All articles starting with K
16,083 articles
Kurt Binder
Kurt Binder (1944–2022) was an Austrian statistical physicist who pioneered Monte Carlo simulation as a tool of theoretical physics, introduced the Binder cumulant, and won the Boltzmann Medal.
Kurt Bretting
Kurt Bretting (Kurt Fritz Albert Bretting), German freestyle swimmer of SC Hellas Magdeburg; 100 m freestyle world record 1:02.4 (1912), fourth at Stockholm 1912, killed in action 1918.
Kurt Browning
Kurt Browning (born 1966) is a Canadian figure skater, the 'Kid from Caroline', first to land a ratified quadruple jump (1988 Worlds) and four-time World champion (1989-91, 1993), later a Stars on Ice choreographer and CBC commentator.
Kurt Brugger
Kurt Brugger (born 1969), Italian luge racer; with Wilfried Huber won Olympic doubles gold at Lillehammer 1994 (1:36.720). Competed in four Winter Olympics, 1988-1998, later Italian national head coach.
Kurt Busch
Kurt Busch (born 1978, Las Vegas) is a retired NASCAR driver, 2004 Cup Series champion and first playoff-era title winner, with 34 Cup wins in 776 starts, the 2017 Daytona 500, and first-ballot NASCAR Hall of Fame induction in 2026.
Kurt C. Stange
Kurt C. Stange is an American family physician and public health researcher at Case Western Reserve University, known for applying complexity science to primary care and founding the Annals of Family Medicine.
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall under Frederick the Great; Dutch and Mecklenburg service, victor of Mollwitz 1741, fell at the Battle of Prague 6 May 1757.
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain (Kurt Donald Cobain), born 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington, was Nirvana's singer, guitarist, and songwriter, leader of grunge; Nevermind hit No. 1 in 1992; he died in Seattle April 5, 1994.
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is Brett Morgen's 2015 HBO documentary, the first authorized Cobain film, executive-produced by Frances Bean Cobain, built from 200+ hours of unreleased audio, journals, and home movies, titled after Cobain's 1988 mixtape.
Kurt D. Engelhardt
Kurt D. Engelhardt is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Fifth Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Donald J. Trump.
Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege (1897–1946), SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, headed Nazi Germany's Ordnungspolizei 1936–1943 and was deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, responsible for Lidice and Ležáky; executed in Prague in 1946.
Kurt Drickamer
Kurt Drickamer is a biochemist holding the Chair in Biochemistry at Imperial College London, known for classifying animal lectins and coining the term C-type lectin.
Kurt Egyiawan
Kurt Egyiawan (born 1984) is a British actor known for Skyfall, Beasts of No Nation, A Real Pain, and Grand Maester Orwyle in House of the Dragon.
Kurt Einarsson
Kurt Einarsson is a Swedish physician and researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm known for studies of hepatic cholesterol and bile acid metabolism, aging, and gallstone disease.
Kurt Fuller
Kurt Fuller (born 1953) is an American character actor from San Francisco with over 200 credits, known for Ghostbusters II, Wayne's World, Midnight in Paris, and recurring roles as Woody on Psych, Zachariah on Supernatural, and Dr. Boggs on Evil.
Kurt G. Beam
Kurt G. Beam is an American muscle physiologist and ion-channel researcher, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German CDU politician, third Federal Chancellor of West Germany (1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969), leading the first Grand Coalition with the SPD; former Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg and CDU chairman 1967–1971.
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian-born logician and mathematician best known for the incompleteness theorems, proving that no consistent system of arithmetic can prove its own consistency.
Kurt Grelling
Kurt Grelling (1886–1942) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician who formulated the Grelling–Nelson paradox in 1908 and worked in the Berlin School of logical empiricism.
Kurt Grote
Kurt Grote (Kurt David Grote, born 1973), American breaststroke swimmer; 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay, 1998 world champion in the 200 m breaststroke, Stanford swimmer later a physician and McKinsey consultant.
Kurt H. Lange
Kurt H. Lange, also known as Kurt Lange, was a German engineer in metal forming who led the Universität Stuttgart's Institute for Metal Forming Technology from 1963 to 1988.
Kurt Hahn
Kurt Hahn, full name Kurt Matthias Robert Martin Hahn, was a German-born educator who founded Schule Schloss Salem, Gordonstoun, Outward Bound, and the United World Colleges.
Kurt Hasse
Kurt Hasse (1907-1944), German cavalry officer and show jumper, won individual and team jumping gold on Tora at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; killed in action on the Eastern Front. Not the cinematographer of the same name.
Kurt Heegner
Kurt Heegner was a German high school teacher and radio engineer whose 1952 proof of the class number one problem was vindicated after his death.
Kurt Helbig
Kurt Helbig (Curt Emil Helbig, 1901-1975), German weightlifter, shared 1928 Amsterdam Olympic lightweight gold with Hans Haas and set seven lightweight/middleweight world records 1925-30; later an East German NOC founder and Stasi employee in Plauen.
Kurt Helmudt
Kurt Helmudt (1943-2018), Danish rower of Roforeningen KVIK, won gold in the coxless fours at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, European silver 1964, and World bronze 1970; later a shipbuilding engineer.
Kurt Hensel
Kurt Hensel (1861–1941) was a German mathematician and student of Kronecker who became professor at Marburg in 1902, introduced the p-adic numbers in 1897, and proved Hensel's lemma.
Kurt Hirsch
Kurt August Hirsch (1906–1986) was a German-born British mathematician who pioneered polycyclic group theory and gave his name to the Hirsch number and Hirsch–Plotkin radical.
Kurt Hirschhorn
Kurt Hirschhorn (1926–2022) was an Austrian-born American pediatrician and medical geneticist who identified the chromosome deletion defining Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and helped found clinical cytogenetics in the United States.
Kurt Hugo Schneider
Kurt Hugo Schneider, born in Baltimore in 1988, is an American music producer and director best known for YouTube music videos combining cover arrangements with inventive editing.