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Kabyle people
Kabyle people (Iqbayliyen), Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group of Kabylia in northeastern Algeria, speaking the Kabyle variety of Tamazight; largest Algerian Berber group, marked by 1857 French conquest, 1980 Berber Spring, and 2001 Black Spring.
Kaffir (racial term)
Kaffir is South Africa's most severe anti-black racial slur, derived from Arabic kāfir (infidel), adopted by Dutch settlers in the 17th century, now hate speech under PEPUDA and crimen injuria, euphemized as the K-word.
Kai Trump
Kai Trump (born 2007), daughter of Donald Trump Jr., is an American amateur golfer and influencer, eldest Trump grandchild, Miami Hurricanes signee, LPGA debut at The Annika 2025, last of 108.
Kaifeng Jews
Kaifeng Jews: a Judeo-Persian Jewish community in Kaifeng, Henan, capital of the Northern Song; synagogue built 1163, Ming surnames, assimilated after 19th-century floods, under 1,000 descendants remain today.
Kakanda people
The Kakanda are an ethnic group of west-central Nigeria living along the River Niger near its confluence with the Benue, generally classified as a subgroup of the Nupe peoples.
Kakar (کاکړ)
Kakar (کاکړ) is a Gharghashti Pashtun tribe of the Suliman mountains between Quetta and the Gomal river, based in Balochistan, Pakistan, and Loy Kandahar, Afghanistan, divided into many sub-tribes and tracing descent from Qais Abdul Rashid.
Kalapuya
Kalapuya: Indigenous people of Oregon's Willamette Valley, speakers of three Kalapuyan languages, signatories of the 1855 Willamette Valley Treaty, removed to Grand Ronde, now part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
Kalash people
The Kalash are a small pre-Islamic polytheistic ethnic and religious minority of about 4,000 people in the Bumburet, Rumbur, and Birir valleys of Chitral, Pakistan, speaking the Dardic Kalasha language and known for four seasonal festivals, purity rules, and conversion pressures.
Kalenjin people
The Kalenjin are Southern Nilotic-speaking peoples of Kenya's Rift Valley, comprising groups such as the Kipsigis and Nandi, and known for producing world-class distance runners.
Kalinago
The Kalinago, historically the Caribs, are the Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles, surviving chiefly in Dominica's 15 km2 Kalinago Territory, about 3,000 people under the Carib Reserve Act of 1978 with a Chief and Council elected every five years and communally owned land.
Kallar (caste)
Kallar (கள்ளர்), a Tamil caste of southern Tamil Nadu, part of the Mukkulathor/Thevar formation with Maravar and Agamudaiyar; traditionally kaval policemen, criminalized under British rule, now an OBC community.
Kallawaya
The Kallawaya are a Bolivian ethnic group of itinerant herbalist healers based in Bautista Saavedra province north of La Paz, whose ancestral medical practice UNESCO recognized in 2003.
Kalman Ber
Kalman Ber (קלמן בר, Kalman Meir Ber), born 1957 in Tel Aviv, is the ninth Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, elected in 2024 after an unprecedented 40-40 deadlock, succeeding David Lau; formerly chief rabbi of Netanya.
Kalmyks
Kalmyks (Khal'mg) are the only Mongolic-speaking people in Europe, a Tibetan Buddhist people descended from Oirat nomads who settled the lower Volga in the 1620s, deported by Stalin in 1943 and returned in 1957 to Kalmykia, Russia.
Kamma (కమ్మ) (caste)
Kammas (కమ్మ), also Chowdary, are a Telugu dominant agrarian caste of coastal Andhra Pradesh, landowning and politically powerful via the TDP, rivals of the Reddys, and heavily represented in US migration. Distinct from Kammara blacksmith communities.
Kamo clan
The Kamo clan (賀茂氏) was an ancient Japanese clan centered on the Kamigamo and Shimogamo shrines of northern Kyoto, whose priestly line rose to prominence in the Heian period.
Kanak people
Kanak people: indigenous Melanesian people of New Caledonia (Kanaky), settled since about 4000 BCE, minority since 1958 (41% in 2019), with about thirty languages, customary civil status, and the FLNKS-led decolonization process under the Matignon and Nouméa accords.
Kanshi Ram (कांशी राम)
Kanshi Ram (कांशी राम), also Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, 1934-2006, Indian political organizer who founded BAMCEF, DS-4, and the Bahujan Samaj Party (1984), built Bahujan electoral mobilization of Dalits, OBCs, and minorities, and mentored Mayawati.
Kanuri people
The Kanuri, also called Beriberi or Yerwa, are an ethnic group of the Lake Chad basin who emerged from the Bornu state in the fifteenth century, living mainly in northeastern Nigeria.
Kapitan Cina
Kapitan Cina, or Kapitein der Chinezen in Dutch usage, was the title given by European colonial authorities in Southeast Asia to the appointed head of a local Chinese community.
Kapu (caste)
Kapu is a grouping of agrarian castes, historically a Telugu term for peasants, found mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and known for its campaign for Backward Class reservation.
Karakalpak confederation
The Karakalpak confederation was the tribal organization of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic people of the Aral Sea region, from the sixteenth century until the 1920s.
Karelians
Karelians (Karjalaiset) are a Baltic-Finnic people of Finland and northwestern Russia, historically Orthodox rather than Lutheran, speaking the Karelian language and partly assimilated into Finnish and Russian populations.
Karen people
Karen (Kayin) peoples: Sino-Tibetan ethnolinguistic group of eastern Myanmar and western Thailand, about 4 million plus 400,000 in Thailand; Sgaw and Pwo largest groups; KNU founded 1947, insurgency from 1949, long-running conflict and displacement; not a single homogeneous ethnic group.
Kashmiri Pandits
Kashmiri Pandits, also called Bhatta, are Saraswat Brahmans of the Kashmir Valley speaking Koshur; about 95% left in the 1990 exodus, with most now in Jammu and Delhi.
Kashmiris
Kashmiris (Koshur) are the people of Kashmir in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, mostly Sunni Muslims with Hindu Pandit, Buddhist, and Sikh minorities; Kashmiri-speaking, divided since 1947 between Indian and Pakistani administration.
Kashubians
Kashubians (Kaszëbi), a West Slavic ethnic group of Pomeranian descent in northern Poland; Kashubian-speaking, Catholic, dual Polish identity; Kashubian is Poland's only regional language since 2005.
Kat Abughazaleh
Kat Abughazaleh (Katherine Marie Abughazaleh, born 1999), also known as Kat Abu, is a Palestinian American journalist and former Media Matters video producer who ran for Congress in Illinois's 9th District, raised over $3 million, was indicted over ICE protests, and lost the 2026 Democratic primary to Daniel Biss.
Katerina Tikhonova (Екатерина Владимировна Тихонова)
Katerina Tikhonova (Ekaterina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, born 1986 in Dresden) is a Russian technology executive, head of the MSU-linked Innopraktika foundation and its AI institute, and widely reported, though never confirmed, to be Vladimir Putin's younger daughter; sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US.
Katharine, Lady Brooke
Katharine, Lady Brooke (nee Hussey) is a British courtier, one of Queen Camilla's six Queen's Companions appointed in 2022, daughter of Lady Susan Hussey, and a coronation attendee in 2023.