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Kathy Keeler
Kathy Keeler (Kathryn Elliott Keeler-Parker), American rower born 1956 in Galveston, Texas; stroke of the US women's eight that won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in 2:59.80, the first US women's crew to win Olympic gold; 1982 world silver, later national coach.
Kathy Kinney
Kathy Kinney (born 1954, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actress and comedian, also known as Kathryn Kinney, famous as Mimi Bobeck on The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004), with film roles in Parting Glances, Arachnophobia, and This Boy's Life, and later the children's character Mrs. P.
Kathy Kirby
Kathy Kirby (Kathleen O'Rourke, 1938-2011), English singer, 'Golden Girl of Pop'; hits 'Secret Love' and 'Dance On', UK Eurovision 1965 runner-up with 'I Belong', BBC TV star.
Kathy Kreiner
Kathy Kreiner is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer who won women's giant slalom gold at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, upsetting the favorite Rosi Mittermaier.
Kathy L. Newell
Kathy L. Newell, MD, is a neuropathologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-authored tau filament structures, and leads a $4.8 million TDP-43 research grant.
Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea (Kathleen Alice Mattea, born 1959) is an American country and folk singer from West Virginia known for "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" and "Where've You Been," two Grammys, CMA Female Vocalist wins in 1989 and 1990, the coal-mining album Coal, hosting Mountain Stage, and 2025 Grand Ole Opry induction.
Kathy Mazzarella
Kathy Mazzarella, formally Kathleen M. Mazzarella, is an American executive who has led Graybar Electric as Chairman, President, and CEO since 2012, its first woman leader.
Kathy Najimy
Kathy Najimy (born 1957, San Diego) is an American actress and activist known as Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act, Mary Sanderson in Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2, the voice of Peggy Hill on King of the Hill, and half of the Obie-winning Kathy & Mo Show.
Kathy Pritchard‐Jones
Kathy Pritchard-Jones is a British pediatric oncologist and emeritus professor at UCL, known for research on Wilms' tumour and for leading the International Society of Paediatric Oncology.
Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs (born 1948) is an American forensic anthropologist, UNC Charlotte professor, and creator of the Temperance Brennan novels (Déjà Dead, 1997) and the Virals series; she produced the Fox TV show Bones.
Kathy Rowan
Kathy Rowan, also known as Kathryn M. Rowan, is a British critical care researcher who founded and led ICNARC from 1994 to 2023, known for the ProMISe trial.
Kathy S. Albain
Kathy S. Albain, also published as Kathy Albain, is an American medical oncologist and clinical-trial researcher at Loyola University Chicago, and since 2019 a vice chair of the SWOG Cancer Research Network.
Kathy Sledge
Kathy Sledge (born 1959), American singer and youngest member of Sister Sledge; lead voice of "We Are Family" (1979) and "He's the Greatest Dancer"; solo album Heart (1992); tours as Sister Sledge featuring Kathy Sledge.
Kathy Staff
Kathy Staff, born Minnie Higginbottom (1928-2008), English character actress; Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine 1973-2008 and Doris Luke in Crossroads; distinct from Kathy Bates and Kathy Stobart.
Kathy Valentine
Kathy Valentine, American bassist and songwriter of the Go-Go's, the first all-female band with a No. 1 album; wrote "Vacation" and "Head Over Heels", memoir All I Ever Wanted, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2021.
Kathy Watt
Kathy Watt (Kathryn Anne Watt, born 1964, Warragul, Victoria) is an Australian cyclist, first Australian to win an Olympic road race (Barcelona 1992 gold) plus pursuit silver, with four Commonwealth Games and 24 national titles.
Kathy Xu (徐新)
Kathy Xu (徐新) is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of Capital Today, known as China's "queen of venture capital" for backing JD.com and NetEase.
Kati Horna
Kati Horna, born Katalin Deutsch (1912 to 2000), was a Hungarian-born Mexican photographer who documented the Spanish Civil War for anarchist publications and later worked in Mexico City.
Kati Patang
Kati Patang (कटी पतंग), a Hindi musical drama produced and directed by Shakti Samanta, starring Rajesh Khanna and Asha Parekh, based on Gulshan Nanda's novel, with R.D. Burman music and Parekh's Filmfare Best Actress win.
Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre
Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre is Australia's largest terminal lake, a 9,700 km² usually dry salt pan 15 m below sea level in South Australia, dual named for the Arabana people in 2013 and filled rarely by monsoon floods.
Katia and Marielle Labèque
Katia and Marielle Labèque, French sisters born in Bayonne in 1950 and 1952, are a celebrated two-piano duo whose career began with Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen (1970) and a gold-record Rhapsody in Blue (1980), spanning classical, contemporary, and minimalist repertoire.
Katia and Maurice Krafft
Katia and Maurice Krafft were French volcanologists, a married couple from Alsace who filmed and photographed eruptions at close range and died together on Mount Unzen, Japan, in 1991.
Katia Bertoldi
Katia Bertoldi is an Italian applied mechanician who studies mechanical metamaterials, buckling, and instabilities; she is the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Applied Mechanics at Harvard.
Katia Georgopoulos
Katia Georgopoulos is an American immunologist who identified Ikaros, a master regulator of lymphocyte development, and is Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Katia Itzel García
Katia Itzel García Mendoza, Mexican FIFA referee (badge 2019). First Mexican woman to referee a men's World Cup match (Netherlands vs Tunisia, 2026), first in Liga MX in 20 years, Paris 2024 Olympian, IFFHS sixth-ranked.
Katib al-sirr
Katib al-sirr (كاتب السر) was the head of the sultan's private chancery in the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria, instituted under Sultan Qalawun around 1250 to 1517.
Katib Celebi
Katib Celebi (كاتب چلبی), born Mustafa ibn Abdullah, was an Ottoman scholar and historian of Istanbul who wrote the bibliography Kashf al-zunun and the geography Cihannuma.
Katie Allen
Katie Allen (Kate Ruth Allen), born 1974 in Adelaide, Australian field hockey player with the Canberra Strikers; Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, fifth at Athens 2004, World Champion 1994 and 1998, Champions Trophy winner 1995, 1997, 2003.
Katie Archibald
Katie Archibald is a retired Scottish track cyclist who won Olympic team pursuit gold at Rio 2016 and Madison gold with Laura Kenny at Tokyo 2020.
Katie Aselton
Katie Aselton, born 1978 in Milbridge, Maine, is an American actress and director from mumblecore, known for FX's The League and for directing The Freebie, Black Rock, Mack & Rita, and Magic Hour.