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Karen (slang)
Karen is pejorative slang for an entitled, demanding middle-aged white woman, stereotyped with a blond bob and demanding to speak to the manager; attested by 2005, it exploded in 2018-2020 via Black Twitter and viral videos like Central Park Karen.
Karen A. Gelmon
Karen A. Gelmon is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinician-scientist known for breast cancer research and clinical trials of new cancer therapies, based at BC Cancer in Vancouver.
Karen Adelman
Karen Adelman is a molecular biologist and Harvard Medical School professor whose lab showed that pausing of RNA polymerase II is a central regulatory step in gene expression.
Karen Aldridge
Karen Aldridge is an American actress from Richmond, California known for Severance (Asal Reghabi), Fargo (Zelmare Roulette), Boss (Dr. Ella Harris), the Broadway Matilda, and Peter Brook tours.
Karen Allen
Karen Allen is an American film and stage actress best known as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with her breakthrough in Animal House (1978).
Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan (1954-1985), also known from In re Quinlan, was the New Jersey woman whose 1976 right-to-refuse-treatment case created the hospital ethics committee model and shaped end-of-life law.
Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, born 1944, is an English author of over 20 books on religion who left a convent after seven years and created the Charter for Compassion.
Karen Artzt
Karen Artzt is an American molecular biologist who genetically mapped the mouse T/t complex and is Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier is an American primatologist and biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for her field study of the critically endangered northern muriqui in Brazil since 1982.
Karen Bakker
Karen Bakker (1971–2023) was a Canadian geographer at the University of British Columbia known for her work on water privatization and the human right to water.
Karen Bass
Karen Ruth Bass (born 1953) is the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles, former California Assembly Speaker and six-term U.S. congresswoman; known for Inside Safe, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and the 2025 fire response.
Karen Berg (Kentucky politician)
Karen Berg is an American politician and Democratic member of the Kentucky Senate from the 26th district who practiced diagnostic radiology for more than 30 years before entering politics.
Karen Black
Karen Black (Karen Blanche Ziegler, 1939-2013), American actress of 1970s New Hollywood cinema; Oscar-nominated for Five Easy Pieces, starred in Nashville, The Great Gatsby, Family Plot, Trilogy of Terror, and House of 1000 Corpses.
Karen Blick
Karen Blick (born 1974, Leeds) is an English actress, not to be confused with Karen Blicker, known as Lydia Dingle (Lydia Hart) in Emmerdale since 2016, with earlier credits in No Angels, Nomads, and Treasure.
Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen (1885-1962), Danish author also published as Isak Dinesen, wrote in English and Danish. Born and died at Rungstedlund; ran a Kenyan coffee farm 1914-1931; broke through with Seven Gothic Tales (1934) and Out of Africa (1937).
Karen Brødsgaard
Karen Brødsgaard, Danish handball pivot born 1978 in Horsens, won Olympic gold with Denmark at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 as captain, played for Viborg HK and Ikast-Bording, and later coached Aalborg DH, Alingsås HK, and Odense Håndbold.
Karen Brownlee
Karen Brownlee is an American politician and Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives representing the 28th district, and a licensed clinical social worker.
Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto is an American urban and land change scientist at Yale who uses satellite remote sensing to measure urban expansion and its effects on croplands and carbon emissions.
Karen Canfell
Karen Canfell is an Australian cancer epidemiologist and University of Sydney professor whose modeling underpinned Australia's 2017 HPV screening shift and the WHO cervical cancer elimination strategy.
Karen Carlson
Karen Carlson (born 1945, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American actress, producer, and director, first runner-up at the 1965 Miss America pageant, known for The Candidate, The Octagon, Dallas, and In the Heat of the Night.
Karen Carney
Karen Carney, also known as Karen Julia Carney, is an English former footballer who played for Birmingham City, Arsenal, and Chelsea and now works as a broadcaster.
Karen Carpenter
Karen Carpenter (1950–1983), American singer and drummer, lead vocalist of the Carpenters duo with brother Richard; hits "Close to You" and "We've Only Just Begun"; died of anorexia-related heart failure.
Karen Carter Peterson
Karen Carter Peterson, born 1969, is a New Orleans lawyer and former Louisiana state senator (District 5, 2010–2022) and first female chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party (2012–2020), disbarred after pleading guilty to wire fraud involving over $140,000 in diverted campaign and party funds for gambling.
Karen Chan
Karen Chan is a computational electrochemist at the Technical University of Denmark known for microkinetic modeling of electrochemical CO2 reduction to carbon monoxide, ethylene, and acetate.
Karen Chen (陈楷雯)
Karen Chen (陈楷雯), born 1999 in Fremont, California, is an American women's singles figure skater, 2017 U.S. champion, two-time Olympian, and Beijing 2022 Olympic team gold medalist awarded after the Valieva doping case.
Karen Cichowski
Karen Cichowski is an American cancer biologist and Harvard Medical School professor of medicine who studies how Ras signaling and the NF1 tumor suppressor drive cancer.
Karen Clark Sheard
Karen Clark Sheard (born Karen Valencia Clark, 1960) is a Detroit gospel singer, youngest member of The Clark Sisters, and four-time Grammy winner whose solo albums include Finally Karen (1997), 2nd Chance (2002), Destined to Win (2015), and Still Karen (2024).
Karen conflict
The Karen conflict is an armed conflict between the Karen National Union and its armed wing and Myanmar's central government, running since 1949 and known as Burma's longest war.
Karen Cook (sociologist)
Karen Cook, born Karen Schweers Cook, is an American sociologist at Stanford University whose experiments established the study of power, equity, and trust in social exchange networks.
Karen David
Karen David (Karen Shenaz David, born 1979, Shillong, India) is an Indian-born English actress-singer raised in Toronto, known for Galavant's Princess Isabella, Grace in Fear the Walking Dead, and the 2003 hit "It's Me (You're Talking To)".