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Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou
Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou, also known as K.C. Nicolaou, is a Cypriot-born American organic chemist known for the total synthesis of Taxol and other complex natural products.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης)
Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης), Greek prime minister since July 2019 and New Democracy leader since 2016; reelected 2023 with 41%; son of Konstantinos Mitsotakis; record includes investment-grade recovery, gov.gr digitisation, Tempi disaster and wiretap scandal.
Kyriakos of Makuria
Kyriakos was a king of Makuria in Nubia who came to the throne after the deaths of Abraham and Mark, reorganized the kingdom's administration and Church, and established Nobadia as an eparchy.
Kyriakos Pierrakakis
Kyriakos Pierrakakis, born in Athens in 1983, is a Greek politician serving as Minister of Economy and Finance since 2025, after leading Greece's digital governance and education ministries.
Kyriakos Velopoulos
Kyriakos Velopoulos (Κυριάκος Βελόπουλος) is a Greek politician who leads the Greek Solution party and its parliamentary group, campaigning in 2026 on taxation, migration, and relations with Turkey.
Kyrie
The Kyrie, also called Kyrie eleison (Greek Κύριε ἐλέησον, "Lord, have mercy"), is a liturgical chant used in Christian worship since early times, retained in Greek in the Latin Mass.
Kyrie (song)
Kyrie is a 1985 Mr. Mister pop rock single from Welcome to the Real World, written by Richard Page, Steve George, and John Lang; its Greek chorus "Kyrie eleison" (Lord, have mercy) topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in March 1986.
Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Irving, born 1992 in Australia, is an NBA guard, 2011 No. 1 pick, 2016 champion, nine-time All-Star, now with the Dallas Mavericks after ACL surgery; returned October 2026.
Kyril Louis-Dreyfus
Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, born 1997, is a Swiss businessman who became Sunderland AFC's majority owner and chairman in 2021, the youngest chairman in English football at the time.
Kyrion II of Georgia
Kyrion II (კირიონ II), born Giorgi Sadzaglishvili, was a Georgian church historian elected in 1917 the first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia after autocephaly's restoration; he was assassinated in 1918.
Kyrkjeskipet Peak
Kyrkjeskipet Peak, named from the Norwegian for "the church nave," is a 3,085 m peak in the eastern Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, ranking among the region's highest summits.
Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona politician and former U.S. senator (2019–2025), also called Sinema (I-AZ). Served as a Democrat then independent; first openly bisexual senator; left office 2025.
Kyrtaelskoe Oil Field
Kyrtaelskoe Oil Field (Кыртаельское, also spelled Kyrtayel) is an oil and gas condensate field in the Komi Republic, Russia, 15 km southwest of Pechora and discovered in 1969.
Kyrthanion
Kyrthanion (Cyrtanium), ancient coastal settlement and summer anchorage in southeastern Cyrenaica, Libya, identified with Marsá Bū al 'Ifrīt cove near Tobruk; cited by Scylax, Ptolemy, and the Stadiasmus.
Kyruus Health (formerly Kyruus)
Kyruus Health, legally Kyruus, Inc., is a Boston healthcare technology company operating a care access platform for provider search, scheduling, and cost transparency, agreed to be acquired by RevSpring in 2025.
Kyrylo Budanov
Kyrylo Budanov is a Ukrainian politician and former Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine who serves as Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
Kyrylo Rozumovsky
Kyrylo Rozumovsky (Кирило Розумовський), born in 1728, was the last hetman of Ukraine's Cossack Hetman state (1750–1764) and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
KYSE-150
KYSE-150 (CVCL_1348, DSMZ ACC 375, JCRB1095) is a human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell line established by Shimada et al. in 1992 from a 49-year-old Japanese woman, widely used in radiation-resistance and drug studies.
KYSE-30
KYSE-30 (CVCL_1351) is a human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell line from a 64-year-old Japanese man, established 1992 in the KYSE series via nude-mouse heterotransplant; carries CDKN2A, HRAS Q61L, TP53 mutations and MYC, cyclin D1 amplifications.
Kyshawn George
Kyshawn George (born 2003) is a Swiss NBA wing for the Washington Wizards, drafted 24th overall in 2024 by the Knicks. One Miami season, 6'8" with 6'10¼" wingspan, rookie records for threes, 2025-26 breakout ended by elbow injury.
Kyshtym disaster
The Kyshtym disaster, also known as the Mayak disaster, was a 1957 chemical explosion of radioactive waste at a Soviet plutonium plant near Ozersk, the third worst nuclear accident in history.
Kysre Gondrezick
Kysre Gondrezick (born 1997, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is an American guard and model, 2021 WNBA fourth overall pick by the Indiana Fever, later Chicago Sky; 24 career WNBA games.
Kythera (settlement)
Kythera (settlement): human settlement on Kythera (Κύθηρα), southernmost Ionian island opposite Cape Maleas. Key sites: Bronze Age Kastri, a Minoanizing settlement; Byzantine Paliochora, destroyed 1537; Venetian-era Chora.
Kytherros
Kytherros (Κύθηρος) was a small ancient deme of Attica, one of the twelve ancient cities of Attica, located at Pousi Kaloyerou near Myrrhinous; known mainly from the Piraeus lease IG II² 2496, distinct from the island of Kythera.
Kytice
Kytice, full title A Bouquet of National Legends, is a collection of ballads by Czech writer and folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, first published in Prague in 1853.
Kyu Sakamoto (坂本九)
Kyu Sakamoto (坂本九, Ōshima Hisashi, 1941–1985), Japanese singer and TV personality; his "Sukiyaki" (上を向いて歩こう) was the first Japanese-language US Billboard No. 1 (1963); he died in the JAL Flight 123 crash.
Kyu Tae Lee
Kyu Tae Lee (이규태) is a South Korean electrochemist and professor of chemical engineering at Seoul National University, known for research on lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery materials.
Kyu-Kurarin (きゅうくらりん)
Kyu-Kurarin (きゅうくらりん) is a 2021 Vocaloid song by producer iyowa featuring KAFU, known for unstable jazz-like piano harmony, dark lyrics, and over 100 million YouTube views.
Kyu‐Jin Cho
Kyu-Jin Cho is a South Korean roboticist, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Seoul National University, known for bioinspired microrobotics and soft, origami-based robots.
Kyūdō (弓道)
Kyūdō (弓道), the Way of the Bow, is the modern Japanese martial art of archery using the asymmetric yumi, governed by the ANKF and IKYF, shot through the eight-stage Shaho-Hassetsu, with the 5th World Kyudo Taikai set for Tokyo 2028.