KC, Kc and similar may refer to:

Places

Kuçovë District Kuçovë District () was one of the 36 districts of Albania, which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 Counties of Albania, counties. It had a population of 35,571 in 2001, and an area of , making it the smallest district of Albania. I ...

, Albania's ISO 3166-2 code *

Kansas City metropolitan area The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more t ...

, a major metropolitan area of the United States **

Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by List of cities in Missouri, population and area. The city lies within Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson, Clay County, Missouri, Clay, and Pl ...

, its principal city **

Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City (commonly known as KCK) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As ...

, the third-largest city in the state *

Karachay-Cherkessia Karachay-Cherkessia (), officially the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus. It is administratively part of the North Caucasian Federal District. As of the 2021 census, Karachay-Cherkessia has a popul ...

, Russia's ISO 3166-2 code

People

* Kent Cochrane (1951–2014), Canadian memory disorder patient * KC Concepcion (born 1985), Philippine model, actress, singer, songwriter * Kcee (musician) (born 1979), Nigerian singer, songwriter, performer * K.C. Potter (1939–2024), American academic administrator and LGBT rights activist *

Harry Wayne Casey Harry Wayne Casey (born January 31, 1951), better known by his stage name KC, is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band, with co-founder Richard Finch (musician), Richard Fi ...

(born 1951), American musician best known for his band KC and the Sunshine Band * Govinda K.C. (born 1957), Nepali orthopaedic surgeon and philanthropic activist * KC or K.C., an abbreviation for the Nepalese surname Khatri Chhetri

Arts and entertainment

* ''KC'' (album), a 2010 album by KC Concepcion * KC and the Sunshine Band, an American funk, R&B and disco musical group founded in 1973 *

King Crimson King Crimson were an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald (musician), Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield. Guitarist Fripp remained the only constant member throughout the ...

, a British progressive rock band * K.C. Guthrie, a fictional character in ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' * K.C. Cooper, the title character in the Disney Channel sitcom, '' K.C. Undercover''

Businesses and organizations

Schools and universities

King's College, Hong Kong King's College (), often referred to simply as King's or K.C., is a boys' government-operated secondary school located at 63A Bonham Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong. It serves as a secondary education institution for pupils from forms 1–6. Th ...

, a boys' secondary school in Hong Kong * Kingwood College, now Lone Star College-Kingwood, in Kingwood, Houston, Texas, United States * Kishinchand Chellaram College or K. C. College, South Mumbai, India *

Kutama College Kutama College (officially St Francis Xavier's Kutama College) is a private Catholic independent boarding high school near Norton, Zimbabwe in the Zvimba area, 80 kilometres southwest of Harare. Grown out of a Mission station founded in 1914 a ...

, a boys' boarding high school in Zimbabwe * Kuen Cheng High School, a high school in Malaysia

Sports organizations

Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. Established in 1959 ...

, a National Football League team based in Kansas City, Missouri *

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League Central, Central Division. The team ...

, a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri *

Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City is an American professional Association football, soccer club based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. The ad ...

or Sporting KC, a Major League Soccer team based in Kansas City, Kansas

Other businesses and organizations

KC HiLiTES KC HiLiTES, Inc is a manufacturer of off-road lighting based in Williams, Arizona. History The company was founded in 1970 in Saugus, California by Peter Kim Brown and his wife Carol Brown, and named using their initials. They were spurred to ...

, a US manufacturer of driving lights *

Kimberly-Clark Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American multinational consumer goods and personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. The company manufactures sanitary paper products and surgical & medical instruments. Kimb ...

, a US personal care corporation *

The Kennel Club The Royal Kennel Club (KC) is the official kennel club of the United Kingdom. It is the oldest recognised kennel club in the world. Its role is to oversee various canine activities including dog shows, dog agility and working trials. It also ...

, a dog-breed registry in England *

Kingston Communications KCOM Group (formerly known as Kingston Communications and latterly KC) is a UK communications and IT services provider. Its headquarters are in the city of Kingston upon Hull, and it serves local residents and businesses with Internet and telep ...

, a UK communications and IT service provider *

Air Astana Air Astana () is an airline and the flag carrier of Kazakhstan. Based in Almaty, the airline was founded by the Government of Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund Samruk Kazyna (51%) and BAE Systems (49%) and commenced operations on 15 May 2002. I ...

(IATA airline designator) *

Karmine Corp Karmine Corp (; or simply KCorp) is a French professional esports organization incorporated and headquartered in Paris, France. The team employs professional players across six divisions, namely ''League of Legends'', '' TrackMania'', ''Teamf ...

, a French eSports organization

Science and technology

* ''K''_c, the

equilibrium constant The equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is the value of its reaction quotient at chemical equilibrium, a state approached by a dynamic chemical system after sufficient time has elapsed at which its composition has no measurable tendency ...

, the equilibrium of a chemical reaction * K_c,

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

Cipher Key *

CXCL1 The chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 1 (CXCL1) is a small peptide belonging to the CXC chemokine family that acts as a chemoattractant for several immune cells, especially neutrophils or other non-hematopoietic cells to the site of injury or infecti ...

or KC, a cytokine *

Keratoconus Keratoconus is an eye disorder in which the cornea, the transparent front part of the eye, gradually thins and bulges outward into a cone shape. This causes distorted vision, including blurry vision, double vision, increased nearsightedness, ...

, a degenerative eye disease *

Kilocycle The cycle per second is a once-common English name for the unit of frequency now known as the ''hertz'' (Hz). Cycles per second may be denoted by c.p.s., c/s, or, ambiguously, just "cycles" (Cyc., Cy., C, or c). The term comes from repetitive ph ...

, as in 1,000 cycles per second, with the modern equivalent being kilohertz

Other uses

* KC Stadium, a former name of a football and rugby-league stadium in Hull, England *

Kelly criterion In probability theory, the Kelly criterion (or Kelly strategy or Kelly bet) is a formula for sizing a sequence of bets by maximizing the long-term expected value of the logarithm of wealth, which is equivalent to maximizing the long-term expected ...

, a formula in probability theory and finance *

King's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc ...

, a legal position in Commonwealth countries * KC, an obsolete postnominal for Knight of the

Order of the Crescent The Imperial Order of the Crescent () was a chivalric order of the Ottoman Empire. History The order was instituted in 1799 by Sultan Selim III when he wished to reward Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Horatio Nelson, an Church of England, ...