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Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow (Kurtis Walker, born 1959), Harlem rapper and producer; first rapper signed to a major label (Mercury, 1979), first gold rap record with "The Breaks", later a minister and Hip Hop Church co-founder.
Kurtis Chapman
Kurtis Chapman, 'Mad Kurt' (1997-2023), English professional wrestler from Portsmouth; RevPro Undisputed British Cruiserweight Champion 2017, Keyboard Warrior gimmick, died at 26, RevPro Hall of Fame 2025.
Kurtis Gabriel
Kurtis Gabriel, born 1993 in Newmarket, Ontario, is a former NHL enforcer (Wild, Devils, Sharks, Blackhawks; 51 games, 153 PIM, 11 fighting majors) and Pride Tape pioneer, later a mental health coach and advocate.
Kurtis Gregory
Kurtis Gregory is an American Republican politician, a fourth-generation farmer from Sweet Springs who served in the Missouri House from 2020 and joined the Missouri Senate in 2025.
Kurtosis
Kurtosis is a measure of the tailedness of a probability distribution, introduced by Karl Pearson in 1905 and used with skewness to quantify departure from normality.
Kürtőskalács
Kürtőskalács (chimney cake, Baumstriezel) is a Székely-Transylvanian spit cake of wound yeast dough with a caramelized sugar shell; first recorded 1679, first recipe 1784, Hungarian Hungarikum since 2015.
Kurtwood Smith
Kurtwood Smith (Kurtwood Larson Smith, born 1943) is an American character actor known as Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987) and Red Forman on That '70s Show (1998–2006), also seen in Star Trek, Patriot, and Netflix's That '90s Show.
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Kurtz is the Belgian ivory trader and antagonist of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), the man Marlow travels up the Congo to find. Known for the 'Exterminate all the brutes!' postscript, his final words, and Brando's Apocalypse Now portrayal.
Kuru (disease)
Kuru is an acquired human prion disease, also called an endocannibalism-transmitted spongiform encephalopathy, once epidemic among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea; over 1,874 deaths, mean incubation 12.4 years, last case 2009.
Kuru (musician)
kuru, DMV-born digicore and internet rap artist born 2005 in Rockville, Maryland, NYC-based on deadAir; albums re:wired, Stay true forever, Backstage hologram; distinct from Kurupt, Kur, DJ Kura, and a dance duo named Kuru.
Kuru kingdom
The Kuru kingdom (कुरु), flourishing roughly 1200 to 800 BCE, was the first larger polity or early state on Indian soil, centered at Hastinapura near Delhi.
Kuruba (ಕುರುಬ)
Kuruba (ಕುರುಬ), also Dhangar or Halu Mata, is a large shepherd and weaving caste of Karnataka, about 9.5% of the population, classified OBC 2A, seeking ST status; distinct from Jenu, Kadu, and Betta Kuruba Scheduled Tribes.
Kuruc
Kuruc is the name for the soldiers and sympathizers of the anti-Habsburg uprisings in Hungary, most notably Imre Thököly's uprising and Rákóczi's War of Independence.
Kurukan Fuga
Kurukan Fuga, also written Kouroukan Fouga, is a plain near Kangaba, Mali, where Sundiata Keita proclaimed the Manden Charter around 1235 after the Battle of Kirina.
Kurukshetra (कुरुक्षेत्र)
Kurukshetra (कुरुक्षेत्र), Dharmakshetra, is a city and district in Haryana, India, sacred as the Mahabharata battlefield and the land of the Bhagavad Gita, a 48 kos region between the Saraswati and Drishadvati rivers with Brahma Sarovar and Jyotisar.
Kurukshetra (कुरुक्षेत्र) (2000 film)
Kurukshetra (कुरुक्षेत्र), 2000 Hindi action drama by Mahesh Manjrekar starring Sanjay Dutt and Mahima Chaudhry; honest cop versus corrupt chief minister, released 10 November 2000, music by Himesh Reshammiya.
Kurukshetra (ಕುರುಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ) (2019 film)
Kurukshetra (ಕುರುಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ), 2019 Kannada epic war film by Naganna, produced by Munirathna, based on Ranna's Gadhayuddha; Darshan's 50th film as Duryodhana, released 9 August 2019 in five languages.
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (Kuruyuddha) is the eighteen-day battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two branches of the Kuru dynasty, told in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
Kurukshetra: The Great War of Mahabharata
Kurukshetra: The Great War of Mahabharata is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language animated Netflix series, 18 episodes in two parts, retelling the 18-day Kurukshetra war through 18 warriors, created by Anu Sikka, directed by Ujaan Ganguly, with Gulzar's lyrics.
Kurultai
Kurultai (quriltai, kurultay, khural) was the Mongol and Turkic great assembly that ratified decisions, elected khans, planned campaigns, and judged cases; it peaked at Chinggis Khan's 1206 assembly, split the empire in 1260, and declined after the 14th century, surviving in names like Mongolia's State Great Khural.
Kurultai (Kazakhstan)
Kurultai (Құрылтай) is Kazakhstan's unicameral parliament created by the 2026 constitution, replacing the bicameral Mazhilis and Senate. Its 145 deputies are elected for five years by proportional party-list vote in one nationwide district; Adilet won the first 2026 election.
Kurultai of 1260
The Kurultai of 1260 (忽裏勒臺) was the assembly of Mongol princes held at Kaiping in 1260 at which Kublai was proclaimed Great Khan, starting a succession war with his brother Ariq Böke.
Kuruluş: Orhan
Kuruluş: Orhan (The Ottoman: Orhan) is a Turkish ATV historical drama (2025–2026), sequel to Kuruluş: Osman, starring Mert Yazıcıoğlu as Orhan Bey; 26 episodes, ended June 10, 2026.
Kuruluş: Osman
Kuruluş: Osman (Establishment: Osman), Turkish ATV historical drama premiered 20 November 2019, Mehmet Bozdağ production starring Burak Özçivit as Osman Bey; sequel to Diriliş: Ertuğrul, six-plus seasons, exported internationally.
Kurum
Kurum was a Gutian ruler of Sumer, known only from the Sumerian King List, which places him between Yarla and Apil-kin with a reign of one year.
Kuruman Mission
The Kuruman Mission was a London Missionary Society station in South Africa's Northern Cape, founded in 1816, where Robert Moffat printed the first complete Setswana Bible in 1857.
Kurume
Kurume (久留米市) is a core city in southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, population about 304,000, third in the prefecture. Founded 1889 as a castle town; birthplace of tonkotsu ramen, Bridgestone's rubber industry, and painters Aoki Shigeru and Sakamoto Hanjiro.
Kurume kasuri
Kurume kasuri (久留米絣) is an indigo-dyed cotton ikat textile produced around Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, traditionally credited to Inoue Den around 1800 and designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1957.
Kurunegala District
Kurunegala District is an administrative district of Sri Lanka in the North Western Province, with its capital at Kurunegala. It is the country's second most populous district, with 1,768,156 residents at the 2024 census.
Kurunmi of Ijaye
Kurunmi of Ijaye was a nineteenth-century Yoruba war leader who held the title Aare-Ona-Kakanfo and ruled Ijaye, in present-day Nigeria, until his death in 1861.