Ahmet Kenan Evren was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the seventh President of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.
Kel Johari Rice Mitchell is an American actor, comedian, pastor, rapper, singer, and TV host. He was an original cast member of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That for its first five seasons (1994–1999), where he was often paired with Kenan Thompson. His role as Ed in the All That sketch was reprised for the 1997 teen comedy film loosely based on the series, Good Burger. He co-starred with Thompson on the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel from 1996 to 2000. Mitchell received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for his role as "T-Bone" in the children's animated series Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000–2003). From 2015 to 2019, he starred as Double G on the Nickelodeon sitcom Game Shakers.
Kenan Thompson is an American comedian and actor. He has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history. He was also the first regular cast member born after the show's premiere in 1975. Outside of SNL, Thompson starred on NBC's sitcom Kenan from 2021 to 2022.
Kenan & Kel is an American sitcom created by Kim Bass that originally aired on Nickelodeon from August 17, 1996, to May 3, 2000. Set in Chicago, the series follows mischievous Kenan Rockmore and his happy-go-lucky best friend Kel Kimble, who get involved with zany hijinks on a number of misadventures. The show was one of three spin-offs from All That, in which Thompson and Mitchell had co-starred for several years.
Kenan is an Antediluvian patriarch first mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
Kenan Sofuoğlu is a Turkish parliamentarian and former professional motorcycle racer. He holds a record five Supersport World Championship titles. Sofuoğlu also competed at the Superbike World Championship in 2008 and at the Moto2 World Championship in 2010 and 2011.
Kenan Doğulu is a Turkish pop musician. He represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, where he was placed fourth, with 163 points. In the summer of 2006, Doğulu released the album Festival, containing the hit single "Çakkıdı", in collaboration with Sezen Aksu.
Gil Kenan is a British–American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films Monster House (2006) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), with the former nominated him for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He has also collaborated with director Jason Reitman in co-writing Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Saturday Night (2024).
İlber Ortaylı is a Turkish historian and professor of history of Crimean Tatar origin at the MEF University, Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2005, he was appointed as the director of the Topkapı Museum in Istanbul, until he retired in 2012.
Turkey participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Shake It Up Şekerim" written and performed by Kenan Doğulu, who was internally selected by the Turkish broadcaster Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu (TRT) to represent the nation at the 2007 contest in Helsinki, Finland. The announcement of Kenan Doğulu as the Turkish entrant occurred on 19 December 2006, while "Shake It Up Şekerim" was presented to the public on 9 March 2007.
Necip Hablemitoğlu was a Turkish historian and intellectual. He was assassinated in front of his home in 2002. The perpetrators of this assassination have still not been found. In Ergenekon trial testimony, however, detained suspects Osman Yıldırım claimed that Osman Gürbüz killed him by the motivation of detained suspects Veli Küçük and Muzaffer Tekin for a false flag operation.
Kenan İmirzalıoğlu is a Turkish actor and former model. İmirzalıoğlu appeared in the action films Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali and Kabadayı. He returned to television in 2009 with the series Ezel and also starred in the action film Ejder Kapanı directed by Uğur Yücel.
Kenan Sipahi is a Kosovo-born Turkish professional basketball player for Karşıyaka Basket of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the Champions League. The point guard descent stands at 6 ft 5.75 in (1.97 m).
Kenan Karaman is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains 2. Bundesliga club Schalke 04. Born in Germany, he played for the Turkey national team.
Kenan Koçak is a Turkish football coach and a former player. He is currently serving as the head coach of TFF 1. Lig side Ankaragücü.
Kenan Muslimović is an Austrian and Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for German amateur club DJK Ammerthal.
Kenan Judge is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from District 27 since 2019.
Kenan Cahit Ece is a Turkish actor.
