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Kathryn E. Wellen

Kathryn E. Wellen is an American cancer biologist who chairs Cancer Biology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, known for linking cellular metabolism to histone acetylation.

Kathryn Erbe

Kathryn Erbe (Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe), American actress born in Newton, Massachusetts; Steppenwolf ensemble member, 1991 Tony nominee for The Speed of Darkness, and Detective Alexandra Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Kathryn Frazier

Kathryn Frazier is an American music publicist, founder and CEO of the Chicago firm Biz 3, whose clients have included The Weeknd, Daft Punk, and Skrillex.

Kathryn Gallagher

Kathryn Gallagher (born 1993, New York City), American actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Peter Gallagher. Tony-nominated as Bella in Jagged Little Pill; Broadway debut in Deaf West Spring Awakening; starred in All Nighter (2025); TV roles in You and Gossip Girl.

Kathryn Grayson

Kathryn Grayson (Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick, 1922–2010), American coloratura soprano and MGM musical film star of Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, and Kiss Me Kate; later stage and opera performer.

Kathryn H. Vratil

Kathryn Hoefer Vratil, born 1949, is a senior US district judge for Kansas, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992 and chief judge from 2008 to 2014.

Kathryn Hahn

Kathryn Hahn, American actress and comedian born 1973 in Westchester, Illinois; known for Crossing Jordan, Step Brothers, Transparent, Agatha Harkness in WandaVision and Agatha All Along, and The Studio, with four Emmy nominations.

Kathryn Harrold

Kathryn Harrold (Kathryn Hunter Harrold), American former actress born 1950 in Tazewell, Virginia; known for Modern Romance (1981), The Hunter, Raw Deal, I'll Fly Away, The Larry Sanders Show; later a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles.

Kathryn Hays

Kathryn Hays (Kay Piper, 1933–2022), American actress; played Kim Sullivan Hughes on CBS's As the World Turns 1972–2010 (fourth-longest-appearing cast member) and Gem, a mute healing empath, in Star Trek's 1968 episode The Empath.

Kathryn Holt

Kathryn E. Holt is a computational biologist who studies how bacterial pathogens evolve and spread, and has been Professor of Microbial Systems Genomics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 2018.

Kathryn Hunter

Kathryn Hunter (Aikaterini Hadjipateras), British-American actor and director born 1957 in New York; RADA-trained Complicité physical theater star, first British woman to play King Lear, three-time Olivier winner, and the Witches in The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Kathryn J. Jackson

Kathryn J. (Kate) Jackson is an American energy-sector engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who served as chief technology officer of Westinghouse Electric Company and board chair of ISO New England.

Kathryn Janeway

Kathryn Janeway is the fictional Starfleet captain, played by Kate Mulgrew, who leads USS Voyager in Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001), the first Star Trek series with a female lead, later a vice admiral in Star Trek: Prodigy.

Kathryn Joosten

Kathryn Joosten (Kathryn Leona Rausch, 1939–2012), American character actress; two-time Emmy winner as Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives and Mrs. Landingham on The West Wing; former psychiatric nurse who began acting at 42; died of lung cancer.

Kathryn K. Mizelle

Kathryn Kimball Mizelle is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Kathryn Keenan

Kathryn Keenan is an American MRI metrologist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who received a 2019 PECASE for making MRI a quantitative, standards-based measurement tool.

Kathryn Kuhlman

Kathryn Kuhlman, born Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, was an American healing evangelist based in Pittsburgh whose television ministry made her one of the best-known evangelists of her era.

Kathryn M. Edwards

Kathryn M. Edwards is an American pediatric infectious-disease specialist and vaccine researcher at Vanderbilt University whose clinical trials shaped US immunization policy for Hib, influenza, and pertussis.

Kathryn M. Ferguson

Kathryn M. Ferguson is a structural biologist and cancer researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how receptor tyrosine kinases, receptors driving many cancers, switch on and off.

Kathryn Maitland

Kathryn Maitland, also published as Kath Maitland, is a professor of pediatric tropical infectious diseases at Imperial College London, based in Kenya, known for the FEAST trial that changed WHO fluid guidelines.

Kathryn Mayne

Kathryn Mayne is a Canadian-born venture fund-of-funds investor, a managing director at Horsley Bridge Partners in London since 2003, known for backing Israeli venture managers and co-founding Level 20.

Kathryn Meaklim

Kathryn Meaklim (Katheryn Meaklim), South African swimmer born 1989 in Johannesburg, specialist in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley; set the short-course 400 m IM world record (4:22.88, Singapore 2009) and swam at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

Kathryn Moler

Kathryn Moler is a Stanford professor of applied physics known for scanning SQUID microscopy of superconductors and topological materials; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Kathryn Moore

Kathryn J. Moore is a Canadian-born atherosclerosis researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for defining microRNA-33 as a cholesterol regulator and identifying the netrin-1 pathway that traps macrophages in plaques.

Kathryn Morris

Kathryn Morris (born 1969, Cincinnati) is an American actress, not the other Kathryns Morris/Hahn, known for Detective Lilly Rush on CBS's Cold Case (2003–2010), Minority Report, and the family gospel group The Morris Code.

Kathryn Murdoch

Kathryn Murdoch (née Hufschmid), American philanthropist, co-founder and president of the Quadrivium Foundation; wife of James Murdoch; funds climate, journalism, and electoral reform, co-chairs Unite America.

Kathryn Newton

Kathryn Newton (Kathryn Love Newton, born 1997) is an American actress who debuted on All My Children at age 4, played Abigail in Big Little Lies and Allie in The Society, and is known as Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Lisa Frankenstein.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose

Kathryn Pitkin Derose is an American health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who studies immigrants' health care access and community- and faith-based health interventions.

Kathryn Prescott

Kathryn Prescott (born 1991, London) is an English actress, also known as Kat Prescott, who played Emily Fitch in Skins (2009-2013) opposite twin Megan, Carter in Finding Carter, and directs shorts Jane and Gina.

Kathryn Tappen

Kathryn Tappen is an American sports broadcaster, NBC Sports sideline reporter for Big Ten Saturday Night and NHL Network studio host, formerly Notre Dame Football and NHL host, seven Olympic assignments, first all-female U.S. NHL broadcast anchor.