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Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
On this page: Kádar, János to Kenny, Elizabeth.
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Kádar, János (Hungarian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Kafka, Franz (Writer)
Kahlo, Frida (Artist)
Kahn, Louis Isadore (American architect)
Kalb, Johann (American military leader)
Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich (Russian politician)
Kamehameha I (King of the Hawaiian Islands)
Kamenev, Lev Borisovich (Russian politician)
Kant, Immanuel (Philosopher)
Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich (Russian physicist)
Karadžić, Radovan (Bosnian Serb leader)
Karajan, Herbert von (Austrian musician)
Karamanlis, Konstantinos (Greek president)
Karloff, Boris (English-American actor)
Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich (Russian chess master)
Karrer, Paul (chemist)
Karsavina, Tamara (Russian ballet dancer)
Kasparov, Garry (Armenian chess player)
Kaufman, George Simon (American playwright)
Kaunda, Kenneth David (World Artist, '80s)
Kawabata, Yasunari (Japanese novelist)
Kaye, Danny (Actor / Singer / Humanitarian)
Kazan, Elia (Turkish-born American stage and film director)
Kazantzakis, Nikos (Greek writer)
Kean, Edmund (English actor)
Keaton, Joseph Francis (Comedian / Filmmaker / Actor)
Keble, John (English theologian & poet)
Kefauver, (Carey) Estes (American statesman/stateswoman)
Keitel, Wilhelm (German military leader)
Kellogg, Frank Billings (American jurist & statesman/stateswoman)
Kellogg, Will Keith (American cereal manufacturer)
Kelly, Ellsworth (American abstract painter and sculptor)
Kelly, Emmett (American circus clown)
Kelly, Eugene Curran (Actor / Dancer / Choreographer)
Kelly, Grace Patricia (Actor / Royalty)
Kelvin, First Baron (English mathematician & physicist)
Kemal Atatürk (Political Leader)
Kendall, Edward Calvin (American biologist & chemist)
Kendrew, John Cowdery, Sir (British biochemist)
Kennan, George Frost (American statesman/stateswoman & historian)
Kennedy, Anthony M (American statesman/stateswoman & jurist)
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (35th U.S. President)
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick (Business Personality / Political Figure)
Kennedy, Robert Francis (U.S. Senator / Attorney General)
Kenny, Elizabeth (Australian physician)