# List of people by name, K

Subset of List of people by name

### Ka–Kap

* Kabakov, Ilya
* Kabalevsky, Dmitry
* Ka'bi, Abbas
* Kabila, Joseph
* Kabir
* Kac, Mark
* Kaceli, Sadik
* Kaczyński, Lech
* Kaczynski, Theodore
* Kadivar, Mohsen
* Kael, Pauline
* Kafka, Franz
* Kagan, Elena
* Kagan, Robert
* Kagan, Shelly
* Kagen, Steve
* Kahane, Meir
* Kahlo, Frida
* Kahn, Herman
* Kahn, Madeline
* Kahn, Philippe
* Kahn, Roger
* Kahneman, Daniel
* Kaiser, David
* Kaiser, Henry J.
* Kaiser, Robert G.
* Kalecki, Michal
* Kalashnikov, Mikhail
* Kalecki, Michał
* Kalich, Richard
* Kak, Subhash
* Kaku, Michio
* Kalam, APJ Abdul
* Kālidāsa
* Kalinin, Mikhail
* Kalla, Jusuf
* Kallinen, Yrjö
* Kalnoky, Tomas
* Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
* Kambanda, Jean
* Kamen, Dean
* Kaminer, Wendy
* Kamm, Oliver
* Kamprad, Ingvar
* Kandasamy, Meena
* Kandel, Eric
* Kandinsky, Wassily
* Kane, Big Daddy
* Kane, Bob
* Kane, Helen
* Kaneria, Danish
* Kano, Jigoro
* Kant, Immanuel
* Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
* Kantorovich, Leonid
* Kao, Charles K.
* Kapoor, Anish
* Kapoor, Shraddha
* Kapell, William
* Kaplan, Abraham
* Kaplinsky, Natasha
* Kaprow, Allan
* Kapuściński, Ryszard

### Kar–Kaz

* Karadžić, Radovan
* Karajan, Herbert von
* Youssef Bey Karam
* Kara-Murza, Vladimir Vladimirovich
* Kardec, Allan
* Karenga, Maulana
* Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
* Karman, Tawakkol
* Kármán, Theodore von
* Karpov, Anatoly
* Karr, Alphonse
* Karroubi, Mehdi
* Karume, Amani Abeid
* Karunanidhi
* Karzai, Hamid
* Käsemann, Ernst
* Kashiwagi, Hiroshi
* Kasparov, Garry
* Kaspersky, Eugene
* Kass, Leon
* Kassabova, Kapka
* Kassák, Lajos
* Katainen, Jyrki
* Kati, Mahmud
* Katie, Byron
* Katju, Markandey
* Katragadda, Siddharth
* Katwala, Sunder
* Katz, Bernard
* Katz, Daniel
* Katz, Jonathan
* Kauffman, Irvin
* Kauffman, Louis
* Kauffman, Stuart
* Kauffmann, Stanley
* Kaufman, Andy
* Kaufman, Bel
* Kaufman, Gerald
* Kaufman, Lloyd
* Kaufman, Ron
* Kaufmann, Christoph
* Kaufmann, Walter (philosopher)
* Kaunda, Kenneth
* Kaur, Rupi
* Kaurismäki, Aki
* Kavanagh, Patrick
* Kavner, Julie
* Kawabata, Yasunari
* Kawara, On
* Kawasaki, Guy
* Kay, Alan
* Kay, Jackie
* Kay, Ken
* Kay, Peter
* Kay, Susan
* Kaye, Danny
* Kaysen, Susanna
* Kazan, Elia
* Kazanas, Nicholas
* Kazantzakis, Nikos

### Kea–Key

* Kean, Tom, Jr.
* Keane, Margaret
* Keane, Walter
* Keating, Paul
* Keaton, Buster
* Keats, John
* Keble, John
* Keck, Kevin
* Keegan, Kevin
* Keel, John
* Keen, Sam
* Keen, Steve
* Keenan, Maynard James
* Keeping, Charles
* Keeshan, Bob
* Kefauver, Estes
* Kehoskie, Joe
* Keillor, Garrison
* Keitel, Wilhelm
* Keith, Brian
* Keith, George
* Keith, Toby
* Kekewich, Arthur
* Kekulé, August
* Kellaway, Lucy
* Keller, Hans
* Keller, Helen
* Kellerman, Annette
* Kellner, Friedrich
* Kellor, Frances
* Kelly, Ellsworth
* Kelly, Gene
* Kelly, Grace
* Kelly, Kevin
* Kelly, Megyn
* Kelly, Ned
* Kelly, Walt
* Kelsen, Hans
* Kelsey, Morton
* Kelvin, Lord
* Kemble, Edwin C.
* Kemble, Fanny
* Kemble, John Philip
* Kemp, Arthur
* Kemp, Jack
* Kemp, Richard
* Kempe, Margery
* Kempis, Thomas à
* Kempton, Murray

### Ken–Kez

* Ken, Thomas
* Kendall, Henry Way
* Kendi, Ibram X.
* Kendzior, Sarah
* Keneally, Thomas
* Kenkō, Yoshida
* Kennan, George F.
* Kennedy, Adrienne
* Kennedy, Anthony
* Kennedy, Charles
* Kennedy, Eugene
* Kennedy, Helena (Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws)
* Kennedy, Jimmy
* Kennedy, Margrit
* Kennedy, Edward ("Ted")
* Kennedy, James
* Kennedy, John F.
* Kennedy, Robert F.
* Kennedy, Robert Francis Jr.
* Kennedy, X. J.
* Kenney, Arthur
* Kenneth, Peter
* Kenny, Charles
* Kenny, Enda
* Kenny, Mary
* Kenshin, Uesugi
* Kensit, Patsy
* Kent, Rockwell
* Kenyatta, Jomo
* Kenyatta, Uhuru
* Kenyon, Frederic G.
* Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon
* Keon, Dave
* Kepa, Ro Teimumu
* Kepes, György
* Kepler, Johannes
* Kerik, Bernard
* Kern, Ken
* Kernaghan, Lee
* Kernighan, Brian
* Kerouac, Jack
* Kerr, Clark
* Kerr, Jean
* Kerr, Katharine
* Kerry, John
* Kerry, Teresa Heinz
* Kersey, Jerome
* Kershaw, Ian
* Kertész‎, Imre
* Kerwin, Larkin
* Kerzner, Harold
* Kerzner, Sol
* Kesey, Ken
* Kesselring, Albert
* Kessler, Andy (author)
* Kettering, Charles
* Kettle, Black
* Kettle, Thomas
* Kevorkian, Jack
* Key, Francis Scott
* Keyes, Alan
* Keyes, Daniel
* Keynes, John Maynard
* Keys, Alicia
* Keyser, Cassius Jackson

### Kh–Ki

* Khader, Samir
* Khakheperresenb
* Khakpour, Porochista
* Khaldun, Ibn
* Khalifa, Wiz
* Khamenei, Ali
* Khan, Aamir
* Khan, Abdul Ghaffar
* Khan, Amir (boxer)
* Khan, Bismillah
* Khan, Genghis
* Khan, Ghani
* Khan, Hafiz
* Khan, Inayat
* Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla
* Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali
* Khan, Rozlyn
* Khan, Salman
* Khan, Shahrukh
* Khan, Shakib
* Khan, Syed Ahmed
* Khanh, Nguyen
* Khartabil, Bassel
* Khatami, Ahmad
* Khatami, Mohammad
* Khayyám, Omar
* Khobragade, Devyani
* Khobragade, Uttam
* Khomeini, Ruhollah
* Khong, Rachel
* Khorsandi, Shaparak
* Khrushchev, Nikita
* Khwārizmī, Muhammad ibn Mūsā
* Kiam, Victor
* Kibaki, Mwai
* Kidd, Sue Monk
* Kidman, Nicole
* Kiedis, Anthony
* Kiefer, Anselm
* Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye
* Kiernan, Caitlín R.
* Kikwete, Jakaya
* Kilbey, Steve
* Kilby, Jack
* Kildall, Gary
* Kilgarriff, Adam
* Killelea, Steve
* Kilmer, Joyce
* Kilmer, Val
* Kilroy-Silk, Robert
* Kim, Il-sung
* Kim, Young-sam
* Kimball, Heber C.
* Kimmel, Jimmy
* Kincaid, Jamaica
* King, Angus
* King, Basil
* King, Benjamin Franklin, Jr.
* King, Bernice
* King, Carole
* King, Charles D. B.
* King, Coretta Scott
* King, Florence
* King, Jonathan
* King, Martin Luther, III
* King, Martin Luther, Jr.
* King, Regina
* King, Rodney
* King, Stephen
* King, William Lyon Mackenzie
* King, William R.
* King, William
* King, Yolanda
* Kingsley, Charles
* Kingsmill, Hugh
* Kingsolver, Barbara
* Kingston, Maxine Hong
* Kingwell, Mark
* Kinison, Sam
* Kinnell, Galway
* Kinnersley, Ebenezer
* Kinnick, Nile
* Kinnock, Glenys
* Kinnock, Neil
* Kinsey, Alfred
* Kinski, Klaus
* Kinski, Nastassja
* Kinsley, Michael
* Kipling, Rudyard
* Kirchhoff, Gustav
* Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de
* Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
* Kirchner, Leon
* Kirchner, Néstor
* Kirk, Claude
* Kirk, Edward Norris
* Kirk, Russell
* Kirkland, Lane
* Kirkpatrick, Jeane
* Kirst, Hans Hellmut
* Kirzner, Israel
* Kis-Lev, Jonathan
* Kishon, Ephraim
* Kishwar, Madhu
* Kissinger, Henry
* Kit, To
* Kitna, Jon
* Kittredge, Abbott Eliot
* Kittredge, George Lyman
* Kivi, Aleksis
* Kiyosaki, Robert

### Kl–Koo

* Klages, Ludwig
* Klain, Ron
* Klassen, Bernhardt
* Klaus, Václav
* Klayton
* Klee, Paul
* Klein, A.M.
* Klein, Herman
* Klein, Joe
* Klein, Lawrence
* Klein, Melanie
* Klein, Ralph
* Klein, Yves
* Kleist, Paul Ludwig Ewald von
* Klemperer, Victor
* Klepacki, Frank
* Kliban, B.
* Kline, Franz
* Kline, Kevin
* Klinsmann, Jürgen
* Klir, George
* Klobuchar, Amy
* Klosterman, Chuck
* Klug, Aaron
* Klug, Brian
* Kluge, Günther von
* Klum, Heidi
* Kneller, Godfrey
* Knigge, Adolf Freiherr
* Knight, Bob
* Knight, Damon
* Knight, Frank
* Knight, Holly
* Knightley, Keira
* Knopfler, Mark
* Knott, Cargill Gilston
* Knott, J(ames) Proctor
* Knowles, John
* Knowles, Stanley
* Knox, Alexander (1757–1831)
* Knox, Henry
* Knox, John
* Knox, Ronald
* Knox, William
* Knuth, Donald
* Ko Wen-je
* Kobayashi, Makoto (physicist)
* Koch, Ed
* Koch, Richard
* Koe, Amanda Lee
* Koechlin, Kalki
* Koenig, Ezra
* Koester, Helmut
* Koestler, Arthur
* Kofman, Sarah
* Kohl, Helmut
* Köhler, Horst
* Kohn, Alfie
* Kohn, Walter
* Koirala, Manisha
* Kõiv, Kerli (a.k.a. Kerli)
* Kok, Ingrid de
* Kok, Wim
* Kokoschka, Oskar
* Kołakowski, Leszek
* Kolbert, Elizabeth
* Kolchak, Alexander
* Kollwitz, Käthe
* Kolokotronis, Theodoros
* Konev, Ivan
* Konstantinov, Ventseslav
* Kook, Abraham Isaac
* Kool Herc, DJ
* Koolhaas, Rem
* Kooning, Willem de
* Koons, Jeff
* Koontz, Dean R.
* Koop, C. Everett
* Koopmans, Tjalling
* Kordić, Snježana
* Kornai, János
* Korot, Beryl
* Kosuth, Joseph

### Kop–Kr

* Koponen, Suvi
* Kopp, Sheldon
* Koppel, Ted
* Korda, Michael
* Korry, Edward M.
* Kors, Alan Charles
* Korshunova, Ruslana
* Korwin-Mikke, Janusz
* Korzybski, Alfred
* Kościuszko, Tadeusz
* Kosloff, Ronnie
* Kossuth, Lajos
* Kosztka, Tivadar Csontváry
* Kotkin, Joel
* Kotok, Alan
* Kotter, John
* Kotzebue, August von
* Koufax, Sandy
* Kounellis, Jannis
* Kovacs, Ernie
* Kowal, Mary Robinette
* Kowalewicz, Ben
* Koxinga
* Koya, Sidiq
* Koyré, Alexandre
* Kozinski, Alex
* Kraft, Robert (astronomer)
* Krakauer, Jon
* Kranz, Eugene F. "Gene"
* Krasiński, Zygmunt
* Krasner, Lee
* Kraus, Joseph Martin
* Kraus, Karl
* Krauss, Lawrence M.
* Krauss, Nicole
* Krauthammer, Charles
* Krebs, Ed
* Kreeft, Peter
* Krekar, Mullah
* Kreuk, Kristin
* Kricfalusi, John
* Krieger, Lou
* Krieger, Robby
* Kripke, Saul
* Krishnamurthy, Kalki (R. Krishnamurthy)
* Krishnamurti, Jiddu
* Krishnamurti, U. G.
* Krishnan, Kariamanickam Srinivasa
* Kristof, Nicholas D.
* Kristofferson, Kris
* Kristol, Irving
* Kristol, William "Bill"
* Kroah-Hartman, Greg
* Kroc, Ray
* Kroemer, Herbert
* Kroes, Neelie
* Krogh, August
* Kronecker, Leopold
* Kronenberger, Louis
* Kronrod, Alexander
* Kropotkin, Peter
* Kross, Eerik-Niiles
* Kroupa, Pavel
* Krug, Judith
* Kruger, Barbara
* Kruger, Carl
* Kruger, Danny
* Krugman, Paul
* Kruk, John
* Kruse, Holly
* Kruse, Peter
* Kruskal, Martin David
* Krutch, Joseph Wood

### Ku–Ky

* Kuang-shih, Yeh
* Kubler, George
* Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
* Kubrick, Stanley
* Kucinich, Dennis
* Kudlow, Lawrence
* Kudryavitsky, Anatoly
* Kuhn, Thomas Samuel
* Kuhn, Thomas
* Kuhner, Jeffrey T.
* Kuklinski, Richard
* Kulongoski, Ted
* Kumar, Akshay
* Kumar, Manjit
* Kumaratunga, Chandrika
* Kumble, Anil
* Kundera, Milan
* Kundt, August
* Küng, Hans
* Kun-huei, Huang
* Kunitz, Stanley
* Kunnumpuram, Kurien
* Kunstler, James Howard
* Kupchan, Charles A.
* Kureishi, Hanif
* Kuribayashi, Tadamichi
* Kurien, Verghese
* Kuriyama, Chiaki
* Kurlansky, Mark
* Kurosawa, Akira
* Kurth, Ernst
* Kurti, Nicholas
* Kurtz, Paul
* Kurtz, Scott R.
* Kurzweil, Ray
* Kushi, Michio
* Kushlick, Taubie
* Kushner, Ellen
* Kuspit, Donald
* Kusturica, Emir
* Kutaragi, Ken
* Kuttner, Henry
* Kuttner, Robert
* Kuyper, Abraham
* Küzmics, István
* Kuznets, Simon
* Kwan, Michelle
* Kwarteng, Kwasi
* Kweli, Talib
* Kwiatkowski, Karen
* Kyber, Manfred
* Kyd, Jesper
* Kyd, Thomas
* Kyl, Jon
* Kyle, Iris
* Kyūma, Fumio