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1,666 profilesJulius Nyerere
13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999
Julius Nyerere was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician who led Tanganyika to independence and served as th...
Juscelino Kubitschek
12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976
Juscelino Kubitschek was a Brazilian physician and politician who served as President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. He ha...
Kabir
c. 1440 – c. 1518
Kabir was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint whose vernacular verses criticized empty ritualism in both Hinduis...
Kadim Al Sahir
12 September 1957 – present
Kadim Al Sahir is an Iraqi singer, composer and songwriter born in 1957 in Mosul and raised in Baghdad, where he trained...
Kalpana Chawla
17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003
Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer, the first woman of Indian origin to fly in...
Kangxi Emperor
4 May 1654 – 20 December 1722
The Kangxi Emperor was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty and the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history, ruling...
Kapil Dev
6 January 1959 – present
Kapil Dev is an Indian former cricketer who played as a fast-bowling all-rounder. He captained India to victory in the 1...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
16 April 1947 – present
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., is an American former basketball player who won three NCAA title...
Karl Benz
25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929
Karl Benz was a German engine designer and automotive engineer widely regarded as the inventor of the first practical au...
Karl Lagerfeld
10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) was a German fashion designer, creative director and photographer based in Paris. He was crea...
Karl Landsteiner
14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943
Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-American biologist and physician who discovered the human ABO blood group system, makin...
Karl Marx
5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883
German philosopher and economist whose works, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, founded modern communist thought.
Kate Bush
30 July 1958 – present
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter and producer whose debut single 'Wuthering Heights' reached number one in the...
Kate Sheppard
10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934
Kate Sheppard was the most prominent leader of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand. Through her work with the W...
Katharine Hepburn
12 May 1907 – 29 June 2003
Katharine Hepburn was an American actress whose career in film, television, and stage spanned more than 60 years. Known...
Käthe Kollwitz
8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her powerful, socially engaged de...
Katherine Johnson
26 August 1918 – 24 February 2020
American mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations at NASA were critical to the success of the first US crewed...
Katsushika Hokusai
c. 1760 – 10 May 1849
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period, best known for the woodb...
Kazuo Ishiguro
8 November 1954 – present
Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan, who moved to England as a child. His novels, among them Th...
Ken Saro-Wiwa
10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer and environmental activist from the Ogoni people of the Niger D...
Ken Thompson
4 February 1943 – present
Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American computer scientist who co-created the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie at...
Kendrick Lamar
17 June 1987 – present
Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Compton, California. Signed to Top Dawg Entert...
Kenenisa Bekele
13 June 1982 – present
Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who held the world records over 5000 and 10,000 metres for more tha...
Kenichi Fukui
4 October 1918 – 9 January 1998
Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998) was a Japanese chemist who developed frontier molecular orbital theory, which explains chemica...
Kenneth Kaunda
28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021
Kenneth Kaunda was a Zambian politician who served as the first president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He led the countr...
Kenzaburō Ōe
31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023
Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer whose novels and essays drew on his rural childhood, the atomic bombings and the life...
Kenzo Tange
4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005
Kenzo Tange was a Japanese architect and one of the most significant figures of 20th-century architecture, blending mode...
Khaled
29 February 1960 – present
Khaled (born 1960), earlier known as Cheb Khaled, is an Algerian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Oran....
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun independence activist and nonviolent political leader who opposed British rule in...
Kim Dae-jung
6 January 1924 – 18 August 2009
Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician and pro-democracy activist who served as the President of South Korea from 19...
Kim Il Sung
15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994
Kim Il Sung was the founding leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, heading the state from its establishme...
Kip Thorne
1 June 1940 – present
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on gravitation, black holes and gravitational waves....
Kipchoge Keino
17 January 1940 – present
Kipchoge Keino is a Kenyan former middle- and long-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and two silver medals...
Kishore Kumar
4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987
Kishore Kumar, born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian playback singer, actor, composer, and filmmaker considered one of...
Kitagawa Utamaro
c. 1753 – 31 October 1806
Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753-1806) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, celebrated as the foremost master of bijin-ga, portraits...
Kofi Annan
8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018
Kofi Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006....
Konrad Adenauer
5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967
Konrad Adenauer was a German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 t...
Konrad Lorenz
7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989
Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist and ethologist considered one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of a...
Konrad Zuse
22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995
Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor, and computer pioneer who built the Z3, completed in 1941 and widely c...
Kösem Sultan
c. 1589 – 2 September 1651
Kösem Sultan was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history, wielding influence for nearly half a century during...
Koxinga
27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662
Koxinga, born Zheng Chenggong, was a Ming loyalist general who resisted the Qing conquest of China from bases along the...
Krishnadevaraya
c. 1471 – 1529
Krishnadevaraya was emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1509 to 1529 and is widely regarded as its greatest ruler. H...
Kublai Khan
23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294
Kublai Khan (1215-1294) was a grandson of Genghis Khan who ruled as the fifth great khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260...
Kurt Cobain
20 February 1967 – 5 April 1994
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who was the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock...
Kurt Gödel
28 April 1906 – 14 January 1978
Kurt Gödel was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest log...
Kurt Vonnegut
11 November 1922 – 11 April 2007
Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer whose novels combined satire, science fiction and black comedy. Captured during the...
Kwame Nkrumah
21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972
Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary who led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957, b...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was an English aristocrat, poet, and letter writer, best known for her Turkish Emb...