Kathy

Not to be confused with Kathie, Kathi, Cathie, or Cathy (given name).

Not to be confused with Katie, Katy, Kati, or Cati.

This article is about the given name. For storms named Kathy, see Cyclone Kathy, Typhoon Kathy, and List of storms named Kathy. For the film, see Kathy (film).

Kathy is a feminine given name. It is often short for other names.

Kathy may refer to:

People

In sports

• Kathy Bald (Born 1963), Canadian freestyle swimmer
• Kathy Fedorjaka (born 1968), American basketball coach
• Kathy May (Born 1956), American tennis player
• Kathy Radzuweit (Born 1980), German volleyball player
• Kathy Smallwood-Cook (Born 1960), British Olympic athlete
• Kathy Sheehy (Born 1970), American water polo player
• Kathy Tough (Born 1969), Canadian volleyball player
• Kathy Watt (Born 1964), Australian female cycle racer
• Kathy Weston (Born 1958), American middle distance runner
• Kathy Foster (basketball) (Born 1960), Australian basketball player

In television and film

• Kathy Bates (Born 1948), American actress and director
• Kathy Burke (Born 1964), British actress
• Kathy Chow (1966–2023), Hong Kong actress and singer
• Kathy Garver, American television, stage, screen, and voice actress
• Kathy Greenwood (Born 1962), Canadian comedian and actress
• Kathy Griffin (Born 1960), American stand-up comedian
  • Kathy (TV series), a talk show hosted by Griffin
• Kathy Hilton (Born 1959), American actress, celebrity and socialite
• Kathy Long (Born 1964), American actress, kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter
• Kathy Najimy (born 1957), American actress, comedian, director, writer, producer and activist
• Kathy Staff (1928–2008), British actress born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
• Kathy Yuen, better known as Tong Yee, actress from Hong Kong

In music

• Kathy Foster (musician), American musician
• Kathy Kirby (1938–2011), British singer
• Kathy Leander (Born 1963), Swiss singer
• Kathy Linden (Born 1938), American pop singer
• Kathy Mattea (Born 1959), American country singer
• Kathy Valentine (Born 1959), American bassist for the all-girl pop band The Go-Gos
• Kathy Young (Born 1945), American pop singer

In politics

• Kathy Cox (born 1964), American politician
• Kathy Desjardin, American politician
• Kathy Hochul (born 1958), American politician
• Kathy Shaw, American politician
• Kathy Stanton (active since 2000), Sinn Féin Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly in North Belfast
• Kathy Sullivan (Australian politician) (born 1942), Australian politician
• Kathy Watanabe, American elected official of Santa Clara
• Kathy Whitmire (born 1946), American politician
• Kathy Wolfe Moore (born 1957), American politician
• Ahmed Kathrada (1929–2017), South African politician

In literature

• Kathy Acker, American sex-positive feminist writer
• Kathy Evans (1948–2003), English journalist and women's right activist
• Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, poet from Marshall Islands
• Kathy Lette, (born 11 November 1958), British author
• Kathy Shaidle, Canadian author, columnist, poet and blogger
• Kathy Stinson, Canadian children's writer
• Kathy Tyers, American author
• Kathy Sierra, author of Head First programming tutorial series, blogger, and game developer

In other fields

• Kathy Bonney (died 1987), American murder victim
• Kathy Butterly (born 1963), American sculptor
• Kathy Ireland (born 1963), American model
• Kathy Rudy (born 1956), American women's studies scholar and theologian
• Kathy Slade (born 1966), Canadian artist
• Kathy Vivas (born 1972), Venezuelan astrophysicist

Fictional characters

• Kathy Anderson, a character in the popular American TV and radio sitcom Father Knows Best
• Kathy Barnes, a character in the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks
• Kathy Beale, a character in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Kathy Carter, a character in the 1959–1964 Marvel comic book Kathy
• Kathy Reilly, a character in the 2019 Millarworld comic series Chrononauts: Futureshock
• Kathy Seldon, a character in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain
• Kathy, a character from Barney & Friends played by Lauren King
• Kathy, a character in TV sitcom Friends, played by Paget Brewster

Songs about Kathy

• Kathy's Song by Paul Simon
• "Kathy's Waltz" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet from the album Time Out
• "Kathy with a K's Song" by Bright Eyes from the album Oh Holy Fools

See also

• Catherina (and similar spellings)
• Käthy (horse)