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Kari Ann Peniche

Kari Ann Peniche (Kari Ann Peniche Williams), American model and reality TV personality born 1984 in San Diego; Miss United States Teen titleholder dethroned after a 2004 Playboy pictorial, later on Sex Rehab and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

Kari Brattset Dale

Kari Brattset Dale (Kari Skaar Brattset Dale), born 1991 in Fredrikstad, Norwegian line player for Győri ETO KC and Norway; Olympic gold 2024, World Championship MVP 2021, three Champions League titles.

Kari Byron

Kari Byron (born 1974), also Kari Elizabeth Byron, is an American TV host and artist, MythBusters Build Team member (2004-2014), later host of White Rabbit Project and Crash Test World, co-founder of EXPLR and the National STEM Festival, and co-host of the Mythfits podcast.

Kari Hemminki

Kari Hemminki, born 1947, is a Finnish cancer epidemiologist and geneticist who built the Swedish Family-Cancer Database and led cancer epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Kari I. Kivirikko

Kari I. Kivirikko, born 1937 in Helsinki, is a Finnish biochemist at the University of Oulu who established the enzymology of collagen biosynthesis and linked it to the hypoxia response.

Kari Jobe

Kari Jobe, born 1981, in Waco, Texas, is an American contemporary Christian worship singer and former Gateway Church worship pastor, known for "Revelation Song" and "The Blessing" with Cody Carnes and Elevation Worship, with three Grammy nominations and multiple Dove Awards.

Oct 10, 2026

Kari Karhunen

Kari Karhunen (1915–1992) was a Finnish mathematician who took his doctorate at Helsinki in 1947; his 1946 dissertation gave the Karhunen–Loève expansion, the continuous-time counterpart of principal component analysis.

Sep 19, 2026

Kari Kivelä

Kari Kivelä is a Finnish technology engineer who co-founded Oura Health in Oulu in 2013, leading hardware development and miniaturization of the Oura Ring before stepping back in 2020.

Kari Lake

Kari Lake, former Fox 10 Phoenix anchor, was the Republican nominee for Arizona governor in 2022 and U.S. Senate in 2024, losing both; her election lawsuits failed, and Trump later named her to lead Voice of America.

Kari Matchett

Kari Matchett is a Canadian actress born in 1970 in Spalding, Saskatchewan, raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. Known for Power Play, Cube 2: Hypercube, Invasion, Covert Affairs (Joan Campbell), and The Night Agent's President Travers; 2001 Gemini Award winner for Blue Murder.

Kari Mette Johansen

Kari Mette Johansen, Norwegian handball left wing (born 1979, Fredrikstad), Larvik HK 1998–2014; two Olympic golds 2008 and 2012, World Championship 2011, four EHF EURO titles, 203 national team caps.

Kari Motor Speedway

Kari Motor Speedway is a 2.1 km, 15-turn clockwise FIA Grade 4 racing circuit at Chettipalayam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, opened in 2003, named after S. Karivardhan, and hosting F4 India, national championships, and track days.

Sep 27, 2026

Kari Nessa Nordtun

Kari Nessa Nordtun is a Norwegian Labour Party politician serving as Minister of Education since 2023, after serving as mayor of her home city of Stavanger.

Oct 22, 2026

Kari o Komal

Kari o Komal (কড়ি ও কোমল; Sharps and Flats) is an 1886 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, marking his shift from romantic lyricism toward reflections on reality, death, and the human condition.

Kári Stefánsson

Kári Stefánsson is an Icelandic physician and human geneticist who founded deCODE genetics in Reykjavik in 1996 and pioneered population-scale genetics to find disease variants.

Kari Swenson

Kari Swenson (born 1962) is an American former biathlete from Bozeman, Montana, 1984 and 1985 U.S. champion, and relay bronze medalist at the first women's 1984 Biathlon World Championships; she survived a 1984 kidnapping and became a veterinarian.

Kari Traa

Kari Traa, born 1974 in Voss, Norway, is a former freestyle moguls skier: 2002 Olympic champion, 1998 bronze and 2006 silver medalist, four-time world champion, and founder of the Kari Traa sportswear brand.

Kari Wahlgren

Kari Wahlgren (born 1977, Hoisington, Kansas) is an American voice actress, breakout as Haruko in FLCL; also Saber in Fate, Starfire, Kitana, Jessica in Rick and Morty, Emmy-winning for SuperKitties.

Kari Wuhrer

Kari Samantha Wuhrer, born in 1967, is an American actress, singer, and model known as an MTV VJ and for roles in Sliders, Anaconda, Thinner, and Eight Legged Freaks.

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, known as K. S. Krishnan, was an Indian experimental physicist who co-discovered the Raman effect with C. V. Raman in 1928 and founded the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Kariarchaeota

Kariarchaeota, formally Candidatus Kariarchaeota, is a candidate phylum of Asgard archaea proposed in 2021 from metagenome-assembled genomes; it has never been cultured, and its rank is disputed.

Oct 10, 2026

Karib'il Watar

Karib'il Watar was a mukarrib, and later king, of Saba in pre-Islamic South Arabia, whose campaigns spread Sabaean power across most of Yemen in the 7th century BCE.

Kariba Dam

Kariba Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, feeding two underground power stations with a combined capacity of 2,130 MW.

Kariega

Kariega is an industrial town in South Africa's Eastern Cape, founded as Uitenhage in 1804 and renamed in 2021, hosting the Volkswagen plant, one of Africa's largest car factories.