Ken (name)
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Ken is a male given name. It occurs in English (originally a shortened form of Kenneth) and Japanese (written variously as 謙、健、憲、拳、賢、研、顕、).
[edit] People named Ken
- Ken Akamatsu, Japanese author
- Ken Anderson (football player), American quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals
- Ken Anderson, a wrestler better known by his current ring name, Mr. Kennedy
- Ken Burns, American documentary filmmaker
- Ken Caminiti, Major League Baseball player
- Ken Campbell (actor)
- Ken Campbell (evangelist)
- Ken Casey, the bassist of the Boston Irish punk rock group Dropkick Murphys
- Ken Christianson, California based artist and musician, with art collective Elephant Empire
- Ken Clark (actor)
- Ken Davitian, American film and TV actor
- Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
- Ken Dodd, English comedian
- Ken Follett, British author of thrillers and historical novels
- Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player
- Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player
- Ken Ham, creationist
- Ken Harrelson, Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
- Ken Hendricks, billionaire, president of Hendricks Group
- Ken Hirai, J-pop singer known for the hit songs "Hitomi wo Tojite" and "POP STAR"
- Ken Hoang, American professional electronic sports player
- Ken Holtzman, Major League Baseball player
- Ken Hughes, writer and director of films, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Ken Jennings, contestant on the game show Jeopardy!
- Ken Kal, radio play-by-play announcer for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings
- Ken Kesey, novelist, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Ken (musician) (Ken Kitamura), J-Pop member of bands L'Arc~en~Ciel and Sons of All Pussys
- Ken Kutaragi, President and CEO, later Chairman, of Sony Computer Entertainment
- Ken Livingstone, politician, former mayor of London, UK
- Ken Lloyd, Japanese-British musician, vocalist and songwriter of Fake? and Oblivion Dust
- Ken Maycock, an artist and art teacher at Dulwich College
- Ken Morrish, former mayor of the city of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
- Ken Morrison, English supermarket CEO
- Ken Nomura, member of the drifting motorsport scene and of the D1 Grand Prix series
- Ken Okuyama, Japanese car designer, creative director of Pininfarina, professor
- Ken Russell, film director and actor
- Ken Rutherford, New Zealand cricketer
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and political activist
- Ken Schrader, NASCAR driver
- Ken Shimura, comedian, member of the Drifters
- Ken Spreitzer, computer programmer
- Ken Takakura (1931-), Japanese film actor
- Ken Thompson, one of the primary creators of Unix
- Ken Wahl, actor
- Ken Watanabe (1959-), Japanese theater, TV, and film actor
[edit] Fictional characters named Ken
- Ken (Street Fighter), a character in video game series
- Ken Barlow, a character in the British TV soap opera "Coronation Street"
- Ken Hayakawa (aka Zubat), a character in Kaiketsu Zubat
- Ken Hoshikawa (aka FiveBlue), a character in Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman
- Ken Ichijouji, a character in the anime series Digimon
- Ken Rosenberg (Grand Theft Auto series), a recurring character within the series
- Kenshiro or Ken, hero of the manga and anime series Fist of the North Star
