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Kristina Saltanovic
Kristina Saltanovič (born 1975, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian race walker who competed in four Olympic 20 km walks (2000-2012), won 2009 European Cup bronze, and later became a World Athletics judge.
Kristina Schoonjans
Kristina Schoonjans is a metabolism researcher and Associate Professor at EPFL in Switzerland, known for discovering that bile acids increase energy metabolism by activating the TGR5 receptor.
Kristina Smigun Vahi
Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian cross-country skier born 1977 in Tartu, won two Olympic golds at Turin 2006 and silver at Vancouver 2010, plus six World Championship medals, and later served in the Riigikogu.
Kristina Sundquist
Kristina Sundquist is a Swedish professor of family medicine and clinical epidemiology at Lund University, known for nationwide register studies of social environment and chronic disease.
Kristina Teixeira
Kristina Teixeira, or Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, is a forest ecosystem ecologist who leads the ForestGEO Ecosystems & Climate Program at the Smithsonian and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Kristina Tkach (Кристина Олеговна Ткач)
Kristina Tkach (Кристина Ткач), born 1999, is a Russian professional pool player based in Washington, D.C.; 2024 WPA Women's World 10-Ball champion, 2017 junior world champion, seven-time EuroTour winner.
Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel, born 1990 in Leninskoye, Kyrgyzstan, is a German track cyclist, two-time Olympic champion and record-equaling 11-time world champion, paralyzed from a 2018 Cottbus training crash.
Kristina Wayborn
Kristina Wayborn, born Britt-Inger Johansson (1950, Nybro, Sweden), is a Swedish actress and former Miss Sweden known as Magda in Octopussy (1983) and for US TV guest roles.
Kristine Andersen
Kristine Andersen (Kristine Frøsig-Andersen), Danish handball player born 1976 in Aalborg; Ikast-Bording and Bayer 04 Leverkusen player; 2004 Olympic gold with Denmark, 1996 non-starter, 1998 European Championship squad.
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud is an American general internist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA who studies fractures, falls, and frailty in older adults.
Kristine Froseth
Kristine Froseth (Frøseth), Norwegian-American actress and model born in Summit, New Jersey; scouted in Oslo at 16, known for Looking for Alaska, The Society, and The Buccaneers.
Kristine G. Baker
Kristine Gerhard Baker, born 1971, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas since 2012 and its chief judge since 2023.
Kristine Hermosa
Kristine Hermosa (Anne Kirsten Esmeralde Hermosa Orille), Filipina actress born 1983, starred as Yna in Pangako Sa 'Yo, the first teleserye, led EchoTin with Jericho Rosales, played Faye in Enteng Kabisote films, and married Oyo Boy Sotto in 2011.
Kristine Kochanski
Kristine Kochanski is the Red Dwarf navigation officer and Dave Lister's lost love in Red Dwarf, played by Clare Grogan (Series I, II, VI) and by Chloë Annett (Series VII onward) as a parallel-universe version who joins the regular cast.
Kristine Kuhn
Kristine Kuhn is an American rheumatologist who heads the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and received a 2025 PECASE award.
Kristine Lilly
Kristine Lilly, born 1971, American soccer midfielder-forward, "Queen of Caps"; world-record 354 USWNT caps (1987-2010), 130 goals, five World Cups with 1991 and 1999 titles, Olympic gold 1996 and 2004.
Kristine Lunde Borgersen
Kristine Lunde-Borgersen, nicknamed Kikki, Norwegian centre back born 1980 in Kristiansand, twin sister of Katrine Lunde; two Olympic golds (2008, 2012), 2011 world title, three European titles, 181 caps, later Norway U18 coach.
Kristine Norelius
Kristine Lee Norelius, American rower (born 1956, Seattle), gold medalist in the women's eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (2:59.80) and three-time world championship silver medalist (1981-1983); 1980 boycotted US Olympic team member.
Kristine Quance
Kristine Quance (Quance-Julian), born 1975 in Northridge, California, American swimmer; 1996 Olympic gold in 4x100 m medley relay heats, nine-time NCAA champion at USC, later Rose Bowl Aquatics and UCLA coach.
Kristine Roug
Kristine Roug, now Cristine Storm Lassen, Danish sailor born 1975 in Hørsholm; won Europe class gold at the 1996 Savannah Olympics, first Danish woman Olympic gold since 1948, and retired after placing 10th at Sydney 2000.
Kristine Sutherland
Kristine Sutherland (born 1955, Boise, Idaho; birth name Kristine Young) is an American actress known as Joyce Summers in 58 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2002) and as Mae Thompson in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989); married to John Pankow since 1986.
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe is an American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who studies cognitive aging and dementia at UCSF and the San Francisco VA, estimating 30%–40% of dementia risk may be preventable.
Kristinia DeBarge
Kristinia DeBarge, born 1990 in Pasadena, California, is an American pop-R&B singer and actress, daughter of James DeBarge of the group DeBarge. Her 2009 single "Goodbye" hit No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and her debut album Exposed was released on Babyface's Soda Pop label.
Kristiyan Balov
Kristiyan Balov (Кристиян Балов, born 2006, Sofia) is a Bulgarian left winger who rose through Slavia Sofia, debuted for Bulgaria in March 2026, and joined Crvena zvezda in June 2026 on a four-year contract.
Kristjan Palusalu
Kristjan Palusalu (born Trossmann, 1908–1987), Estonian heavyweight wrestler; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold in both Greco-Roman and freestyle (>87 kg), the only heavyweight to do so at one Games; 1937 European champion.
Kristján R. Jessen
Kristján R. Jessen, also published as Kristjan R. Jessen, is an Emeritus Professor at University College London known for landmark work on Schwann cells and enteric glia.
Kristmann Guðmundsson
Kristmann Guðmundsson (1901–1983) was an Icelandic novelist and poet who lived in Norway from 1924 to 1938, wrote more than thirty novels, and became the second most translated Icelandic author after Halldór Laxness.
Kristo Käärmann
Kristo Käärmann is an Estonian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company TransferWise in London in 2011 and serves as chief executive of its successor, Wise.
Kristóf Milák
Kristóf Milák, Hungarian swimmer, 200m butterfly world record holder (1:50.34), double Olympic champion (Tokyo 2020 200 fly, Paris 2024 100 fly), who broke Michael Phelps' 2019 record.
Kristof Rasovszky
Kristóf Rasovszky, Hungarian open water swimmer, the Balaton Shark; Olympic 10km gold Paris 2024 (1:50:52.7), silver Tokyo 2020; world 5km champion 2019 and 10km champion 2024.