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Kang Sang-jun (강상준)
Kang Sang-jun (강상준) is a South Korean actor and musical actor who shared the New Actor award at the 2024 SBS Drama Awards for Flex x Cop.
Kang Seung-yoon (강승윤)
Kang Seung-yoon (강승윤), born 1994 in Busan, is a YG Entertainment singer-songwriter, WINNER's leader via WIN: Who Is Next, and solo artist YOON (Page, Page 2), known for Superstar K2's 'Instinctively'.
Kang Shen
Kang Shen is a Stanford neuroscientist and HHMI investigator who studies how neurons assemble precise synaptic connections in the nematode C. elegans, developing tools like GRASP.
Kang Sheng
Kang Sheng (康生) was a Chinese Communist leader who ran the party's secret police, helped drive the Cultural Revolution, and was expelled posthumously in 1980.
Kang So-ra
Kang So-ra (강소라), born 1990, is a South Korean actress who debuted in 4th Period Mystery (2009), broke through with Sunny (2011), starred in Misaeng, and returned to drama in Strangers Again (2023) as divorce lawyer Oh Ha-ra.
Kang Soo-yeon (강수연)
Kang Soo-yeon (강수연), 1966–2022, South Korean actress and Korea's first world star; won the 1987 Venice Volpi Cup for The Surrogate Womb and the 1989 Moscow Best Actress prize, led the Busan festival 2015–2017, and received a posthumous Eungwan Order of Cultural Merit.
Kang Tae-oh
Kang Tae-oh (강태오; real name Kim Yun-hwan) is a South Korean actor and singer, formerly of the actor group 5urprise, known for Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022).
Kang the Conqueror
Kang the Conqueror, Marvel Comics time-traveling warlord Nathaniel Richards of Earth-6311, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #19 and Avengers #8; MCU Multiverse Saga villain played by Jonathan Majors, later dropped in favor of Doctor Doom.
Kang Xu
Kang Xu (许康) is a battery electrochemist known for the 2015 water-in-salt electrolyte, two decades at the US Army Research Laboratory, and standard reference reviews of electrolytes.
Kang Yo-bae
Kang Yo-bae (강요배, born 1952) is a South Korean painter of the first minjung art generation, best known for his paintings of the Jeju 4·3 incident.
Kang You-seok (강신철)
Kang You-seok (강유석; birth name 강신철), born 1994, is a South Korean actor who debuted in 2018 with God's Quiz: Reboot and broke out via Netflix's Black Knight, When Life Gives You Tangerines, and Resident Playbook.
Kang Youwei (康有为)
Kang Youwei (康有为, 1858–1927), also Kang Nanhai, Confucian philosopher and leader of the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform under the Guangxu Emperor; founder of the Baohuanghui, author of the Datong Shu utopia and advocate of Confucian state religion and constitutional monarchy.
Kang Zhang
Kang Zhang (张康) is a Chinese-born ophthalmologist and geneticist, professor at UC San Diego from 2008 to 2019 and Macau University of Science and Technology since 2019, known for macular degeneration genetics and AI diagnosis.
Kang-Kuen Ni
Kang-Kuen Ni is a Harvard professor of chemistry and physics known for creating the first ultracold gas of polar molecules and performing the first molecular quantum operations.
Kang's Kitchen (강식당)
Kang's Kitchen (강식당) is a tvN Korean reality show, a New Journey to the West spin-off parodying Youn's Kitchen, in which Kang Ho-dong, Lee Soo-geun, Eun Ji-won, Ahn Jae-hyun, and Song Min-ho run a real restaurant on Jeju Island from December 2017.
Kanga
Kanga is a children's two-row mancala-type sowing game from the Republic of Congo, played on a ground-drawn rectangle with twelve holes, six counters per player, and hole-capture rules; documented from Klepzig 1972.
Kanga (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Kanga is a fictional character in A. A. Milne's 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh, an affectionate, overprotective mother to Roo who is the only female character in the books.
Kangal Harinath
Kangal Harinath, born Harinath Majumdar (কাঙাল হরিনাথ, 1833–1896), was a Bengali journalist, writer, and Baul song composer of Kumarkhali, Kushtia District, whose paper Grambarta Prokashika defended peasants against indigo planters.
Kangal Shepherd Dog
Kangal Shepherd Dog (Kangal Çoban Köpeği), Turkish FCI Standard No. 331 livestock guardian from Sivas Province; males 72-78 cm, 48-60 kg, fawn coat with black mask; distinct from AKC Anatolian Shepherd; used in CCF Namibia cheetah conservation.
Kangan Gas Field
The Kangan Gas Field is an onshore natural gas and condensate field in southern Iran, discovered in 1973, producing since 1980, and operated by the South Zagros Oil and Gas Production Company.
Kangana Ranaut (कंगना रनौत)
Kangana Ranaut (कंगना रनौत), born 1987 in Himachal Pradesh, is an Indian actress, director, and MP from Mandi; debut Gangster (2006), four National Film Awards including Queen.
Kangar
Kangar is the administrative and commercial capital of Perlis, Malaysia's smallest state, on the Sungai Perlis near the Thai border. Also called Pohon Kangar port town; traced to Kota Sena (1653), governed by Majlis Perbandaran Kangar.
Kangaroo
Kangaroo: large hopping macropod marsupials of Australia and Papua New Guinea, including the Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus), the largest living marsupial at up to 92 kg, with pouch-reared joeys, embryonic diapause, and elastic-energy hopping.
Kangaroo (2025 film)
Kangaroo (2025) is an Australian family comedy directed by Kate Woods, starring Ryan Corr and Lily Whiteley, inspired by Chris 'Brolga' Barns of The Kangaroo Sanctuary, Alice Springs; released 18 September 2025, 107 minutes, StudioCanal.
Kangaroo care
Kangaroo care, or kangaroo mother care (Método Madre Canguro), is prolonged skin-to-skin contact plus exclusive breastfeeding for preterm and low-birth-weight newborns. Developed by Edgar Rey Sanabria in Bogotá in 1978; WHO recommends starting it immediately after birth, 8–24 hours daily.
Kangaroo court
A kangaroo court, also known as a kangaroo trial, is a court or tribunal whose bias and disregard for due process make its proceedings fundamentally unfair, a term coined in 1850s America.
Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island (Karta, Island of the Dead) is a 4,405 km² island off South Australia, third largest of Australia's islands, first settled by the South Australian Company in 1836, devastated by 2019–20 bushfires.
Kangaroo Island (film)
Kangaroo Island (2024) is an Australian independent drama, the directorial debut of Timothy David (Tim Piper), written by Sally Gifford, starring Rebecca Breeds, Adelaide Clemens, Erik Thomson, and Joel Jackson; premiered at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival, released in Australia August 2025 via Maslow, and on Netflix Australia January 2026.
Kangaroo Jack
Kangaroo Jack is a 2003 American comedy film directed by David McNally, in which two Brooklyn friends chase a kangaroo that hops off with their mob money.
Kangaroo meat
Kangaroo meat is the meat of kangaroos and wallabies harvested from wild populations in Australia for human consumption and pet food, a regulated industry since 1959.