Kang

Kang can mean:

Place Names

* Kang, Afghanistan
* Kang, Botswana

Personal Names

* Kang Youwei, a reformist political figure from the late Qing dynasty.
* Kang Tongbi, Kang Youwei's daughter, a social activist from the early Republic of China period.
* Kang Chol-Hwan, a defector from North Korea.
* Ye-Na Kang, a ballerina in the Universal ballet company, South Korea.
* Kang, a Chinese surname.
* Kang, a Korean surname.
* Kang , a respectable surname from the Jatt caste/Sikh religion, originating from the Punjab region in India.

Media and Fiction

* The Kangs - two warring gangs (red kangs and blue kangs) of violent teenage girls from the 1987 "Doctor Who" episode "Paradise Towers".
* Suzie Kang, an object-tracker from the television mini-series "The Lost Room".
* Käng punk - underground term used to describe extreme, raw, heavily distorted hardcore punk from Sweden.

Fictional characters

* Kang the green one-eyed alien brother of Kodos from "The Simpsons"
* Liu Kang - Mortal Kombat character
* Kang the Mad from the Xbox video game, Jade Empire
* Kang (Star Trek) – Klingon warrior
* Kang the Conqueror – Marvel Comics supervillain
* Kang (Dragonlance) – A draconian from the Dragonlance fictional book
* Kang Tongbi a.k.a. Widow Kang – A character from "The Years of Rice and Salt", a counterfactual novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Cynthia Kang - The protagonist of the novel "Citizen Kang" by Gary Phillips, published in weekly instalments in "The Nation"

Other

* Kang bed-stove