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Name

• In English, Ken is a shortened form of Kenneth.
• In Japanese, Ken is a common male given name, written variously as 謙、健、憲、拳、賢、研、顕、...

Kenneth is a male given name. ...

Geography

• Ken River

The Ken River is one the major rivers passing through the Banda district of Bundelkahnd, India. ...

Persons

• Ken Kutaragi, Currently the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, the videogames division of Sony Corporation. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation"

• Ken Kitamura, famous J-Rock guitarist known simply by his stage name "ken". He's Lead Guitarist of L'Arc~en~Ciel as well as Lead Guitarist/Vocals for SONS OF ALL PUSSYS and his new side-project, KEN.
• Ken Thompson is one of the primary creators of Unix.
• Ken Jennings is a well-known contestant on the game show Jeopardy!
• K E N is the alias for musician/composer/artist, Ken Christianson. Currently living in Los Angeles, Ken is the co-founder of the art collective Elephant Empire [1]. He currently lives on MySpace at webaddress www.myspace.com/kenchristiansonmusic [2].
• Ken Livingstone, often referred to as 'Our Ken', 'Red Ken' or just plain 'Ken' depending on the speaker's political affiliations, is the ex-leader of the now extinct Greater London Council and is now (2006) mayor of London and leader of the Greater London Authority.
• Ken Kesey, Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Ken Nomura, considered to be one of the most popular characters in the drifting scene, and one of the biggest names in the premier D1 Grand Prix series.
• Ken Casey, also known as Lord Kenneth, lives in Austin, Texas, the home of the SXSW festival.
• Ken Akamatsu, Japanese manga artist, author of Love Hina and numerous other works with ecchi undertones and characteristics of harem anime.
• Ken Hirai, is a J-pop singer known for the hit songs "Hitomi wo Tojite" and "POP STAR."
• Ken Shimura is a famous comedian who is a member of the Drifters.
• Ken Anderson is a professional wrestler, better known by his current ring name, "Ken Kennedy".
• Ken Schrader is a NASCAR Nextel Cup driver, currently driving the #21 Ford Fusion.
• Ken Okuyama is a Japanese car designer and creative director for Pinifarina who is most famous for leading the design team for the Ferrari Enzo (car) project. He is also a professor at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健 Kutaragi Ken, born August 8, 1950) is the current Chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), the video game division of Sony Corporation. ... SCE redirects here. ... The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... Ken Kitamura was born in Shiga,Japan on November 28, 1968. ... LArc~en~Ciel ), also known as LArc or Laruku ) to their fans, is a popular Japanese rock band. ... Sons of All Pussys, also known as S.O.A.P., is a Japanese rock trio founded by ken (also guitarist of LArc~en~Ciel). ... Look up Ken, ken in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ken Thompson Kenneth Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is a pioneer of computer science notable for his contributions to the development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy!, as well as other records. ... A game show involves members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... Jeopardy! is a popular international television quiz game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also created Wheel of Fortune. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... Ken Livingstone Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945), is an English politician who has been the Mayor of London since the creation of the post in 2000. ... Arms of the Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Greater London Authority (GLA) administers the 1579 km² (610 sq. ... Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a (counter) cultural figure who, some consider, was a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by MiloÅ¡ Forman. ... nomura sliding his blitz er34 in 2004 Ken Nomura (Japanese: 野村謙, born Fukuoka, 9th May 1965 ) is a drifting driver from Japan. ... A Toyota Supra in drifting exhibition in Atlanta in 2005. ... Current D1 Grand Prix Logo The D1 Grand Prix (Japanese: D1グランプリ, D1 guranpuri in katakana, abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift) is a production car drifting series from Japan. ... Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas County Travis County Mayor Will Wynn Area    - City 669. ... South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc. ... Self Portrait Ken Akamatsu (赤松健 Akamatsu Ken) is a manga artist, born in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on July 5, 1968. ... Mangaka (漫画家) is the Japanese word for a comic artist/cartoonist. ... Love Hina ) is a manga (and anime) series by author Ken Akamatsu. ... Ecchi (from the Japanese エッチ etchi) is an English word deriving from a Japanese word meaning lewd or naughty when used as an adjective, and can refer to a pervert or sexual intercourse when used as a noun. ... A harem comedy is a term for an anime or manga story wherein one male character is surrounded by — often living with — several female characters. ... Ken Hirai (平井堅 Hirai Ken, born January 17, 1972), a Japanese R&B singer, was born in Higashi-osaka, Osaka prefecture, and grew up in Nabari, Mie Prefecture. ... Ken Shimura as Bakatono-sama. ... The Drifters (ザ・ドリフターズ, Za Dorifutaazu) was a famous Japanese comedy group from 1964. ... Kenneth (Ken) Anderson (born March 6, 1976), is an American professional wrestler better known as Ken Kennedy and Mr. ... Ken Schrader with the 2006 Little Debbie paint scheme Kenneth Schrader (born May 29, 1955 in Fenton, Missouri) is a second-generation race car driver. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ... The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top racing series. ... Ford Fusion is a name used on two different types of cars from the Ford Motor Company. ... The Enzo Ferrari is a 12-cylinder Ferrari supercar named after the companys founder, Enzo Ferrari. ... Photo of Art Center during the night. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

Characters

• Ken Barlow is the only current character on the British soap opera Coronation Street to have also appeared in the very first episode, in 1960.
• Ken is also part of the American Barbie doll collection.
• Ken Masters is a character in the Street Fighter series.
• Ken is the shortened name of Kenshiro, the hero of Fist of the North Star manga.
• Ken Ichijouji was both a hero and a villain in the second season of the Digimon anime.
• Ken Schoolland is an austrian economist and author of The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey

ken lead stock manager at Oakley Market street, also is loved by the ladies, ands playes wiked , in which he will woop j lark fom the books Kenneth Ken Barlow (born 9 October 1939) is a character in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera and its consistently highest-rating programme. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Ken Doll c. ... Barbie is a best-selling doll launched at the American International Toy Fair on March 9, 1959. ... Ken Masters ) is a video game character created by Capcom. ... Screenshot of Street Fighter (arcade version). ... Kenshirō, the Fist of the North Star Kenshirō ), or just Ken—as he is often called—is the central character of the Fist of the North Star manga, anime, and other related works. ... Fist of the North Star (Japanese: 北斗の拳; Hokuto no Ken, literally Fist of the Big Dipper) was a manga series that was originally serialized between 1983 and 1988 in the weekly Japanese version of Weekly Shonen Jump, created by Tetsuo Hara and Buronson. ... 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... Ken Ichijouji (一乗寺 賢 Ichijōji Ken) is a character in the Digimon 02 anime series. ... The official logo for seasons 1 and 2 of the English dub anime and products released at that time. ... The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) Anime ) (IPA pronunciation: in Japanese, but typically or in English) is an abbreviation of the word animation. Outside Japan, the term most popularly refers to animation... This article should appear in one or more categories. ...

in Japanese

• Ken was a rare type of Tantō. This double-bladed weapon was mainly used in Buddhist ritual. The blades had either parallel or double concave edges.
• the on'yomi reading of 剣 "sword".
• the on'yomi reading of 県 "prefecture", see prefectures of Japan.

Two Tantō tantō blade hidden in a fan-shaped mounting A Tantō (短刀) is a Japanese knife or dagger with a blade length of about 15 - 30 cm (6 - 12). There is a disputed saying about the tantō, wakizashi, and katana stating they are The Tantō differs from the others as... The bayonet is used as both knife and spear. ... The characters for Kanji, lit. ... A modern jian with its scabbard. ... The prefectures of Japan are the countrys 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one metropolis (都 to), Tokyo; one circuit (道 dō), Hokkaidō; two urban prefectures (府 fu), Osaka and Kyoto; and 43 other prefectures (県 ken). ...

Variations

• Kenneth
• Kenasz
• Kenny

Meanings

• Ken is also perception or understanding, one's range of vision, or sight. This particular term, of Scots origin, tends to be used often in religious circles. When one speaks of a "higher ken" often it is a reference to an omniscient deity or being.
  • A common gloss is "sight of knowledge".
• It is used in various works of fiction, including Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series. It also is used as the form 'understanding' in Ian D. Bush's poem:

 Twinkle, twinkle little star I don't wonder what you are, For by spectroscopic KEN, I know that you are hydrogen. 

(For an explanation of this poem, see the book Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku, copyright 1995). The word, Perception, comes from the latin word, capere, meaning to take, the prefix per- means completely. In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. ... Look up understanding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Musical Instrument

• Ken is also the name of an instrument used in traditional Vietnamese music. The ken has a double reed and a short wooden body that tapers gradually from the bell at the bottom to the mouthpiece at the top, and produces a powerful and penetrating high-pitched sound similar to the Persian/Indian shehnai. The best-known player of the ken is perhaps Nguyen Ngoc Khanh (b. 1956), a.k.a "Khanh of the ken."

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