Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.

jimmy Kirkwood
Former field hockey player
Jimmy Kirkwoodis a former field hockey player from Northern Ireland who represented both Ireland and Great Britain at international level. He represented Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics when...

Carol Kirkwood
Scottish weather presenter
Carol Kirkwoodis a Scottish weather presenter, trained by the Met Office, and employed by the BBC, on BBC Breakfast. In 2015, she participated in the 13th series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, fi...

Myleene Klass
British musician
Myleene Angela Klassis a British musician, singer, television presenter and model. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released two solo classical crossover albums in 2003 and 2007. ...

Maximilian Kleber
German professional basketball player
Maximilian Kleberis a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). At 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in), he plays the power forward position. Professi...

Pom Klementieff
French actress
Pom Alexandra Klementieffis a French actress. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and appeared in such French films as The Easy Way (2008) and Sleepless Night (2011), before mak...

Jurgen Klopp
German professional football manager
Jürgen Norbert Kloppis a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool. He is widely regarded as one of the best managers in the world. Klo...

Nicholas Knight
British fashion photographer
Nicholas David Gordon Knightis a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D....

Beverley Knight
English singer
Beverley Knightis an English singer, songwriter, actress and radio personality. She released her first album, The B-Funk, in 1995. Heavily influenced by American soul music icons such as Sam Cooke and...

Keira Knightley
English actress
Keira Christina Knightleyis an English actress. Known for her work in independent films and blockbusters, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including nominations for two...

Nicholas Knowles
English television presenter
Nicholas Simon Augustine Knowlesis an English television presenter, writer and musician. He has hosted several television programmes including Real Rescues (2007–2013), Who Dares Wins (2007–2019), Bre...

Beyonce (Beyoncé) Knowles-carter
American singer, songwriter, and actress
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carteris an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead s...

Barbara Knox
English actress
Barbara Knoxis an English actress, best known for her long-running portrayal of Rita Tanner in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She first appeared as Rita Littlewood for one episode in December 1...

Ulrich Koerner
CEO Asset Management of Credit Suisse
Ulrich Körner(born October 25, 1962) is a German-Swiss business person. In March 2021, he was named CEO Asset Management of Credit Suisse until July 2022, when he was appointed CEO of Credit Suisse AG...

David Kogan
Journalist
David Barnett KoganOBE is a British media executive, historian and journalist, living in London. He has worked as both a journalist and a senior executive at the BBC, Reuters Television, Granada Chann...

Athanasios (Thanasi) Kokkinakis
Australian professional tennis player
Athanasios "Thanasi" Kokkinakisis an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 65 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 6 November 2023. He has won one ATP Tour title...

Siyamthanda Kolisi
South African professional rugby union player
Siyamthanda Kolisi OIGis a South African professional rugby union player who currently captains the South Africa national team and also the Cell C Sharks. He plays club rugby for the Sharks in the Cur...

Ibrahima Konate
French professional footballer
Ibrahima Konatéis a French professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Premier League club Liverpool and the France national team. Starting off with Sochaux, Konaté moved to RB Leipzig in 2...

Simon Konecki
Chief Executive Officer of Drop4Drop
Simon Christopher Koneckiis a British charity entrepreneur, known for his work as the CEO of Drop4Drop, a non-profit organization that provides clean drinking water to developing countries, and for co...

Wesley Koolhof
Dutch professional tennis player
Wesley Koolhofis a Dutch professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has been ranked in doubles as high as world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first ac...

Sebastian Korda
American professional tennis player
Sebastian Kordais an American professional tennis player. Korda's career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 23 was achieved on October 16, 2023. He has won one ATP singles tournament, the 2021 Emil...