founded CASP, the biennial protein structure prediction experiment, in 1994.
Krzysztof Galos
Krzysztof Galos is a Polish politician and geologist who serves as Undersecretary of State and Chief National Geologist at the Ministry of Climate and Environment, and previously directed the Mineral and Energy Economy Institute.
Krzysztof Gawedzki
Krzysztof Gawedzki, also Krzysztof Gawędzki, was a Polish-French mathematical physicist at ENS Lyon who proved the first intermittency results in turbulence and shared the 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize.