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Kurt Schiffler
Kurt Schiffler (1896–1986) was a German engineer, entrepreneur, and amateur geometer who founded the educational toy firm Dusyma in 1925 and proposed the Schiffler point, a triangle center, in 1985.
Kurt Schuschnigg
Kurt Schuschnigg (Kurt von Schuschnigg), Austrian Christian Social chancellor 1934–1938 after Dollfuss's assassination; led the authoritarian Ständestaat, called the 1938 independence plebiscite, resigned under Hitler's ultimatum, survived Sachsenhausen and Dachau, and later taught at St. Louis.
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters (Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters, 1887–1948), German artist and poet of Hanover who invented Merz, a collage-assemblage art from the word Kommerz, and built the Merzbau, destroyed 1943; exile artist distinct from formal Dada membership.
Kurt Seiffert
Kurt Seiffert (Armin Kurt Seiffert, born 21 December 1935, Detroit) is an American rowing coxswain who won 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold in the coxed pair with Conn Findlay and Dan Ayrault and raced the coxed fours at Rome 1960.
Kurt Straíf
Kurt Straif is a German-trained cancer epidemiologist and physician who headed the IARC Monographs Program in Lyon and joined Boston College as a Research Professor in 2022.
Kurt Student
Kurt Student (1890–1978), German Luftwaffe Generaloberst and founder of the Fallschirmjäger paratroops; led Rotterdam 1940 and Crete 1941, ordered Cretan reprisals, and was convicted by a British court in 1946.
Kurt Sutter
Kurt Sutter, American television writer, producer, and director; creator of FX's Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014, 92 episodes), former The Shield executive producer, co-creator of Mayans M.C., and creator of The Bastard Executioner and Netflix's The Abandons; married to Katey Sagal.
Kurt Suzuki
Kurt Suzuki (Kurt Kiyoshi Suzuki), born 1983 in Wailuku, Hawaii, is a former MLB catcher (2007-2022) who won the 2019 World Series with Washington, made the 2014 All-Star team, and became Angels manager in October 2025.
Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik (1923–1983) was a German theoretical physicist who shaped quantum field theory through the LSZ formalism and the Callan–Symanzik equation, winning the 1981 Max Planck Medal.
Kurt Tank
Kurt Tank (Kurt Waldemar Tank, 1898 to 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led Focke-Wulf's design department and created the Fw 190 fighter.
Kurt Thomas (gymnast)
Kurt Thomas (1956–2020), American artistic gymnast, first U.S. man to win World Championships gold (floor, 1978); creator of the Thomas Flair and Thomas Salto, 1979 Sullivan Award winner, 1976 Olympian barred from 1980 by boycott.
Kurt Thomas Barnhart
Kurt Thomas Barnhart is an American reproductive medicine physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania whose research on ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, and infertility biomarkers earned him National Academy of Medicine election in 2023.
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935) was a German writer, satirist, and lawyer, one of the Weimar Republic's most widely read publicists, writing as Peter Panter and Theobald Tiger.
Kurt Vesterager Gothelf
Kurt Vesterager Gothelf, often published as Kurt V. Gothelf, is a Danish chemist and professor at Aarhus University whose research combines organic chemistry with DNA nanotechnology and biosensors.
Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile (born 1980, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, ex-War on Drugs co-founder, known for hypnotic fingerpicked guitar. Tenth album Philadelphia's been good to me released May 29, 2026 on Verve Records.
Kurt von Eckenbrecher
Kurt von Eckenbrecher (born 5 February 1917 in Neuruppin) was a German freestyle swimmer and SS sports officer who after the war edited Germany's first diving magazine, Delphin.
Kurt Von Figura
Kurt von Figura is a German biochemist known for work on lysosomal enzymes and sulfatases, and president of the University of Göttingen from 2005 to 2010.
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934), German general and last Weimar chancellor (3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933), Reichswehr political operator behind presidential cabinets, murdered by the SS on 30 June 1934.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922–2007), American satirical novelist of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, Dresden POW, GE publicist, resister of the science-fiction label, and also a visual artist.
Kurt W. Deuschle
Kurt W. Deuschle (1923–2003) was a German-born American physician, called a forefather of American community medicine by The Lancet, who led community medicine at Mount Sinai from 1968 to 1990.
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Waldheim, Austrian diplomat (born 21 December 1918), fourth UN Secretary-General 1972-1981 and President of Austria from 1986, whose career was reshaped by revelations of his concealed Wehrmacht service in the Balkans.
Kurt Wallander
Kurt Wallander is the fictional Ystad police inspector created by Swedish author Henning Mankell, lead of a crime series begun with Faceless Killers (1991), translated into over 40 languages, adapted into Swedish and BBC television, and continued via daughter Linda Wallander.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner, undrafted quarterback from Northern Iowa, Arena League Iowa Barnstormers and Amsterdam Admirals, won two NFL MVPs and Super Bowl XXXIV with the St. Louis Rams, reached three Super Bowls, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill (1900–1950), German-born American composer of The Threepenny Opera with Bertolt Brecht and Broadway works Lady in the Dark and Street Scene; exiled 1933, died in New York.
Kurt Wires
Kurt Wires (Kurt Oskar Wires, born Virtanen, 1919–1992), Finnish sprint kayaker; silver in K1 10,000 m at London 1948, double K2 gold with Yrjö Hietanen at Helsinki 1952; lost right eye in Continuation War.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich, born 1938 in Aarberg, Switzerland, is a Swiss chemist and biophysicist who won half of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing NMR spectroscopy to determine protein structures.
Kurt Zeitzler
Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963), German Generaloberst; Chief of the Army General Staff (OKH) September 1942 to July 1944, succeeding Halder; panzer staff officer under Kleist; urged Stalingrad breakout, championed Kursk, broke with Hitler in 1944.
Kurt Zouma
Kurt Zouma is a French professional center-back, born in Lyon in 1994, best known for seven and a half seasons at Chelsea, winning two Premier League titles and the 2021 Champions League.
Kurta
Kurta (kurti for the shorter women's form): a loose South Asian tunic worn by men and women in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, likely derived from the Central Asian kurtaka, now everyday and office wear often paired with jeans.
Kurti of Atuna
Kurti of Atuna, also known as Kurtî, was a ruler of the small Anatolian kingdom of Atuna in Tabal, given the neighboring kingdom of Šinuḫtu by Sargon II in 718 BC.