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Kulbhushan Jadhav
Kulbhushan Jadhav (कुलभूषण जाधव), also Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, alias Hussein Mubarak Patel: former Indian Navy officer arrested in Pakistan in 2016, sentenced to death for espionage, subject of the ICJ's 2019 Jadhav (India v. Pakistan) judgment.
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (कुलभूषण खरबंदा)
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (कुलभूषण खरबंदा), born 1944 in Hasan Abdal, is an Indian character actor of Hindi and Punjabi cinema, known for Shakaal in Shaan (1980), Arth, Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy, Lagaan, and Mirzapur's Bauji.
Kulbir Bhaura
Kulbir Singh Bhaura, Indian-born British field hockey forward (born 1955, Jalandhar); 84 England and 61 Great Britain caps; Olympic bronze 1984 Los Angeles and gold 1988 Seoul; later hockey equipment businessman.
Kulda Coal Mine
Kulda Coal Mine is an operating opencast coal mine in the Ib Valley coalfield of Sundergarh district, Odisha, India, owned by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, a Coal India subsidiary.
Kuldeep Indora
Kuldeep Indora, born 1969, in Ganganagar, Rajasthan, is an Indian National Congress politician elected to the 18th Lok Sabha from the Ganganagar constituency in 2024.
Kuldeep Singh Pathania
Kuldeep Singh Pathania is an Indian National Congress politician who is Speaker of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, elected unanimously in January 2023 after five terms as MLA from Bhattiyat.
Kuldeep Yadav (कुलदीप यादव)
Kuldeep Yadav (कुलदीप यादव), born 1994, is an Indian left-arm wrist-spin (chinaman) bowler in all formats, known for his disguised googly and an ODI hat-trick against Australia.
Kuldhara (कुलधारा)
Kuldhara (कुलधारा), abandoned Paliwal Brahmin village about 18 km southwest of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, emptied around 1825 with 83 neighboring villages; famed for an overnight-exodus curse legend, with water scarcity and taxation as historians' explanations.
Kuldip Singh Brar (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਰਾੜ)
Kuldip Singh Brar (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਰਾੜ), born 1934 in Lahore, is a retired Indian Army lieutenant general who commanded Operation Blue Star in June 1984, wrote Operation Bluestar: The True Story, and survived a 2012 London assassination attempt.
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਡਪੁਰੀ)
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri (ਕੁਲਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਚੰਡਪੁਰੀ), 1940–2018, Indian Army brigadier, Maha Vir Chakra, who as a major led about 120 men of 23 Punjab defending Longewala in 1971 and was later played by Sunny Deol in Border.
Kuldurok Dorsa
Kuldurok Dorsa is a 1,100-km-long ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 50.4S, 61E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for an Uzbek thunder and lightning goddess; it forms a fork-like ridge with Asiaq Dorsa in Aino Planitia.
Kuleshov effect
The Kuleshov effect, also known as the Kuleshov experiment, is a film editing phenomenon named after Lev Kuleshov, who demonstrated it in the early 1920s.
Kulfi (कुल्फ़ी)
Kulfi (कुल्फ़ी), Indian frozen dairy dessert made by two-fold milk concentration and still freezing without air, denser and slower-melting than ice cream; Mughal-era origins, kulfiwallah street vendors, FSSAI-regulated, stevia-sweetened variants studied.
Kuli
Kuli, Swahili for dockworker, is a 1979 Swahili novel by the Zanzibari writer Adam Shafi Adam, built around the dockworkers' strike of 1948 in colonial Zanzibar.
Kulimina Corona
Kulimina Corona is a 170-km-wide corona on Venus at 261.90°E, 27.80°S, named in 2006 for an Arawakan creator goddess; one of 740 known Venusian corona features.
Kulinism
Kulinism (कुलीन प्रथा) was a Hindu social institution of Bengal that ranked upper-caste lineages and regulated their marriage, introduced under the Senas in the 12th century.
Kulintang
Kulintang (kolintang, kulintangan) is a pre-Islamic gong-and-drum ensemble music of Mindanao, Sulu, and northern Borneo, built on a row of graduated knobbed gongs with improvised variation, transmitted aurally and spread globally through Filipino American communities.
Kulipari: An Army of Frogs
Kulipari: An Army of Frogs is a 2016 Netflix animated series, 13 episodes, based on Trevor Pryce's Kulipari novels, following wood frog Darel defending the Amphibilands from scorpions and spiders; sequels Dream Walker and A King Rises.
Kuliyat-e-Mahjoor
Kuliyat-e-Mahjoor (کلیاتِ مہجور), the collected works of Mahjoor, gathers the Kashmiri poetry of Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor (1887 to 1952), Kashmir's national poet, in a standard 1984 edition.
Kuljeet Randhawa
Kuljeet Randhawa (1976–2006) was an Indian model and television actress, best known for the Sahara One serial Kohinoor and Star One's Special Squad. She died in Mumbai in 2006.
Kull the Conqueror
Kull the Conqueror is a 1997 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Nicolella and starring Kevin Sorbo as Kull, a barbarian who becomes king of Valusia.
Kull: The Legacy of the Raisingghs
Kull: The Legacy of the Raisingghs is a 2025 Hindi drama-thriller series on JioHotstar, created by Ekta and Shobha Kapoor and directed by Sahir Raza, in which three royal siblings fight for power after patriarch Chandra Pratap Raisinggh is murdered at his 60th birthday celebration.
Kulla (crater on Ganymede)
Kulla is a 93-km-wide impact crater on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, centered at 33.22°N, 113.87°W. Named for the Sumerian god of brick making, it was IAU-approved in 1985.
Kullaba
Kullaba, also written Kulaba, is a precinct of the ancient city of Uruk, modern Warka, in southern Iraq, home to the Temple of Anu built around 3300 BCE.
Kullassina-bel
Kullassina-bel is the second named king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, a legendary ruler credited with a 960-year reign and unattested by any inscription.
Kullback–Leibler divergence
The Kullback–Leibler divergence, or KL divergence, is an asymmetric measure of how different one probability distribution is from another, introduced by Kullback and Leibler in 1951 and equal to zero only when the distributions coincide.
Kullervo
Kullervo (Kullervo Öpik, 1932) is an extinct Ordovician clitambonitidine brachiopod genus of the family Gonambonitidae, known from Eurasia and North America, 466–443 Ma, with 11 species; distinct from the Kalevala figure and Tolkien's story.
Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala (कुल्फी कुमार बाजेवाला)
Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala (कुल्फ़ी कुमार बाजेवाला), also known as Kulfi Kumar Bajewala, is an Indian Star Plus musical drama (2018–2020), a remake of Potol Kumar Gaanwala, starring Aakriti Sharma as singing prodigy Kulfi and Mohit Malik as her father Sikander.
Kulli culture
The Kulli culture, also known as the Kulli complex, was an archaeological culture of southern Balochistan from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, contemporary with the Indus civilization.
Kulliyat
Kulliyat (کلیات) is a compiled collection of a poet's complete works in Urdu and Persian literature, gathering multiple books rather than one diwan, as in Kulliyat-e-Iqbal.