Murray the K: Murray Kaufman (radio disc-jockey, b1922 d1992)
Ish Kabbible: Merwyn A. Bogue (cornetist/comedian with the Kay Kyser Band, b1908 d1994)
Kato Kaelin: Brian Kaelin (beach bum/murder-trial witness/actor?, b1959)
Kyoko Kagawa: Kyoko Ikebe (Japanese actress)
Kajol: Kajol S. Mukherjee (Indian singer/movie actress)
Ta k Kak: Dr. James L. Walker (physician/author/anarchist/editorial writer for the Galveston News, d1904)
H.V. Kaltenborn: Hans von Kaltenborn (newscaster/commentator, b1878 d1965)
Kamal: Kamal Ahmed (movie & tv actor/Jerky Boy/writer, b1966)
Ibrahim Kamal: Ramzi Ahmed Yousef [aka Armaldo Forlini] (Kuwati-born Pakistani terrorist who planned 1993 World Trade Center bombing)
Kamehameha I: Paiea [aka 'Kamehameha The Great'] Hawaiian King [1810-1819], b1753 d1819) {Paiea is Hawaiian for "soft-shelled crab"}
Kamehameha IV: Alexander Liholiho (Hawaiian King [1854-1863], b1834 d1863)
Kane: Glen Jacobs [aka The New Diesel, Isaac Yankem D.D.S., Unibomb, Doomsday, The Christmas Creature] (professional wrestler)
Gil Kane: Eli Katz (Latvia-born comic book artist, b1926 d2000)
Helen Kane: Helen Schroder [aka "the Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl"] (1920's & 30's singer, b1904 d1966)
Captain Kangaroo: Bob Keeshan (children's television show host)
Captain Kangaroo II: John McDonough (host of revival of famous children's tv show)
Karl Kani: Carl Williams (Seasoned sportswear entrepreneur known for his self-designed baggy jeans, b1968)
Gabe Kaplan: Gabriel Kaplan (comedian/radio disc jockey/movie & tv actor, b1945)
Mitzi Kapture: Mitzi Donahue (movie & tv actress - Baywatch, Silk Stalkings/director, b1964)
Catholicos Karekin I: Neshan Sarkissian (Syrian-born former head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, b1932 d1999)
Anna Karina: Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer (Danish actress/director/author)
Boris Karloff: William Henry Pratt (British movie, stage & tv actor, b1887 d1969)
Mick Karn: Anthony Michaelides (British saxophonist/bass player, b1958)
Richard Karn: Richard Karn Wilson (movie & tv actor/handyman, b1956)
Fat Karr: Hilliard Karr [aka Fatty Carr, H.S. Karr] (rotund 1920's movie actor)
Karski: Jan Kozielewski [aka Jan Karski] (World War II Polish Underground operative, b1914 d2000)
Casey Kasem: Kemal Amin Kasem (Lebanese-American radio disc jockey/actor/cartoon voice, b1932)
Kashief: Michael Jones {aka Kashief Lindo] (Jamaican raggae singer, b1980)
Gary Kasparov: Gary Weinstein (unmarried Russian chess champion (irobnically, he can't find a mate!), b1963) {Kasparov is a Russified version of his mother's maiden name}
Anna Kavan: Helen Woods Edmonds [aka Helen Ferguson {1st married name}] (writer)
Dan Kavanagh: Julian Patrick Barnes (English author, b1946)
Connie Kay: Conrad Henry Kirnon (jazz percussionist with the Modern Jazz Quartet, b1927 d1994)
John Kay: Joachim F. Krauledat (German rock & roll singer/songwriter/guitarist of Steppenwolf)
Mary Kay: Mary Kay Ash (cosmetics company founder/author/pink Cadillac distributor, b1918 d2001)
Danny Kaye: David Daniel Kaminsky (red-headed comedian/movie, stage & tv actor/Court Jester/tongue-twister/tireless worker for UNICEF, b1913 d1987)
Stubby Kaye: Bernard Kotzin (movie & tv actor/game show host, b1918 d1997)
Howard Kaylan: Howard Lawrence Kaplan (rock & roll singer/saxophonist with The Turtles & The Mothers of Invention, b1947)
Elia Kazan: Elia Kazanjoglou (director/screenwriter)
Lanie Kazan: Lanie Levine (movie & tv actress/singer, b1940)
KC: Harry Wayne Casey (leader of KC & The Sunshine Band)
Ernest K-Doe: rhythm & blues singer/songwriter who loves his Mother-In-Law)
Staci Keanan: Anastasia Sogorsky [aka: Stacy Love; nn: Asia](tv actress, b1975)
Shake Keane: Ellsworth McGranahan Keane (British West Indian-English trumpeter, b1927 d1997)
Buster Keaton: Joseph Francis Keaton [nn: The Great Stone Face] (comedian/actor/director/vaudvillian, b1895? d1966)
Diane Keaton: Diane Hall (movie & tv actress/director/producer/author/photographer, b1946)
Michael Keaton: Michael Douglas (actor)
Kebekelektrik: Gino Soccio (Canadian multi-instrumentalist session musician/producer)
Lila Kedrova: Lila Kedroff (Russian Oscar & Tony-winning actress, b1918 d2000)
Cor Kee: Cornelis Kee (Dutch organist/composer, d1997)
Howard Keel: Harry Clifford Leek (movie & tv actor/singer, b1919)
Donald Keeler: Joey Vieira (actor)
Ruby Keeler: Ethel Hilda Lehy Keeler (movie & stage actress/singer/tap dancer, b1909 d1993)
Carolyn Keene: Edward Stratemeyer (d1930) & later, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (b1893 d1982) (juvenile mystery novelists who wrote the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys books)
Keith: James Barry Keefer (singer with 98.6, b1949)
Brian Keith: Robert Keith Richey, Jr. (movie & tv actor, for whom the footlights were a Family Affair/suicide victim, b1921 d1997)
Robert Keith: Robert Keith Richey, Sr. (character actor/suicide victim, b1896 d1966)
Joseph Kell: John Anthony Burgess Wilson (British author/journalist/essayist, b1917 d1993)
Deforest Kelly: Jackson DeForest Kelley (Enterprising movie & tv actor, b1920 d1999)
Fiona Kelly: Sue Welford (writer)
Gene Kelly: Eugene Curran Kelly (dancer/actor/singer/choreographer/director, b1912 d1996)
King Kelly: Michael Joseph Kelly (professional baseball player w/the Chicago White Stockings & the Boston Red Stockings, b1857 d1894)
Machine Gun Kelly: George Kelly Barnes [aka George R. Kelly] (bootlegger/kidnapper/gun hobbiest/convict, b1895 d1954)
R. Kelly: Robert Kelly (Jive R&B singer/songwriter, b1969)
Red Kelly: Leonard Patrick (Canadian professional hockey player, b1927)
Walt Kelly: Walter Crawford, Jr. (cartoonist, most famous for his Pogo comic strip filled with political and social commentary, b1913 d1973)
Fanny Kemble: Frances Anne Kemble (English theatrical actress, 1829-1849)
Kay Kendall: Justine Kendall McCarthy (British actress)
Kennedy: Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (MTV veejay with a GOP elephant tattoo decorating her pelvic region, b1972)
Arthur Kennedy: John Arthur Kennedy (movie actor, b1914 d1990)
Ted Kennedy: Edward Moore Kennedy (U.S. senator)
Tom Kennedy: Jim Narz (tv game show host/announcer)
X.J. Kennedy: Joseph Charles Kennedy (critic/editor/poet, b1929)
Doris Kenner-Jackson: Doris Coley (singer with The Shirelles, who was Dedicated To the One I Love, b1941 d2000)
Alexander Kent: Douglas Reeman (author)
Christopher Kent: Alf Kjellin (Swedish movie, stage & tv actor, b1920 d1988)
Stan Kenton: Stanley Newcomb (jazz musician/bandleader)
Jomo Kenyatta: Kamau wa Ngengi (Kenyan politician/1st president of Kenya [1964-1978], b1891 d1978)
Jack Kerouac: Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac (American cult writer of the '60s/literary icon, b1922 d1969)
Deborah Kerr: Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer (British movie & stage actress, b1921)
Jean Kerr: Bridget Jean Collins (author/dramatist/playwright/protector of daisies, b1923)
Orpheus C. Kerr: Robert Henry Newell (U.S. humorist/journalist, b1836 d1901)
Sammy Kershaw: Sammy Cashat (country western singer)
Leo Kessler: Charles Whiting (author of military fiction and non-fiction history books)
KGB: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Soviet not-so-secret police agency known for its lack of a sense of humor)
Yasmina Khadra: Mohamed Moulessehoul (Algerian army officer/author of fiction)
Khai Dinh: Nguyen Phuc Buu Dao (Emperor of Vietnam [1916-1925], b1885 d1925)
Chaka Khan: Carole Yvette Marie Stevens (rhythm & blues singer/songwriter/Grammy-winner/record producer ... quite the Khan artist!, b1953)
Genghis Khan: Temujin (Mongol chiefton & conqueror)
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini: Ruhollah Musavi Hendi (Persian-born Ayatollah, so? b1900 d1989)
Khosru I: Chosroes (King of Persia, 531-579)
Khosru II: Chosroes (King of Persia, 590-628)
Khujo: Will Knighton (hip-hop singer with the Goodie Mob)
David Khunne: Jesus Franco (writer)
Kid Rock: Robert James Ritchie (musician, b1971)
Kid Sheik: George Cola (New Orleans musician, b1908 d1996)
Kid Frost: Arturo Mollina, Jr. (rap singer, b1964)
Captain Kidd: William Kidd [aka Robert Kidd] (British pirate & privateer)
Sean Kiernan: William Thomas Quick (science fiction author)
Killer Croc: Waylon Jones (Batman adversary)
Joyce Kilmer: Alfred Joyce Kilmer (poet/critic/author of a lovely treetise, b1886 d1918)
Kilroy: James Kilroy (WWII shipyard rivit inspector that 1st signed his work "Kilroy Was Here")
Andy Kim: Andre Youakim [aka Baron Longfellow] (Canadian singer/songwriter, b1946)
Bobby Kimball: Robert Toteaux (rock & roll singer/songwriter with Toto)
Alan King: Irwin Alan Kinberg (comedian/story-teller/movie actor, b1927)
Albert King: Albert Nelson (blues electric guitarist)
+ B.B. King: Riley B. King [nn: The Pepticon Boy, The Beale Street Blues Boy, Blues Boy] (disc jockey/blues guitarist/singer, b1925)
Billie Jean King: Billie Jean Moffat (professional tennis player, b1943) {King is her ex-husband's name}
Carole King: Carole Klein (singer/songwriter/pianist)
Earl King: Earl Silas Johnson (blues singer/guitarist/pianist/songwriter)
Freddie King: Freddie Christian (blues guitarist)
Larry King: Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (talk show host/author/semi-professional husband, 1933) {radio station manager gave him last name from a newspaper ad}
Dr. Martin Luther King: Michael Luther King, Jr. (Baptist minister/educator/social reformer/shooting victim, b1929 d1968) {his father changed both of their names to Martin to honor the German Protestant}
Pee Wee King: Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski (country western singer/songwriter - The Tennessee Waltz/bandleader/accordionist/violinist, b1914 d2000)
King Biscuit Boy: Richard Newell (Canadian harmonica player, b1944) {nicknamed after a radio show at KFFA in Helena, AR}
Kingfish: Tim Moore (comedian/tv actor)
Ben Kingsley: Krishna Bhanji (British movie & stage actor, b1943)
Sydney Kingsley: Sidney Kirschner (playwright)
Klaus Kinski: Nikolaus Gunthar Nakazynski (Polish-born movie actor, b1926 d1991)
Nastassja Kinski: Nastassja Naksyzynski (actress)
Rudyard Kipling: Richard Kipling (author/poet/novelist/short-story writer)
Marie Kiraly: Elaine Bergstrom (writer)
Bruno Kirby: Bruce Kirby, Jr. (movie & tv actor)
Durward Kirby: Durward Kirby (radio & tv announcer/side-kick of Garry Moore) {Why is he listed here? Because everyone thinks his first name was Durwood. NOT!}
Jack Kirby: Jacob Kurtzberg (comic book artist, b1917 d1994)
Henry Kissinger: Heinz Alfred Kissinger (politician/former U.S. Secretary of State, b1923)
Lord Kitchener: Aldwyn Roberts (calypso musician, d2000)
Kitty Kitty: Tyler (feline movie actor - The War of the Roses (1989))
Kliban: Bernard 'Hap' Kliban (cat-loving cartoonist who never ate anything larger than his head, b1935 d1990)
Klikspaan: Johannes Kneppelhout (Dutch humorist)
Anne Klein: Hannah Golofski (American fashion designer)
Calvin Klein: Richard Klein (American fashion designer whose provocative ad campaigns eventually became an Obsession, b1942)
H.H. Knerr: Harold H. Knerr (cartoonist - The Katzenjammer Kids, b1882 d1949)
Cholly Knickerbocher: Maury Paul (New York gossip columnist)
Evel Knievel: Robert Craig Knieval (stuntman/daredevil motorcyclist, b1938)
Fuzzy Knight: J. Forrest Knight (musician/actor/Tex Ritter's sidekick, b1901 d1976)
Harry Adam Knight: John Brosnan & LeRoy Kettle (writers)
Jordan Knight: Nathaniel Marcel Knight (singer with New Kids On the Block, b1970)
Suge Knight: Marion Knight (record producer on Death Row label - and it's not a bad rap!)
Ted Knight: Tadeus Wladyslaw Konopka (tv actor, b1923 d1986)
Buddy Knox: Herbert Glen Knotts [aka 'The Masked Marvel'] (professional wrestler, d1970)
Johnny Knoxville: Philip John Clapp (host, producer & co-creator of MTV's Jackass show)
Cub Koda: Michael Koda (singer with Brownsville Station, known for Smokin' in the Boys' Room, d2000)
Moe Koffman: Morris Koffman (Canadian jazz musician, b1928)
Kojak: Big Steve (fictional literary canine in Stephan King's The Stand, who saves protagonist's life, then fathers all post-superflu dogs)
Konishiki: Salevaa Fuauli Atisanoe (Hawaiian-born championship 625-pound sumo wrestler) {"Delicate embroidery"}
Dean R. Koontz: Dean Ray Koontz (writer)
C. Everett Koop: Charles Everett Koop (former U.S. Surgeon General, b1916)
Janusz Korczak: Henryk Goldszmit (Polish author/children's advocate/educator/humanitarian, b1878 d1942 at hand of Nazis)
Alberto Korda: Diaz Gutierrez (French-born professional photographer, known for following the developing events in Cuba in the early 1960s, d2001)
Sir Alexander Korda: Sandor Laszlo Korda (movie director & producer, b1893 d1956)
Sandi Korn: Sandra Taylor [aka Sandra Korn, Sandy Korn] (Penthouse Pet of the Month [March '91])/actress, b1966)
Koryu: Eric Gasper (American sumo wrestler)
Harley Jane Kozak: Susan Jane Kozak (movie & tv actress)
Kramer: Keith Kramer [of Kramer & Twitch (one of two Dallas radio DJs fired in 6/01 for falsely reporting death of Britney Spears)
Henry Kramer: Hienrich Institoris (writer)
Stanley Kramer: Stanley J. Abramson (actor)
Judith Krantz: Judith Tarcher (author)
Maynard G. Krebs: Maynard Walter Krebs (ficticious tv beatnik character)
Amazing Kreskin: George Joseph Kresge Jr. (really, really amazing mentalist!)
KRS-One: Lawrence Parker [aka Kris Parker] (rap singer/producer, b1965)
Paul Kruger: Stephanus Johannes Pauls Kruger (president of South Africa's Transvaal Republic during the Boer War [1883-1902], b1825 d1904)
Krusty the Clown: Herschel Schmoykel Krustofsky (animated television performer)
Rafael Kubelik: Jeronym Rafael Kubelik (Czech-born musical conductor, b1914 d1996)
David Kuhne: Jesus Franco (writer)
Bomber Kulkovich: Henry Kulky (1940's championship wrestler/movie & tv actor, b1911 d1965)
Karyn Kupcinet: Roberta Lynn Kupcinet (movie & tv actress/murder victim, b1941 d1963)
Ted Kwalik: Thaddeus John Kwalik (NFL football player)
Kwame: Kwame Holland (NY-based rap singer/self-proclaimed smart lad)
Kwai-lin: Anthony Borja Duque' (writer/humorist, b1949)
Joe Kyle: Terry Lynn Nichols [aka Ted Parker] (alleged U.S. terrorist, co-conspirator w/Tim McVeigh of the Oklahoma City bombing)
Kay Kyser: James King Kern Kyser (Kollege-educated big band leader, b1906 d1985)
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