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Kang Min-cheom
Kang Min-cheom (강민첨, 963–1021) was a Goryeo general and civil official who repelled Jurchen raids and served as deputy commander to Gang Gam-chan at the Battle of Gwiju in 1019.
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (KPS Gill), 1934-2017, Indian Police Service officer and twice Punjab Director General of Police, credited with crushing the Khalistani insurgency via Operation Black Thunder II; also IHF president and a convicted, controversial figure.
Karambir Singh (करमबीर सिंह)
Karambir Singh (करमबीर सिंह), born 1959, is a retired Indian Navy admiral and 24th Chief of the Naval Staff (31 May 2019 to 30 November 2021), the first helicopter pilot to hold the post, later chairman of the National Maritime Foundation.
Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Großadmiral and commander of the Kriegsmarine, built the U-boat wolfpack force in the Battle of the Atlantic, briefly led the Flensburg government as Hitler's successor, and served ten years after conviction at Nuremberg.
Karl Hanke
Karl Hanke (1903–1945) was a Nazi official, Gauleiter of Lower Silesia who oversaw the defense of Breslau, and the last Reichsführer-SS named in Hitler's 1945 testament.
Karl Koecher
Karl Koecher (Karel František Köcher, born 1934), Czechoslovak StB spy who infiltrated the CIA as a contract translator 1973–1975; arrested 1984, exchanged for Shcharansky.
Karl Parts
Karl Parts was an Estonian military commander, born in 1886, who organized and led the army's armored trains in the War of Independence of 1918–1920, freeing Tapa and Tartu.
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg was an Austrian field marshal who commanded the allied armies against Napoleon at Leipzig in 1813 and captured Paris in 1814.
Karl Plagge
Karl Plagge (1897–1957), German Wehrmacht major commanding HKP 562 in Vilna, used work certificates and a 1944 warning to help 150–250 Jews survive the Holocaust; honored as Righteous Among the Nations.
Karl Wolff
Karl Wolff (1900-1984), SS-Obergruppenführer, Himmler's chief of staff and SS liaison to Hitler, later Highest SS and Police Leader in Italy, negotiated Operation Sunrise, the 1945 secret surrender of German forces in Italy to OSS officer Allen Dulles, and escaped Nuremberg prosecution until his 1964 Munich trial.
Karol Kniaziewicz
Karol Kniaziewicz (1762–1842) was a Polish general who commanded the First Polish Legion in Italy and founded the Danube Legion, helping win the 1800 French victory at Hohenlinden.
Károly Leiningen-Westerburg
Károly Leiningen-Westerburg, born Karl August, Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg, was a Hessian-born count who served as a general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and was executed at Arad in 1849.
Kassa Haile Darge
Kassa Haile Darge, also written Kassa Haylu (Amharic: ካሣ ኀይሉ ዳርጌ), was an Ethiopian prince and governor who commanded the northern front against Italy's 1936 invasion.
Kastus Kalinouski
Kastus Kalinouski (Кастусь Каліноўскі, 1838–1864) was a revolutionary who led the 1863 uprising in Belarus and Lithuania, published the first Belarusian-language newspaper, and was hanged in Vilnius.
Katharine Gorka
Katharine Gorka, also known as Katie Gorka, is an American policy adviser who served as a senior advisor at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019.
Katharine Gun
Katharine Gun, GCHQ Mandarin translator and whistleblower, leaked the 2003 NSA Koza memo asking GCHQ to spy on six UN Security Council delegations before the Iraq war vote; her Official Secrets Act prosecution collapsed in 2004.
Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin (May 19, 1943 – May 1, 2022), Weather Underground radical, 11-year fugitive after the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse bombing, imprisoned 22 years for the 1981 Brink's robbery, later Columbia criminal justice scholar.
Katō Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
Katō Kiyomasa (加藤清正, 1562–1611), Japanese daimyō of Higo and Kumamoto Castle builder; a 'Seven Spears of Shizugatake' general who led the 1592 invasion's second division to Hamgyeong and later sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Kawabe Torashirō
Kawabe Torashirō (河辺虎四郎, 1890–1960) was a Japanese lieutenant general who was the last Vice Chief of the Army General Staff, serving at Japan's surrender in 1945.
Kawakami Gensai (河上彦斎)
Kawakami Gensai (河上彦斎), 1834–1872, Kumamoto domain samurai and sonnō jōi activist known as Hitokiri Gensai; securely attested only for the 1864 assassination of Sakuma Shozan in Kyoto, executed in the early Meiji years and the model for Rurouni Kenshin's Himura Kenshin.
Kazimierz Fabrycy
Kazimierz Fabrycy (1888–1958) was a Polish general and vice-minister of military affairs in interwar Poland who commanded the Karpaty and Małopolska Armies in September 1939.
Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha
Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha (Kazimieras Nestoras Sapiega) was a prince of the Sapieha family and General of Lithuanian Artillery who led Lithuanian deputies at the Four-Year Sejm.
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885–1969) was a Polish general and independence activist who served as chief of staff to Józef Piłsudski and commanded the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男)
Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男), Japanese midget submarine officer, HA-19 pilot at Pearl Harbor, captured 8 December 1941 as America's first Japanese WWII POW, later Toyota Brazil president.
Kazusa Hirotsune
Kazusa Hirotsune (died 1183) was a Japanese warrior of the late Heian period who helped raise Minamoto no Yoritomo's eastern army before being killed on Yoritomo's orders.
Kehar Singh (ਕੇਹਰ ਸਿੰਘ)
Kehar Singh (ਕੇਹਰ ਸਿੰਘ), died 1989, Delhi DGS&D clerk convicted of conspiracy in Indira Gandhi's 1984 assassination; hanged at Tihar with Satwant Singh on 6 January 1989 after circumstantial-evidence trial.
Keith Kellogg
Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr., retired US Army lieutenant general, Vietnam veteran with the Silver Star, commanded the 82nd Airborne; NSC chief of staff, acting national security adviser, Pence's NSA adviser, and Trump's Ukraine envoy.
Keith Payne
Keith Payne (born 30 August 1933, Ingham, Queensland) is an Australian soldier and the last Australian recipient of the Imperial Victoria Cross, awarded for rescuing 40 men at Ben Het, Vietnam, 24 May 1969.
Kelvin Fan
Kelvin Fan Sui Siong, also known as Kelvin Fan, is a Singaporean major-general serving as Chief of Air Force of the Republic of Singapore Air Force since March 2024.
Ken Rhee
Ken Rhee (Rhee Keun), former ROK Navy UDT/SEAL lieutenant and dual Korean-US SEAL training graduate, became a Korean TV personality via Fake Men and fought as a volunteer in Ukraine in 2022.