American Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Is a Grammy–nominated[1] American singer and pianist.[2][3] She is currently signed to Def Jam.Kar

Is a Grammy–nominated[1] American singer and pianist.[2][3] She is currently signed to Def Jam.Karina is of Dominican[5] and Armenian[6] descent. Her first language was Russian, and she can sing in 6 other languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, A

Is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four

Is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ??? Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Is a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.Kasten enlisted in the U.S. Army foll

Is a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.Kasten enlisted in the U.S. Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kasten was initially assigned to the medical corps but ended up in the engineers corps where his artistic skills were used for camouflage. After Officer Candidate School he was deployed to England to serve with the 295th Engineer Combat Battalion.[3] On D-Day he was promoted to Captain and put in charge of the Intelligence unit of the Battalion. Kastens' memories of the war are dark and he recalls bluntly, "My job was to kill people," and "I was pretty miserable inside."[1][4][5]

Is a retired American professional basketball player.

Is a retired American professional basketball player.

(born July 6, 1930 in Kentfield, California) is a former backup outfielder in Major League Baseball

(born July 6, 1930 in Kentfield, California) is a former backup outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1951, 1953-55), Washington Senators (1956-57) and Detroit Tigers (1957). He batted and threw right handed.

American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.

American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.

Is a US-American amateur boxer best known for winning the gold medal at the 2007 Pan Am Games in the

Is a US-American amateur boxer best known for winning the gold medal at the 2007 Pan Am Games in the Men's Light Welterweight. Dargan began boxing in 1992 and won the PAL tournament 2005 at 125 lbs, at the National Golden Gloves 2002 on points to Lorenzo

Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of Gretta, a sculptor, and William Bader, a foundati

Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of Gretta, a sculptor, and William Bader, a foundation executive who worked in politics.[1] At the age of two, his family moved to Paris, France, but he returned to the U.S. to attend Groveton High School; g

Was an American educator and a Republican member of the United States Congress, representing South D

Was an American educator and a Republican member of the United States Congress, representing South Dakota in the United States House of Representatives from 1938 to 1948 and in the United States Senate from 1948 to 1973.

Is the sixth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. He wa

Is the sixth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. He was sworn in on September 21, 2007.From 1999 to January 9, 2007, Karl Dean served as Nashville's Director of Law under Mayor Bill Purcell.In 1990, 1994, and

Was a NASA astronaut.Henize attended primary and secondary schools in Plainville and Mariemont, Ohio

Was a NASA astronaut.Henize attended primary and secondary schools in Plainville and Mariemont, Ohio and received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics in 1947 and a master of arts degree in astronomy in 1948 from the University of Virginia while carry

Was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanati

Was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. He is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.Karl Jansky attended college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received his BS in physics in 1927. In 1928 he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories site in Holmdel, New Jersey. Bell Labs wanted to investigate atmospheric and ionospheric properties using "short waves" (wavelengths of about 10-20 meters) for use in transatlantic radio telephone service. As a radio engineer, Jansky was assigned the job of investigating sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions.

Was an American tennis player and banker. He was also a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Was an American tennis player and banker. He was also a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Behr was also a well known lawn tennis star, playing on the United States Davis Cup team in 1907. Behr, with Beals C. Wright, was also runner up in the men

Is an American mixed martial arts fighter and boxer who currently competes in the lightweight divisi

Is an American mixed martial arts fighter and boxer who currently competes in the lightweight division of Strikeforce. He holds a mixed martial arts record of 10 wins and 2 losses and a professional boxing record of 12 wins and 2 losses. Noons does not af

Served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 11th district, 1957-63.

Served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 11th district, 1957-63.

Is an Emmy Award–winning, Oscar-winning and Golden Globe–nominated American actor of Serbian ori

Is an Emmy Award–winning, Oscar-winning and Golden Globe–nominated American actor of Serbian origin, known for his expansive manner. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks, with Marlon Brando, and also starred in the blockbuster movie, Patton. Among other notable film roles are Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll and Zebulon Prescott in How the West Was Won both starring Carroll Baker. His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco.

Is a German-Canadian Semi-professional footballer with Trinity Western Spartans, a first division te

Is a German-Canadian Semi-professional footballer with Trinity Western Spartans, a first division team in Canada. 2004 was the starting goalie for Phoenix FC 15U. League Champions, Playoff Finalists and indoor soccer league Champions and in 2003 played with the Phoenix FC 14U. MSA Cup finalists.

Is a former American football player for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.In 1983,

Is a former American football player for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.In 1983, the Denver Broncos drafted Karl Mecklenburg in the 12th round with the 310th pick overall. In spite of his low selection, Mecklenburg went on to become an integral part of the Broncos' Super Bowl teams of the 1980s

Known by his ring name Jason the Terrible, is a Canadian professional wrestler who was a veteran of

Known by his ring name Jason the Terrible, is a Canadian professional wrestler who was a veteran of Calgary-based Stampede Wrestling as well as Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling and the World Wrestling Council.Moffat won the Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestl

Was an American herpetologist.In 1913 Schmidt entered Cornell University to study biology and geolog

Was an American herpetologist.In 1913 Schmidt entered Cornell University to study biology and geology. In 1915 he discovered his preference for herpetology during a four month training course at the Perdee Oil Company in Louisiana.[3] In 1916 he was admitted to the the degree of Bachelor of Arts and made his first geological expedition to Santo Domingo. From 1916 to 1922 he worked as scientific assistant in herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, under the well-known American herpetologists Mary Cynthia Dickerson and Gladwyn K. Noble. In 1919 he made his first collecting expedition to Puerto Rico. In 1922 he became the assistant curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. From 1923 to 1934 he made several collecting expeditions for that museum to Central and South America

Was a wrestling promoter in Texas. Born to Lithuanian immigrants, Karl started working as a coal min

Was a wrestling promoter in Texas. Born to Lithuanian immigrants, Karl started working as a coal miner. Sarpolis made Houston his wrestling home and was married on February 3, 1936. Wrestler Ellis Bashara was his best man. He would marry a second time and

Was an American botanist and geneticist, in particular he was noted for his research in cytogenetics

Was an American botanist and geneticist, in particular he was noted for his research in cytogenetics and the effect of radiation on chromosomes.Sax was born in Spokane, Washington, his parents were pioneer farmers, and active in civic affairs, his father was mayor of Colville, Washington. He was schooled in Colville and went on to study at Washington State College in 1912. He majored in agriculture, his decision to undertake graduate study was influenced by plant breeder Edward Gaines. At college he also met and married Dr. Hally Jolivette, his cytology teacher; they had three sons. In 1916 following his graduation, his wife accepted a position at Wellesley College and he went with her to the East Coast enrolling in the doctoral program at Harvard's Bussey Institution Graduate School of Applied Biology. He completed his MA in 1917 and served as a Private in the US Army in 1917 - 1918.

Was an American psychologist and behaviorist well-remembered for his influential contributions to th

Was an American psychologist and behaviorist well-remembered for his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. His failure to find a single biological locus of memory (or "engram", as he called it) suggested to him that memories were not localized to one part of the brain, but were widely distributed throughout the cortex.While working toward his Ph.D. in genetics at Johns Hopkins University, Karl Lashley became associated with the influential psychologist John B. Watson. During three years of postdoctoral work on vertebrate behavior (1914-17), he began formulating the research program that was to occupy the remainder of his life.

Was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948.Karl Taylor Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, the eldest of three brothers and one sister. His father, Elias Compton, was from an old American Presbyterian family, and his mother, Otelia Augspurger Compton, was from an Alsatian and Hessian Mennonite family that had recently immigrated to the United States. He came from a remarkably accomplished family in which his brother Arthur became a prominent physicist and sister Mary a missionary.

Was an American professional wrestler. In the early 1960s, Von Hess's gimmick began to wear thin, an

Was an American professional wrestler. In the early 1960s, Von Hess's gimmick began to wear thin, and he was gradually phased out of the WWWF. He continued to work in various wrestling promotions before quitting the business in the late 1960s.