List of Eponyms (A-K) - K

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  • Franz Kafka — adjective Kafkaesque
  • Mikhail Kalashnikov — the Avtomat Kalashnikova series of weapons, including the AK-47, the Kalashnikov Handheld Machine Gun or Ruchnoi Pulemet Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974g (RPK-74)
  • Kamen Rider - The main protagonists of the various series in this Japanese TV franchise are named after their corresponding TV series.
  • Ingvar Kamprad — the first two letters of IKEA, the home furnishings retailer he founded
  • Gaetano Kanizsa, Italian psychologist — Kanizsa triangle
  • Megan Kanka, abducted child - Megan's Law
  • Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian dermatologist — Kaposi's sarcoma
  • Theodore von Kármán — Karman line
  • Anna Karenina
  • Tadao Kashio — founder of Casio
  • Yevgeny Kaspersky — Kaspersky Anti-Virus
  • Shozo Kawasaki — founder, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
  • Tomisaku Kawasaki — Kawasaki disease
  • Lord Kelvin — kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature
  • John F. Kennedy — John F. Kennedy International Airport, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, John F. Kennedy University
  • Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside — Kennelly–Heaviside layer
  • Paul Keres — Keres Defence
  • Brian W. Kernighan — the third letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Kernighan
  • John Kerr (physicist) — Kerr effect
  • John Maynard Keynes — Keynesian economics
  • Wilhelm Killing — Killing vector field
  • Gustav Kirchhoff — Kirchhoff's Laws
  • Donald Knuth — Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
  • Alexander Konstantinopolsky — Konstantinopolsky Opening
  • Wladimir Peter Köppen — Köppen climate classification
  • Alfried Krupp - founder of Krupp, now ThyssenKrupp
  • Gerard Kuiper — Kuiper Belt

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