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Karam Rajpal

Karam Rajpal (also spelled Karamm Rajpal, born 1991, Ludhiana) is an Indian Hindi television actor, debut 2011 in Hamari Saas Leela, known for Mere Angne Mein (Shivam), Nadaan Parindey Ghar Aaja, Manmohini, and Qayaamat Se Qayaamat Tak, distinct from cricketers or other Karams.

Karama Oil Field

The Karama Oil Field (كرامة) is an onshore oil field in Egypt's Western Desert, discovered by Repsol and Apache in 2000 and operated by Qarun Petroleum Company.

Karamagara Bridge

Karamagara Bridge (Karamağara Köprüsü), a 5th-6th century late Roman/Byzantine single pointed-arch stone bridge over the Arapkir Çay near Ağın, Elazığ, Turkey; possibly the earliest pointed arch bridge, with a Greek Psalm 121:8 inscription, now submerged under the Keban Dam reservoir.

Karaman

Karaman (Larende/Laranda) is a city and province in southern Central Anatolia, Türkiye, at 1,033 m elevation; former Karamanid capital, site of the 1277 Turkish-language edict, 70th Turkish province (1989), producing about 35% of Türkiye's biscuits.

Karaman Beg

Karaman Beg (قرامان بیک), also Kerimüddin Karaman Bey, was a 13th-century Turkmen frontier leader in the Taurus Mountains who founded the Karamanid beylik in 1256, a dynasty that ruled until 1475.

Karamanids

Karamanids (Karamanoğulları), a Turkmen Anatolian beylik dynasty from the mid-13th to late 15th century, heirs of the Seljuks, rivals of the Ottomans, based at Konya, Larende, and Ermenek.

Karamanli dynasty

The Karamanli dynasty (آل قرمانلي) was a hereditary line of Turkish-origin pashas who ruled Tripoli, in present-day Libya, from 1711 to 1835 under nominal Ottoman suzerainty.

Karamanlidika

Karamanlidika (Καραμανλίδικα), also called Karamanlıca, is Turkish written in the Greek alphabet by the Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire, from the 18th to early 20th centuries.

Karamantas

Karamantas (كرامنتس) is an Egyptian chain of indoor amusement parks, with branches inside Green Plaza Mall in Semouha, Alexandria, and in Genena Mall, Nasr City, and Family Land, Maadi, Cairo.

Karamay

Karamay (克拉玛依), Uyghur for "black oil", is a prefecture-level oil city in northern Xinjiang on the Junggar Basin's northwest edge; founded 1958 around China's first large post-1949 oilfield, with four districts and about 493,000 residents.

Karamay Oil Field

Karamay Oil Field (克拉玛依油田) is a large oil field in northwestern Xinjiang, China, and the first major oilfield discovered in China after 1949, with oil struck in 1955.

Karambir Singh (करमबीर सिंह)

Karambir Singh (करमबीर सिंह), born 1959, is a retired Indian Navy admiral and 24th Chief of the Naval Staff (31 May 2019 to 30 November 2021), the first helicopter pilot to hold the post, later chairman of the National Maritime Foundation.

Karambit

The karambit, also spelled kerambit, is a small Southeast Asian knife with an inward-curving blade and a finger ring at the handle, widely associated with the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra and used in pencak silat.

Karambolage

Karambolage is a children's dexterity game designed and illustrated by Heinz Meister, published by Haba in 1995 and winner of the Spiel des Jahres special children's award.

Karamo Brown

Karamo Brown (born 1980), also known mononymously as Karamo, is an American TV host and activist, first openly gay Black man on reality TV (The Real World: Philadelphia, 2004), Queer Eye's culture expert from 2018, and host of the Karamo daytime talk show.

Karamoja disarmament programme

The Karamoja disarmament programme is a series of Ugandan government campaigns to collect illegal small arms from Karamoja's pastoral communities, with a sustained effort beginning in December 2001.

Karamojong conflict

The Karamojong conflict is the protracted armed conflict of Karamoja in north-eastern Uganda, centered on cattle raiding between Karamojong pastoralists and neighboring groups, and on disarmament violence.

Karamoko Alfa Mo Labe

Karamoko Alfa Mo Labe, also recorded as Karamokho Alfa, was an eighteenth-century Fulani Muslim scholar and war leader in what is now Guinea, distinct from Ibrahima Sambegu.

Karamoko Dembélé

Karamoko Kader Dembélé (born 2003, London) is an English-born left-footed right winger for QPR in the Championship; ex-Celtic wonderkid who debuted for Celtic's U20s at 13 and first team at 16, later Brest, Blackpool loan, eligible for England, Scotland, Ivory Coast.

Karamvir Singh Boudh

Karamvir Singh Boudh is an Indian National Congress politician and Scheduled Caste leader from Haryana who was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2026 for a term to 2032.

Karan (actor)

Karan, also known as Master Raghu and Shashi Karan, is a Tamil and Malayalam film actor (born 1967 or 1969) who began as a child artist, broke out in Nammavar (1995), and became a solo hero with Kokki (2006), nicknamed Kokki Karan.

Karan Aneja

Karan Aneja is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, an Indian in-home healthcare company, with Zachary Jones in 2012, and now leads Reframe Financial.

Karan Arjun (करण अर्जुन)

Karan Arjun (करण अर्जुन) is a 1995 Hindi action-drama directed by Rakesh Roshan, starring Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan as murdered brothers reincarnated to avenge their deaths; the year's second-highest-grossing Hindi film, re-released in 2024.

Karan Ashley

Karan Ashley (Karan Ashley Jackson), American actress, singer, and producer born 1975 in Odessa, Texas; former K.R.U.S.H. singer and the second Yellow Power Ranger, Aisha Campbell, in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and its 1995 film.

Karan Aujla

Karan Aujla (Jaskaran Singh Aujla, born 1997, Ghurala, Punjab) is an Indo-Canadian Punjabi singer, rapper, and songwriter based in Surrey, BC. Known for Making Memories, Street Dreams, P-POP CULTURE, 'Tauba Tauba', and as the first Punjabi artist to win a Juno Award.

Karan Bhagat

Karan Bhagat is an Indian financial services executive who founded IIFL Wealth Management in 2008 and leads its successor, 360 ONE WAM, India's largest dedicated wealth manager.

Karan Bhushan Singh (करण भूषण सिंह)

Karan Bhushan Singh (करण भूषण सिंह), born 1990, is a BJP politician and son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh; first-term MP for Kaiserganj, Uttar Pradesh, in the 18th Lok Sabha since June 2024 and former UP Wrestling Association president.

Karan Brar

Karan Brar (born 1999, Redmond, Washington) is an American actor, not the Punjabi politician of the same name, known as Chirag Gupta in Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Ravi Ross in Disney's Jessie and Bunk'd.

Karan Ghelo

Karan Ghelo is an 1866 Gujarati historical novel by Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta, generally regarded as the first original Gujarati novel, telling of the last Rajput king of Gujarat.

Karan Grover (करण ग्रोवर)

Karan Grover (करण ग्रोवर), credited as Karan V Grover, is an Indian TV actor and producer born 1982 in Mumbai, known for Yahan Mein Ghar Ghar Kheli, Bahu Hamari Rajni Kant, and Kahaan Hum Kahaan Tum; unrelated to Karan Singh Grover and distinct from the Dolby executive of the same name.