Ekaterina
Ekaterina is a Russian feminine given name, and an alternative transliteration of the Russian Yekaterina. Katya and Katyusha are common diminutive forms of Ekaterina. Its Western counterpart is Catherine (Katherine). Notable people with the name can be found below.
Arts
- Ekaterina Medvedeva, Russian naïve painter
- Ekaterina Sedia, Russian fantasy author
- Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, persona of American drag performer Brian Joseph McCook
Sports
- Yekaterina Abramova, Russian speed skater
- Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian professional tennis player
- Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pairs skater
- Ekaterina Anikeeva, Russian water polo player
- Ekaterina Antropova, Russian-Italian volleyball player
- Ekaterina Bychkova, Russian professional tennis player
- Ekaterina Dafovska, Bulgarian biathlete
- Ekaterina Dzehalevich, Belarusian professional tennis player
- Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
- Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Olympic and World figure skating champion
- Ekaterina Ivanova (biathlete), Belarusian biathlete
- Ekaterina Ivanova (tennis), Bychkova's Russian compatriot and professional tennis player
- Ekaterina Karsten, Belarusian rower
- Yekaterina Khramenkova, Soviet long-distance runner
- Ekaterina Kramarenko, Russian artistic gymnast
- Yekaterina Lobaznyuk, Olympic gymnast who competed for Russia in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney
- Yekaterina Lobysheva, Russian speed skater
- Ekaterina Makarova, Ivanova's Russian compatriot and professional tennis player
- Yekaterina Nesterenko, Russian alpine skier
- Ekaterina Nikolaidou, Greek rower athlete
- Yekaterina Podkopayeva, middle-distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia
- Ekaterina Selezneva, Russian rhythmic gymnast
- Ekaterina Shatnaya, Kazakhstani athlete
- Ekaterina Shliapnikova, Russian canoeist
- Yekaterina Smirnova, Soviet heptathlete
- Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Vasilieva, Russian water polo player
- Ekaterina Vandaryeva, a Russian kickboxer
- Ekaterina Yashina, Russian tennis player
Politics
- Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, called in Russian Yekaterina Velikaya
- Ekaterina Furtseva, first woman to be admitted into the Politburo
- Ekaterina Kalinina, Soviet politician and First Lady of the Soviet Union
- Yekaterina Kuskova, Russian Marxist political figure
- Ekaterina Svanidze, Georgian first wife of Joseph Stalin
- Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, the closest female friend of Empress Catherine the Great
Other fields
- Yekaterina Geltzer, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who danced in the theatre from 1898 to 1935
- Yekaterina Golubeva, Russian actress
- Ekaterina 'Katia' Ivanova, Kazakh-born English model and contestant on Celebrity Big Brother 2010
- Ekaterina Korbut, woman Grandmaster of chess
- Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina
- Ekaterina Peshkova, Russian human rights activist and humanitarian
- Ekaterina Polovnikova-Atalik, Russian-Turkish Grandmaster of chess
- Ekaterina Zelyonaya, Soviet actress and singer of Ukrainian ancestry
Fictional characters
- Yekaterina "Katya" Derevko
- Ekaterina Golovkina, a character in the Life
- Ekaterina Dmitrievna Smokovnikova, The Road to Calvary
- Kate Daniels from the Magic Series by Ilona Andrew's. Kate' real name is Ekaterina, but she always calls herself Kate.
- Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya, a character in Anna Karenina
- Ekaterina 'Kitty' Erzabet Enfield, a character in Spirit Box Radio