Born Mary Morris, Knowles married physician Thomas Knowles. A poet, friend of Samuel Johnson, and a gifted conversationalist, Knowles published her "Dialogue between Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Knowles" in the Gentleman's Magazine in June 1971.

The Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, Sir Charles Knowles famously and successfully sued Tobias Smollett for libel in 1761.

Archdeacon of Berkshire from 1735 to 1746.

Also known as Meta, the Danish wife of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was an esteemed literary intellectual whose letters charmed her contemporaries.

Germany's first major poet of the eighteenth-century, Klopstock was a significant influence on the Sturm und Drang poetic movement to follow. A few of his most important works include The Messiah (1748-1773); a number of religiously inspired stage tragedies, especially The Death of Adam (1757), Solomon (1764), and David (1772); and a large body of shorter poetry. His essay, "On Divine Poetry," written as an introduction to The Messiah, inaugurates a new critical concern with the emotional effects of poetry in its claim that a work of genius must "move the soul."

Klinger's play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave the title to the eighteenth-century German literary movement of the same name.

Dramatist and theater manager. Having gained a theater patent shortly after the English Restoration, Killigrew founded the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which he opened in 1662 under the name Theatre Royal on Brydges Street.

Military commander and convert to Islam who, under both Muhammad and Abū Bakr, was renowned for his military prowess.

Born approximately 554, Khadījah bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy merchant and the first wife and follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Duchess of Portsmouth in England and Duchesse d'Aubigny in the peerage of France, Louise de Kérouaille was the French mistress of King Charles II. She was known to have great political savvy, though she was the least popular of his mistresses.