Kim Heacox is an American author, photographer, musician, and environmental activist living in Gustavus, Alaska, at the entrance to Glacier Bay National Park. He was born in Lewiston, Idaho and grew up in Spokane, Washington. Heacox is best known for two of his books, The Only Kayak, a memoir, and Jimmy Bluefeather, a novel (2015), both winners of the National Outdoor Book Award, and for his opinion pieces in The Guardian that focus primarily on the climate crisis, global biodiversity loss, and threats to U.S. public lands. His most recent book, On Heaven’s Hill, is a literary novel author Kimi Eisele praised as “the kind of story the planet needs right now.”

Kim Leine Rasmussen is a Danish-Norwegian author who writes about Greenland.

Kim McCosker is an Australian author, responsible for the popular 4 Ingredients series of cookbooks.

Kim Rudolph Mohan was an American author, editor and game designer best known for works related to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

Kim James Newman is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternative fictional versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award.

Kim Paffenroth is an American religious scholar, professor, and contemporary American horror author, best known for his Bram Stoker Award-winning book Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth.

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.

Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.

Kim Seong-Kon, also known as Seong-Kon Kim, is a South Korean academic, literary critic, film critic, columnist, editor and writer.

Kim Seungok is a South Korean novelist and screenwriter.