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Khanum Haji
Khanum Singh (née Haji) (Urdu: خانم حاجی) was an Indian tennis player from Hyderabad. She was the women's four-time champion at the National Lawn Tennis Championships of India from 1947 to 1949, and 1957.
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (15 January 1925 – 14 August 1984) was an Indian freestyle wrestler. He is best known for winning a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.
Khawaja Iftikhar
Khawaja Iftikhar Ahmed was a Pakistani tennis player who played for British India before independence and for Pakistan after independence. He was one of the highest ranked players in India from 1940 to 1946, and later retained the position in Pakistan from 1947 to 1956 after the split of Indian subcontinent. He retired from the professional sports in 1962.
Khawlhring Lalremruata
Khawlhring Lalremruata (9 March 1987 – 8 January 2026) was an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Mizoram in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 20 December 2018. He made his Twenty20 debut for Mizoram in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 21 February 2019.
Khershed Meherhomji
WicketkeeperKhershedji Rustomji Meherhomji (9 August 1911 – 10 February 1982) was an Indian cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper. Meherhomji toured England in 1936 and played in the Test at Manchester, representing Parsis in Bombay Pentangular and various sides in the Ranji Trophy. His uncle Rustomji Meherhomji toured England with the 1911 All India team.
Kheta Ram
Kheta Ram aka Khetha Ram / KhetaRam (born 20 September 1986) is an Indian athlete and two time Asian Championships finalist who represented India at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the marathon event. He finished 26th in the men's marathon at the Rio Olympics. He is also in the Indian Army.
Khizer Dafedar
Khizar Dafedar (born 10 October 1997) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Mumbai in the 2017–18 Zonal T20 League on 10 January 2018.
Khlid Qayyum
Khlid Qayyum (born 21 November 1958) is an Indian former cricketer. He played 67 first-class matches for Hyderabad between 1976 and 1990. After retirement from cricket, he moved to Atlanta where he worked as an IT professional.
Khumujam Tombi Devi
Khumujam Tombi Devi (born 1 January 1982) is an Indian judoka, who represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She participated in the 48 kg category, but lost to Portugal's Ana Hormigo in the preliminary round.
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu (born 2 January 1994) is an Indian weightlifter. Born in Kakching Khunou, Kakching district, Manipur, she is a two time Commonwealth Games Champion. Chanu won the gold medals at the 2014 Glasgow and the 2018 Gold Coast events in the women's 48 kg and 53 kg weight category respectively.
Khushbir Kaur
Khushbir Kaur (born 9 July 1993) is an Indian athlete, a 20-kilometre racewalker. 2 mi) walk race at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships held at Colombo, Sri Lanka. She participated in the 2013 World Championships in the 20 km walk category.
Khushi Ram
Khushi Ram (born 7 August 1936 – 29 December 2013), widely acknowledged as The Scoring Machine of Asia, was a basketball player from India who represented India at many international competitions. He was awarded the country's highest sporting honour the Arjuna award in 1967. He captained the Indian National Basketball Team in the year 1965 which made its first appearance in Asian Basketball Championship.
Khushi Ram
Khushi Ram (born 15 January 1916) was an Indian artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Kidambi Sundararajan
Sundararajan Kidambi is an Indian chess grandmaster.
Kingshuk Debnath
Kinshuk Debnath (Bengali: কিংশুক দেবনাথ; born 8 May 1985) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bhawanipore FC.
Kinkar Daw
BowlerKinkar Daw (born 4 September 1940) is an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Bengal. He was born in Calcutta.
Kiran Ashar
Kiran Ashar (19 June 1947 – 27 May 2017) was an Indian cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Mumbai between 1968 and 1978.
Kiran Baliyan
Kiran Baliyan (born 6 March 2000) is a shot putter, hailing from Meerut.
Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first Indian woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th lieutenant governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development. As a teenager, Bedi was crowned the national junior tennis champion in 1966.
Kiran Bishnoi
Kiran Bishnoi, also known as Kiran Godara or simply Kiran, (born 2 January 1992) is a freestyle wrestler from India. She was a bronze medalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She has also been gold medallist at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in 2017.
Kiran George
Kiran George (born 11 February 2000) is an Indian badminton player. He has competed in the 2020 Thomas Cup and 2022 Asian Team Championships.
Kiran Manisha Mohanty
Kiran Manisha Mohanty (born 9 April 1989) is an Indian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was the Runners up in Asian Junior Girls Championship held at New Delhi in 2006.
Kiran Mokashi
Kiran Damodar Mokashi (born 21 September 1956) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who represented Bombay. After his playing career, he worked as a match referee and a selector for the Mumbai Cricket Association.
Kiran More
WicketkeeperKiran Shankar More) (born 4 September 1962) is an Indian former cricketer and wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket team from 1984 to 1993. He also took up the position Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the job in 2006. In July 2019, he was appointed in a senior consultancy role for the United States national cricket team.
Kiran Nadar
Kiran Shiv Nadar (born 1951) is an Indian art collector and philanthropist. Nadar is the wife of Shiv Nadar, the founder of HCL Technologies, She is a trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation and chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. She won a bronze medal representing India in the 2018 Asian Games in the Bridge Mixed team event.
Kiran Navgire
BatterKiran Prabhu Navgire (born 18 September 1994) is an Indian cricketer. She currently plays for India women and Nagaland women. She set the record for the highest individual score in Women's Senior T20 Trophy, when she made an unbeaten 162 for Nagaland against Arunachal Pradesh in 2022.
Kiran Pahal
Kiran Pahal (5 August 2000) is an Indian athlete from Haryana. She specialises in 400 metres run. She is the second athlete from India to go sub-51sec in 2024.
Kiran Pisda
Kiran Pisda (born 16 August 2001) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Indian Women's League club Kickstart and the India women's national football team. She is the first player from Chhattisgarh to play for the Indian senior national team.
Kiran Powar
BowlerKiran Rajaram Powar (born 6 April 1976) is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler and is the brother of Ramesh Powar.
Kiran Reddy
Kiran Reddy (born 4 December 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Nagaland in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 25 February 2019.
Kirti Azad
All-rounderKirtivardhan Jha Azad (born 2 January 1959) is an Indian politician and former cricketer. Azad was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Azad is the son of former Chief Minister of Bihar Bhagwat Jha Azad.
Kirti Gupta
Kirti Gupta (born 6 February 2001) is an Indian sport shooter. She won a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup shotgun in Cairo in the team trap shooting along with Manisha Keer and Rajeshwari Kumari.
Kirti Patel
WicketkeeperKirti Karshanbhai Patel (born 27 November 1969 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Madhya Pradesh. He made his first-class debut in 1987 and played until 1998 in 61 first-class and 22 List A matches as wicket-keeper-batsman.
Kishan Choudhary
Kishan Choudhary (born 22 December 1981) is an Indian first-class cricketer who represented Rajasthan. He made his first-class debut for Rajasthan in the 2002-03 Ranji Trophy on 9 November 2002.
Kishan Lal
Kishan Lal (2 February 1917 – 23 June 1980) was an Indian field hockey player. He captained the Indian hockey team at the 1948 Summer Olympics to gold, winning independent India's first gold medal by defeating Great Britain 4-0 in the final.
Kishan Parmar
Kishan Parmar (born 9 April 1992) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Saurashtra. He made his first-class debut for Saurashtra in the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy on 29 November 2016. He made his Twenty20 debut for Saurashtra in the 2016–17 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament on 30 January 2017.
Kishan Rungta
Kishan Rungta (3 September 1932 – 1 May 2021) was an Indian cricketer and administrator.
Kishor Rai
Kishor Rahtna Rai (born 5 November 1964) is an Indian alpine skier. He competed in the men's slalom at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Rai was the flagbearer of India at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics.
KM Asif
BowlerKM Asif also known as Mohammed Asif (born 24 July 1993) is an Indian cricketer who represents Kerala in domestic cricket and previously played for Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League (IPL). He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pacer.
KM. Chanda
Kumari Chanda (16 August 2001) is an Indian middle-distance runner. She won a silver medal at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships women's 800 metres.
Kochunny Thampuran
BowlerKochunny Thampuran (born 5 June 1937) was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Travancore-Cochin. He was born in Thrippunithura.
Kolla Sumanth
Kolla Sumanth (born 24 April 1992) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Hyderabad. He made his Twenty20 debut on 2 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He was named as the player of the tournament in the 2017 Buchi Babu Tournament for scoring 345 runs, the highest in the tournament.
Komadur Padmanabhan
Komadur Padmanabhan (born 13 November 1937) is an Indian former cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Andhra and Hyderabad between 1957 and 1965.
Komal Sharma
Komal J. Sharma (Born 6 Nov 1991, Chennai) is an Indian actress, model and former squash player, who works in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi films. She has acted in films such as Hungama 2 (2021), Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea (2021), and The Greatest of All Time (2024).
Komal Thatal
MidfielderKomal Thatal (born 18 September 2000) is an Indian professional footballer who plays for Gokulam Kerala in the Indian Football League. Thatal has represented India in the U-17 FIFA World Cup in 2017.
Komal Zanzad
BowlerKomal Zanzad (born 10 July 1991) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Vidarbha women's cricket team, mainly as a bowler. In December 2018, in the 2018–19 Senior Women's One Day League match against Haryana, she took nine wickets for eight runs. In January 2019, she was named in India Red's team for the 2018–19 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy.
Komalika Bari
Komalika Bari (born 5 February 2002 in Jamshedpur) is only the third Indian player to win the world title at the Tata Archery Academy's Cadet World Youth Archery Championships. She made her mark to ensure her place in the Indian team for elite events including the World Championships and the Olympic Test Event. She participated in world u-18 championship held in Wroclaw in August.
Koneru Humpy
Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Koneru is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002, she became the youngest female player—and the first Indian female player—to achieve the title of Grandmaster, aged 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, a record since surpassed only by Hou Yifan.