This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "K". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-K, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.
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Ka/KāEdit
- Kabir (1440–1518)
- Kaczynski, Theodore (1942–)
- Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651–1716)
- Kaeding, Henry Barroilhet (1877–1913)
- Kafka, Franz (1883–1924)
- Kahin, George McTurnan (1918–2000)
- Kahlo, Frida (1907–1954)
- Kahn, Gus (1886–1941)
- Kains, Maurice Grenville (1868–1946)
- Kālidāsa (fl. 4th–5th cent. CE)
- Kallas, Aino (1875–1956)
- Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932)
- Kanamori, Tokujirō (1886–1959)
- Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
- Kaps, John Daniel
- Karageorgevitch, Bojidar (1862–1908)
- Karamzin, Nikolay Mikhailovich (1766–1826)
- Kardec, Allan (1804–1869)
- Al Karhi, Abu Bekr Mohammed ben Al Hasan (c. 953–c. 1029)
- Karinthy, Frigyes (1887–1938)
- Karkaria, Rustomji Pestonji (1869–1919)
- Karo, Yosef (1488–1575)
- Karpeles, Gustav (1848–1909)
- Karr, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse (1808–1890)
- Karsten, Carl
- Kartini (1879–1904)
- Karzai, Hamid (1957–)
- al-Kāshī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd (c. 1380–1429)
- Kathir, Ibn (1301–1373)
- Katzir, Ephraim (1916–2009)
- Kaufmann, Walter (1921–1980)
- Kaul, Triloki Nath (1913–2000)
- Kautzsch, Emil Friedrich (1841–1910)
- Kavanagh, Herminie Templeton (1859–1933)
- Kay, James Taylor (1843–1903)
- Kaye, John William (1814–1876)
- Kaye-Smith, Sheila (1887–1956)
- Kayser, Ronal (1905–1988)
KeEdit
- Kealing, Hightower Theodore (1860–1918)
- Kean, Robert Garlick Hill (1828–1898)
- Keane, Augustus Henry (1833–1912)
- Keane, Mary Phagan
- Kearney, Dennis (1847–1907)
- Kearton, Richard (1862–1928)
- Keary, Charles Francis (1848–1917)
- Keating, Paul (b. 1944)
- Keats, John (1795–1821)
- Kebbel, Thomas Edward (1827–1917)
- Keble, John (1792–1866)
- Keble, Thomas (1793–1875)
- Keddie, Henrietta (1827–1914)
- Keeble, Frederick William (1870–1952)
- Keene, Carolyn (Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym)
- Keene, Charles Haines (1847–1915)
- Keene, Charles Samuel (1823–1891)
- Keene, Henry George (1825–1915)
- Keener, William A. (1856–1913)
- Keese, William Linn (1835–1904)
- Keightley, Thomas (1789–1872)
- Keiper, Frank (1870–1950)
- Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1879–1944)
- Keith-Falconer, Algernon Hawkins Thogon, 9th Earl of Kintore (1852–1930)
- Keith, Dora Wheeler (1856–1940)
- Keller, Gottfried (1819–1890)
- Keller, Helen (1880–1968)
- Kelley, Ruth Edna
- Kelley, William Darrah (1814–1890)
- Kelly, Walter Keating (?–1867)
- Kellogg, Elijah (1813–1901)
- Kelly, Augustin Bernard (c. 1826–1899)
- Kelly, Frances Arabella (?–1733)
- Kelly, Ned (c. 1854–1880)
- Kelly, Richard Makdougall Brisbane Francis (1857–1915)
- Kelly, Walter Keating (?–1867)
- Kelman, John (1864–1929)
- Kelsey, Clarence Hill (1856–1930)
- Keltie, Sir John Scott (1840–1927)
- Kelvin, Duane (?–1938)
- Kemble, John Mitchell (1807–1857)
- Kemble, John Philip (1757–1823)
- Kemp, Jack French (1935–2009)
- Kemp, James Furman (1859–1926)
- Kemp, William George (fl. 1879)
- Kemp-Welch, Alice (??–1944)
- Kempe, Harry Robert (1852–1935)
- Kempf, Edward John (1885–1971)
- Kendall, Amos (1789–1869)
- Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball (1855–1952)
- Kendrick, Albert Frank (1872–1954)
- Kenna, Francis (1865–1932)
- Kenna, John Edward (1848–1893)
- Kennan, George Frost (1904–2005)
- Kennedy, Alexander (1847–1928)
- Kennedy, Anthony (b. 1936)
- Kennedy, Archibald Robert Stirling (1859–1938)
- Kennedy, Arthur Clark (1857–1926)
- Kennedy, Charles (b. 1959)
- Kennedy, Charles Malcolm (1831–1908)
- Kennedy, Charles Rann (1808–1867)
- Kennedy, Edward M. (b. 1932)
- Kennedy, Hugh (1879–1936)
- Kennedy, James (1842–1925)
- Kennedy, John F. (1917–1963)
- Kennedy, Margaret (1896–1967)
- Kennedy, Patrick (1801–1873)
- Kennedy, Robert F. (1925–1968)
- Kennedy, William Rann (1846–1915)
- Kennett, Robert Hatch (1864–1932)
- Kent, Charles Foster (1867–1925)
- Kent, William Charles Mark (1823–1902)
- Kent, William Henry (1857–1935)
- Kentfield, Edwin (c. 1802–1873)
- Kepley, Ada Harriet Miser (1847–1925)
- Ker, William Paton (1855–1923)
- Kern, Jerome (1885–1945)
- Ker, Leander (c. 1805–1873) (also “Kerr”)
- Kerr, Charles Hope (1860–1944)
- Kerr, John Graham (1869–1957)
- Kerr, Washington Carruthers (1827–1885)
- Kerry, John (b. 1943)
- Kessler, Konrad (1851–1905)
- Kesson, John (1811–1876)
- Kettle, Rosa Mackenzie (1818–1895)
- Kettle, Rupert Alfred (1817–1894)
- Keutgen, Friedrich (1861–1936)
- Kew, Harry Wallis (1868–1948)
- Key, Francis Scott (1779–1843)
- Keyes, Jr., Ken (1921–1995)
- Keynes, John Maynard (1883–1946)
- Keynes, John Neville (1852–1949)
- Keyserling, Eduard von (1855–1918)
KhEdit
- Khaddam, Abdul Halim (1932–2020)
- Khan, Sahabzada Yaqub (1920–2016)
- Kharms, Daniil (1905–1942)
- Khayyám, Omar (1048–1131)
- Khazini, Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Hasan (899–970)
- Khlebnikov, Velimir (1885–1922)
- Khnopff, Fernand (1858–1921)
- Khomeini, Ruhollah (1900–1989)
- Khrushchev, Nikita (1894–1971)
- Khusraw, Azod od-Dowleh Panah (Fana) (936–983)
- al-Khwārizmī, Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā (c. 780–c. 850)
KiEdit
- Kickham, Charles Joseph (1828–1882)
- Kidd, Benjamin (1858–1916)
- Kidd, John (1775–1851)
- Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye (1813–1855)
- Kiernan, James G. (1852–1923)
- Kikuchi Dairoku (1855–1917)
- Kilmer, Joyce (1886–1918)
- Kils, Uwe (1951–)
- Kim Gu (1876–1949)
- Kim Jong-jik (1431–1492)
- Kim Jong-un
- Kim Seong-su (1891–1955)
- Kim Kyu-sik (1881–1950)
- Kimball, Edward Ancel (1845–1909)
- Kimball, Heber C. (1801–1868)
- King, Albert Freeman Africanus (1841–1914)
- King, Benjamin Franklin (1857–1894)
- King, Bolton (1860–1937)
- King, Dan (1791–1864)
- King, Henry (1592–1669)
- King, Leonard William (1869–1919)
- King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929–1968)
- King, Peter (1776–1833)
- King, Phillip Parker (1793–1856)
- King, Richard John (1818–1879)
- King, Samuel Archer (1828–1914)
- King, Stoddard (1889–1933)
- King, Thomas (fl. 1861)
- King, William (1650–1729)
- King, William (1685–1763)
- King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874–1950)
- King-Noel, William (1805–1893)
- Kinglake, Alexander William (1809–1891)
- Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1862–1926)
- Kingsley, Charles (1819–1875)
- Kingsley, Elbridge (1842–1918)
- Kingsley, John Sterling (1854–1929)
- Kingston, Agnes Kinloch (1824–1913)
- Kingston, William Henry Giles (1814–1880)
- Kinnear, George (1836–1912)
- Kinney, George Rex Boyer (1872–1961)
- Kinnick, Nile (1918–1943)
- Kinnicutt, Eleonora (1852–1910)
- Kinross, Albert (1870–1929)
- Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894–1956)
- Kintner, William Roscoe (1915–1997)
- Kinzinger, Adam (1978–)
- Kipling, Alice MacDonald (1837–1910)
- Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936)
- Kirby, William (1759–1850)
- Kirby, William (1817–1906)
- Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert (1824–1887)
- Kirchmann, Julius Hermann von (1802–1884)
- Kirchwey, George W. (1855–1942)
- Kirk, Edward Cameron (1856–1933)
- Kirk, Edward Norris (1802–1874)
- Kirk, Mark (1959–)
- Kirk, Thomas (1828–1898)
- Kirkpatrick, Edwin Asbury (1862–1937)
- Kirkpatrick, Thomas Percy Claude (1869–1954)
- Kirkpatrick, William (1754–1812)
- Kirkpatrick, William James (1838–1921)
- Kirkup, Thomas (1844–1912)
- Kirkwood, Daniel (1814–1895)
- Kirsch, Johann Peter (1861–1941)
- Kirste, J.
- Kirwan, John (1869–1949)
- Kirwan, William H.
- Kishida, Fumio (1957–)
- Kitchin, George William (1827–1912)
- Kitching, James (1922–2003)
- Kitson, Harry D. (1886–1959)
- Kitteridge, Walter (1834–1905)
- Kivikas, Albert (1898–1978)
- Kiyomasa, Katō (1562–1611)
KjEdit
- Kjelgaard, James Arthur (1910–1959)
- Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik Norman (1912–1979)
KlEdit
- Klein, Henri F.
- Klein, Nicholas (c. 1918)
- Kleist, Heinrich von (1777–1811)
- Kline, Otis Adelbert (1891–1946)
- Kluckhohn, Clyde (1905–1960)
- Kluge, Friedrich (1856–1926)
KnEdit
- Knayer, Christian (1876–1932)
- Knapp, Arthur May (1841–?)
- Knapp, Seaman Asahel (1833–1911)
- Knecht, Edmund (1861–1925)
- Kneeland, Samuel (1821–1888)
- Knight, Albert Ernest (1872–1946)
- Knight, Charles (1791–1873)
- Knight, Charles (1808–1891)
- Knight, Edward Frederick (1852–1925)
- Knight, Frank (1885–1972)
- Knight, Henry Gally (1786–1846)
- Knight, John Joseph (1829–1907)
- Knight, Joseph (1778–1855)
- Knight, Miriam Singleton (1834–1908)
- Knight, Thomas Andrew (1759–1838)
- Knight, William Angus (1836–1916)
- Knights, Lionel Charles (1906–1997)
- Kniveton, John Raymond (1933–present)
- Knobel, Edward (1839–1908)
- Knollys, Sir Henry (1840–1930)
- Knollys, William Wallingford (1833–1904)
- Knott, Cargill Gilston (1856–1922)
- Knowles née Tomn, Lilian Charlotte Anne (1870–1926)
- Knowling, Richard John (1851–1919)
- Knox, Alexander (1757–1831)
- Knox, Alexander Andrew (1818–1891)
- Knox, George William (1853–1912)
- Knox, Howard Vincent (1868–1960)
- Knox, John (1505, 1513 or 1514–1572)
- Knox (Jr.), John Jay (1828–1892)
- Knox, Thomas Wallace (1835–1896)
Ko/KöEdit
- Kobbé, Gustav (1857–1918)
- Kochanowski, Jan (1530–1584)
- Koelreuter, Joseph Gottlieb (1733–1806)
- Kohlrausch, Friedrich Wilhelm Georg (1840–1910)
- Kohlrausch, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor (1780–1867)
- Kohs, Samuel C. (1890–1984)
- Koidula, Lydia (1843–1886)
- Koizumi, Gunji (1885–1965)
- Koldewey, Carl (1837–1908)
- von Kölliker, Albert (1817–1905)
- Kollo, Walter (1878–1940)
- Komnene, Anna (1083–1153)
- Konig, Charles (1774–1851)
- König, Johann Samuel (1712–1757)
- Konody, Paul George (1872–1933)
- Konow, Sten (1867–1948)
- Kopp, Hermann Franz Moritz (1817–1892)
- Koresh, David (1959–1993)
- Korn, Arhur (1870–1945)
- Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich (1853–1921)
- Kőrösi, Csoma Sándor (1784–1842)
- Kortz, John (fl. 1816–1819)
- Korzhov, Boris (1926–1958)
- Kosack, Wolfgang (1943–)
- Kosciusko-Morizet, Jacques (1913–1994)
- Kościuszko, Tadeusz (1746–1817)
- Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia (1890–1968)
- Kossuth, Louis (1802–1894)
- Kostić, Laza (1841–1909)
- Kots, Arkady Yakovlevich (1872–1943)
- Kozłowski, Czesław Jastrzębiec (1894–1956)
KrEdit
- Von Krafft-Ebing, Richard (1840–1902)
- Král, Joseph Jaroslav (1877–1914)
- Král, Joseph Jiří (1870–1951)
- Krapp, George Philip (1872–1934)
- Krasicki, Ignacy (1735–1801)
- Krasiński, Walerian (1795–1855)
- Kratins, Ojars (1934– )
- Kraus, Franz Xaver (1840–1901)
- Krause, Ernst (1839–1903)
- Kreitner, Gustav (1847–1893)
- Kreymborg, Alfred Francis (1883–1966)
- Kripal, Jeffrey (1962– )
- Krishnamurti, Uppaluri Gopala (1918–2007)
- Krishnamurthy, Kalki (1899–1954)
- Krishtofovich, Afrikan Nikolaevich (1885–1953)
- Kroeber, Alfred Louis (1876–1960)
- Kroeger, Adolph Ernst (1837–1882)
- Krohn, Julius Leopold Fredrik (1835–1888)
- Krook, Anna (1850–1926)
- Kropotkin, Peter (1842–1921)
- Krumbacher, Karl (1856–1909)
- Krummacher, Friedrich Wilhelm (1796–1868)
- Krümmel, Otto (1854–1912)
- Kruse, Lauritz (1778–1839)
- Krushchev, Nikita (1897–1971)
KuEdit
- Kücken, Friedrich Wilhelm (1810–1882)
- Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon (1905–2006)
- Kuntze, Otto (1843–1907)
- Kunz, George Frederick (1856–1932)
- Kunze, Karl Sebastian Heinrich (1774–1820)
- Kuprin, Alexander (1870–1938)
- Kurz, Harry (1889–1973?)
- Kushner, Jared (b. 1981)
- Kuttner, Henry (1915–1958)
KvEdit
- Kvapil, František (1855–1925)
- Kvapil, Jaroslav (1868–1950)
KwEdit
- Kwon Sang-ha (1641–1712)
KyEdit
- Kyd, Thomas (1558–1594)