List of Famous people named Ken

Ken Terauchi is a Japanese diver, who specialized in springboard and platform events. He had won two bronze medals for the springboard diving at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, in addition to his first at the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka.

Kenneth William Casey Jr. is an American musician who is a bass guitarist, primary songwriter, and one of the lead singers of the Boston Celtic punk group the Dropkick Murphys. Casey was one of the original members, starting the band in 1996 with guitarist Rick Barton and singer Mike McColgan. He is the only original member of the Dropkick Murphys left in the band, though drummer Matt Kelly joined shortly after formation in 1997. He is known for his melodic vocal parts and solid punk rock bass playing. Dropkick Murphys released their ninth album 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory on January 6, 2017. Casey also founded the charity group The Claddagh Fund, owns two Boston restaurants, McGreevy's and Yellow Door Taqueria, and runs his own boxing promotion called Murphys Boxing. Casey has a small role in the 2016 film Patriots Day, about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent terrorist manhunt.

Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.

Charles Kenneth Spears was an American television writer, producer and sound editor. With Joe Ruby, he created the Scooby-Doo franchise for Hanna-Barbera. In 1977, the two men co-founded television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions.

Ken Doherty is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter.

Ken Shaw, is a Canadian journalist who works for Bell Media. He worked as a news anchor on the noon and 6:00 p.m. news segments for CTV Toronto. He announced his retirement on December 7, 2019 and anchored his last newscast on January 6, 2020.

Ken Hom OBE is a Chinese-American chef, author and television-show presenter for the BBC, specialising in Chinese Cuisine. In 2009 he was appointed honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for "services to culinary arts".

Kenneth Zampese is an American football quarterbacks coach for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League. Zampese began his coaching career at his alma mater, the University of San Diego, and has held a variety of college and professional coaching positions.

Kenneth Kurson is an American political consultant, musician, journalist, and writer who formerly served as Editor-in-Chief of The New York Observer. In 2020 he was charged by prosecutors with cyberstalking, for which he was pardoned by President Donald Trump in January 2021.

Kenneth Wiggins Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, is a Northern Irish politician and life peer. Since December 2020, he has been suspended from the House of Lords, where he formerly sat for the Ulster Unionist Party. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1983 to 2001.