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Karen Davis (health economist)
Karen Davis is an American health economist, professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former president of The Commonwealth Fund.
Karen Dotrice
Karen Dotrice (born 1955, Guernsey) is a British actress, Disney Legend 2004, known as Jane Banks in Mary Poppins (1964), also The Three Lives of Thomasina, The Gnome-Mobile, and a Mary Poppins Returns cameo.
Karen Duff
Karen Duff is a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies who directs the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and created key transgenic mouse models.
Karen Duffy
Karen Duffy (born 1962, New York City), American actress and TV personality known as MTV VJ "Duff"; roles in Blank Check, Dumb & Dumber, Fantastic Mr. Fox; author on neurosarcoidosis.
Karen E. Joynt Maddox
Karen E. Joynt Maddox is an American cardiologist and health services researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, known for large-scale evaluations of Medicare's Bundled Payments programs.
Karen E. Schreier
Karen E. Schreier, born in 1956, is a US district judge in South Dakota appointed by President Clinton in 1999 and chief judge from 2006 to 2013.
Karen Ellen Smith
Karen Ellen Smith (born 1965) is an American mathematician, a University of Michigan professor known for applying characteristic p techniques to algebraic geometry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Karen Elson
Karen Elson, born Karen Jill Elson in 1979, is an English model and singer-songwriter from Oldham who rose to fame on the 1997 Vogue Italia cover and has released three albums.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, American criminal defense lawyer and former Manhattan Chief Assistant District Attorney (2014-2021), now Of Counsel at Agnifilo Intrater LLP and lead defense counsel for Luigi Mangione.
Karen Friedman Hill
Karen Friedman Hill (born 1946), ex-wife of Lucchese associate Henry Hill of Wiseguy and Goodfellas fame; married him in 1965, entered witness protection in 1980, divorced 2002, portrayed by Lorraine Bracco, lives under an alias.
Karen Fukuhara
Karen Fukuhara (born 1992, Los Angeles) is a Japanese American actress known as Katana in Suicide Squad (2016) and Kimiko Miyashiro in The Boys, plus voice roles as Glimmer in She-Ra, Kipo, Haru in Pokémon Concierge, and Lady Himi in The Boy and the Heron.
Karen G. Lloyd
Karen G. Lloyd is an American microbial biogeochemist who studies bacteria and archaea deep beneath Earth's surface, and since 2024 a professor at the University of Southern California.
Karen G. Scholer
Karen G. Scholer, also known as Karen Gren Scholer, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas since 2018.
Karen Gillan
Karen Gillan (born 1987, Inverness, Scotland) is a Scottish actress and director known as Amy Pond in Doctor Who, Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy, and Ruby Roundhouse in Jumanji; her directing debut is The Party's Just Beginning.
Karen Gonzalez Pittman
Karen Gonzalez Pittman is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 65th district, known for passing the Teachers' Bill of Rights.
Karen Grassle
Karen Grassle (born 1942, Berkeley, California) is an American actress, also known as Gabriel Tree, who played Caroline "Ma" Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie (1974–1982), co-wrote the TV film Battered, and wrote the 2021 memoir Bright Lights, Prairie Dust.
Karen H. Antman
Karen H. Antman is an American oncologist and hematologist known for the MAID regimen for advanced sarcoma, who served as Dean of Boston University's medical school from 2005 to 2024.
Karen H. Lu
Karen H. Lu is an American gynecologic oncologist and physician in chief at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, known for research on hereditary ovarian and endometrial cancers.
Karen H. Vousden
Karen H. Vousden is a British cancer researcher known for her work on the p53 tumor suppressor and MDM2, and director of the CRUK Beatson Institute in Glasgow.
Karen Handel
Karen Handel is an American Republican politician from Georgia, Secretary of State from 2007 to 2009, who won Georgia's 6th District House seat in the expensive 2017 special election.
Karen Hauer
Karen Hauer (born 1982), Venezuelan-American Latin dancer, World Mambo Champion 2008, longest-serving female pro on Strictly Come Dancing 2012-2025; also Burn the Floor, Firedance tours, Hauer Power fitness, and Stepping Out in 2026.
Karen Hazen
Karen Hazen, American distance freestyle swimmer of the 1970s; held the US 1500 m freestyle record (16:49.41, June 30, 1974, Santa Clara) and the 1,650-yard AAU record (16:28.37); sister of Lisa Hazen.
Karen Hibbard
Karen Hibbard is a Drosophila neuroscientist and Research Specialist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for building genome-scale RNAi resources and studying how learned odors steer flies.
Karen Hoff
Karen Hoff (29 May 1921 – 29 February 2000), Danish sprint canoeist, first female Olympic canoeing champion, winning the K-1 500 m at London 1948 in 2:31.9; also 1948 world K-2 gold and 1950 world K-1 silver.
Karen Horney
Karen Horney (1885–1952), German-American psychoanalyst and neo-Freudian, founder of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis; theorist of basic anxiety, the three neurotic trends (moving toward, against, away), and womb envy.
Karen Hsiao
Karen Hsiao, also known as Karen Hsiao Ashe, is a neuroscientist and physician at the University of Minnesota who created the Tg2576 transgenic mouse, a widely used Alzheimer's disease model.
Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes (born 1956, Paris) is an American communications strategist, counselor to President George W. Bush until 2002, and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2005 to 2007.
Karen I. Goldberg
Karen I. Goldberg is an inorganic chemist, the Vagelos Professor of Energy Research at the University of Pennsylvania since 2017, known for C–H activation and catalysis.
Karen I. Winey
Karen I. Winey is an American materials scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, the Harold Pender Professor, known for carbon-nanotube polymer composites and proton-conducting polymers.
Karen Jane Burg
Karen Jane Burg is an American bioengineer known for breast tissue engineering for cancer patients and 3D cell-culture systems; she won the 2001 PECASE award at Clemson University.