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: [291, 17, 170, 81, 64, 29, 211, 10, 182, 107, 12, 275, 262, 149, 151, 280, 132, 130, 177, 281], k=1
Example Output: 291

Example Input: [208, 53, 169, 207, 15, 137, 291, 217, 269, 100, 121, 174, 297, 124, 34, 81, 56, 149, 66, 199], k=13
Example Output: 121

Example Input: [25, 94, 191, 176, 47, 284, 230, 285, 163, 198, 196, 145, 237, 221, 51, 13, 296, 86, 38, 243], k=4
Example Output:
243