In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [27, 270, 149, 171, 292, 257, 19, 130, 22, 12, 15, 173, 28, 96, 180, 70, 35, 145, 208, 165], k=15
Example Output: 28

Example Input: [163, 251, 187, 53, 156, 212, 145, 230, 76, 266, 82, 85, 99, 43, 29, 273, 101, 96, 35, 189], k=19
Example Output: 35

Example Input: [177, 121, 59, 21, 66, 161, 236, 295, 67, 299, 220, 195, 166, 193, 155, 277, 94, 44, 84, 254], k=5
Example Output:
236

