Ken or KEN may refer to:

Entertainment

* ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. *

Ken Masters , originally spelled in kanji as with his original full name being unknown, is a fictional character in Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' series. Ken is the best friend and rival of Ryu, who has also appeared in all ''Street Fighter'' games. Ken's g ...

, a main character in the ''Street Fighter'' franchise.

People

Ken (given name) Ken is a masculine given name of Scottish / Scottish Gaelic origin. It is used either as a given name or as a short form of names with the letters "Ken" (like Kenneth, Kenan, Kendrick, Kendall, Kennedy, Mackenzie, Kenson, or Kenelm). Ken is als ...

, a list of people named Ken *

Ken (musician) Ken (born November 28, 1968 in Maibara, Shiga, Japan) is a musician and singer-songwriter, best known as guitarist of the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. He is also the leader, vocalist and guitarist of Sons of All Pussys (also known as S.O.A. ...

(born 1968), guitarist of the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel *

Ken (SB19 musician) Felip Jhon Suson (born January 12, 1997), also known by his stage name Ken and by his mononym Felip, is a Filipino singer, songwriter, dancer, and producer. He is the main dancer and lead vocalist of the Filipino boy band SB19 managed under S ...

(born 1997), stage name of Felip Jhon Suson of the Filipino boy group, SB19 *

Ken (VIXX singer) Lee Jae-hwan ( born April 6, 1992),Ken Official Profile * * better known by his stage name Ken (), is a South Korean singer and actor, signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. He is one of the members in the South Korean boy group VIXX, and has ...

(born 1992), stage name of Lee Jae-hwan of the South Korean boy group, VIXX *

Naoko Ken (born July 7, 1953) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is well known for her comedy roles featuring idiosyncratic looks, and a string of successful torch songs that gained popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Biography In 1971, ...

(born 1953), Japanese singer and actress (Ken as surname) *

Thomas Ken Thomas Ken (July 1637 – 19 March 1711) was an English cleric who was considered the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnody. Early life Ken was born in 1637 at Little Berkhampstead, ...

(1637–1711), English cleric and composer *

Tjungkara Ken Tjungkara Ken (born 1 October 1969) is a Pitjantjatjara artist from Amata, South Australia, in the APY lands. She began painting in 1997, when Minymaku Arts was opened by the women of Amaṯa. She started painting professionally in 2008. By that ...

(born 1969), Aboriginal Australian artist *

Ken Zheng Ken Zheng (born April 5, 1995) is an Indonesian actor and martial artist. He began his career as a martial artist at a young age, and has since starred in '' Brush with Danger'' (2014) and an action thriller entitled ''Insight'' (2021) starring ...

(born April 5, 1995) is an Indonesian actor, screenwriter and martial artist

Other

Kèn The ''kèn'' () is an instrument used in traditional Vietnamese music. It has a double reed and a conical wooden body. It produces a powerful and penetrating high-pitched sound, similar to the Chinese ''suona'', the Korean ''taepyeongso'', the Th ...

, a musical instrument from Vietnam. *

Ken (doll) Kenneth Sean Carson is a fashion doll and fictional character invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by American toy company Mattel in 1961 as the counterpart of Barbie, who was introduced two years earlier. Ken was named after Kenneth Handle ...

, a product by Mattel. * ''Ken'' (unit) (間), a Japanese unit of measurement and proportion. *

Ken River The Ken River is one of the major rivers in the Bundelkhand region of central India and flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is a tributary of the Yamuna. Course The Ken River originates near the village Ahirgawan ...

, a river in the Bundelkhand region, India. *

Komisja Edukacji Narodowej The Commission of National Education ( pl, Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, KEN; lt, Edukacinė komisija) was the central educational authority in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, created by the Sejm and King Stanisław II August on October 14 ...

, Polish National Board of Education. * ''Ken'' (県), meaning "prefecture" in Japanese, see

Prefectures of Japan Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, ''todōfuken'', ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (, ''ken''), two ...

. * ''Ken'' (拳), meaning "fist" in Japanese, see

Sansukumi-ken Sansukumi-ken (三すくみ拳) is a category of East Asian hand games played by using three hand gestures. Ken games went into a period of decline in Japan after World War II. One of the few surviving sansukumi-ken games is jan-ken, which was broug ...

for various hand gesture matching games. * ''Ken'' (Կ կ), the fifteenth letter of the

Armenian alphabet The Armenian alphabet ( hy, Հայոց գրեր, ' or , ') is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian language, Armenian. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and wikt:ecclesiastical, ecclesiast ...

. * ''KEN'' (ISO 3166-1 country code for

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

). *

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, county in England, Chapman code.

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