AK


AK


AK and A.K. (but not Ak) may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • A.K. (film), a 1985 film directed by Chris Marker
  • AK (radio program), a weekly program produced by Alaska Public Radio Network from 2003 to 2008, later a segment on Alaska News Nightly
  • AK (rapper), also known as AK the Razorman, American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia, member of hip hop group P$C
  • AK-47 (rapper), American rapper from Chicago, Illinois, member of hip hop group Do or Die
  • AK the Savior, American rapper from Brooklyn, New York, member of The Underachievers
  • Arknights, the Chinese mobile game developed by Hypergryph
  • Ajith Kumar, Indian actor, commonly referred to as AK
  • Anil Kapoor, Indian actor, often referred to simply as AK
    • AK vs AK, 2020 Indian film by Vikramaditya Motwane about Kapoor

Businesses and organizations

  • AK Press, a collectively owned and operated independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in radical and anarchist literature
  • AK Steel Holding Company, a US-based S&P 500 (NYSE:AKS) Steel Manufacturer
  • Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the Turkish Justice and Development Party
  • Arbeiterkammer, the Austrian Chamber of Labour
  • Armia Krajowa (Home Army), underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II
  • Ajnad al-Kavkaz, a Chechen-led militia in the Syrian Civil War

Science

  • AK, the herbarium code for Auckland War Memorial Museum
  • Patient AK, a 16-year-old female patient who laughed when her brain was stimulated with electric current during treatment for epilepsy
  • Actinic keratosis, a skin condition
  • Applied kinesiology, a method using manual muscle testing that purportedly gives feedback on the functional status of the body

Places

  • Alaska, a state in the US whose postal abbreviation is "AK"
  • Azad Kashmir, a region of Pakistan.

Transport

  • AirAsia (IATA code AK), a Malaysia-based airline
  • A US Navy hull classification symbol: Dry cargo ship (AK)
  • New Zealand AK class carriage passenger carriages used by KiwiRail on their Great Railway Journeys of New Zealand

Other uses

  • Akan language (ISO 639-1 code alpha-2 ak)
  • Kalashnikov rifle (Avtomat Kalashnikova) an originally Soviet/Russian series of rifles, e.g. AK-47, AKM, AK-74, AK-101, AK-103, etc.
    • AK-47, shortened to "AK"
  • Knight of the Order of Australia, awarded from 1976 to 1986, and 2014 to 2015
  • Aktuaalne kaamera, a TV program of the Eesti Televisioon
  • Armia Krajowa, the primary resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II

See also

  • Ak (disambiguation)

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: AK by Wikipedia (Historical)



 








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