Famous People with Name Kai

Kai Siegbahn            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Kai Siegbahn: a Swedish physicist.He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924.

Kai Chresten Winding            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kai Chresten Winding: was a popular Danish trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson.After the war, Winding joined Benny Goodman's band, and later moved on to Stan Kenton's orchestra. Winding participated in the first of the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949, appearing on 4 of the 12 tracks (while Johnson appears on the other eight, having participated on the other two sessions). In 1954, at the urging of producer Ozzie Cadena, he joined forces with Johnson to produce a highly successful series of trombone duet recordings, which were initially on Savoy Records and then on the Columbia Records label. While at Columbia, Kai experimented with different instrumentation in brass ensembles and also used a trombonium on at least one album that featured a trombone octet. Winding also arranged and/or composed many of the tracks he and Johnson recorded.

Kai Eckhardt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kai Eckhardt: best known for his work with John McLaughlin, the band Garaj Mahal and Billy Cobham. The Jaco Pastorius-influenced bassist is known for his ability to play lightning fast, and for his unique combination of funk, jazz, and world music which he combines in

Kai Ato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kai Ato: a male Japanese actor and TV presenter. His real name is Koichi Ato (?? ??, Ato Koichi?), and his former stage name was Kai Ato (?? ?, Ato Kai?) using different kanji characters.

Kai Larsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kai Larsen: a Danish botanist.Kai Larsen is Professor of botany (Emeritus from 1-12-1996) at Århus University, Denmark. He is Danish editor of Flora Nordica, Editor Flora of Thailand, Advisor to Flora of China and Executive member of Flora Malesiana.He is a Board (Leiden) Member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Norwegian Academy of Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.