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Krzysztof Gawkowski
Krzysztof Gawkowski, born in 1980, is a Polish New Left politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs, and a Sejm member since 2019.
Krzysztof Gofryk
Krzysztof Gofryk is a condensed matter and nuclear materials physicist at Idaho National Laboratory, directing the Center for Quantum Actinide Science and Technology and holding a Presidential Early Career Award.
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941–1996), Polish film director of Dekalog, The Double Life of Véronique, and the Three Colours trilogy; documentary-trained, Moral Anxiety movement, collaborator of Krzysztof Piesiewicz and composer Zbigniew Preisner.
Krzysztof Kiryluk
Krzysztof Kiryluk is a nephrologist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of Nephrology and Jay Meltzer Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, studying the genetics of kidney disease.
Krzysztof Klęczar
Krzysztof Klęczar, also known as Krzysztof Jan Klęczar, is a Polish politician of the Polish People's Party serving as Voivode of Lesser Poland Voivodeship since December 2023.
Krzysztof Komorski
Krzysztof Komorski is a Polish Koalicja Obywatelska politician who has been Voivode of Lublin Voivodeship since 2023, after serving as a Lublin deputy mayor and regional assembly councilor elected in 2018.
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a polymer chemist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, teaching there since 1985, best known for discovering atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in 1994 and winning the 2011 Wolf Prize.
Krzysztof Pachucki
Krzysztof Pachucki is a Polish theoretical physicist at the University of Warsaw whose 1996 Lamb-shift theory for muonic hydrogen enabled extracting the proton charge radius from spectroscopy.
Krzysztof Palczewski
Krzysztof Palczewski is a Polish-born American biochemical pharmacologist and vision scientist known for solving the crystal structure of rhodopsin, the retina's light-detecting protein, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), Polish composer and conductor, pioneer of sonorism with Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima and St Luke Passion, later neo-romantic symphonist, five-time Grammy winner.
Krzysztof Piątek
Krzysztof Piątek is a Polish professional footballer, a striker who starred for Genoa and AC Milan in Serie A and plays for Al-Duhail SC in Qatar.
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Krzysztof Piesiewicz (1945–2026), Polish screenwriter, defense lawyer, and senator, co-wrote Krzysztof Kieślowski's screenplays from No End through Dekalog, The Double Life of Véronique, and the Three Colours trilogy.
Krzysztof Radziwiłł 'Piorun'
Krzysztof Radziwiłł 'Piorun', a magnate of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was Grand Hetman and voivode of Vilnius, defeating the Swedes at Kokenhausen in 1601.
Krzysztof Soszynski
Krzysztof Soszynski, "The Polish Experiment" (born 1977, Stalowa Wola, Poland), Polish-Canadian UFC light heavyweight, TUF 8 semifinalist, 26-12-1 record, kimura specialist; retired 2011, later UFC Gym director and actor in Logan.
Krzysztof Szalewicz
Krzysztof Szalewicz is a Polish-born American physicist at the University of Delaware known for co-developing symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) and predicting molecular crystal structures from first principles.
Krzysztof Wielicki
Krzysztof Wielicki (born 1950) is a Polish mountaineer, fifth person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, first winter ascender of Everest, Kangchenjunga, and Lhotse, and Piolet d'Or Carrière laureate.
Krzysztof Żuk
Krzysztof Żuk is a Polish Civic Platform politician who has served as Mayor of Lublin since 2010, winning four consecutive terms and previously serving as a Treasury undersecretary.
Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac
Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac (Lithuanian: Kristupas Zigmantas Pacas, 1621–1684) was Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1658 and founder of the Pažaislis monastery near Kaunas.
KS 1731-260
KS 1731-260 is a neutron star low-mass X-ray binary near the Galactic center, discovered in 1989, known for a 12.5-year outburst and a 12-hour superburst.
KS Cracovia
KS Cracovia (Klub Sportowy Cracovia S.A., 'Pasy'), Kraków football club founded 13 June 1906; five Polish titles, Piłsudski Stadium, Święta Wojna derby with Wisła, Platek ownership since 2025.
KS-23
The KS-23 (КС-23, Karabin Spetsialniy) is a Soviet 23 mm pump-action carbine classified as a carbine for its rifled barrel, used for riot control since 1985.
Ksamil
Ksamil (Ksamili), coastal resort town in southern Albania under Saranda municipality, near Butrint UNESCO site; about 3,000 residents swelling past 9,000 in summer, known for sandy beaches, small islands, rapid tourism growth, and infrastructure problems.
Ksar Douiret
Ksar Douiret is a fortified Berber granary on a butte above the abandoned old village of Douiret, Tataouine Governorate, southern Tunisia; 14th-century structure, trans-Saharan trade stop, now under ASOR-AFCP conservation.
Ksar Draa
Ksar Draa (قصر الذراع, also Ksar Dheraa) is an abandoned circular double-walled stone ksar near Timimoun, Algeria, on the edge of the Grand Erg Occidental; its builder, date, and function remain undocumented.
Ksar el Kaoua
Ksar el Kaoua (قصر كاوة), also called Ksar Kaoua, is a ruined 4th-century fortified Roman rural residence (maison forte) near Ammi Moussa in Mauretania Caesariensis, Algeria, destroyed around 370/375 in the Firmus revolt.
Ksar el-Kebir (القصر الكبير)
Ksar el-Kebir (القصر الكبير) is a city in Larache Province, northern Morocco, on the Loukkos River, site of the 1578 Battle of the Three Kings and largely evacuated during the February 2026 Loukkos floods.
Ksara Taila
Kasara Taila (Kṣāra taila, kshara thailam) is a classical Ayurvedic alkaline medicated oil, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000472) as an ear-drop (karṇapūraṇa) for earache, tinnitus, deafness, and wound discharge, with salt and herbal ingredients in a sesame oil base.
KSAZ-TV
KSAZ-TV, branded Fox 10 Phoenix, is a Fox-owned television station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona. It signed on in 1953 as KOOL-TV and joined Fox in 1994.
KSDK
KSDK, branded NBC 5 St. Louis and formerly KSD-TV, is an NBC-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri, and the city's first television station, signing on in 1947.
Ksenia Afanasyeva (Ксения Дмитриевна Афанасьева)
Ksenia Afanasyeva (Ксения Дмитриевна Афанасьева), born 1991 in Tula, Russian artistic gymnast; 2011 world floor champion, 2010 world team champion, 2012 Olympic team silver, 2013 and 2015 European floor champion.