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Kenneth Claiborne Royall
Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1894-1971), North Carolina lawyer and brigadier general, was the last U.S. Secretary of War (July 1947) and first Secretary of the Army (1947-1949), known for defending the 1942 German saboteurs.
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., known as Frank McKenzie, is a retired four-star Marine general who commanded U.S. Central Command from 2019 to 2022, overseeing the Soleimani strike and the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
Keōua Kuahuʻula
Keōua Kuahuʻula, also written Keōua Kūʻahuʻula, was a Hawaiian high chief of Kaʻū and Puna and the principal rival of Kamehameha I, killed in 1791.
Kereopa Te Rau
Kereopa Te Rau (died 1872) was a Ngāti Rangiwewehi warrior and Pai Mārire disciple hanged in 1872 for the 1865 murder of missionary Carl Völkner at Ōpōtiki.
Keri
Keri, born Gavafian, was an Armenian fedayi commander from Erzurum who led defense during the 1895 massacres and commanded an Armenian volunteer battalion in World War I before dying in 1916.
Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943), second son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was an author, explorer, and soldier who served in both British and U.S. armies in two world wars, founded the Roosevelt Steamship Company, and died by suicide in Alaska in 1943; distinct from his son Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the CIA officer.
Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
Kermit Roosevelt Jr. (1916–2000), called Kim, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, was the CIA Near East division chief who ran Operation TPAJAX on the ground, overthrowing Mosaddeq in Iran in August 1953, later writing the controversial memoir Countercoup.
Kevin Davis (police officer)
Kevin Davis is an American police executive, 39th Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department (2015-2018, appointed after Freddie Gray unrest, fired amid record homicides) and 11th chief of the Fairfax County, Virginia, police from 2021.
Kevin Gaines (police officer)
Kevin Lee Gaines (1966-1997) was an off-duty LAPD Rampart CRASH officer shot by undercover detective Frank Lyga in a 1997 Studio City road-rage dispute; Lyga was exonerated, the family's $25 million suit settled for $250,000, and the case helped ignite the Rampart scandal.
Kevin Leahy (general)
Kevin C. Leahy is a US Army lieutenant general and Special Forces officer commanding United States Army Central since March 2026, after leading Special Operations Command Central and Combined Joint Task Force–Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq.
Kevork Chavush
Kevork Chavush (Գևորգ Չավուշ), born Gevorg Ghazaryan, was an Armenian fedai commander in the Ottoman Empire who fought in Sasun until his death in 1907.
Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi (خالد بن عودة بن محمد الحربي)
Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi (خالد بن عودة بن محمد الحربي), aka Abu Sulaiman al-Makki, born about 1963, is the Saudi militant imam seen with bin Laden on the December 2001 videotape; he fought in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya and surrendered in Tehran in July 2004.
Khaled Mashal (خالد مشعل)
Khaled Mashal (خالد مشعل), born 1956 in Silwad near Ramallah, is a Hamas founder who chaired its Political Bureau 1996–2017, survived a 1997 Mossad poisoning attempt in Amman, operated in exile from Jordan, Syria and Qatar, and was EU-listed in 2026.
Khalid al-Mihdhar
Khalid al-Mihdhar, Saudi al-Qaeda member and muscle hijacker on American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11; one of two hijackers known to US intelligence beforehand, watchlisted only August 24, 2001.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Khalid ibn al-Walid (خالد بن الوليد), also known as Khalid bin Waleed, was an Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, titled Sayf Allah, who won the Battle of Yarmouk in 636.
Khalifa Haftar
Khalifa Haftar (خليفة حفتر), born 1943 in Ajdabiya, is Libya's eastern field marshal commanding the LAAF; a 1969 coup officer, ex-CIA-backed exile, and head of a family military dynasty with sons Saddam, Khaled and Belgassem in key posts.
Khamis Gaddafi (خميس القذافي)
Khamis Gaddafi (خميس القذافي), son of Muammar Gaddafi, commanded Libya's elite 32nd Reinforced Brigade (Khamis Brigade) and served as national security advisor; repeatedly reported killed in 2011, his death was confirmed in October 2011.
Khanderao Holkar
Khanderao Holkar (खंडेराव होळकर), 1723–1754, only son of Malhar Rao Holkar and husband of Ahilyabai Holkar; Maratha sardar killed by a cannon shot at the siege of Kumher on 17 March 1754.
Khatanbaatar Magsarjav
Khatanbaatar Magsarjav (Хатанбаатар Магсаржав), born in 1877 or 1878, was a Mongolian general who captured Khovd in 1912, won the hereditary title Khatanbaatar, and never lost a battle.
Khutulun
Khutulun (Qutulun, c. 1260–1306), daughter of Qaidu Khan and great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan, was a Mongol warrior princess famed via Marco Polo for wrestling suitors for 100 horses each and for fighting the Yuan Dynasty.
Kichisaburō Nomura (野村吉三郎)
Kichisaburō Nomura (野村吉三郎, 1877–1964), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral, foreign minister 1939–40, and Japan's ambassador to the United States from February 1941, negotiated with Cordell Hull until delivering Japan's memorandum breaking off talks on 7 December 1941; later a Japan Victor president and House of Councillors member.
Kicking Bear
Kicking Bear (Lakota: Mató Wanáȟtake) was an Oglala Lakota chief and medicine man who fought at Little Bighorn and led the Ghost Dance among the Sioux.
Kiki Camarena
Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, DEA special agent kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Guadalajara Cartel in February 1985 after the Rancho Búfalo raid; his death sparked Operation Leyenda and inspired Red Ribbon Week.
Kim Bo-dang
Kim Bo-dang (김보당) was a Goryeo civil official who in 1173 led a rebellion to restore the deposed king Uijong; it was suppressed and he died that year.
Kim Gyeong-son
Kim Gyeong-son (김경손, 金慶孫; died 1251) was a Goryeo military officer known for the 1231 defense of Gwiju-seong against the first Mongol invasion and for crushing rebellion at Naju.
Kim Ik-sang
Kim Ik-sang (김익상, 1895–1941) was a Korean independence activist and member of the Uiyeoldan who bombed the Japanese Governor-General of Korea's office in Seoul in 1921.
Kim Jae-gyu (김재규)
Kim Jae-gyu (김재규; 金載圭, 1926–1980), South Korean KCIA director and retired lieutenant general who assassinated President Park Chung-hee and Cha Ji-cheol on October 26, 1979, ending the Yushin dictatorship, and was executed in May 1980.
Kim Jong Suk (김정숙)
Kim Jong Suk (김정숙), first wife of Kim Il Sung and mother of Kim Jong Il, was an anti-Japanese guerrilla who died in 1949; North Korea built her personality cult from the late 1970s as Mother of Revolution.
Kim Jun
Kim Jun (김준; 金俊) was a Goryeo military ruler who led the 1258 Musu coup, overthrew the Choe regime, and governed until his death in 1268.
Kim Philby
Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby, 1912–1988), British MI6 officer and leading member of the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring; recruited 1934, exposed in Beirut 1963, defected to Moscow, died there 1988.