DK (or variants) may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''DK'' (film), a 2015 Indian film * Derek "DK" Kitson, a character in the television series ''Third Watch'', played by Derek Kelly * Dark Kingdom (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable * Discovery Kids

Music

* DK (band), a Soviet rock band * DK (singer), South Korean singer and member of Seventeen * Deekay, a music production team *

Danity Kane Danity Kane is an American music group whose most recent line-up consisted of Aubrey O'Day, Dawn Richard, and Shannon Bex. The group originally had five members, but D. Woods, Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett left the group in 2008, and Aundrea Fimbre ...

, an American female music group * Darren Knott, British disc jockey and record producer *

Dave Koz David Stephen Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American saxophonist, composer, record producer, and radio personality based in Los Angeles, California. Early life Dave Koz was born in Encino, California, to Jewish parents: Norman, a dermatologis ...

, American saxophonist *

Dead Kennedys Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978. The band was one of the defining punk bands during its initial eight-year run. Initially consisting of lead guitarist East Bay Ray, bassist Klaus Fl ...

, American punk band

Other media

Diels–Kranz numbering Diels–Kranz (DK) numbering is the standard system for referencing the works of the ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosophers, based on the collection of quotations from and reports of their work, ''Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker'' (''The Fragment ...

, a standard system for referencing the works of the pre-Socratic philosophers *

Donkey Kong (character) often shortened to DK, is a Character (arts), character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. One of the flagship characters of the Japanese video game company Nintendo, he is the star of the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise and also ...

, a video game character *

Diddy Kong is a series of video games published by Nintendo since 1981 and created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong and Mario have both had the roles of protagonist and antagonist in the series. Other characters ha ...

, a video game character * Dixie Kong, a video game character *

DistroKid DistroKid, formerly titled Fandalism, is an American independent Digital music, digital music distribution service, founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Philip Kaplan. DistroKid principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to ...

, an American independent digital music service

Businesses and organizations

DK (publisher) Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of German media cong ...

(Dorling Kindersley), an international book publisher * Democratic Coalition (Hungary), a political party in Hungary * Design School Kolding (Danish: ''Designskolen Kolding'') * Digital Keystone, a technology company in Mountain View, California *

Digital Kitchen Digital Kitchen is a marketing company with offices in Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, and Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1995, the agency is a collective of artists and producers that focus on trans ...

, a creative digital agency with offices in Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles *

Dravidar Kazhagam Dravidar Kazhagam is a social movement founded by E. V. Ramasamy, 'Periyar' E. V. Ramasamy. Its original goals were to eradicate the ills of the existing caste and class system including untouchability and on a grander scale to obtain a "Dra ...

, a political party in India * Eastland Air (1991-2003, IATA airline code DK), an Australian airline * German Banking Industry Committee (German ''Die Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft'') * Sunclass Airlines (IATA airline code DK), a Danish airline * Delek US, NYSE ticker symbol DK, a downstream energy company

People

* DK Metcalf (born 1997), American football wide receiver * Darryl Kile (1968–2002), American professional baseball pitcher *

Donna Karan Donna Karan ( ; born Donna Ivy Faske), also known as DK, is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. Early life and education Karan was born to mother Helen "Queenie" Faske (née Rabinow ...

(born 1948), fashion designer and creator of the DKNY label *

Dinesh Karthik Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik (born 1 June 1985) is a former Indian professional cricketer, coach, and Sports commentator, commentator. Karthik played for the India national cricket team and also captained Tamil Nadu cricket team, Tamil Nadu in ...

(born 1985), Indian cricketer * Keiichi Tsuchiya, known as the Drift King for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport

Places

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

(ISO 3166-2 country code DK, licence plate code DK) ** .dk, the country code top-level Internet domain for Denmark *

Dakshina Kannada Dakshina Kannada district is located in the states and territories of India, state of Karnataka in India, with its headquarters in the coastal city of Mangaluru. The district covers an area nestled in between the Western Ghats to its east and the ...

, a district in Karnataka, India *

Democratic Kampuchea Democratic Kampuchea was the official name of the Cambodian state from 1976 to 1979, under the government of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge's capture of the capital Phno ...

, name of present-day Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 * Dickinson County, Kansas, which uses the county code DK *

Dolný Kubín Dolný Kubín (; also known by #Names, other names) is a town in northern Slovakia in the Žilina Region. It is the historical capital and the largest settlement of the Orava (region), Orava region. Names The name is derived from the archaic Slov ...

, a town in Slovakia and seat of the eponymous

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

which uses the code DK

In science and technology

* Decikelvin (dK), an SI unit of thermodynamic temperature * DK (automobile), a Danish automobile from the early 1950s *

Relative permittivity The relative permittivity (in older texts, dielectric constant) is the permittivity of a material expressed as a ratio with the vacuum permittivity, electric permittivity of a vacuum. A dielectric is an insulating material, and the dielectric co ...

of a dielectric

Other uses

* Team DK, a defunct esports team