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Kaka
Brazilian attacking midfielder who won the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2007 Ballon d'Or during his AC Milan years.
If you've been searching for athletes that start with K, you'll find 13 detailed athletes below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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List of Athletes That Start With K
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American basketball center who won six NBA championships and held the league's all-time scoring record for nearly four decades.
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Karrie Webb
Australian professional golfer and seven-time major champion who completed the LPGA Career Grand Slam at the youngest age in tour history.
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Karsten Warholm
Norwegian 400m hurdler and Olympic gold medalist who set the men's world record at 45.94 seconds at the 2021 Tokyo Games.
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Katie Ledecky
American swimmer who has won nine Olympic gold medals and holds world records in the 800m, 1500m, and other distance freestyle events.
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Kelly Pavlik
American boxer and former WBC and WBO middleweight world champion, with a fight record built on aggressive pressure boxing.
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Keshav Maharaj
South African left-arm spin bowler and Test team specialist, the first bowler to take a Test hat-trick for South Africa.
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Kevin Trapp
German football goalkeeper with European trophy success at Eintracht Frankfurt and Paris Saint-Germain.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov
Russian mixed martial artist who retired undefeated at 29-0 as UFC lightweight champion.
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Kobe Bryant
American basketball guard who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers across two decades.
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Kostya Tszyu
Russian-Australian boxer and former undisputed light welterweight world champion known for accurate, heavy punching across a 14-year professional career.
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Krzysztof Piatek
Polish football striker known for prolific Serie A goalscoring with Genoa and AC Milan and a 2018 FIFA World Cup appearance with Poland.
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Kylian Mbappe
French forward who won the 2018 FIFA World Cup at age 19 and has been among the world's top scorers across Ligue 1 and La Liga.
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