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
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
- Cargo ships (US Navy hull classification symbol 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