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Kamisese Mara
Kamisese Mara was a Fijian high chief and politician who led Fiji to independence in 1970, serving as Prime Minister until 1992 and as President from 1994 to 2000.
Kamishibai (紙芝居)
Kamishibai (紙芝居, paper theater) is Japanese picture-card storytelling performed with illustrated boards slid through a small wooden stage; born as street entertainment around 1930 with Ōgon Bat, used for wartime propaganda, displaced by television, and now an educational medium in Japan and abroad.
Kamiya Sōtan
Kamiya Sōtan (神屋宗湛) was a wealthy merchant of Hakata and a noted tea master who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi, helped rebuild the city, and died in 1635.
Kamla Ki Maut
Kamla Ki Maut (कमला की मौत, Death of Kamla) is a 1989 Hindi drama by Basu Chatterjee, NFDC-produced, set in a Mumbai chawl, about an unmarried pregnant woman's suicide; stars Pankaj Kapur, Supriya Pathak, Irrfan Khan.
KamLAND
KamLAND (Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector) is a kiloton-scale liquid scintillator neutrino detector in the Kamioka mine in Gifu, Japan, which confirmed neutrino oscillations with reactor antineutrinos and made the world's first geoneutrino detection in 2005.
Kamlesh Jangde
Kamlesh Jangde, born 1977, is an Indian politician from Chhattisgarh and a Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Lok Sabha representing Janjgir-Champa since 2024, after serving as a village council head.
Kamlesh Khunti
Kamlesh Khunti is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester, known for research on diabetes and multiple long-term conditions.
Kamlesh Paswan
Kamlesh Paswan is an Indian BJP politician who has represented Bansgaon in the Lok Sabha since 2009 and became a Union Minister of State in 2024.
Kamloops
Kamloops (Tk'emlúps) is a city in British Columbia's Southern Interior at the confluence of the North and South Thompson rivers. Incorporated 1893, population about 114,142 (2021 CMA), known as Canada's Tournament Capital.
Kamloops Indian Residential School
The Kamloops Indian Residential School, also called Kamloops Residential School, was a Canadian residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, from 1890 to 1978, the largest in the federal residential school system.
Kamma (కమ్మ) (caste)
Kammas (కమ్మ), also Chowdary, are a Telugu dominant agrarian caste of coastal Andhra Pradesh, landowning and politically powerful via the TDP, rivals of the Reddys, and heavily represented in US migration. Distinct from Kammara blacksmith communities.
Kamma & Masalo
Kamma & Masalo are an Amsterdam-based DJ and production duo known for their Brighter Days party series since 2014, their 2023 Rush Hour compilation, and their label Brighter Discs.
Kammanu
Kammanu was a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom of the Iron Age, centered on the royal city of Melid at Arslantepe near Malatya in eastern Turkey, until the Assyrian conquest of 712 BC.
Kammara Sambhavam (കമ്മാര സംഭവം)
Kammara Sambhavam (കമ്മാര സംഭവം) is a 2018 Malayalam satirical period film directed by Rathish Ambat, written by Murali Gopy, starring Dileep as Kammaran Nambiar; a film-within-a-film about propaganda and history that won the National Film Award for Best Production Design.
Kammatipaadam (കമ്മട്ടിപ്പാടം)
Kammatipaadam (കമ്മട്ടിപ്പാടം), also Kammatti Paadam, is a 2016 Malayalam drama by Rajeev Ravi, written by P. Balachandran, starring Dulquer Salmaan and Vinayakan, about Dalit land dispossession in Kochi's real Kammattipadam.
Kammattam
Kammattam is a 2025 Malayalam crime thriller web series, ZEE5's first Malayalam original, directed by Shan Thulasidharan, starring Sudev Nair as Inspector Antonio George investigating a Thrissur bank scam.
Kammavaca
Kammavaca is a Pali term for Tipitaka excerpts on ordination and robe-giving recited by monks in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, and for the richly decorated Burmese manuscripts recording them.
Kammback
A Kammback, also called a Kamm tail, is a car body style with a tapering roofline cut off abruptly at the rear, named after German aerodynamicist Wunibald Kamm.
Kammusu-nadbi
Kammusu-nadbi, also rendered Chemosh-nadab, was a king of Moab, the Iron Age kingdom east of the Dead Sea, who brought gifts to Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Kamnaskires V of Elymais
Kamnaskires V (کمنسکیرس پنجم) is a king of Elymais, attested only by silver coins, whom most catalogs date to 54–33/32 BCE, though one reference work dates him AD 58–106.
Kamnaskirid dynasty
The Kamnaskirid dynasty was the line of kings who ruled Elymais, a kingdom in the Zagros foothills of southwestern Iran, founded by Kamnaskires I around 147 BC.
Kamo clan
The Kamo clan (賀茂氏) was an ancient Japanese clan centered on the Kamigamo and Shimogamo shrines of northern Kyoto, whose priestly line rose to prominence in the Heian period.
Kamo no Chōmei
Kamo no Chōmei (鴨長明) was a Japanese poet and essayist of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, best known for the Hōjōki (1212), a classic account of life in seclusion.
Kamo no Mabuchi
Kamo no Mabuchi (賀茂真淵; 1697–1769) was a Japanese kokugaku scholar and poet who made a comprehensive philological study of the Man'yōshū and championed its ancient poetic style.
Kamoda Shōji
Kamoda Shōji (加守田章二, 1933–1983) was one of postwar Japan's most influential potters, known for stoneware whose forms, glazes, and painted decoration changed radically with each exhibition.
Kamogelo Sebelebele
Kamogelo Sebelebele (Mike Kamogelo Sebelebele, born 2002) is a South African footballer, a right-sided winger or fullback for Orlando Pirates and South Africa, who won the 2025 MTN8, 2025 Carling Knockout and 2025-26 Premiership and played at the 2026 World Cup.
Kamoʻoalewa
Kamoʻoalewa, minor planet 469219, is a roughly 18-meter near-Earth asteroid in a quasi-satellite orbit around Earth, discovered in 2016 in Hawaii and targeted by China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission.
Kamolot park
Kamolot park (Kamolot bogʻi), public parks in Uzbekistan named after the Kamolot youth movement; chiefly a culture and recreation park in Davlatobod district, Namangan (rebuilt 2025-2026 as Yoshlar bogʻi, 7.8 billion soum) and a theme park in Andijan, temporarily closed, rated 4.3.
Kamonyi District
Kamonyi District, Rwanda, Southern Province district near Kigali; 12 sectors, 59 cells, 317 villages; 450,849 people over 655.5 km2; highest density in Southern Province at 683 per km2; cassava-farming economy.
Kamorta-class corvette
The Kamorta class, also known as Project 28, is a class of four anti-submarine warfare stealth corvettes of the Indian Navy, designed in-house and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders in Kolkata, commissioned between 2014 and 2020.