Kees (surname)

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Kees is a surname. Notable persons with that name include:

A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family. Depending on the culture, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations based on the cultural rules.

Frederick Kees American architect

Frederick G. Kees was an American architect notable for his work in Minnesota and partnerships with Franklin B. Long and Serenus Colburn.

Ryan Ed Kees is a former American football defensive end. He was signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in 2009, later played for the California Redwoods, and was briefly with the Arizona Cardinals. He played college football at St. Cloud State.

Weldon Kees American artist

Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, he is considered an important mid-twentieth-century poet of the same generation as John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell. His work has been immensely influential on subsequent generations of poets writing in English and other languages and his collected poems have been included in many anthologies. Harold Bloom lists the publication of Kees's first book The Last Man (1943) as an important event in the chronology of his textbook Modern American Poetry as well as a book worthy of his Western Canon.

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