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: [266, 187, 217, 296, 23, 185, 263, 136, 138, 15, 167, 82, 134, 183, 273, 14, 97, 133, 190, 84], k=20
Example Output: 14

Example Input: [34, 138, 133, 246, 122, 168, 258, 234, 45, 271, 280, 169, 257, 81, 154, 98, 290, 77, 216, 161], k=14
Example Output: 133

Example Input: [194, 39, 151, 113, 173, 176, 284, 76, 274, 162, 65, 262, 188, 54, 154, 36, 105, 201, 191, 226], k=20
Example Output:
36