KB, kB or kb may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

Banks

KB Kookmin Bank Kookmin Bank or KB Kookmin Bank () is among four of the largest banks ranked by asset value in South Korea, as of the end of March 2014. It is the largest among banks in Korea and the 60th largest in the world as of 2017. History The current KB ...

, South Korea *

Kaupthing Bank Kaupthing Bank ( is, Kaupþing banki; ) was a major international Icelandic bank, headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was taken over by the Icelandic government during the 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis and the domestic Icelandic ...

, Iceland *

Komerční banka Komerční banka (“KB”) is a major Czech bank and the parent company of KB Group, a member of the Société Générale international financial group. KB is a universal bank providing a wide range of services in retail, corporate and investme ...

, Czech Republic *

Kasikornbank Kasikornbank ( th, ธนาคารกสิกรไทย, , Teochew: Khai-thài Ngîng-hâng, , stylised in all caps), often stylised as KBank and formerly known as the Thai Farmers Bank is a banking group in Thailand. KBank was establishe ...

, Thailand *

Karafarin Bank The Karafarin Bank ( fa, بانک کارآفرین, ''Bank Karâferin''), which translates to ''Entrepreneurship Bank'' is a private bank in Iran. Established in 2001, it is now one of Iran's leading private banks and also the first private ban ...

, Iran

Libraries

National Library of Sweden The National Library of Sweden ( sv, Kungliga biblioteket, ''KB'', meaning "the Royal Library") is Sweden's national library. It collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish ...

( sv, links=no, Kungliga biblioteket) *

National Library of the Netherlands The Royal Library of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek or KB; ''Royal Library'') is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798. The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the Ne ...

( nl, links=no, Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

Sport

Kalix BF Kalix Bandyförening, is a bandy club from Kalix Kalix ( sv, Kalix; Kalix dialect: ''Kôlis'', , phonemically ; fi, Kainuu; fit, Kainus) is a locality and the seat of the Kalix Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. The name Kalix is ...

, a Swedish bandy club *

Kjøbenhavns Boldklub Kjøbenhavns Boldklub or KB is a Danish sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded 26 April 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became Fælledparken. Tennis has been played since 1883. The club hosted, in 1921, on ...

, a sports club, Copenhagen, Denmark

Other businesses and organizations

KB Home KB Home is a homebuilding company based in the United States, founded in 1957 as Kaufman & Broad in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first company to be traded on the NYSE as a home builder and was a Fortune 500 company from 2000 through 2008. Its ...

, a US house builder *

KB Lager KB Lager, named after the 'Kent Brewery', was once one of the most popular beers in NSW. It was popularised amongst a younger demographic by the fictional beer-swilling rugby league legend Reg Reagan as his beer of choice. KB sponsored rugby lea ...

, Australia *

KB Toys K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores. The company was founded in 1922 as Kaufman Brothers, a wholesale candy store. The company opened a wholesale toy store in 1946, and ended its candy who ...

, US * K&B, a New Orleans, Louisiana, US drugstore *

Druk Air Drukair Corporation Limited ( dz, འབྲུག་མཁའ་འགྲུལ་ལས་འཛིན།), operating as Drukair — Royal Bhutan Airlines, is the flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bhutan, headquartered in the western dzongkha ...

(IATA code: ''KB''), Bhutan airline

People

Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer) Kevin Charles Bartlett AM (born 6 March 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicknamed "KB" or "Hungry" due to his appetite for kicking goals and appa ...

(born 1947) *

KB (rapper) Kevin Elijah Burgess (born July 21, 1988), better known by his stage name KB, is an American Christian hip hop artist and music executive from St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the leader of the hip-hop group HGA. He signed a solo artist contract ...

(born 1988), Kevin Elijah Burgess *

KB Killa Beats Yahya Kaba (born 20 June 1983), known professionally as Killa Beats or just KB, is a Zambian Hip hop music, hip hop record producer and songwriter. KB is also the chief executive officer (CEO) of his own label imprint, K-Amy Studio. His music care ...

(born 1983), Zambian record producer

Science and technology

Biology

* Kilo-base pair (kb or kbp), length of D/RNA molecule

Computing

* Kilobit (kb), 1,000 bits * Kilobyte (kB), 1,000 bytes * Knowledge base ** Microsoft Knowledge Base ID prefix

Vehicles

* KB series, International Harvester trucks * Isuzu Faster or KB, a pickup truck ** Isuzu D-Max or KB, a pickup truck * NZR K^B class, a New Zealand steam locomotive

Other uses in science and technology

* Boltzmann constant, ''k'' or ''k''_B * Base dissociation constant ''K''_b * Ebullioscopic constant K_b, relating molality to boiling point elevation * Kauri-butanol value Kb, a measure of solvent performance

Other uses

* King's Buildings, a University of Edinburgh campus * Knowledge Bowl, a quiz competition * Former Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath * Kuala Belait, a town in Brunei * WWKB, or KB Radio 1520 * A slang name for marijuana {{disambiguation