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K. Sivan
Kailasavadivoo Sivan is an Indian aerospace engineer who led ISRO as Chairman from January 2018 to January 2022, overseeing Chandrayaan-2 and the start of the Gaganyaan program.
K. Sreekumaran Nair
K. Sreekumaran Nair, also known as K. S. Nair, is a physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism who leads a diabetes and aging research laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
K. Srinath Reddy
K. Srinath Reddy is an Indian cardiologist and public health researcher who founded the Public Health Foundation of India in 2006 after heading cardiology at AIIMS, New Delhi.
K. Subbarayan
K. Subbarayan, born 1947 in Tiruppur, is an Indian Communist Party of India politician, a longtime trade unionist who has represented Tiruppur and Coimbatore in the Lok Sabha.
K. Subrahmanyam
K. Subrahmanyam (1929–2011) was an Indian civil servant, strategist, and IDSA director who, as convenor of the first National Security Advisory Board, drafted India's 1999 nuclear doctrine of credible minimum deterrence and no first use, and chaired the Kargil Review Committee.
K. Sudhakar (Karnataka politician)
K. Sudhakar, born 1973, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and physician who has represented Chikkballapur, Karnataka, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving as a Karnataka minister.
K. Sudhakaran
K. Sudhakaran, born 1948 in Kannur district, Kerala, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Kannur in the Lok Sabha since 2024 and earlier led the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.
K. Surendran
K. Surendran (കെ. സുരേന്ദ്രൻ) was a Malayalam novelist, critic, and playwright from Kerala who wrote more than 40 works, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Maya.
K. T. McFarland
Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, American national security official: Trump's first deputy national security adviser (2017), former Kissinger aide and Weinberger speechwriter, Fox News analyst 2010–2016, and stalled 2017 nominee as ambassador to Singapore.
K. T. Muhammed
K. T. Muhammed (കെ. ടി. മുഹമ്മദ്; 1927 or 1929 – 2008) was a Malayalam playwright, screenwriter, and film director from Kerala whose plays attacked superstition in Malabar's Muslim community.
K. T. Oslin
K. T. Oslin, born Kay Toinette Oslin, was an American country singer-songwriter who became a star in her mid-forties with the 1987 hit "80's Ladies" and won three Grammy Awards.
K. T. Rama Rao
K. T. Rama Rao, known as KTR, is an Indian politician, working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and a Telangana cabinet minister from 2014 to 2023.
K. T. Thomas (judge)
K. T. Thomas (Kallupurackal Thomas Thomas, born 1937), Indian Supreme Court judge 1996-2002 from Kerala, presided over the Rajiv Gandhi assassination death-sentence confirmations, later chaired Kerala's Law Reforms Commission, and received the Padma Bhushan (2007) and Padma Vibhushan (2026).
K. Todd Freeman
K. Todd Freeman (Kenneth Todd Freeman, born 1965, Houston) is an American actor, Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1993, two-time Tony nominee, and Mr. Poe in Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
K. Uno Ingard
K. Uno Ingard, born Karl Uno Ingard (1921–2014), was a Swedish-born physicist and acoustician who spent his career at MIT working in acoustics and plasma physics.
K. V. Anand (கரிமாநல் வெங்கடேசன் ஆனந்த்)
K. V. Anand (Karimanal Venkatesan Anand) was an Indian cinematographer and Tamil film director, National Award winner for Thenmavin Kombath, director of Ayan and Ko, died 2021.
K. V. Mahadevan
K. V. Mahadevan (Krishnancoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan), South Indian film music composer, 1918-2001, scored 600+ films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam; won National Film Awards for Kandan Karunai and Sankarabharanam.
K. V. Ramana Reddy
K. V. Ramana Reddy (KVR, Kanupooru Venkata Ramana Reddy, 1927-1998) was a Telugu Marxist literary critic, poet, historian and political scientist, a founding figure of Virasam, the Revolutionary Writers' Association; author of Mahodayam and about a hundred books.
K. Venkatappa
K. Venkatappa (ಕೆ. ವೆಂಕಟಪ್ಪ) was an Indian painter, sculptor, and veena player from Mysore who trained under Abanindranath Tagore, painted watercolor landscapes and mythological scenes, and is memorialized in Bangalore's Venkatappa Art Gallery.
K. Vignesh
K. Vignesh, TVK politician, MLA for Kinathukadavu (Coimbatore) elected 2026 with 99,950 votes, and Tamil Nadu Minister for Prohibition and Excise since 21 May 2026; ex-Vijay Makkal Mandram district secretary, distinct from same-name DMK figures.
K. Vijay Kumar
K. Vijay Kumar (born 1952) is a retired 1975-batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre who led Operation Cocoon that killed Veerappan in 2004, headed the CRPF (2010–12), served as MHA Senior Security Adviser on Left Wing Extremism, was Adviser to the J&K Governor (2018–20), wrote Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand, and received the Padma Shri in 2026.
K. VijayRaghavan
K. VijayRaghavan is an Indian developmental biologist who studies muscle and nerve development in fruit flies and was India's Principal Scientific Adviser from 2018 to 2022.
K. Viswanath (కాశీనాథుని విశ్వనాథ్)
Kasinadhuni Viswanath (కాశీనాథుని విశ్వనాథ్), the Telugu 'Kalathapasvi' film director of Sankarabharanam and Sagara Sangamam, Padma Shri 1992 and Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2016 laureate (1930–2023).
K.A.A. Gent
K.A.A. Gent (Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent), also AA Gent, the Buffalos, Belgian Pro League club founded 31 October 1900, matricule 7, first champion 2015, plays at the Ghelamco Arena, owned by Sam Baro since 2023.
K.A.S. Eupen
K.A.S. Eupen, Belgian football club from Eupen founded 1945, first division 2010-2024, owned by Qatar's Aspire Zone Foundation from 2012 and Qatar Sports Investments from 2025, now in Challenger Pro League.
K.C. Undercover
K.C. Undercover is a Disney Channel live-action spy comedy (2015–2018, 3 seasons) created by Corinne Marshall, starring and co-produced by Zendaya as teen agent K.C. Cooper, with Kadeem Hardison, Tammy Townsend, Kamil McFadden, and Trinitee Stokes as her spy family.
K.d. lang
k.d. lang (Kathryn Dawn Lang, born 1961) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Consort, Alberta, known for Ingénue, "Constant Craving," and "Hallelujah," with four Grammys, eight Junos, and the Order of Canada.
K.Flay
K.Flay (Kristine Meredith Flaherty, born 1985) is an American genre-blending singer, songwriter, and rapper from outside Chicago; Stanford graduate, Grammy-nominated for "Blood in the Cut," albums Life as a Dog, Every Where Is Some Where, Solutions, and MONO.
K.G.M. v. Meta et al.
K.G.M. v. Meta et al. (P.F. et al. v. Meta Platforms, No. 23SMCV03371, JCCP 5255) is the first social media addiction bellwether trial; a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent on 25 March 2026 and awarded $6 million.
K.J. Ray Liu
K.J. Ray Liu is an electrical engineer and University of Maryland professor who pioneered wireless sensing using Wi-Fi signals, founded Origin Wireless, and served as 2022 IEEE President.