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Karen Valentine
Karen Valentine (born 1947, Sebastopol, California) is an American actress, Emmy winner 1970 as Alice Johnson on ABC's Room 222 (1969–74); also starred in the sitcom Karen (1975) and many TV movies.
Karen Virginia Beckmann Legorreta
Karen Virginia Beckmann Legorreta is a Mexican businesswoman, daughter of Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal, who holds 35.61% of Becle, the Jose Cuervo tequila maker, as its largest individual shareholder.
Karen Walker (Will & Grace)
Karen Walker (nee Delaney) is the fictional rich assistant played by Megan Mullally on NBC's Will & Grace, wife of unseen Stanley Walker; known for alcoholism jokes, teased bisexuality, a 2006 Emmy win, and the revival retcon.
Karen Wetterhahn
Karen Wetterhahn (1948–1997) was an American chemistry professor at Dartmouth College and an authority on heavy-metal toxicity who died from dimethylmercury poisoning after a laboratory spill in 1996.
Karen White case
The Karen White case: a 2018 English trial in which transgender prisoner Karen White (born Stephen Wood) received a life sentence for sexually assaulting women inmates at HMP New Hall and raping two women, prompting an MoJ apology and changes to transgender prison placement policy.
Karen Willcox
Karen Willcox is a New Zealand-born aerospace engineer who directs the Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and is known for model reduction.
Karen Witter
Karen Witter (Karen Rachel Witter, later Karen Lorre), born 1961, Long Beach, California; American actress, model, writer; Playboy Playmate of the Month March 1982; played Tina Lord on One Life to Live 1990-1994; ex-wife of Chuck Lorre.
Karen Young (Maryland politician)
Karen Lewis Young (born 1951) is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 3 in the Maryland State Senate since 2023, after serving in the House of Delegates from 2015 to 2023.
Karen Zerby
Karen Zerby, known in the movement as "Maria", is an American religious leader who led the Children of God and The Family from David Berg's death in 1994 until 2010.
Karena W. Chapman
Karena W. Chapman is an Australian-born materials chemist, a professor at Stony Brook University since 2018, known for developing X-ray pair distribution function methods for energy materials.
Karencici
Karencici, also known as Karen Lam (林愷倫), is an American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter whose debut album, SHA YAN, earned a Golden Melody Award nomination for Best New Artist.
Karenia brevis
Karenia brevis, a toxic Gulf of Mexico dinoflagellate causing Florida red tide; produces brevetoxins that kill marine life, cause neurotoxic shellfish poisoning and airborne respiratory irritation; blooms nearly annually, monitored by NOAA forecasts.
Karenic languages (ကရင်ဘာသာစကား)
Karenic (ကရင်ဘာသာစကား) is a Sino-Tibetan branch spoken in eastern Myanmar and northwestern Thailand, with 5–7 million speakers; main groups are Sgaw-Pwo, Bwe-Kayah, and Pa'o, with Proto-Karenic dated about 2,500 years B.P.
Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone
Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone is a ZEE5 Original biographical web series (2018–2019, 3 seasons, 20 episodes) directed by Aditya Datt, starring Sunny Leone as herself, dramatizing her journey from Sikh girl in Canada to adult film star and Bollywood actress.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al and Tipper Gore, is an American lawyer, author, and environmental advocate; she founded the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in 2015 and organized the 2014 Religions for the Earth conference.
Karenni Army
The Karenni Army, armed wing of the Karenni National Progressive Party, has fought the Myanmar state since 1957 for the self-determination of the Karenni people of Kayah State.
Karenni National Progressive Party
The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) is an ethnic political organization of the Karenni people of eastern Myanmar, founded in 1957, whose armed wing fights the Myanmar military.
Karenni State Interim Executive Council
Karenni State Interim Executive Council (IEC), formed June 2023 by the Karenni State Consultative Council, is the interim de facto state government of Karenni, Myanmar, with 12 departments, elected township administrations, and federal-democracy objectives.
Karenni States
The Karenni States were small princely states in eastern Burma, largely inhabited by Karenni (Red Karen) peoples and never formally incorporated into British Burma.
KarenT
KarenT (カレント) is a Vocaloid music record label and digital distribution platform run by Crypton Future Media, the Sapporo-based developer of Hatsune Miku, established around 2009.
Karesos Flumen
Karesos Flumen is an 83-km-long named river channel (flumen) on Titan near Ontario Lacus, IAU-approved December 27, 2015, named for a river in the Iliad.
Kargil
Kargil is a town and district headquarters in Ladakh, India, on the Srinagar–Leh highway at about 9,600 ft. District formed 1979 from Leh district; mainly Muslim; 2011 population 140,800, 12% urban.
Kargil district
Kargil district, in India's Union Territory of Ladakh, historically called Purig, formed in 1979; area 14,036 sq km, 2011 population 140,802; Zanskar and Drass carved out in 2026.
Kargil Vijay Diwas (कारगिल विजय दिवस)
Kargil Vijay Diwas (कारगिल विजय दिवस), India's Kargil Victory Day, observed every 26 July since 2000 to mark the 1999 recapture of Kargil heights in Operation Vijay, with ceremonies at the Dras war memorial.
Kargil War
The Kargil War (1999) was a limited India-Pakistan conflict after Operation Badr occupied Indian posts across the LoC; India's Operation Vijay, first IAF combat since 1971, and US pressure forced Pakistani withdrawal by 26 July 1999.
Kargo
Kargo is a Turkish rock band formed in 1993, best known for the era fronted by singer Koray Candemir and its 1996 breakthrough album Yarına Ne Kaldı.
Kargu
Kargu is a portable rotary-wing loitering munition, described as a kamikaze drone, developed by Turkey's STM and first shown in 2017; its Kargu-2 variant drew UN attention in 2021 over use in Libya.
Kari A. Dooley
Kari A. Dooley, also known as Kari Anne Dooley, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Connecticut since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
Kari Aalvik Grimsbø
Kari Aalvik Grimsbø, Norwegian handball goalkeeper and coach, born 1985. 173 caps for Norway 2005–2018; two Olympic golds, two world titles, five European titles, Champions League winner with Győr; retired 2020, later Byåsen coach.
Kari Alitalo
Kari Alitalo, born in 1952, is a Finnish physician-scientist at the University of Helsinki who discovered the VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 signaling pathway, key to lymphatic vessel growth and cancer metastasis research.