Historic figures: K

John Keats (1795-1821) - 19th century Romantic poet
James Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915) - politician, first leader of the Labour Party
Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907) - Victorian physicist, mathematician
John F Kennedy (1917 - 1963) - Cold War US president, assassinated
John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) - influential 20th century economist
Khafra (Khephren) (c.2558 BC - c.2532 BC) - ancient Egyptian architect, model for the Sphinx
Ayatollah Khomeini (1900-1989) - 20th century leader of Iran's Islamic revolution
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) - Cold War Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Khufu (2609 BC - 2584 BC) - Egyptian pharaoh, built Great Pyramid at Giza
Kilby and Noyce (1923-2005) - electrical engineers, invented the microchip
Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) - 20th century US civil rights leader, assassinated
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - 19th-20th century writer, Nobel prize winner
Henry Kissinger (1923 - ) - 20th century US academic, politician, Nobel prize winner
Lord Horatio Kitchener (1850 - 1916) - British world War One general, mobilised mass armies

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