KP may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Komsomolskaya Pravda, a daily Russian newspaper
  • KP (newspaper), a Ukrainian newspaper
  • KP Snacks, a United Kingdom food manufacturer
  • Kaiser Permanente, a U.S. health maintenance organization
  • Kerala Police, the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India
  • Kings Point, the US Merchant Marine Academy
  • Communist Party (Serbia), the communist party of Serbia

People

  • Katy Perry, American singer
  • Kawan Prather, American record executive
  • Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
  • Ko Wen-je, Taiwanese politician, physician and professor
  • KP Sharma Oli, Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal
  • Kumaran Pathmanathan, member of the LTTE
  • Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player

Places

  • Cambodia, WMO country code
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan
  • North Korea (ISO 3166 country code KP)
  • Kensington Palace, office and residence of some of the British royal family
  • Castletown KP, a common name for Castletown-Kilpatrick, a village in County Meath, Ireland
  • Kamptee railway station (station code: KP), Maharashtra, India

In science, technology, and mathematics

  • .kp, the Internet domain name for North Korea
  • KP-bil, or Terrängbil m/42 KP, a Swedish armoured vehicle
  • Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation, describing waves
  • Keratosis pilaris, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"
  • keratic precipitate, an inflammatory cellular deposit on the cornea of the eye
  • Kilogram-force ("kilopond"), a unit measure of force
  • Kilopixel (1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution
  • K<sub>P</sub>, the equilibrium constant expressed in terms of partial pressures
  • Kp index, a measure of the global average geomagnetic potential
  • Kripke–Platek set theory, a mathematical axiom system
  • Pentax KP, a 2017 digital SLR camera
  • Kernel panic, a computer stopping in response to an unrecoverable error
  • k·p perturbation theory, for calculating properties of crystalline solids
  • k͡p, the voiceless labial–velar plosive

Other uses

  • KP, a recording released by American performer Kyle Patrick
  • Kp (digraph), in written language
  • KP duty "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties
  • Knight of the Order of St. Patrick (postnomial KP)
  • Kim Possible, American animated television series

See also

  • KP4 (disambiguation)