List of Famous people with last name King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King
First Name Stephen
Last Name King
Born on September 21, 1947 (age 75)
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 61 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

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Regina King

First Name Regina
Last Name King
Born on January 15, 1971 (age 52)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Regina Rene King is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of several awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and four acting Primetime Emmy Awards, the most for an African-American performer. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.

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Joey King

Joey Lynn King
First Name Joey
Born on July 30, 1999 (age 23)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Joey Lynn King is an American actress. She first gained recognition for portraying Ramona Quimby in the comedy film Ramona and Beezus (2010) and has since gained wider recognition for her lead role in The Kissing Booth (2018) and its sequel. King received critical acclaim for her starring role in the crime drama series The Act (2019), for which she was nominated for both a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award.

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Carole King

Carol Joan Klein
First Name Carole
Last Name King
Born on February 9, 1942 (age 81)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Carole King Klein is an American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.

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Joshua King

Joshua Christian Kojo King
First Name Joshua
Last Name King
Born on January 15, 1992 (age 31)
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Joshua Christian Kojo King is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club Bournemouth and the Norway national team.

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Billie Jean King

Billie Jean Moffitt
First Name Billie
Last Name King
Born on November 22, 1943 (age 79)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, she was the United States' captain in the Federation Cup.

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Larry King

Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
First Name Larry
Born on November 19, 1933
Died on January 23, 2021 (aged 87)

Larry King was an American television and radio host, whose awards included two Peabodys, an Emmy and ten Cable ACE Awards. He hosted over 50,000 interviews.

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Rodney King

Rodney Glen King
First Name Rodney
Last Name King
Born on April 2, 1969
Died on June 17, 2012 (aged 43)

Rodney Glen King was an American author and activist who was a victim of police brutality by the Los Angeles Police Department. On March 3, 1991, King was beaten by LAPD officers after a high-speed chase during his arrest for drunk driving on I-210. An uninvolved individual, George Holliday, filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage showed an unarmed King on the ground being beaten after initially evading arrest. The incident was covered by news media around the world and caused a public furor.

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Elle King

Tanner Elle Schneider

Tanner Elle Schneider, better known by her stage name Elle King, is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Her musical style encompasses country, soul, rock and blues.

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John King

First Name John
Last Name King
Born on August 30, 1963 (age 59)

John King is an American news anchor. He is CNN's chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., and was the weekday anchor of its roundtable political discussion program Inside Politics. He is the former anchor of State of the Union, as well as John King, USA, which appeared weeknights at 7pm/ET on CNN before being canceled.

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Si King

First Name Si
Last Name King
Born on November 30, 1966 (age 56)

Simon James King is an English television presenter, best known as one half of the Hairy Bikers with Dave Myers. Together they have presented a number of television cookery series for BBC television and have since launched an online weight loss programme, 'The Hairy Bikers Diet Club'.

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Shaun King

First Name Shaun
Born on September 17, 1979 (age 43)

Jeffery Shaun King is an American writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of Real Justice PAC. King uses social media to promote social justice causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Ginevra King

First Name Ginevra
Born on November 30, 1898
Died on December 13, 1980 (aged 82)

Ginevra King Pirie was an American socialite and heiress. She was the inspiration for many characters in the novels and stories of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. King and Fitzgerald shared a passionate romance from 1915 to 1917, but their relationship stagnated after King's family intervened, and her father warned the young writer that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls".

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Don King

First Name Don
Last Name King
Born on August 20, 1931 (age 91)

Donald King is an American former boxing promoter known for his involvement in historic boxing matchups. He has been a controversial figure, partly due to a manslaughter conviction and civil cases against him, as well as allegations of dishonest business practices by numerous boxers.

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Coretta Scott King

First Name Coretta
Born on April 27, 1927
Died on January 30, 2006 (aged 78)

Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. An advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly active in the American civil rights movement.

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Steve King

First Name Steve
Last Name King
Born on May 28, 1949 (age 74)

Steven Arnold King is a former American politician and businessman who served as the U.S. Representative for Iowa's 4th congressional district from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Iowa's 5th congressional district until redistricting.

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Charles D. B. King

First Name Charles
Last Name King
Born on March 12, 1875
Died on September 4, 1961 (aged 86)

Charles Dunbar Burgess King was a politician in Liberia of Americo-Liberian and Freetown Creole descent. He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980. He served as the 17th President of Liberia from 1920 until 1930.

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Yolanda King

Yolanda Denise King
First Name Yolanda
Born on November 17, 1955
Died on May 15, 2007 (aged 51)

Yolanda Denise King was an African American activist and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was also known for her artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public and influential activism.

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Jaime King

First Name Jaime
Last Name King
Born on April 23, 1979 (age 44)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Jaime King is an American actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime—the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.

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B.B. King

Riley Ben King
Born on September 16, 1925
Died on May 14, 2015 (aged 89)

Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".

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