Kist or KIST may refer to:
- KATHMANDU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHLOLOGY
- KIST BANK, ANAMNAGAR, KATHMANDU
- Konark Institute of Science and Technology, a multi-disciplinary institute in Bhubaneswar,Orissa,India
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology, a multi-disciplinary research institute in Seoul, South Korea
- Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, a university in Kigali, Rwanda
- Kist, Germany, a small town close to Würzburg in Germany
- Gold Kist, a chicken producing company in the United States
- Kist Beverages, an American beverage company.
- KCLU (AM), a radio station (1340 AM) licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, which formerly held the call sign KIST until February 1998, from March 2000 to August 2003, and from February 2005 to October 2008
- KSPE, a radio station (1490 AM) licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, which held the call sign KIST from October 2008 to July 2010
- KIST-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States
- a surname in Holland
- Kist people, a Nakh-speaking ethnic group in the country of Georgia related to the Chechen and Ingush peoples
- A chest (furniture)
- A cist, or burial box