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Kard (카드) (group)
KARD (카드) is a co-ed South Korean pop quartet under DSP Media, members J.Seph, BM, Somin, Jiwoo; debuted July 2017 with Hola Hola, known for moombahton-Latin sound and a large Latin American fan base.
Kardamis/Ardanis Akron
Kardamis/Ardanis Akron, an ancient promontory and harbor on the Libyan coast recorded by Strabo and the Stadiasmus; identified with Marsa al-Muraysah and listed in Pleiades as a place by D.J. Mattingly.
Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality class
Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality is the shared scaling behavior of non-equilibrium systems, from growing interfaces to directed polymers, described by a 1986 equation of Kardar, Parisi, and Zhang.
Kardashev scale
The Kardashev scale is a method of classifying technological civilizations by energy use, proposed in 1964 by Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev, with planetary, stellar, and galactic types.
Kardashian family
The Kardashian family (Kardashian-Jenners): American reality TV family famous for Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007-2021) on E!, now on Hulu, and for beauty, fashion, and social media brands built by Kris Jenner and her children.
Kardashian Index
The Kardashian Index (K-index) is Neil Hall's 2014 satirical bibliometric comparing Twitter followers to citations, K = F(a)/F(c) with F(c) = 43.3·C^0.32; K above 5 marks a "Science Kardashian".
Kardd Dynamics (卡尔动力)
Kardd Dynamics (卡尔动力) is a Chinese L4 autonomous trucking company spun out of DiDi's KargoBot in 2023, headquartered in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, operating driverless heavy-truck platoons hauling coal.
Kardex Remstar
Kardex Remstar is a business unit of Swiss intralogistics group Kardex Holding AG that manufactures vertical lift modules and carousels for automated storage and retrieval.
Kardigan
Kardigan is a clinical-stage precision therapeutics company focused on cardiovascular disease, launched in 2025 by former MyoKardia executives and headquartered in South San Francisco and Princeton, New Jersey.
Kardinal Offishall
Kardinal Offishall (Jason Harrow, b. 1976, Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian rapper and producer from Toronto; dancehall-infused hip-hop, "Naughty Dread," "Northern Touch," "Bakardi Slang," "Dangerous," Not 4 Sale, Universal Music Canada A&R.
Kardinal und konig
Kardinal & König, published in English as Web of Power, is a Michael Schacht board game about founding monasteries in Europe that made the Spiel des Jahres selection list.
Kardinia Park (stadium)
Kardinia Park, also GMHBA Stadium, is Geelong's 40,000-capacity sports stadium in South Geelong, home of the Geelong Cats, redeveloped in five stages costing $340 million and managed by the Kardinia Park Stadium Trust.
Kardium
Kardium Inc. is a privately held medical device company in Burnaby, British Columbia, founded in 2007, that makes the Globe system for treating atrial fibrillation.
Kardo Nyigyor
Kardo Nyigyor is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Arunachal Pradesh who represents Likabali in the state assembly and serves as its Deputy Speaker.
Kare Kano (彼氏彼女の事情)
Kare Kano, also known as His and Her Circumstances, is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Masami Tsuda about two honor students with hidden private selves.
Kareeb (करीब)
Kareeb (करीब) is a 1998 Hindi romance drama directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Bobby Deol and Shabana Raza, set in Rewalsar, Himachal Pradesh; a dowry-theft plot, Anu Malik music, and a box office flop.
Kareem A. Zaghloul
Kareem A. Zaghloul is a neurosurgeon-researcher who led the Functional Neurosurgery Section at NINDS, known for showing that human memory retrieval replays the brain's original neural firing sequences.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Lew Alcindor) is an American basketball center, six-time NBA MVP and champion whose 38,387-point career scoring record stood from 1984 to 2023, known for the unreplicated skyhook, UCLA titles, activism, and post-career writing.
Kareem Darwish
Kareem Darwish (كريم درويش) is a computer scientist and Principal Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Doha, known for Arabic NLP research and the open-source Farasa toolkit.
Kareem Hunt
Kareem Hunt (born 1995, Willoughby, Ohio) is an NFL running back from Toledo, drafted 86th overall by Kansas City in 2017, rookie rushing leader, released in 2018, Browns 2019-23, Chiefs again 2024-25.
Kareem Tunde
Kareem Tunde (Kareem Tunde Ruiz), born 2005 in Barcelona, is a Spanish left-footed right winger who rose through Levante's academy, debuted in La Liga in December 2025, and joined West Bromwich Albion in August 2026 for about 3 million euros plus add-ons.
Kareem Zaki
Kareem Zaki is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Thrive Capital who invests in healthcare and financial services, backing Stripe, Affirm, Ramp, and Robinhood.
Kareena Kapoor Khan (करीना कपूर ख़ान)
Kareena Kapoor Khan (करीना कपूर ख़ान), also called Bebo, is an Indian Hindi-film actress born 1980 in Mumbai to Randhir Kapoor and Babita. Debut Refugee (2000); known for Poo in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Geet in Jab We Met, Omkara, Jaane Jaan, and Crew.
Karekin I (Գարեգին Ա)
Karekin I (Garegin I), born Nishan Sarkissian, was an Armenian Apostolic hierarch who served as Catholicos of Cilicia from 1983, then the 131st Catholicos of All Armenians from 1995 until his death in 1999.
Karekin II
Karekin II is the 132nd Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church since 1999, residing at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in Armenia.
KAREL (programming language)
KAREL is a compiled, Pascal-like programming language used to program FANUC industrial robots alongside the teach pendant language TP, handling complex logic, communication, and data handling while TP performs motion.
Karel Appel
Karel Appel (Christiaan Karel Appel, 1921–2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and printmaker who co-founded the Cobra movement in 1948, known for thick paint and bright color.
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, and journalist, a central figure of interwar Czechoslovak literature best known for the play R.U.R., credited with introducing the word "robot" into many languages.
Karel Čurda
Karel Čurda (1911–1947), Czechoslovak paratrooper of the Out Distance group, betrayed the Heydrich assassins to the Gestapo in June 1942, received 5 million crowns, worked as a Gestapo agent as Karl Jerhot, and was hanged at Pankrác in 1947.
Karel Dežman
Karel Dežman (Karl Deschmann) was a Carniolan museum curator, natural scientist, and archaeologist who excavated the Ljubljana Marshes pile dwellings and was mayor of Ljubljana.