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Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de' Medici (Catherine de Médicis), born Florence 1519, died 1589: Italian-born queen of France as wife of Henri II, mother of three kings, and regent for Charles IX; known for her balancing policy between Guises and Huguenots, the Black Legend, her 6,049-letter correspondence, and patronage at Chenonceau.
Catherine Dior
Catherine Dior (1917-2008), French Resistance F2 agent and sister of couturier Christian Dior; arrested July 1944, deported to Ravensbrück, liberated May 1945; namesake of the 1947 Miss Dior perfume.
Catherine Eddowes
Catherine Eddowes (1842–1888) was an English woman murdered in Mitre Square, London, on 30 September 1888, the fourth of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper.
Catherine Flon
Catherine Flon was a Haitian seamstress honored by tradition as the woman who sewed the first blue-and-red Haitian flag at Arcahaie on 18 May 1803, after Jean-Jacques Dessalines tore the white band from the French tricolor.
Catherine G. McLaughlin
Catherine G. McLaughlin is an American health economist, a University of Michigan professor from 1984 to 2013 and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's research program on the uninsured.
Catherine Hanaway
Catherine Hanaway is an American Republican politician and Missouri's 45th Attorney General since 2025, the first woman in the office, previously U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Catherine Henry
Catherine Henry, born 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Pennsylvania since 2024, after 28 years as a public defender.
Catherine Herridge
Catherine Herridge, Canadian-born American investigative journalist, ABC News London, Fox News chief intelligence correspondent 1996-2019, CBS News 2019-2024; known for national security reporting and the Yanping Chen source-contempt case.
Catherine Hershey
Catherine "Kitty" Sweeney Hershey, American philanthropist, wife of Milton S. Hershey (married 1898), co-founder of the Hershey Industrial School (1909, now Milton Hershey School); died March 25, 1915; namesake of Catherine Hall and Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning.
Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard (Katherine Howard), fifth queen consort of Henry VIII, married him in 1540 after the Anne of Cleves annulment; her premarital liaisons with Francis Dereham and suspected affair with Thomas Culpeper led to her beheading for treason on 13 February 1542.
Catherine I of Russia (Екатерина I Алексеевна Михайлова)
Catherine I of Russia (Екатерина I Алексеевна Михайлова), born Marta Skavronskaya (1684–1727), Livonian-born second wife of Peter the Great, reigned 1725–1727 as Russia's first female autocrat, ruling through the Supreme Privy Council under Menshikov's dominance.
Catherine Ingram
Catherine Ingram is an American Democratic politician representing Ohio's 9th Senate district who previously served in the Ohio House and has sponsored education legislation.
Catherine Jagiellon
Catherine Jagiellon, also known as Katarzyna Jagiellonka (1526–1583), was a Polish–Lithuanian princess and Queen of Sweden as the wife of King John III, whom she married in 1562.
Catherine King (Victorian politician)
Catherine King is an Australian Labor politician who has represented Ballarat in Parliament since 2001 and serves as Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.
Catherine Kling
Catherine Kling is an environmental economist who holds the Tisch University Professorship at Cornell University's Dyson School and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Catherine McKenna
Catherine McKenna: Canadian lawyer and Liberal MP for Ottawa Centre (2015–2021), Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change 2015–2019, then Infrastructure; later chaired the UN High-Level Expert Group on net-zero commitments and founded Climate and Nature Solutions.
Catherine Miranda
Catherine Miranda is an American Democratic politician representing District 11 in the Arizona Senate, having previously served in the Arizona House and on the Roosevelt School Board.
Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Alexandria, or Caterina d'Alessandria, is a fourth-century Alexandrian noblewoman and Christian martyr who, according to a legend scholars doubt, defeated fifty philosophers and was beheaded.
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon (Catalina de Aragón, 1485–1536), Spanish-born first queen consort of Henry VIII, formerly wife of Prince Arthur; six pregnancies produced only Mary I; her 1533 annulment triggered the English Reformation and the 1534 Act of Supremacy.
Catherine of Braganza
Catherine of Braganza (Catarina de Bragança, 1638–1705), Portuguese-born queen consort of Charles II from 1662, brought Tangier and Bombay as dowry, remained a Catholic queen dowager, and later served as regent of Portugal.
Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), Italian Dominican tertiary, mystic, and reformer; author of the Dialogo and the largest medieval woman's letter collection; urged Gregory XI's return from Avignon to Rome and backed Urban VI in the 1378 schism; canonized 1461, later a Doctor of the Church.
Catherine of Valois
Catherine of Valois (Catherine de Valois, 1401–1437), French princess, daughter of Charles VI; queen of Henry V of England from the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, later secretly wife of Owen Tudor, grandmother of Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty.
Catherine Pan-Giordano
Catherine Pan-Giordano (潘惜唇) is a partner at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney in New York, where she chairs the U.S.-China Practice and leads cross-border mergers-and-acquisitions work.
Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr (Kateryn Parr, 1512–1548), sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, married 12 July 1543; regent-general in 1544, first English queen to publish in her own name, survived a 1546 heresy plot, died of childbed fever 1548 after marrying Thomas Seymour.
Catherine Pégard
Catherine Pégard, born in 1954, is a French politician and former journalist who became Minister of Culture in 2026, after leading the Palace of Versailles from 2011 to 2024.
Catherine S. Fowler
Catherine S. Fowler, known as Kay Fowler, is an American anthropologist who studied how Northern Paiute and Shoshone peoples lived in the Great Basin, teaching at Nevada, Reno from 1964 to 2007.
Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester
Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657–1717), only child of Sir Charles Sedley, was the Protestant mistress of James II, created Countess of Dorchester in 1686, married Sir David Colyear, Earl of Portmore, and was famed for her caustic wit.
Catherine Share
Catherine "Gypsy" Share, born 1942 in Paris, is a former Manson Family member who served as Manson's chief recruiter, was convicted in the 1970 Barbara Hoyt witness-intimidation plot and the 1971 Hawthorne gun-store robbery, later became a born-again Christian and cult-awareness advocate.
Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby
Catherine Darnley, later Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (ca. 1681–1743), illegitimate daughter of James II and Catherine Sedley; married James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, then John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
Catherine Smith, Baroness Smith of Cluny
Catherine Smith, Baroness Smith of Cluny KC, is a Scottish advocate and Labour life peer serving as HM Advocate General for Scotland since August 2024; formerly a part-time Sheriff, Standing Junior Counsel, and co-founder of the John Smith Centre.