People: K
23 people of 861, A to Z.
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- K. E. LinderfeltLieutenant of the Colorado National Guard at Ludlow in April 1914.
- Karipbek KuyukovPainter from Kazakhstan, born without arms near the Semipalatinsk Test Site, who campaigns against nuclear testing.
- Karl InderfurthU.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia in the late 1990s.
- Karl Radek 1885–1939Revolutionary who travelled on the sealed train and was refused entry into Russia.
- Kassym-Jomart TokayevPresident of Kazakhstan.
- Kathe SacklerFormer Purdue vice president and board member.
- Katherine Johnson 1918–2020American mathematician at NASA's Langley Research Center.
- Keith GillAmerican individual investor who posted analysis of GameStop stock on social media.
- Keith HennesseyU.S. economic adviser, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission who dissented from its report.
- Kelly LoefflerRepublican U.S. Senator from Georgia in 2020; took office in January 2020.
- Ken GriffinAmerican investor; founder and CEO of Citadel and co-founder of Citadel Securities.
- Ken WilliamsFBI agent in Phoenix who wrote the “Phoenix memo” of July 2001.
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1866–1944U.S. judge who fined Standard Oil of Indiana in 1907.
- Kenneth LayFounder of Enron; convicted in 2006, died before sentencing, and the conviction was vacated.
- Kermit Roosevelt Jr. 1916–2000CIA officer who managed the 1953 Iran operation on the ground.
- Keshub MahindraChairman of Union Carbide India Ltd. in 1984. Convicted in 2010 by a Bhopal court of causing death by negligence.
- Khalid al-MihdharOne of the 19 hijackers; checked in for American Airlines Flight 77.
- Khalid Sheikh MohammedAl Qaeda member who proposed and ran the planning of the 11 September attacks, according to the 9/11 Commission.
- Kimbal MuskEntrepreneur and restaurateur; co-founder of Zip2 with his brother Elon Musk; Tesla director since 2004.
- Klaus Fuchs 1911–1988Physicist at Los Alamos who passed the design of the bomb to the Soviet Union, and was convicted of espionage.
- Kofi AnnanGhanaian diplomat; head of UN peacekeeping in 1994 and UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006.
- Krikoris BalakianArmenian bishop, survivor of the 1915 deportations and a witness at the Berlin trial of 1921.
- Kristopher GerardiCo-author of a 2022 study of common ownership and airline ticket prices in The Journal of Finance.