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Katharine Tibbetts
Katharine Moore Tibbetts is an American chemist and Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University whose research combines ultrafast laser spectroscopy of molecules with pulsed laser synthesis of nanomaterials; she received a PECASE award in 2019.
Katharine Venable Cashman
Katharine Venable Cashman is an American volcanologist, born 1954, known for her 2017 Science review proposing that magma is stored in vertically extensive systems spanning the whole crust.
Katharine Viner
Katharine Viner (born 1971) is a British journalist and, since June 2015, the first female editor-in-chief of the Guardian, its 12th editor; formerly deputy editor, launcher of Guardian Australia, and editor of Guardian US.
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
Katharine, Duchess of Kent (Katharine Worsley, 1933-2025), wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent; converted to Catholicism in 1994, renounced her HRH style in 2002, taught music anonymously in Hull, and founded Future Talent.
Katharine, Lady Brooke
Katharine, Lady Brooke (nee Hussey) is a British courtier, one of Queen Camilla's six Queen's Companions appointed in 2022, daughter of Lady Susan Hussey, and a coronation attendee in 2023.
Kathasaritsagara
Kathasaritsagara (कथासरित्सागर, "Ocean of the Streams of Story") is a Sanskrit story-collection of over 350 tales compiled by the poet Somadeva in Kashmir around 1070 for Queen Suryavati's amusement.
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German printmaker and sculptor of working-class suffering and war grief; creator of A Weavers' Revolt, Peasants' War, and the War cycle; first woman professor of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
Kathe Krauss
Käthe Krauss (Katharina Anna Krauß, 1906-1970), German sprinter; 100 m bronze at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1938 European relay champion, 10 world records, 15 German titles.
Katherina Reiche
Katherina Reiche, born 1973, is a German CDU politician serving as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy since 2025, after a career in the energy industry.
Katherine
Katherine, a feminine given name from Greek Aikaterine, common in England since the 12th century; US SSA data shows 652,750 births since 1880, a 1990 peak, and rank #186 in 2025.
Katherine A. Crytzer
Katherine A. Crytzer, born 1984, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed in December 2020.
Katherine A. Gallagher
Katherine Ann Gallagher is a vascular surgeon-scientist at the University of Michigan who studies why wounds fail to heal in diabetes, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
Katherine A. Hajjar
Katherine A. Hajjar is an American pediatric hematologist and vascular biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for identifying annexin A2 as the receptor that initiates fibrinolysis.
Katherine A. High
Katherine A. High (Katherine Ann High) is an American physician-scientist who established AAV gene therapy for hemophilia and inherited blindness, and co-founded Spark Therapeutics, which brought Luxturna to market.
Katherine A. Siminovitch
Katherine A. Siminovitch, also known as Katherine Siminovitch, is a Canadian rheumatologist at the University of Toronto who identified over 100 gene variants contributing to autoimmune disease risk.
Katherine Allstadt
Katherine (Kate) Allstadt is an American research geophysicist with the USGS Landslide Hazards Program in Golden, Colorado, known for using seismic recordings to study landslides, debris flows, and lahars.
Katherine Ann Lefebvre
Katherine Ann Lefebvre, known as Kathi, is a Supervisory Research Biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center who studies harmful algal bloom toxins and received a PECASE award.
Katherine Anna Kang
Katherine Anna Kang, American game designer and producer, id Software business development director, founder of Fountainhead Entertainment, producer of Doom RPG, Orcs & Elves, Wolfenstein RPG, Doom II RPG; former wife of John Carmack.
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter (Callie Russell Porter, 1890–1980), American short-story writer and journalist, author of "Flowering Judas," "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," "Noon Wine," and the only novel Ship of Fools (1962); Pulitzer and National Book Award winner, Texas-born modernist.
Katherine Baicker
Katherine Baicker is an American health economist who serves as the 15th Provost of the University of Chicago and is known for the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized evaluation of Medicaid.
Katherine Barrell
Katherine (Kat) Barrell, born 1990, is a Canadian actress, director, and producer known for Officer Nicole Haught on Wynonna Earp, Alicia Rutherford on Workin' Moms, Joy Harper on Good Witch, and directing Flipping for Christmas and Clickbait: Unfollowed.
Katherine Clark
Katherine Clark (born 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 5th District since 2013 and House Democratic Whip since 2023, the second woman to serve as Whip and the highest-ranking woman in Congress.
Katherine de Kleer
Katherine de Kleer is a planetary scientist and professor at Caltech who studies volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io; she received the 2024 Harold C. Urey Prize.
Katherine DeMille
Katherine DeMille (Katherine Lester), 1911–1995, Canadian-born American actress, adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille and first wife of Anthony Quinn; films include Viva Villa!, The Crusades, Unconquered, and The Judge.
Katherine Dow Blyton
Katherine Dow Blyton, English actress born 1964 in Jarrow, best known as Harriet Finch in Emmerdale (2013-2022), also Sally Hunter in Hollyoaks and four Coronation Street characters.
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006), American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist, founded the first self-supporting Black modern dance company, created the Dunham Technique from Caribbean fieldwork, and toured 57 countries.
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn (1945–2016), American Portland novelist and boxing journalist, author of Geek Love (1989), a National Book Award finalist about a carnival family that engineers its own freak-show children; also wrote Attic, Truck, and posthumous Toad.
Katherine Esau
Katherine Esau (1898–1997) was an American botanist, a leading twentieth-century plant anatomist known for the textbook Plant Anatomy and decades of research on phloem, the tissue transporting food in plants.
Katherine Fitzgerald
Katherine A. Fitzgerald is an Irish-born immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School whose research defines how the innate immune system detects pathogens and regulates inflammation.
Katherine Freese
Katherine Freese is an American theoretical cosmologist and astroparticle physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for natural inflation, dark matter detection, and the book The Cosmic Cocktail.