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Kathryn Murdoch
Kathryn Murdoch (née Hufschmid), American philanthropist, co-founder and president of the Quadrivium Foundation; wife of James Murdoch; funds climate, journalism, and electoral reform, co-chairs Unite America.
Kayan people (Myanmar)
Kayan (ကယန်း), also called Padaung or Long-Neck Karen, a Karenic people of Kayah State, Myanmar, with subgroups Padaung, Ghekho, Yinbaw, Zayein, Gheba; known for women's brass neck rings, 1897 Latin-script literature, and refugee tourism villages in Thailand.
Kayastha (कायस्थ)
Kayastha (कायस्थ) are north, central, and east Indian scribal communities traditionally tied to writing, administration, and record-keeping, distinguished by contested varna rank, high colonial-era literacy, and regional groups such as Bengali, Bihari, and Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas.
Kazakhs
Kazakhs (қазақтар) are the Turkic majority people of Kazakhstan: 13.4 million and 70.4% of the population at the 2021 census, historically nomadic herders, heirs of the 15th-century Kazakh Khanate, with a script history of Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic.
Keith O'Brien (author)
Keith O'Brien (born 1973) is an American journalist and New York Times bestselling narrative nonfiction author of Outside Shot, Fly Girls, Paradise Falls, Charlie Hustle, and Heartland; winner of the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
Keith Robinson (environmentalist)
Keith Robinson (born 1941) is an American environmentalist, co-owner with brother Bruce of Niihau island, Hawaii, and operator of the Kauai Wildlife Refuge for endangered native plants; Niihau Aha Moku Advisory Committee representative.
Kel Ahaggar
The Kel Ahaggar are a Tuareg confederation of the Hoggar massif in southern Algeria, formed in the mid-17th century and defeated by the French in 1902.
Kel Ajjer
Kel Ajjer, also written Kel Azjer, is one of the major Tuareg confederations of the northern Sahara, based on the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau of southeastern Algeria and southwestern Libya.
Kel Owey
The Kel Owey, also spelled Kel Ewey or Kel Owi, are a Tuareg tribe of the Aïr massif in northern Niger, dominant in the region from about 1760 to 1860.
Kelsey Barnard Clark
Kelsey Barnard Clark is an American chef from Dothan, Alabama, winner of Top Chef season 16 (Kentucky, 2019), the fifth woman and first southerner to win, owner of KBC restaurant, and author of Southern Grit.
Kennel club
Kennel club: national dog registry organization (e.g., The Kennel Club UK, 1873; American Kennel Club, 1884; FCI federation) that maintains pedigree stud books, publishes breed standards, governs dog shows, and manages breeding health rules.
Kerala model
Kerala model: development pattern named after Kerala, India (term from the 1975 CDS/UN study led by K. N. Raj). High literacy, life expectancy, and health at low income via land reform, public healthcare, and education, with criticized fiscal and industrial limits.
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (1960-1994), South African photojournalist of the Bang Bang Club, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his 1993 Sudan photograph of a starving child with a vulture, published by the New York Times, and died by suicide months later.
Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد)
Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد), died 619 CE, was a wealthy Meccan merchant of the Quraysh, first and for 25 years only wife of the Prophet Muhammad, his employer before prophethood, first convert to Islam, and financier of the early Muslim community.
Khalkha Mongols
Khalkha Mongols (Халх), the majority ethnic group of Mongolia in its central and eastern regions; their Khalkha dialect is the national standard language, spoken by over 5 million people, with history as an eastern Mongol group distinct from the Oirats since the fifteenth century.
Khasi people
Khasi people (Hynniewtrep, Children of Seven Huts): Austroasiatic-speaking indigenous people of Meghalaya, India, known for their matrilineal clan system, Ka Khadduh inheritance, sacred groves, and resistance leader U Tirot Sing.
Khatri (ਖੱਤਰੀ)
The Khatri (ਖੱਤਰੀ) are a Punjabi community of northern India historically associated with trade, accounting, and civil administration; all ten Sikh Gurus were born into Khatri families.
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry: claim that Ashkenazi Jews descend largely from the Khazars, Turkic converts to Judaism; popularized by Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, contested by genome-wide and ancient DNA studies.
Khitan people
Khitan (契丹, Хятан), Mongolic-speaking nomads of Manchuria who founded the Liao empire (907-1125), fell to the Jurchen Jin, left the partially deciphered Khitan scripts, and gave China the name Cathay; modern Daur descent debated.
Khmer Krom
The Khmer Krom (ខ្មែរក្រោម, "lower Khmer") are the ethnic Khmer minority of southern Vietnam, living in the Mekong Delta, speaking Khmer, and practicing Theravada Buddhism.
Khmer people
Khmer people: Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group of Cambodia, heirs of the 9th–15th century Khmer Empire of Angkor; 95.8% of Cambodia's population; Theravada Buddhist; Khmer Krom minority in Vietnam; large Thai labor migrant and US diaspora populations.
Khoisan
Khoisan (Khoe-San) is the cover term for southern Africa's indigenous non-Bantu click-speaking peoples: San hunter-gatherers and Khoekhoe pastoralists, grouped into the Kx'a, Tuu, and Khoe-Kwadi language families, with deep genetic divergence and a history of colonial dispossession.
Khoja (خواجہ)
Khoja (خواجہ), from Persian khwajah, denotes South Asian Muslim trading-caste communities from Sindh and Gujarat, historically Satpanthi and now divided into Ismaili, Twelver, and Sunni Khoja groups after the 1866 Aga Khan Case.
Khorchin Mongols
The Khorchin Mongols (Хорчин) are a Mongol people of Inner Mongolia, China, descended from Khasar, a brother of Chinggis Khan, and among the first Mongols to ally with the Manchus.
Kibbutz (קיבוץ)
Kibbutz (קיבוץ), Israeli voluntary collective community founded at Degania in 1909–1910; equal income sharing, communal child-rearing, border defense role, and post-1990s privatization into renewed kibbutzim.
Kickapoo
The Kickapoo (Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people from the Great Lakes, now in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Coahuila, Mexico, divided into bands after ten US treaties and known for retaining traditional culture.
Kikuyu people
The Kikuyu people, also called Agikuyu or Gikuyu, are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of central Kenya around Mount Kenya who form Kenya's largest ethnic group, at 17.1% of the population in 2019.
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies: an informal title claimed by or conferred on various Romani leaders from medieval Corfu and Poland to Kirk Yetholm, Romania's Cioabă family, and American claimants, carrying no real authority.
King of the Zulu Nation
King of the Zulu Nation (Isilo), hereditary monarch of South Africa's amaZulu. Current king Misuzulu kaZwelithini (recognized 2022, upheld 2025); predecessor Goodwill Zwelithini reigned 53 years; sole trustee of the 2.8-million-hectare Ingonyama Trust.
King's Daughters
King's Daughters names two unrelated subjects: the Filles du roi, about 800 women sent by Louis XIV to New France 1663-1673, and the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons, a Christian service order founded in New York in 1886 whose circles founded hospitals including CHKD.