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Kamille (wrestler)

Kamille, born Kailey Dawn Latimer in 1993 and formerly known as Kamilla Kaine, is an American wrestler signed to AEW, best known for a 600-day NWA World Women's Championship reign.

Kamindu Mendis

Kamindu Mendis (Pasqual Handi Kamindu Dilanka Mendis), Sri Lankan allrounder born 1998 in Galle; ambidextrous spinner; 50+ in first eight Tests, 1,000 Test runs in 13 innings matching Bradman; ICC Emerging Cricketer 2024; SRH IPL debut 2025.

Kamogelo Sebelebele

Kamogelo Sebelebele (Mike Kamogelo Sebelebele, born 2002) is a South African footballer, a right-sided winger or fullback for Orlando Pirates and South Africa, who won the 2025 MTN8, 2025 Carling Knockout and 2025-26 Premiership and played at the 2026 World Cup.

Kamran Akmal

Kamran Akmal, born 1982 in Lahore, is a former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter (2002-2017) who played 53 Tests, 157 ODIs, and 58 T20Is, scored 6,871 international runs, and retired in February 2023.

Kamui Kobayashi (小林可夢偉)

Kamui Kobayashi (小林可夢偉, born 1986) is a Japanese racing driver who races for Toyota in the WEC, won the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, and took two WEC titles.

Kamza

Kamza (KS Kamza) was an Albanian football club from Kamëz near Tirana, founded 10 September 1936, twice promoted to the Kategoria Superiore (2011, 2016) and dissolved around 2019; distinct from the Russian club KamAZ.

Kanako Watanabe

Kanako Watanabe (渡部 香生子), Japanese breaststroke and medley swimmer, born 1996 in Tokyo. Three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, 2020); 2015 Kazan world champion in the 200 m breaststroke; retired June 2024.

Kanakuk Kamps

Kanakuk Kamps is a nondenominational Christian sports summer camp network founded in 1926 in Branson and Lampe, Missouri, with overnight Kamps (K-1, K-2, K-West, K-Kountry, K-Seven), K-Kauai family camp, KampOut! day camps, and a documented sexual abuse scandal involving former director Pete Newman.

Kane (wrestler)

Kane (Glenn Thomas Jacobs, born 1967) is an American wrestler and politician; WWE's masked Big Red Machine, Undertaker's storyline half-brother from 1997, a Triple Crown and Grand Slam champion, 2021 Hall of Famer, and Knox County, Tennessee mayor since 2018.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a 2007 third-person tactical shooter by IO Interactive for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, starring death-row convicts Kane and Lynch, with Fragile Alliance heist multiplayer and the GameSpot Jeff Gerstmann review scandal.

Kane Waselenchuk

Kane Waselenchuk, "King Kane" (born 1980, Edmonton), Canadian left-handed racquetball player; record 133 IRT titles, 16 year-end No. 1 rankings, 15 US Open singles titles, 2006 two-year doping ban, 2008-09 comeback.

Kane Williamson

Kane Williamson (Kane Stuart Williamson), New Zealand batsman and former captain in all formats; retired June 2026 as NZ's leading run-scorer with 19,346 runs, 48 centuries, 2021 World Test Championship title, and Fab Four membership.

Kanga

Kanga is a children's two-row mancala-type sowing game from the Republic of Congo, played on a ground-drawn rectangle with twelve holes, six counters per player, and hole-capture rules; documented from Klepzig 1972.

Kangshung Face (康雄壁)

Kangshung Face (康雄壁), the East Face of Mount Everest on the Tibetan side; first attempted 1981, first ascended 1983 by Americans, second ascent 1988 via Neverest Buttress without oxygen.

Kannur Warriors FC

Kannur Warriors FC, also seen as Kannur Squad FC, is a 2024-founded professional football club from Kannur, Kerala, playing in the Super League Kerala; home ground Jawahar Municipal Stadium, coached by Manuel Sánchez Murias, SLK 2025 champions.

Kano (Mortal Kombat)

Kano is the Black Dragon mercenary leader and laser-eyed arms dealer from Mortal Kombat (1992); retconned to Australian after the 1995 film, a minor antagonist across reboots, famous for the Heart Rip fatality.

Kanō Jigorō (嘉納治五郎)

Kanō Jigorō (嘉納治五郎, 1860–1938), Japanese educator, founder of judo and the Kodokan (1882), first Japanese IOC member (1909), author of seiryoku-zenyo and jita-kyoei principles.

Kansas City Athletics

Kansas City Athletics (1955–1967), the American League club between the Philadelphia and Oakland eras; owned by Arnold Johnson, accused of being a Yankees farm team, then Charles Finley, who moved it to Oakland.

Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs, NFL AFC West franchise founded 1959 by Lamar Hunt as the Dallas Texans, renamed Chiefs in 1963. Four Super Bowl wins (IV, LIV, LVII, LVIII); leaving Arrowhead for a Kansas domed stadium in 2031.

Kansas City Monarchs

Kansas City Monarchs, Negro Leagues baseball franchise (1920-1965) founded by J.L. Wilkinson; won 10 pennants and the 1924 and 1942 Negro World Series, pioneered portable night baseball in 1930, and fielded Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, and Buck O'Neil.

Kansas City Royals

Kansas City Royals, MLB American League Central franchise founded as a 1969 expansion team owned by Ewing Kauffman; two-time World Series champions (1985, 2015), currently planning a downtown Crown Center ballpark opening in 2030.

Kansas City Scouts

Kansas City Scouts, NHL expansion team 1974-76 at Kemper Arena; awarded 1972 for $6 million; 27-110-23 all time; became Colorado Rockies in 1976 and New Jersey Devils in 1982.

Kansas Jayhawks

Kansas Jayhawks: athletic teams of the University of Kansas, NCAA Division I FBS, Big 12 Conference, crimson and blue, mascots Big Jay and Baby Jay; known for the Jayhawk symbol, Rock Chalk chant, Allen Fieldhouse, and football at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.

Kansas Jayhawks football

Kansas Jayhawks football: University of Kansas team in the Big 12, Lawrence, Kansas. 126 seasons since 1901, 559-673-54, 5 conference titles (last 1968), 14 bowls, home at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, coached by Lance Leipold.

Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball

Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball: University of Kansas Division I program in the Big 12, based at Allen Fieldhouse. Four NCAA titles (1952, 1988, 2008, 2022), coach Bill Self, among the all-time wins leaders.

Kansas Speedway

Kansas Speedway: 1.5-mile tri-oval in Kansas City, Kansas, opened 2001, hosting two NASCAR Cup races yearly; STAR Bonds-financed anchor of Village West and Hollywood Casino district.

Kansas State Wildcats football

Kansas State Wildcats football, Kansas State University's FBS team in the Big 12 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan. Four conference titles (2003, 2012, 2022 among them); transformed under coach Bill Snyder from one of college football's worst programs.

Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball

Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball: Manhattan, Kansas college program since 1903, also called K-State; 1,750+ wins, 32 NCAA appearances, four Final Fours (1948, 1951, 1958, 1964), home at Bramlage Coliseum, the Octagon of Doom.

Kansei Matsuzawa

Kansei Matsuzawa, "The Tokyo Toe," Japanese placekicker from Ichikawa; self-taught via YouTube, Hawai'i consensus All-American (.867 FG), first Japanese-born player signed by an NFL team (Raiders, 2026 UDFA).

Kanstantsin Lukaschyk

Kanstantsin Lukaschyk (Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Канстанцін Лукашык), Belarusian pistol shooter born 1975 in Hrodna; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold in 50 m free pistol for the Unified Team at 16, and Olympian for Belarus 1996-2012.