Ken or KEN may refer to:
Entertainment
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''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer.
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''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film.
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''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine.
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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
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Ken (given name), a list of people named Ken
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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
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Ken (SB19 musician) (born 1997), stage name of Felip Jhon Suson of the Filipino boy group, SB19
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Ken (VIXX singer) (born 1992), stage name of Lee Jae-hwan of the South Korean boy group, VIXX
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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)
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Thomas Ken (1637–1711), English cleric and composer
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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''Ken'' (unit) (間), a Japanese unit of measurement and proportion.
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Ken River, a river in the Bundelkhand region, India.
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Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, 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 ...
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* ''Ken'' (拳), meaning "fist" in Japanese, see
Sansukumi-ken 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 ...
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* ''KEN'' (ISO 3166-1 country code for
Kenya
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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.
See also
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Kendall (disambiguation), includes a list of people named Kendall.
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Kenneth, includes a list of people and places named Kenneth or Ken.
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Kenning (disambiguation)
Kenning is a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry.
Kenning may also refer to:
* Kenning (unit), an obsolete unit of dry measure in the Imperial system
*Kenning River, a tributary of the Case Rive ...
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Kenny (disambiguation)
Kenny is a common given name and surname.
It may also refer to:
Places
In the United States:
* Kenny, California, an unincorporated community
* Kenny, Minneapolis, a neighborhood
* Kenney, Illinois, a village
In Australia:
* Kenny, Australian ...
, includes a list of people named Kenny.
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