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Kurt Hummel
Kurt Hummel, fictional gay high school student on Fox's Glee (2009-2015), played by Chris Colfer; role written for Colfer after his Artie audition; first character to come out on the show, partner of Blaine Anderson, Golden Globe-winning portrayal.
Kurt J. Bloch
Kurt J. Bloch is an American immunologist and rheumatologist, emeritus professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for 1968 and 1972 New England Journal papers on heavy-chain disease and surface immunoglobulins.
Kurt J. Isselbacher
Kurt J. Isselbacher (1925–2019) was a German-born American physician-scientist who led the Massachusetts General Hospital Gastrointestinal Unit for three decades, identified the enzymatic defect causing galactosemia, and founded the MGH Cancer Center.
Kurt Jarasinski
Kurt Jarasinski (1938–2005) was a West German show jumper who won the 1960 German Show Jumping Derby and team gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics riding Torro.
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer, born 1956, is a German statistical physicist who developed the Kremer-Grest bead-spring model and led polymer theory at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Kurt Krumpholz
Kurt Krumpholz, American freestyle swimmer and UCLA water polo All-American; set the 400m freestyle world record (4:00.11) at the 1972 US Olympic Trials yet missed the Munich team; won 1973 Belgrade world championship medals including a 4x200m relay gold.
Kurt Kuschela
Kurt Kuschela (born 1988, Berlin) is a German canoe sprint racer, Olympic gold medalist in C2 1000 m at London 2012 with Peter Kretschmer; 2013 world champion C4 1000 m; retired 2015, now KC Potsdam youth coach.
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck, born 1941 in Utrecht, is a Dutch-born Australian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at ANU known for reconstructing ice-volume and sea-level history, winning the 2012 Balzan Prize.
Kurt Lehovec
Kurt Lehovec was a Bohemian-born American physicist who patented p–n junction isolation, letting many transistors share one silicon die, and helped explain the first LEDs.
Kurt Leucht
Kurt Leucht (1903–1974), German Greco-Roman wrestler of SC Nürnberg 04, won bantamweight (58 kg) gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, took silver at the 1931 Prague Europeans, retired 1932, and became an international referee.
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), German-American social psychologist, founder of field theory, group dynamics, and action research; created MIT's Research Center for Group Dynamics and the B = f(LS) formula.
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder (born 1945), American journalist and MTV News anchor, host of The Week in Rock, co-author of Tina Turner's I, Tina, later film critic for Reason and SiriusXM host.
Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler (1903–1988) was a German-born mathematician, a central figure in transcendence theory who gave his name to Mahler's method, the Mahler measure, and a classification of transcendental numbers.
Kurt McKinney
Kurt McKinney (Kurt Robin McKinney), American actor and taekwondo black belt born 1962 in Louisville, Kentucky; starred in No Retreat, No Surrender opposite Van Damme, played Ned Ashton on General Hospital and Matt Reardon on Guiding Light.
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn is a German computer scientist known for work on algorithms, data structures, and computational geometry, and for starting the LEDA library of efficient data types and algorithms.
Kurt Meier
Kurt Meier, born 1962, is a Swiss former bobsledder who won four-man gold at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and silver at Lillehammer 1994, plus world titles in 1986 and 1993.
Kurt Metzger
Kurt Metzger, born 1977, is an American stand-up comedian and writer who worked on Inside Amy Schumer, earning four Emmy nominations, and voiced Randall Skeffington on Ugly Americans.
Kurt Meyer
Kurt Meyer (1910-1961), nicknamed Panzermeyer, Waffen-SS general commanding the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in Normandy; convicted by a Canadian military court at Aurich in 1945 of war crimes against Canadian POWs, death sentence commuted, released 1954.
Kurt Mislow
Kurt Mislow was a German-born American stereochemist who held the Hugh Stott Taylor Professorship at Princeton University, pioneered modern chirality theory, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Kurt Moeschter
Kurt Moeschter (Fritz Hermann Kurt Moeschter, 1903-1959), German rower of Berliner RK Hellas; with Bruno Müller won coxless pairs gold at Amsterdam 1928 in 7:06.4, Germany's first Olympic rowing gold, plus German titles 1927-29.
Kurt Nordström
Kurt Nordström was a Swedish microbiologist and geneticist at Uppsala University who worked out how plasmid replication is controlled, credited with discovering regulatory RNA, and won the Björkénska prize in 2008.
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser is a geomicrobiologist and professor at the University of Alberta known for research on banded iron formations, the textbook Introduction to Geomicrobiology, and founding the journal Geobiology.
Kurt Oppelt
Kurt Oppelt (18 March 1932, Vienna – 16 September 2015), Austrian figure skater; with Sissy Schwarz won 1956 Olympic pairs gold, 1956 World and European titles, after 1954 and 1955 world silvers behind Dafoe/Bowden.
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901–1982) was a German-American applied mathematician who joined Richard Courant at NYU in 1937 and shaped the modern theory of partial differential equations.
Kurt Peters (chemist)
Kurt Peters (1897–1978) was an Austrian chemist who trained under Walther Nernst, helped convert methane to acetylene, and served as rector of the Vienna Institute of Technology.
Kurt Petersen (engineer)
Kurt Petersen is an engineer and serial entrepreneur widely called the father of MEMS, known for his 1982 paper "Silicon as a Mechanical Material" and for co-founding six MEMS companies.
Kurt Pettersen
Kurt Pettersén (Kurt Pettersen), Swedish wrestler (1916-1957) from Borås, Borås BK; won Greco-Roman bantamweight gold at London 1948 by 3-0 decision over Egypt's Mahmoud Hassan; three European silvers, 22 Swedish titles.
Kurt Rambis
Kurt Rambis (born 1958) is a Greek-American former NBA forward, four-time Showtime Lakers champion (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988), later Lakers and Knicks coach, Timberwolves head coach 2009-11, and Lakers senior basketball adviser.
Kurt Reidemeister
Kurt Reidemeister (1893–1971) was a German mathematician who proved the Reidemeister moves characterizing equivalent link diagrams, wrote the 1932 standard work Knotentheorie, and defined Reidemeister torsion in 1935.
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell (born 1951, Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor, a Disney child star under a 10-year contract, Emmy-nominated as Elvis in 1979, known for John Carpenter's Snake Plissken, The Thing, Tombstone, and his partnership with Goldie Hawn.