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Kristin Lehman

Kristin Lehman (born 1972) is a Canadian actress, producer, and TV director from New Westminster, British Columbia. Known for Detective Angie Flynn on Motive, Gwen Eaton on The Killing, Altered Carbon, Midnight Mass, and directing Heartland and When Calls the Heart episodes.

Kristin Linklater

Kristin Linklater (1936–2020), Orkney-born Scottish voice teacher, creator of the Linklater Voice Method and author of Freeing the Natural Voice (1976); taught at NYU, co-founded Shakespeare & Company, and was Columbia professor.

Kristin Myers

Kristin Myers is an American mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who studies how the cervix and uterus remodel during pregnancy, work linked to preterm birth research.

Kristin Nelson

Kristin Nelson (Sharon Kristin Harmon, 1945–2018) was an American actress and painter, wife of Ricky Nelson, regular on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Jean Reed on Adam-12, and an American primitive painter; distinct from Kirsten Nelson of Psych.

Kristin Oil and Gas Field

Kristin is a gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, southwest of Åsgard, operated by Equinor since 2005 from an HPHT reservoir about 4,600 meters deep.

Kristin Otto

Kristin Otto is a German former swimmer who won six gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a record for a woman at a single Games.

Kristin Persson

Kristin A. Persson is a professor of materials science at UC Berkeley and, since 2011, director of the Materials Project, an open database of computed materials properties.

Kristin Poinar

Kristin Poinar is an American glaciologist at the University at Buffalo who models meltwater flow through the Greenland Ice Sheet, combining modeling, fieldwork, and deep learning.

Kristin Scott

Kristin Scott is a neuroscientist and Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley known for characterizing the Gustatory Receptor gene family and how hunger and thirst act on fly taste circuits.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas (born 1960, Redruth, Cornwall) is an English actress with French nationality, a BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee for The English Patient, also Diana Taverner in Slow Horses and director of My Mother's Wedding.

Kristin Topham

Kristin Louise Topham, Canadian swimmer born 1973 in Edmonton, Etobicoke Swim Club; two-time Olympian (1988, 1992) and four-medallist at the 1991 Havana Pan American Games, with two golds.

Kristin V. Tarbell

Kristin V. Tarbell is an American immunologist who led the Immune Tolerance Unit at NIH's NIDDK, studying dendritic cells and regulatory T cells to treat type 1 diabetes.

Kristin Villanueva

Kristin Villanueva (born 1984, Manila) is a Filipina actress, SUNY Purchase BFA graduate, known for Nurse Princess Dela Cruz in HBO Max's The Pitt, the 2026 Actor Award ensemble win, The Courtroom, Viper Club, and First Reformed.

Kristina and Karissa Shannon

Kristina and Karissa Shannon, the Shannon Twins, are identical twin models born 1989 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who were Hugh Hefner's Playboy girlfriends from 2008, Miss July and Miss August 2009, and stars of The Girls Next Door's final season.

Kristina B. Katsaros

Kristina B. Katsaros is a Swedish-born atmospheric scientist known for air-sea interaction research and satellite microwave remote sensing of cyclones, directing NOAA's AOML from 1997 to 2003.

Kristina Bergström

Kristina Bergström is a Swedish chemical engineer who co-founded the Stockholm proteomics company ProteomEdge AB, and earlier co-founded Atlas Antibodies and helped start the Human Protein Atlas project.

Kristina Burow

Kristina Burow is a Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners, where since 2002 she has co-founded biotech companies including Receptos, Vividion Therapeutics, and Neumora Therapeutics, four of which were acquired by major pharmaceutical firms.

Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson

Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson is a Swedish physician-scientist in obstetrics and gynecology, professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2006, known for medical abortion research with mifepristone and misoprostol and for the 2024 PRIMA trial.

Kristina Groves

Kristina Nicole Groves (born 1976, Ottawa) is a Canadian retired long-track speed skater, three-time Olympian and four-time Olympic medalist (three silver, one bronze) at Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010, with 18 World Championship medals and two 1,500 m World Cup titles.

Kristina Kallas

Kristina Kallas, born 1976, in Kiviõli, is an Estonian politician who co-founded Eesti 200 and has served as Minister of Education and Research since 2023.

Kristina Keneally

Kristina Keneally, born in Nevada in 1968, is an Australian politician who served as the 42nd Premier of New South Wales from 2009 to 2011, its first woman premier.

Kristina Knickerbocker

Kristina Knickerbocker is an American politician, Air Force veteran, and oncology nurse practitioner running as the 2026 Democratic nominee against Republican incumbent Mike Turner for Ohio's 10th Congressional District.

Kristina Liutova

Kristina Liutova (born 2010) is a Russian tennis player who won the 2026 WTA Memphis title on her tour debut at 16, reached WTA No. 114, and won W100 ITF titles at Indian Harbour Beach and Sumter.

Kristina Mladenovic

Kristina Mladenovic, also known as Kiki Mladenovic, is a French tennis player and former WTA Doubles World No. 1 with six women's and three mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.

Kristina Mundt

Kristina Mundt (Mundt-Richter), born 1966 in Merseburg, German rower; double Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls for East Germany (Seoul 1988) and Germany (Barcelona 1992), plus 1985 and 1994 world titles.

Kristina Penickova

Kristina Penickova (born 2009) is an American tennis player, identical twin of Annika Penickova; 2025 ITF junior girls' World Champion and year-end junior No. 1, Australian Open girls' finalist.

Kristina Pimenova (Кристина Руслановна Пименова)

Kristina Pimenova is a Russian model and actress who became a famous child model in 2014. She later moved to Los Angeles and focused on acting.

Kristina Rihanoff (Кристина Пшеничных)

Kristina Rihanoff (Кристина Пшеничных, Kristina Pshenichnykh), born 1977 in Vladivostok, is a Russian professional ballroom dancer, choreographer and author, a Strictly Come Dancing professional 2008–2015, Blackpool Top 12 Latin finalist, and founder of Soo Yoga and Bespoke Ballroom in Northampton.

Kristina Roegner

Kristina Roegner is an American Republican politician representing Ohio's 27th Senate district; she chairs the General Government Committee and lost the 2026 primary for Ohio State Treasurer to Jay Edwards.

Kristina Sakers

Kristina Sakers, also published as Kristina Sakers Hays, is an American neuroscientist at HHMI in Durham, North Carolina, known for showing that astrocytes locally make proteins.