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Karen N. Moore
Karen N. Moore, also known as Karen Nelson Moore, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1995.
Karen National Army
Karen National Army (KNA), formerly the Karen Border Guard Force, is a Karen militia in Kayin State, Myanmar, led by Col. Saw Chit Thu; rebranded from the BGF in 2024 and designated by the US Treasury in 2025 for cyber scams and trafficking.
Karen National Liberation Army
The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA; Burmese: ကရင်အမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော်) is the armed wing of the Karen National Union, formed in 1949 to fight for self-determination for the Karen people.
Karen National Union
The Karen National Union (KNU) is a Karen political organization in Myanmar, founded in 1947, that has fought or negotiated with Burma's central governments since 1949.
Karen O
Karen O (Karen Lee Orzolek, born 1978, Seoul) is the American lead vocalist of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a solo artist whose Crush Songs and Spike Jonze film songs, including The Moon Song, earned Grammy and Oscar nominations.
Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien, born 1963, is an American human geographer and professor emerita at the University of Oslo known for research on the social dimensions of climate change.
Karen Obilom
Karen Obilom (born 1994, Austin, Texas) is an American actress, a first-generation Nigerian American known for Nia Bullock in BET's Games People Play, Roni Evers in Doom Patrol, and Venus in the 2023 House Party film.
Karen Olivo
Karen Olivo, American stage actor and educator (born 1976, Manhattan), Tony winner as Anita in the 2009 West Side Story revival, originated Vanessa in In the Heights and Satine in Moulin Rouge!, left Broadway in 2021, teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.
Karen Page
Karen Page is a Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett in 1964 as Daredevil's secretary and love interest, played by Deborah Ann Woll on television since 2015.
Karen Page (investor)
Karen Appleton Page is an American venture capitalist and General Partner at B Capital, known for her earlier career as a founding executive at Box.
Karen Pence
Karen Pence, nee Karen Sue Batten, wife of Mike Pence; second lady of the United States 2017-2021, Indiana first lady 2013-2017, 25-year teacher whose Immanuel Christian School job drew LGBTQ controversy.
Karen people
Karen (Kayin) peoples: Sino-Tibetan ethnolinguistic group of eastern Myanmar and western Thailand, about 4 million plus 400,000 in Thailand; Sgaw and Pwo largest groups; KNU founded 1947, insurgency from 1949, long-running conflict and displacement; not a single homogeneous ethnic group.
Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering MBE (born 1971, Hove, England) is a British freestyle swimmer who competed at four Olympics 1992–2004, won four world titles including the 1993 short-course 200 m freestyle, 13 Commonwealth medals, and later founded the Karen Pickering SWIM Foundation.
Karen Read
Karen Read is the Massachusetts woman tried twice over the January 2022 death of Boston officer John O'Keefe in Canton. Acquitted of murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene in June 2025; convicted of OUI; civil suits continue.
Karen Records
Karen Records is a Dominican record label founded by Bienvenido Rodríguez in the 1970s, known for merengue and bachata by Juan Luis Guerra and Wilfrido Vargas.
Karen Robinson
Karen Robinson (born 1968, London, England) is a Canadian actress, Ronnie Lee on Schitt's Creek, Inspector Edwina Shanks on Pretty Hard Cases, and Inspector Vivienne Holness on Law & Order Toronto; Canadian Screen Award winner for Mary Kills People.
Karen S. Marston
Karen S. Marston, also known as Karen Spencer Marston, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President Trump in 2019.
Karen Scrivener
Karen Scrivener is a materials scientist, professor at EPFL, and director of the LC3 project, which developed limestone calcined clay cement cutting CO2 emissions by up to 40 percent.
Karen Silkwood
Karen Silkwood (1946–1974) was an American laboratory technician and union activist who died in a disputed 1974 car crash after plutonium contamination at an Oklahoma nuclear plant.
Karen Sliwa
Karen Sliwa is a German-born South African cardiologist who directs the Cape Heart Institute at the University of Cape Town and is known for research on peripartum cardiomyopathy.
Karen Sparks Epley
Karen Sparks Epley, also known under the pseudonym Joni Lenz, is the American survivor of Ted Bundy's first known attack, on January 4, 1974, in Seattle; she suffered permanent brain damage and first told her story in the 2020 docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer.
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer (Karen Gordon), Canadian philanthropist, founder of Whole Child International (2004), third wife of the 9th Earl Spencer from 2011, chatelaine of Althorp, Ashoka Fellow, and party to the Jarman MS privacy settlement.
Karen Spilka
Karen Spilka is an American Democratic politician who has been President of the Massachusetts Senate since 2018, representing the Middlesex and Norfolk district since 2005 after earlier service in the Massachusetts House.
Karen Steele
Karen Steele (March 20, 1931 – March 12, 1988) was an American actress and model from Honolulu, Hawaii, known for Virginia in Marty (1955), Randolph Scott westerns like Ride Lonesome, and Eve McHuron in Star Trek's Mudd's Women (1966).
Karen Stives
Karen Stives (1950–2015), American eventing rider, won individual silver and team gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics on Ben Arthur, one of the first two women with an individual Olympic eventing medal.
Karen Strassman
Karen Strassman (born 1966, Washington, D.C.) is an American voice actress and dialect coach; voices Rouge the Bat, Kallen Stadtfeld (Code Geass), Aigis/Nanako (Persona), Kitana/Mileena, Chromie, and Annette Birkin in Resident Evil 2.
KaRen study (NCT01091467)
KaRen (Karolinska-Rennes; ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01091467, also cited as NCT00774709) is a 2007–2011 Swedish-French observational cohort of 539 acute HFpEF patients with LVEF ≥45% and elevated natriuretic peptides, yielding 10-year outcome, dyssynchrony, biomarker, and diagnostic-score data.
Karen Thompson (education scientist)
Karen Thompson, also known as Karen D. Thompson, is an American education scientist and professor at Oregon State University who studies multilingual students in K-12 schools.
Karen U. Sprague
Karen U. Sprague is a molecular biologist who spent her career at the University of Oregon, studying how flanking DNA sequences control silkworm tRNA gene transcription.
Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Uhlenbeck, born 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American mathematician known for work on minimal surfaces and Yang–Mills theory, and the first woman to win the Abel Prize, in 2019.