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Kate McGarrigle
Kate McGarrigle (1946–2010), Canadian folk singer-songwriter of the duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle with sister Anna; wrote "Talk to Me of Mendocino"; mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright; died of sarcoma in Montreal.
Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold), American comedian and actress, SNL cast member 2012–2022, two-time Emmy winner known for Hillary Clinton and Jeff Sessions impressions, Ghostbusters' Holtzmann, Barbie's Weird Barbie, and the Millicent Quibb book series.
Kate Meyer
Kate Meyer, also known as Kate D. Meyer, is an American RNA biologist and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University known for mapping m6A RNA methylation.
Kate Micucci
Kate Micucci (born 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American actress, comedian, musician, and artist, the Oates half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates with Riki Lindhome. Known for Scrubs, Raising Hope, The Big Bang Theory, and voicing Velma Dinkley and Webby Vanderquack.
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kate Miller-Heidke (born 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and trained soprano known for pop albums Curiouser and O Vertigo!, the opera The Rabbits, Muriel's Wedding the Musical, and Australia's Eurovision 2019 entry Zero Gravity.
Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934–2017), American feminist writer, sculptor, and activist; author of Sexual Politics (1970), the foundational radical feminist analysis of patriarchy, drawn from her Columbia PhD thesis; also known for The Loony-Bin Trip and the Millett Center for the Arts.
Kate Miner (actress)
Kate Miner (born 1984, born Kathrine Banister Johnson, earlier credited Kate Lang Johnson) is an American actress known as Tami Tamietti on Shameless (33 episodes, 2018-2021), and for Persons Unknown, Necessary Roughness, The Campaign, and Fifty Shades of Black; she also plays in the band Miner.
Kate Moss
Kate Moss (born 1974, Croydon) is a British model and founder of the Kate Moss Agency, discovered by Storm's Sarah Doukas in 1988, famous for the 1990s waif look, Calvin Klein Obsession campaigns, and over 30 British Vogue covers.
Kate Mulgrew
Kate Mulgrew (born 1955, Dubuque, Iowa) is an American actress and author, the first woman to lead a Star Trek series as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Voyager (1995-2001), also known as Red on Orange Is the New Black, with memoirs Born With Teeth and How to Forget.
Kate Mulvaney
Kate Mulvaney is an American social scientist at the EPA who studies coastal ecosystems and water quality, and the first EPA social scientist to win the 2025 PECASE award.
Kate Mulvany
Kate Mulvany (born 1978, Geraldton, Western Australia) is an Australian actor, playwright and screenwriter, creator of The Seed, adapter of Medea and Mary Stuart, and star of Hunters, The Twelve and Elvis.
Kate Nash
Kate Nash, English singer-songwriter and actor from Harrow, London, broke through on MySpace in 2007 with the album Made of Bricks and the UK number two single Foundations; later known for Girl Talk, GLOW, industry advocacy, and her Irish-heritage project.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan (Patricia Colleen Nelligan) is a Canadian actress celebrated for her work at the National Theatre in London and her Best Supporting Actress nomination for The Prince of Tides in 1991.
Kate Nelson
Katherine (Kate) S. Nelson is an American human-environment geographer who studies how agricultural landscape diversity affects crop yields, an associate professor at the University of Missouri since 2024.
Kate O'Connor (athlete)
Kate O'Connor (born 2000, Newry) is an Irish heptathlete and pentathlete, Ireland's first Olympic heptathlete (Paris 2024, 14th), 2025 world silver medallist, and 2026 Commonwealth and European champion with an Irish record 6,751 points.
Kate O'Mara
Kate O'Mara (Francesca Meredith Carroll, 1939-2014), English actress of stage, TV, and Hammer horror films; best known as Caress Morrell on Dynasty and as the Rani in Doctor Who.
Kate Orff
Kate Orff is an American landscape architect and founder of the New York firm SCAPE, known for Living Breakwaters off Staten Island and a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.
Kate Pierson
Kate Pierson (born 1948, Weehawken, NJ) is an American singer, keyboardist, and founding co-vocalist of the B-52s, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976; also known for guest vocals on "Candy" and "Shiny Happy People" and solo albums Guitars and Microphones (2015) and Radios & Rainbows (2024).
Kate Quilton
Kate Quilton (Katie Marie Quilton, born 1983) is an English TV presenter and journalist, long-time host of Channel 4's Food Unwrapped (since 2012), Superfoods: The Real Story, and a former Channel 4 multiplatform commissioning editor.
Kate Reinders
Kate Reinders (born 1980, Seattle) is an American Broadway actress and singer: June in Gypsy (2003), Glinda in Wicked (Chicago and Broadway), Portia in Something Rotten!, and Miss Jenn in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
Kate Richardson Walsh
Kate Richardson Walsh, born Kathrin Louise Richardson-Walsh in 1980, is a retired English field hockey defender who captained Great Britain for 13 years and won gold at Rio 2016.
Kate Ritchie
Kate Ritchie (born 1978, Goulburn, NSW) is an Australian actress, radio host and author who played Sally Fletcher on Home and Away 1988–2008, won two Gold Logies, and co-hosts Nova's Kate, Tim and Marty drive show.
Kate Robbins
Kate Robbins (born 1958, Margate) is an English actress, comedian, impressionist, and singer-songwriter; Eurovision 1980 with Prima Donna, No. 2 hit "More Than in Love", Spitting Image voice artist 1986–1996, mother of Emily Atack.
Kate Roberts (author)
Kate Roberts (1891–1985) was a Welsh-language novelist and short-story writer, called 'Queen of Our Literature', best known for the 1936 quarrying novel Feet in Chains.
Kate Russell Woodworth
Kate Russell Woodworth is an American medical epidemiologist and pediatrician known for containing antimicrobial-resistant organisms and for building national surveillance of health threats to pregnant women and infants.
Kate Ryan
Kate Ryan, born Katrien Verbeeck in 1980, is a Belgian dance-pop and eurodance singer who broke through in 2002 with her dance cover of Mylène Farmer's "Désenchantée".
Kate Sanchez
Kate Sanchez is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly from the 71st district, covering Temecula, Murrieta, and Mission Viejo.
Kate Schellenbach
Kate Schellenbach, New York drummer, original Beastie Boys drummer 1981-1984 (Polly Wog Stew, Cooky Puss) and founding drummer of Luscious Jackson; also Indigo Girls, Blondie, Lunachicks.
Kate Schmidt
Kate "The Great" Schmidt (born 1953, Long Beach, California) is an American javelin thrower, two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1972, 1976) and 1977 world record holder at 69.32 m, inducted into the USATF Hall of Fame in 1994.
Kate Schroder
Kate Schroder is an Australian molecular immunologist who heads the Inflammasome Laboratory at the University of Queensland, studying inflammasomes and drugs that switch them off.