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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.
Kane Tanaka (田中カ子)
Kane Tanaka (田中カ子), née Ota, Japanese supercentenarian (1903–2022) who died at 119 years 107 days, the second-oldest validated person ever after Jeanne Calment; Guinness oldest living person from March 2019 and oldest validated Japanese person ever.
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.
Karel Dežman
Karel Dežman (Karl Deschmann) was a Carniolan museum curator, natural scientist, and archaeologist who excavated the Ljubljana Marshes pile dwellings and was mayor of Ljubljana.
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 (slang)
Karen is pejorative slang for an entitled, demanding middle-aged white woman, stereotyped with a blond bob and demanding to speak to the manager; attested by 2005, it exploded in 2018-2020 via Black Twitter and viral videos like Central Park Karen.
Karen Horney
Karen Horney (1885–1952), German-American psychoanalyst and neo-Freudian, founder of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis; theorist of basic anxiety, the three neurotic trends (moving toward, against, away), and womb envy.
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.
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer (Karen Gordon), Canadian philanthropist, founder of Whole Child International (2004), third wife of the 9th Earl Spencer from 2011, chatelaine of Althorp, Ashoka Fellow, and party to the Jarman MS privacy settlement.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al and Tipper Gore, is an American lawyer, author, and environmental advocate; she founded the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in 2015 and organized the 2014 Religions for the Earth conference.
Kārśandās Mūljī
Kārśandās Mūljī (Karsandas Mulji) was a Gujarati journalist and social reformer of Bombay, born in 1832, who edited Satya Prakash and won the 1862 Maharaj Libel Case.
Kartini
Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904), Javanese noblewoman of Jepara in the Dutch East Indies, feminist and national hero of Indonesia whose Dutch-language letters, published as Door Duisternis tot Licht (1911), championed women's education and emancipation; commemorated annually on 21 April as Kartini Day.
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.
Kate Lister (writer)
Kate Lister (Kathryn Louise Lister, born 1981) is a British historian, author, and columnist, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, creator of Whores of Yore, and author of A Curious History of Sex and Harlots, Whores and Hackabouts.
Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934–2017), American feminist writer, sculptor, and activist; author of Sexual Politics (1970), the foundational radical feminist analysis of patriarchy, drawn from her Columbia PhD thesis; also known for The Loony-Bin Trip and the Millett Center for the Arts.
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.
Kathleen Buhle
Kathleen Buhle, American nonprofit executive and author, ex-wife of Hunter Biden (married 1993-2017), author of the 2022 Crown memoir If We Break, founder of The House at 1229, colon cancer survivor, 2024 trial witness.
Kathoey
Kathoey (กะเทย) is a Thai term for people assigned male at birth with feminine gender identity or expression, traditionally a third sex; alternatives include sao praphet song and phuuying kham phet.
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.
Katrina Johnson (model)
Katrina Anne Castañeda Johnson, Filipino-American pharmacist and beauty queen from Davao, Binibining Pilipinas International 2025 and 2023 first runner-up, representing the Philippines at Miss International 2026 in Tokyo.
Katy Faust
Katy Faust, American conservative activist against same-sex marriage; founder and president of Them Before Us (2018) and spokeswoman for the Greater Than campaign; author of Them Before Us (2021), framing marriage as children's rights.
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC) is a standardized test of cognitive ability for children ages 3 to 18, first published in 1983 and revised in 2004.