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Kuroita Katsumi
Kuroita Katsumi (黒板勝美, 1874–1946) was a Japanese historian at Tokyo Imperial University who founded Japanese old-document studies and edited the standard source collection Kokushi taikei.
Kuroki Tamemoto
Kuroki Tamemoto (黒木為楨) was an Imperial Japanese Army general, born in Kagoshima in 1844, who commanded the First Army from the Yalu River to the Battle of Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05.
Kuroko's Basketball (黒子のバスケ)
Kuroko's Basketball (黒子のバスケ, Kuroko no Basuke) is Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Weekly Shonen Jump manga about invisible playmaker Tetsuya Kuroko and Taiga Kagami of Seirin High defeating the Generation of Miracles; 30 volumes, three anime seasons (2012–2015), and the 2017 Last Game film.
Kuromi (クロミ)
Kuromi (クロミ) is a Sanrio character, the self-proclaimed rival of My Melody, debuting in 2005 in the anime Onegai My Melody; known for her black hood with pink skull, October 31 birthday, and top Sanrio Character Ranking finishes.
Kuromukuro (クロムクロ)
Kuromukuro (クロムクロ) is a 2016 26-episode mecha anime by P.A.WORKS, its 15th-anniversary and first giant-robot series, directed by Tensai Okamura; it aired April 2016 in Japan and streamed worldwide on Netflix from July 4, 2016.
Kurosawa (Mercurian crater)
Kurosawa is a large impact crater on Mercury, feature ID 3169 in the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, about 159 km in diameter, centered at latitude -53.40°, longitude 21.80°W in Mercury's southern hemisphere.
Kuroshio Current (黒潮)
The Kuroshio, also known as the Japan current, is a warm ocean current flowing northeastward past Taiwan and Japan, the Pacific counterpart of the Gulf Stream.
Kurotto
Kurotto is a grid-shading logic puzzle published by the Japanese company Nikoli since 2012, where each numbered circle equals the total size of black groups touching it.
Kurs (docking system)
Kurs (Russian for "course") is the radio-based automated rendezvous and docking system used by Soviet and Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to dock with Mir and the ISS, succeeding IGLA.
Kürşat Biçici
Kürşat Biçici, who performs as Kürşat, is a Turkish folk-music singer and television presenter born in Ankara in 1974 who debuted with the album Leyla in 2002.
Kursbuch
Kursbuch is a German cultural and political magazine founded in 1965 by Hans Magnus Enzensberger with Karl Markus Michel, a decisive forum of the West German left.
Kurse (comics)
Kurse (comics): Marvel Comics Dark Elf, originally Algrim the Strong, created by Walt Simonson, debuting in Thor #347 (1984) and transformed by the Beyonder in Secret Wars II #4 (1985); later mantle held by Lady Waziria; MCU version played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Kursk (film)
Kursk is a 2018 Thomas Vinterberg drama starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Lea Seydoux, and Colin Firth about the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster, adapted from Robert Moore's book A Time to Die, premiered at TIFF 2018.
Kursk (Курск)
Kursk (Курск) is a city in western Russia, administrative center of Kursk Oblast, population about 435,000 (2025). Founded as a Kievan fortress c. 982–984, first chronicle mention 1095; site of the 1943 Battle of Kursk and the 2024–2025 Ukrainian incursion into the oblast.
Kursk campaign
The Kursk campaign, or Ukrainian invasion of Russia, began on 6 August 2024, when Ukrainian forces seized about 1,000 square kilometers around Sudzha in Kursk Oblast.
Kursk nuclear power plant
The Kursk nuclear power plant (Kursk NPP) is a Russian nuclear station in Kursk oblast with four RBMK-1000 reactors commissioned between 1976 and 1985; its replacement, Kursk II, is under construction.
Kursk Oblast
Kursk Oblast (Курская область) is a federal subject of Russia in western European Russia on the Central Russian Upland, bordering Ukraine, with its administrative center at Kursk.
Kursk submarine disaster
The Kursk submarine disaster was the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000, with the loss of all 118 crew members.
Kurt & Courtney
Kurt & Courtney is Nick Broomfield's 1998 documentary on Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, and Cobain-death conspiracy theories; pulled from Sundance over uncleared music rights, grossing $678.8K.
Kurt Ainsworth
Kurt Ainsworth is an American former professional baseball pitcher who won an Olympic gold medal in 2000, pitched for the Giants and Orioles, and co-founded Marucci Sports.
Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is an American computer graphics researcher who led the development of OpenGL and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Kurt Alder
Kurt Alder (1902–1958) was a German chemist who, with his teacher Otto Diels, discovered the Diels–Alder reaction and shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it.
Kurt Alme
Kurt Alme is an American politician and the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana in 2026. He previously served as Montana's United States Attorney in two periods.
Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen (born 1954) is an American writer, Spy magazine co-founder with Graydon Carter, New York magazine editor, Studio 360 radio host, and author of Fantasyland, Evil Geniuses, and five novels including The Breakup.
Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle (born 1968, Pittsburgh) is an American retired wrestler, 1996 Atlanta Olympic freestyle gold medalist, WWE and TNA Hall of Famer, four-time WWE Champion and five-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow, born Kurt Breichen, is the ancient German vampire and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot, posing as an antiques dealer with familiar Richard Straker; portrayed by Reggie Nalder (1979), Rutger Hauer (2004), and Alexander Ward (2024).
Kurt Bendlin
Kurt Bendlin (1943-2024), West German decathlete for Bayer 04 Leverkusen; set the 1967 decathlon world record of 8,319 points in Heidelberg and won 1968 Olympic bronze behind Bill Toomey.
Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (1924–2018) was a German American pathologist and geneticist at UC San Diego who founded placental pathology as a discipline and created the San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo.
Kurt Benkert
Kurt Benkert (born 1995) is a former NFL quarterback from Virginia who signed undrafted with Atlanta in 2018, appeared in one game with Green Bay in 2021, and became a football analyst and Madden commentator.
Kurt Bennewitz
Kurt Bennewitz (1886–1964) was a German physical chemist, professor at Jena from 1927 and later at Würzburg and Stuttgart, nominated for the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.