American Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played his entire Major League career with the New Yor

Is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played his entire Major League career with the New York Mets.Kelvin Chapman attended Santa Rosa Junior College.[1] He was signed by the Mets organization as an amateur free agent on December 3, 1975.[2] His first season as a professional was with the Met's Rookie League team, Marion Mets of the Appalachian League in 1976. That season he played 62 games and had a batting average of .269, a slugging percentage of .347, and an on-base percentage of .342.[3]

Is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a 6'2" (188 cm) 180 lb (82 kg) guard and

Is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a 6'2" (188 cm) 180 lb (82 kg) guard and played competitively at Marshall High School, Northeastern Oklahoma A & M Junior College and the University of Utah. He played 120 games in the NBA from 1988 to 1991 averaging 5.4ppg, 2.1apg and 1.2rpg in 12.6mpg.

Was an American football defensive tackle.Pritchett was a first round selection by the Dallas Cowboy

Was an American football defensive tackle.Pritchett was a first round selection by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1991 NFL Draft out of the University of Mississippi. However, Pritchett was traded to the Detroit Lions, who he played for, during 10 years and two stints with the team.

Was a collegiate and professional basketball player in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively.The 6' 1" R

Was a collegiate and professional basketball player in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively.The 6' 1" Ransey was the fourth overall pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, by the Chicago Bulls. He was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers before the season began, and was runner up for the Rookie-of-the-Year award that year (1980-81). Ransey played for six years in the NBA for 3 different teams, averaging 11.4 points and 5.2 assists per game. His best season, statistically, was his second, when he averaged over 16 points and 7 assists. He retired from the game at the age of 27 to become a Christian minister in Toledo, and now lives in Mississippi.

Was an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it

Was an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it two times. Seabrooks turned professional in 1981 and captured the IBF bantamweight title in 1987 with a TKO win over Thierry Jacob, a fight in which Seabr

Is a professional basketball player. He is currently a free agent.Cato was an obscure player averagi

Is a professional basketball player. He is currently a free agent.Cato was an obscure player averaging six points and six rebounds at the University of South Alabama in 1992-93. At that time, he struck up a relationship with then University of New Orleans coach Tim Floyd, who recognized Cato's potential. In 1994, Floyd took over as head coach at Iowa State University and convinced Cato to transfer to Iowa State. Cato averaged 11 points, eight rebounds and four blocks per game for an Iowa State team that reached the Sweet Sixteen of the 1997 NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Is a retired American professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the American National

Is a retired American professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the American National Basketball Association.A 6'5" shooting guard, Tucker attended the University of Minnesota from 1978 to 1982, leading them to a Big Ten Conference championship in his senior year. He was then selected by the New York Knicks with the 6th overall pick of the 1982 NBA Draft. One of the earliest three-point specialists, Tucker represented the Knicks in the first ever Three-point Shootout (1986), making it to the semifinals before being outpaced by Craig Hodges and eventual winner Larry Bird. Tucker would play nine seasons with the Knicks before joining the San Antonio Spurs in 1991, and after one season with the Spurs he joined the Chicago Bulls, who won the 1993 NBA Championship. He retired after that season, having tallied 6,237 career points and 1,532 career assists, and he currently ranks 9th all-time in career three-point field goal accuracy (40.8%).

Is an American radio personality and voice actor.Kasem founded the popular American Top 40 franchise

Is an American radio personality and voice actor.Kasem founded the popular American Top 40 franchise in 1970, hosting it from 1970 to 1988 and then from 1998 to 2004. Prior to 1970, Kasem was a dog catcher in Rochester, New York; there he originally gained fame musically due to his extremely large eight track tape collection. Kasem achieved notoriety on local news stations for using this vast tape collection to entertain the dogs that he had captured. The rest is history. Between 1989 to 1998, he was the host of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20, and Casey's Countdown. He currently hosts four weekly syndicated radio programs based on the American Top 40 franchise: American Top 20 with Casey Kasem, American Top 10 with Casey Kasem, Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s, and Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s. The later two are replays of AT40 shows from the respective decades.

Is a Democratic Party member of the Montana Senate, representing District 17 since 2002.

Is a Democratic Party member of the Montana Senate, representing District 17 since 2002.

Was an American college and professional football player. An offensive guard, he played college foot

Was an American college and professional football player. An offensive guard, he played college football at the Notre Dame University, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Denver Broncos from 1960 through 1962. He was an AFL All-Star in 1961. He now owns a Coors distributorship in Sacramento, California.

American basketball player.He played collegiately for the Rice University.

American basketball player.He played collegiately for the Rice University.

Is a Canadian politician. He was born in Fort William, Ontario. He served as mayor of Thunder Bay, O

Is a Canadian politician. He was born in Fort William, Ontario. He served as mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario from 1997 to 2003, during which he established Thunder Bay as the "Martial Arts Capital of Canada". He also had a role in establishing the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, the first Medical school established in North America in 35 years. Prior to that, he was a Thunder Bay City Councillor from 1978 to 1997. Defeated twice as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the federal elections of 1984 and 1988, he was elected in 2004 as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Thunder Bay—Rainy River riding, and was re-elected for MP in 2006. Boschoff remained MP of the riding until 2008, when he was defeated by John Rafferty in the 2008 election.

Is an American retired basketball player.A 6'5" forward from Boston University, Boyd was selected by

Is an American retired basketball player.A 6'5" forward from Boston University, Boyd was selected by the New Orleans Jazz in the 9th round of the 1974 NBA Draft. He played six games for the Jazz during the 1974-75 NBA season, averaging 3.2 points, 0.8 rebounds, and 0.3 assists per game.

Is a professional surfer and winner of the 1982 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship. O

Is a professional surfer and winner of the 1982 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship. On January 28, 1998, Ken Bradshaw successfully towed into, and rode, a wave with a face estimated as over 80 feet. The site was Outside Log Cabins, an outer

Is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for five seasons for the

Is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for five seasons for the Atlanta Falcons.

Was a Canadian artist.Ken Danby enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in 1958. His first exhibition

Was a Canadian artist.Ken Danby enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in 1958. His first exhibition in 1964 sold out.Danby was best known for creating unique visual images that study everyday life. In At the Crease (1972), the masked ice-hockey goalie has been referred to as "something of a national symbol".In 1975, Danby was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has also been a recipient of the Jessie Dow Prize, the 125th Anniversary Commemorative Medal of Canada, the City of Sault Ste. Marie's Award of Merit and both the Queen's Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals.

Is an American singer best known as a member of television's The Lawrence Welk Show.Delo started per

Is an American singer best known as a member of television's The Lawrence Welk Show.Delo started performing first as a magician, then a ventriloquist and later a hypnotist before taking up singing by miming to records. While attending Our Lady Of Lourdes High School in River Rouge, he made his public singing debut as a member of a doo-wop group known as The Pencil Smudges, a take-off of the group The Ink Spots, singing The Battle of Jericho at a school recital.

Is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Canada. Fitzpatrick competed for his native country at the 19

Is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Canada. Fitzpatrick competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he finished in fifth place in the men's 200 metres breaststroke, more than five seconds behind winning

Was an American professional poker player who was born in New York City, New York and settled in Hen

Was an American professional poker player who was born in New York City, New York and settled in Henderson, Nevada after serving in the US Army. Flaton also won the 1996 United States Poker Championship and competed in the World Poker Tour (WPT).

Is a (naturalized) American soccer coach. Fogarty was Head Coach and Technical Director of the Cayma

Is a (naturalized) American soccer coach. Fogarty was Head Coach and Technical Director of the Cayman Islands national team from 1993-1994 and from 1996-1998.Fogarty began his professional career with Stockport County at the age of seventeen.

Is an American inventor, author, and producer who created the hit toy Teddy Ruxpin and created and p

Is an American inventor, author, and producer who created the hit toy Teddy Ruxpin and created and produced the subsequent animated series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. After working for Disney, Sid & Marty Krofft Entertainment and many other entertainment entities in various positions, he founded his own company, AlchemyII, Inc, in the 1980s. One of his first projects was building the animatronic characters used on the television show Welcome to Pooh Corner he and his team then brought Teddy Ruxpin to the marketplace. Teddy Ruxpin became the top selling toy of 1985 and 1986[1] [2] before manufacturer Worlds of Wonder went bankrupt in 1991.

Is a retired American ice hockey player and currently head coach for the Hartford Wolf Pack in the A

Is a retired American ice hockey player and currently head coach for the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL. He played for the University of Minnesota for four years and was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in the fifth round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft.

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Was an American football player who briefly played quarterback in the NFL in the 1980s, largely in a

Was an American football player who briefly played quarterback in the NFL in the 1980s, largely in a backup role. Currently he serves as quarterbacks coach for the University of Toledo.

Was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of

Was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. [1][2]. His name is listed prominently under Faculty in the list of notable Rice U. people.