In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [76, 45, 281, 210, 239, 261, 93, 73, 16, 198, 46, 59, 141, 269, 80, 164, 290, 117, 111, 62], k=13
Example Output: 80

Example Input: [274, 108, 167, 131, 93, 206, 151, 159, 90, 170, 26, 173, 160, 255, 81, 248, 211, 207, 171, 189], k=1
Example Output: 274

Example Input: [96, 236, 17, 279, 218, 255, 222, 18, 91, 99, 85, 105, 108, 133, 284, 245, 58, 139, 215, 221], k=2
Example Output:
279