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Kristen Faulkner
Kristen Faulkner (born 1992, Homer, Alaska) is an American cyclist and former venture capitalist who won gold in the road race and team pursuit at Paris 2024, the first US woman with Olympic gold in two disciplines at one Games.
Kristen Fortney
Kristen Fortney is a Canadian-trained computational biologist and co-founder and CEO of BioAge Labs, a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs targeting the biology of human aging since 2015.
Kristen Gilbert
Kristen Gilbert, American former VA nurse at Northampton, Massachusetts; convicted 2001 of murdering four veterans with epinephrine injections; death-penalty jury deadlocked, life sentence.
Kristen Gonzalez
Kristen Gonzalez is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Senate, elected in 2022 to represent the 59th district in northwestern Queens.
Kristen Grauman
Kristen Grauman is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for visual recognition, egocentric perception, and the Ego4D dataset.
Kristen Hager
Kristen Hager, Canadian actress from Red Lake, Ontario; played Nora Sergeant on Syfy's Being Human (2011-2014), Jesse in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Cathy in Wanted (2008), and Leslie Van Houten in Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009); later Dr. Stevie Hammer on Chicago Med; married Matt Jones in 2020.
Kristen Hawkes
Kristen Hawkes is an American anthropologist at the University of Utah, known for the grandmother hypothesis and long-term fieldwork among the Hadza of Tanzania and the Aché of Paraguay.
Kristen J. Tomaszewski
Kristen J. Tomaszewski is a renal pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and known for work on complement detection and the B-HOT gene panel in transplant biopsies.
Kristen Johnston
Kristen Johnston (Kristen Angela Johnston), born 1967 in Washington, D.C., is an American actress, two-time Emmy winner as Sally Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun, author of the memoir Guts, and now star of Netflix's Leanne.
Kristen Juras
Kristen Juras is an American Republican politician and attorney serving as lieutenant governor of Montana, first elected in 2020 alongside Governor Greg Gianforte and re-elected in 2024.
Kristen Kish
Kristen Kish, born Kwon Yung Ran in Seoul, is a Korean-American chef, Top Chef season 10 winner via Last Chance Kitchen, host of Top Chef since season 21, chef-partner of Arlo Grey in Austin, and cookbook author.
Kristen Kit
Kristen Kit is a Canadian rowing coxswain, born in 1988, who won gold in the women's eight at Tokyo 2020 and silver at Paris 2024.
Kristen Ledlow
Kristen Ledlow (born 1988, Atlanta) is an American sports broadcaster known as co-host of NBA TV's Inside Stuff with Grant Hill, TNT sideline reporter, host of #Handles, and podcast co-host with Candace Parker.
Kristen M Lee
Kristen M. Lee is an American neuroscientist who studies how fruit flies build and maintain the neural circuits controlling locomotion, working at HHMI and the University of Oregon.
Kristen Marhaver
Kristen Marhaver is a coral reef biologist at the CARMABI Foundation in Curaçao, known for the first successful breeding of threatened Caribbean pillar coral and larval seeding methods.
Kristen McDonald Rivet
Kristen McDonald Rivet is an American Democratic politician who has represented Michigan's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House since January 2025, after serving in the Michigan State Senate.
Kristen Michal
Kristen Michal, born 1975, in Tallinn, is an Estonian Reform Party politician who has served as Prime Minister of Estonia since July 2024, previously sitting in the Riigikogu from 2016 to 2021.
Kristen Michal's cabinet
Kristen Michal's cabinet, Estonia's 54th government, took office 23 July 2024 under the Reform Party, initially with SDE and Estonia 200; SDE left in March 2025, leaving a 52-seat two-party coalition that survived a failed 2026 no-confidence vote.
Kristen Nuss
Kristen Nuss, American beach volleyball player from New Orleans; LSU alum with 139 wins, NCAA's all-time winningest; 2024 Paris Olympian with Taryn Kloth, later Taryn Brasher.
Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (1926–2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist who, with Ole-Johan Dahl, designed the Simula languages and introduced objects, classes, and inheritance, earning the 2001 Turing Award.
Kristen Pfaff
Kristen Marie Pfaff (1967–1994), American bassist from Amherst, New York, in Minneapolis noise-rock band Janitor Joe and Seattle's Hole; bassist on Live Through This, died June 1994.
Kristen Pleil
Kristen Pleil is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, who studies how sex and stress hormones regulate alcohol use in mice.
Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal is an American voice artist and comedian known for voicing Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers, Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls, and Trixie in the Toy Story films.
Kristen Skjeldal
Kristen Skjeldal (born 1967, Voss) is a Norwegian cross-country skier, two-time Olympic relay gold medalist (1992, 2002) and 2002 30 km bronze medalist, with six Norwegian 50 km titles.
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born 1990, Los Angeles), American actress known as Bella Swan in Twilight, first American César winner for Clouds of Sils Maria, Oscar nominee for Spencer, and director of The Chronology of Water.
Kristen Thorsness
Kristen (Kris) Thorsness, born 1960 in Anchorage, Alaska, is an American rower and lawyer who won gold in the women's eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the first U.S. women's crew to win Olympic gold, and later became a Title IX attorney and CAS arbitrator.
Kristen Welker
Kristen Welker, American TV journalist, 13th moderator of NBC's Meet the Press since September 2023, second woman and first journalist of color in the role; former NBC chief White House correspondent and 2020 final presidential debate moderator.
Kristen Wenz
Kristen Wenz is a demographer serving as Global Lead for Birth Registration and Legal Identity at UNICEF, known for a TED talk on the billion people lacking legal identity.
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig (born 1973, Canandaigua, New York), American comedian and actress, Groundlings improv performer and Saturday Night Live star from 2005; co-wrote and starred in Bridesmaids (2011), later Cheetah in Wonder Woman 1984 and lead of Palm Royale.
Kristen Wilson
Kristen Wilson (born 1969, Chelmsford, Massachusetts) is an American former actress and dancer, known as Lisa Dolittle in the Dr. Dolittle films and Miranda DuBaer in Twitches and Twitches Too.