Kate (first name)
Kate [ keɪt ] is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Kate is often used as an Anglophone short version for the female given names Catherine , Katharina and similar.
Name bearers
feminism
- Kate Millett (1934-2017), American feminist writer and activist
- Kate Sheppard (1847–1934), New Zealand social reformer and women's rights activist
Actresses
- Kate Beckinsale (born 1973), British actress
- Cate Blanchett (born 1969), Australian actress
- Kate Bosworth (born 1983), American actress
- Kate Capshaw (born 1953), American actress
- Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), American actress (her 'official' nickname was 'Kate')
- Kate Hudson (born 1979), American actress
- Kate Kelton (born 1978), American actress
- Kate Mulgrew (born 1955), American actress
- Mary-Kate Olsen (* 1986) and Ashley Fuller Olsen, American twin actresses and entrepreneurs
- Kate Walsh (* 1967), American actress
- Kate Winslet (born 1975), British actress
literature
- Kate Chopin (1850–1904), American writer
- Kathe Koja (* 1960), American writer
- Kate Thompson (born 1956), British writer
- Kate Thompson (born 1959), Irish actress and writer
- Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018), American writer
music
- Kate Alexa (* 1988), Australian singer
- Kate Bush (* 1958), English singer, pianist and songwriter
- Kate Hall (* 1983), Danish singer
- Kate Havnevik (* 1975), Norwegian singer-songwriter, also known as Kate Kobro known
- Kate Nash (* 1987), English singer, lyricist and composer
- Kate Ryan (* 1980), Belgian singer
- Kate Voegele (* 1986), American singer
- Kate Yanai (* 1956), American singer
- KT Tunstall , actually Kate Victoria Tunstall (* 1975), Scottish singer
Miscellaneous
- Catherine Mountbatten-Windsor, Duchess of Cambridge , formerly Kate Middleton (* 1982), wife of William Mountbatten-Windsor
- Kate Moss (* 1974), British model
- Kate Trauman Steinitz , adopted name in exile of the German artist and librarian Käte Steinitz (1889–1975)