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Kotoko people
The Kotoko are a Chadic-speaking people of fishermen and farmers living south of Lake Chad along the Logone and Chari Rivers, in Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria, descended from the Sao.
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Kraft Alexander Ernst Ludwig Georg Emich zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935–2004), 9th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, head of the house from 1960, rebuilt Schloss Langenburg after the 1963 fire and founded the Deutsches Automuseum in 1970.
Krio migration and spread along the West African coast
The Krio migration was the nineteenth-century dispersal of settlers and Liberated Africans from Sierra Leone along the West African coast, from the Gambia to Cameroon.
Krobo
The Krobo, who call themselves Kloli, are a Dangme-speaking people of south-eastern Ghana, divided into the Manya and Yilo Krobo states and known for the dipo rite and glass bead-making.
Kru people
Kru (Krao, Kroo, Krumen) are a West African maritime people of southeastern Liberia and western Cote d'Ivoire; first recorded 1588, famed as canoe men and contract sailors, with Kru-language branch of Niger-Congo.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (क्षत्रिय), second of the four Hindu varnas (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra), assigned rulership and warfare; historically a status claimed and legitimated by ruling lineages, distinct from the Vedic term rajanya.
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary: the invented ranks and Kl- terms of the KKK, from Grand Wizard and Kloran to Imperial Wizard, Exalted Cyclops, and klavern, across the Reconstruction, 1920s, and modern Klans.
Kuki people
Kuki people, part of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo (Zo) Tibeto-Burman group of northeast India, Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Myanmar's Chin State; exonym meaning hill people; marked by the 1917-1919 Anglo-Kuki War and the 2023 Manipur conflict.
Kumeyaay
The Kumeyaay (Diegueño) are a Yuman-speaking Indigenous people of San Diego County, California and northern Baja California, organized in bands including Campo, Viejas, and Sycuan, with 13 US reservations, a language of 140 to 150 speakers, and territory split by the US-Mexico border since 1854.
Kumhar (कुम्हार)
Kumhar (कुम्हार, Kumbhakar) is an Indian and Pakistani potter caste, also called Prajapati or Kumbhar, traditionally making earthen vessels; genetically close to Kerala's Kurchas and classified OBC in states like Uttar Pradesh.
Kumyks (къумукълар)
Kumyks (къумукълар, къумукъ), a Turkic Kipchak-speaking people of the Kumyk plain and Caspian shore in Dagestan; over 500,000 people, historically ruled by the Tarki shamkhalate, with Kumyk once Dagestan's state language.
Kunbi
Kunbi (कुणबी), also known as Kunbi Marathas or Kanabi, is a cluster of Marathi- and Gujarati-speaking cultivator castes of western and central India, and a generic Deccan term for a farmer.
Kunta (tribe)
The Kunta, in Arabic Kinata, are an Arabic-speaking tribe and scholarly lineage of the southern Sahara and Sahel, prominent from the 18th century in present-day northern Mali.
Kurds
Kurds (Kurdish people): an ethnic group of about 35 million spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria; the world's largest stateless people, speaking Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki and related dialects, with movements from the KDP and PUK to the PKK and SDF.
Kurds in Syria
Kurds in Syria, the largest ethnic minority (2 to 2.5 million, up to 10% of the pre-war population), centered in Afrin, Kobane, Jazira, Aleppo, and Damascus; marked by the 1962 citizenship stripping, wartime SDF autonomy, and the 2026 citizenship and language decree.
Kurmi (कुर्मी)
Kurmi (कुर्मी), also Kunbi or Kudmi Mahato, is a Hindu agricultural caste of northern and eastern India, classified OBC, prominent in Bihar politics (Triveni Sangh, Nitish Kumar) with a Jharkhand Scheduled Tribe inclusion proposal pending.
Kuruba (ಕುರುಬ)
Kuruba (ಕುರುಬ), also Dhangar or Halu Mata, is a large shepherd and weaving caste of Karnataka, about 9.5% of the population, classified OBC 2A, seeking ST status; distinct from Jenu, Kadu, and Betta Kuruba Scheduled Tribes.
Kushwaha
Kushwaha is an agrarian caste community of northern India, concentrated in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand; Bihar's 2022 caste census recorded over 5.5 million members.
Kutenai
Kutenai (Ktunaxa, Kootenai) are an Indigenous people of southeastern British Columbia, Idaho, and Montana, speaking a language isolate, with four Canadian First Nations, two US tribes, and no treaty yet secured.
Kvens
Kvens (kvener, Norwegian Finns) are a Finnish-descended national minority of Norway, long settled in Troms and Finnmark; recognized as a national minority in 1998, with the closely Finnish-related Kven language recognized as its own minority language in 2005 and today severely endangered.
Kwakwaka'wakw
The Kwakwaka'wakw, long known as the Kwakiutl, are Indigenous peoples of northern Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia, centered on the potlatch, a ceremonial feast that served as their governance.
Kwame
Kwame is the Akan day name for a male born on Saturday (female form Ama), part of Ghana's deity-based weekday naming system; variants include Kwamena, Kwamina, Kwami, and Kouamé, and its best-known bearer is Kwame Nkrumah.
Kyrgyz people (кыргыздар)
The Kyrgyz people (кыргыздар), also known as Kirgiz or Kirghiz, are a Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia, the titular majority of Kyrgyzstan and historically nomadic pastoralists.
La Raza
La Raza ("the race," also "the people") is a Spanish term for Hispanophone populations as a mixed people, from Vasconcelos's La Raza Cósmica (1925); central to Chicano identity, La Raza Unida Party, and the Chicago newspaper La Raza.
Lace curtain and shanty Irish
Lace curtain and shanty Irish: paired American class labels for Irish Americans, coined in the 1890s, dividing a piano-and-parlor middle class from poor one-room-cabin immigrants; later scholarship finds the divide caricatured.
Lady Annabel Goldsmith
Lady Annabel Goldsmith (1934-2025), born Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, English socialite, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry, namesake of Annabel's nightclub, wife of Mark Birley then Sir James Goldsmith, mother of Jemima, Zac, and Ben Goldsmith.
Lady Eliza Spencer
Lady Eliza Victoria Spencer, British model and twin sister of Lady Amelia Spencer, daughter of the 9th Earl Spencer and Victoria Lockwood, niece of Diana, Princess of Wales; Storm Management model, Aspinal campaign face, engaged to Channing Millerd, Lala V rosé founder.
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, also known as Lady Sarah Burgos, was a British-born socialite and philanthropist, eldest daughter of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and a granddaughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Lakota people
The Lakota are the westernmost division of the Sioux-speaking peoples and the largest of its three language groups, known for Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud.
Lalla Lamia Al Solh (لامية السلح)
Lalla Lamia Al Solh (لامية السلح), Lebanese-born Moroccan princess, daughter of Riad Al Solh; wife of Prince Moulay Abdallah (married November 1961); president of OAPAM for the blind in Morocco since 1967.