Kate (given name)
Kate is a feminine given name. It is often a short form of Katherine, Caitlin, and other names.
Translations and variations
- Arabic: كيت
- Belarusian: Каця, Кацярына
- Bengali: কেট
- Bulgarian: Кейт, Катя
- Chinese Simplified: 凯特
- Chinese Traditional: 凱特
- Croatian: Katarina, Kata, Katica, Tina, Ina
- Czech: Katka, Kateřina, Kačka, Káťa, Kačenka, Káča, Kačí, Kačena
- Danish: Katja, Trine, Caja, Ina, Kaja, Karen, Karin, Karina
- Dutch: Kato, Cato, Ina, Katinka, Katja, Kaat, Rina, Tina, Trijntje, Karin, Tineke
- English: Kat, Kathi, Kathie, Kathy, Kay, Kit, Kitty, Kae, Kaye, Katey, Katie, Katy, Kayla, Kaety, Katee, Kaylee, Kayleen, Kaylyn, Kaytie
- Estonian: Kaisa, Kati, Keit, Riina, Triinu
- Finnish: Kaija, Kaisa, Kata, Kati, Katri, Riina, Kaarina, Karin
- Georgian: Eka
- German: Cathrin, Catrin, Ina, Käthe, Kathrin, Katinka, Katja, Karen, Karin, Karina
- Greek: Καίτη
- Gujarati: કેટ
- Hawaiian: Kalena
- Hebrew: קייט
- Hindi: केट
- Hungarian: Katalin, Kata, Kati, Katalinka, Kató, Kitti
- Irish: Cáit, Ríona
- Italian: Catia, Katia, Rina
- Japanese: ケイト
- Kannada: ಕೇಟ್
- Korean: 케이트
- Lithuanian: Katrė
- Macedonian: Кејт
- Marathi: केट
- Mongolian: Кейт
- Nepali: केट
- Norwegian: Kari, Katja, Ina, Kaia, Kaja, Karen, Karin, Karina, Karine
- Persian: کیت
- Polish: Kasia, Karina
- Portuguese: Cátia, Kátia
- Punjabi: ਕੇਟ
- Russian: Кейт, Катенька, Катерина, Екатерина, Катя, Катя
- Scottish Gaelic: Ceit
- Serbian: Кata, Katarina
- Slovak: Katka, Katarína
- Slovene: Katica, Katja
- Swedish: Cajsa, Kai, Kajsa, Katja, Carin, Carina, Ina, Kaj, Kaja, Karin, Karina
- Tamil: கேட்
- Telugu: కేట్
- Thai: เคท
- Ukrainian: Катерина
- Urdu: کیٹ
- Welsh: Cadi
- Yiddish: קייט
People
In literature
- Kate Atkinson, English author
- Kate Atkinson Bell, American educator
- Kate Langley Bosher, American novelist from Virginia
- Kate Cann, English journalist and author
- Kate Chopin, American author
- Kate DiCamillo, American children's author
- Kate Elliott, pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen
- Kate Field, American journalist and actress
- Kate Greenaway, English author
- Kate E. Griswold, American editor, publisher, proprietor
- Kate Simpson Hayes, Canadian writer, teacher, milliner, legislative librarian
- Kate McMullan, American author of children's books
- Kate Millett, American feminist writer and activist
- Kate Mosse, English author and broadcaster
- Kate Hevner Mueller, American psychologist and educator
- Kate O'Brien, Irish novelist
- Kate Rushin, an American, Black lesbian poet
- Kate Sanborn, American author, teacher, lecturer
- Kate Seelye, American journalist specializing in coverage of the Middle East
- Kate Brownlee Sherwood, American poet, journalist, translator
- Kate Stone, American diarist
- Kate L. Turabian, American non-fiction writer and educator
- Kate Brew Vaughn, American author
- Kate Vitasek, American author and educator
- Kate Walker, popular British romance writer
- Kate Douglas Wiggin, American educator, author of children's stories
In music
- Kate Alexa, Australian singer
- Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
- Kate Calvin, American academic, first music professor at Montana State College
- Kate Ceberano, Australian jazz singer
- Kate Coppola, one half of American country music duo Kate & Kacey
- Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter and talent show contestant
- Kate Guldbrandsen, Norwegian singer
- Kate Hall, Danish and English singer
- Kate Havnevik, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Kate Maberly, English singer-songwriter and actress
- Kate Markowitz, American singer-songwriter and backup singer
- Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer-songwriter
- Kate Miller-Heidke, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- Moonshine Kate, American country and folk guitarist and banjo player
- Kate Nash, English singer-songwriter
- Kate Pierson, American singer and musician
- Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
- Kate Rusby, English folk singer-songwriter
- Kate Smith, American singer
- Kate Taylor, American singer and songwriter
- Kate Tunstall (known as KT Tunstall), Scottish singer-songwriter
- Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter and actress
- Kate Wolf, American folk singer-songwriter
In sport and athletics
- Kate Achter, American basketball coach
- Katie Allen (field hockey), Australian Olympic field hockey player
- Kate Allen (triathlete), Australian triathlete
- Kate Allenby, British Modern Pentathlete
- Kate Fagan, American sports reporter
- Kate Foster, British Olympic snowboarder
- Kate Gaze, Australian basketball player
- Kate Gillou, French Olympic tennis player
- Kate Hall, American track & field athlete known for long jump and sprint
- Kate Horne, Canadian curler
- Kate Howarth (soccer), American soccer player
- Kate Howey, English judoka
- Kate Hwang, American para athlete
- Kate Jobson, Swedish swimmer
- Kate Kelly (camogie), Wexford camogie player
- Kate Koval Ukrainian basketball player
- Kate Krēsliņa, Latvian basketball player
- Kate Ludik, Mauritian badminton player
- Kate Markgraf, American soccer player
- Kate Martin, American basketball player
- Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe, New Zealand basketball player
- Kate Pace, Canadian alpine skier
- Kate Reed, British long-distance runner
- Kate Reilly, Canadian ice hockey player
- Kate Richardson (gymnast), Canadian artistic gymnast
- Kate Richardson-Walsh, Olympic Medal winning English field hockey player
- Kate Sanderson, Canadian Olympic swimmer
- Kate Shoemaker, American Paralympic equestrian
- Kate Starre, Australian field hockey player
- Kate Wilson-Smith, Australian badminton player
In film, television and stage
- Kate Adie, English television news correspondent
- Kate Arnell, British children's TV presenter
- Kate Atkinson (actress), Australian actress
- Kate Beckinsale, English actress
- Kate Beirness, Canadian television sportscaster
- Kate Bell (Australian actress), Australian actress in film and television
- Kate Bell (British actress), British actress, known for her role in the television series Grange Hill
- Kate Berlant, American comedian and actress
- Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- Kate Bolduan, American journalist and news anchor
- Kate Bosworth, American actress
- Kate Box, Australian actress
- Kate Bristol, American voice actress
- Kate Burton (actress), British-American actress
- Kate Capshaw, American actress
- Kate del Castillo, Mexican actress
- Kate Cayley, Canadian writer and theatre director
- Kate Copstick, Scottish actress and director
- Kate Fleming, American actress
- Kate Garraway, English television and radio presenter
- Kate Gerbeau, English television presenter and newsreader
- Kate Gosselin, American television personality
- Kate Hackett, American actress
- Kate Hall, American television soap opera writer
- Kate Harrington, American actress
- Kate Hennig, Canadian actress and playwright
- Kate Henshaw, Nigerian actress
- Kate Hewlett, Canadian actress
- Kate Horn, Canadian stage actress and director
- Kate Hudson, American actress
- Kate Humble, British television presenter
- Kate Isitt, English actress
- Kate Jackson, American actress
- Catherine Kamau, Kenyan award-winning actress popularly known as “Kate Actress”
- Kate Lawler, English television presenter and Big Brother winner
- Kate Lonergan, English actress
- Kate Lushington, Canadian theatre artist and teacher
- Kate Mara, American actress
- Kate McCartney, Australian comedian, actress, and producer, one of the Kates, with Kate McLennan
- Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian
- Kate McLennan, Australian comedian, actress, and producer
- Kate Micucci, American actress, comedian and musician
- Kate Mulgrew, American actress
- Kate O'Mara, English actress
- Kate Phillips, English actress
- Kate Ritchie, Australian actress and radio personality
- Kate Smith (presenter), Northern Irish journalist and television presenter
- Kate Steinberg, American internet and television personality
- Kate Sullivan, American television show host and anchor
- Kate Thornton, English journalist and television presenter
- Kate Todd, Canadian actress
- Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress
- Kate Valdez, Filipino actress
- Kate Vernon, Canadian actress
- Kate Walsh (actress), American actress
- Kate Walsh (businesswoman), British television presenter
- Kate Winslet, English actress
In politics
- Katie Allen (politician), Australian politician
- Kate Allsop, British politician
- Kate Bell (trade unionist), British trade unionist and Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
- Kate Brandt, first American Chief Sustainability Officer
- Kate Brown, American politician and attorney
- Kate Dearden, British politician
- Kate Foster (diplomat), British diplomat and ambassador
- Kate Gallego, American mayor of Phoenix Arizona
- Kate Hoey, British politician
- Kate Kelly (politician), Idaho state senator
- Kate Kelly (feminist), Washington, D.C. lawyer, and founder of Ordain Women
- Kate Knuth, American Politician in Minnesota
- Kate Middleton, wife of William, Prince of Wales; now Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Kate Nicholl, Northern Irish politician MLA and previous Lord Mayor of Belfast
- Kate O'Beirne, American conservative journalist and political commentator
- Kate Obenshain, American journalist and conservative political commentator
- Kate Osamor, British Labour Party politician
- Käte Selbmann, German teacher and politician
- Käte Strobel, German politician of the Social Democratic Party
- Kate Warner, Australian politician
- Kate Elman Wilcott, Canadian politician
In fashion
- Kate Bartholomew, American hat designer
- Kate Grigorieva, Russian supermodel
- Kate Moss, English supermodel
- Kate Spade, American fashion designer and businesswoman
- Kate Upton, American actress and model
In science
- Kate Allstadt, Geologist, seismologist of Pacific Northwest geologic hazards
- Kate Ervine, Canadian political scientist
- Kate Fenchel, German born Jewish mathematician
- Kate Duval Hughes, American inventor and author
- Kate Hutton American seismologist based in California, nicknamed Earthquake Kate
- Kate Marvel, American climate scientist
- Kate Pickett, British Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York
- Kate Sessions, American botanist, horticulturalist, and landscape architect associated with San Diego
Other
- Kate Allen (Amnesty International), director of Amnesty International UK
- Kate Walker Behan, American club leader and philanthropist
- Kate Bell (businesswoman), British businesswoman
- Big Nose Kate, Hungarian-born prostitute and longtime companion and common-law wife of Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday, born Mary Katherine Horony
- Kate Bisschop-Swift, Dutch painter
- Kate Booth, English Salvationist and evangelist, eldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth
- Kate Burton (aid worker), British aid worker who was kidnapped and released in the Gaza Strip in 2005
- Kate Bushell, English murder victim
- Kate Fay, New Zealand chef and food writer based in Auckland
- Kate M. Fox American lawyer, chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
- Kate M. Gordon, American suffragist
- Kate Hall British museum curator
- Kate Kelly (journalist), American journalist
- Kate Kelly (outlaw), sister of outlaw Ned Kelly
- Kate Kelly (sculptor), American-Hawaiian sculptor
- Kate Manicom, British suffragette and trade unionist
- Kate Nicholas, Dog trainer and talent show contestant
- Kate Perugini, English painter
- Kate Serokolo, South African anti-apartheid activist
- Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist
- Kate Steinitz, artist and scholar known as "the Mama of Dada"
- Kate Stoneman, American suffragist and lawyer
- Kate Tyrrell, Irish sea captain and owner of a shipping company
- Katie Walker, British furniture designer
- Kate Warne, first female detective in the US
Fictional characters
- Kate, a character from the 1989 film All Dogs Go to Heaven
- Kate, a character in 1993 action/martial arts movie Showdown
- Kate, one of the two main characters in the 2022 American comedy movie Sam & Kate
- Kate, a character in the 2023 independent movie Close to You
- Kate, the older sister of the titular character of the Australian children's series, Ferry Boat Fred
- Kate, in Zookeeper film, played by Rosario Dawson
- Kate Austen, on the television series Lost
- Kate Beckett, the main female character on the television show Castle
- Kate Beringer, a character in the Gremlins franchise
- Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), a Marvel Comics character
- Kate Cha, an Image Universe superhero in the comic and television series Invincible
- Kate Connolly from Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races
- Kate Connor, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Kate Denson, from Dead by Daylight
- Kate Denali, from the Twilight series
- Kate Ditchburn, in the television comedy Blackadder II
- Kate Fitzgerald, main character of the novel and film My Sister's Keeper
- Kate Garcia, a character in the 2016 video game The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
- Kate Hewitt, a character in the 2008 Hallmark Channel television movie The Nanny Express
- Katie Holt, from Voltron: Legendary Defender
- Kate Kane, the second Batwoman from DC Comics
- Kate Lockley, on the television show Angel
- Kate Martin matriarch in the TV soap opera All My Children
- Kate McArdle, a divorced travel agent in the American sitcom Kate & Allie played by Susan Saint James
- Kate McReary, in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV
- Kate McCallister, the main character's mother in the Home Alone franchise
- Kate Mitchell, in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Kate Morgan, in the television series 24
- Kate Mosley, main character in Picture Perfect
- Kate Murphy, a character in the comedy film Just Go with It, played by Jennifer Aniston
- Kate Patrick, a character from Hollyoaks
- Kate Ramsay, a character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Kate Read, a character from Arthur
- Kate Roberts, a character in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Kate Sacker, a character from the American television series Billions
- Manhunter (Kate Spencer), a DC Comics heroine
- Katherine "Kate" Summers-Stratton, a character in the American sitcom television series Silver Spoons
- Kate Takenomiya, from Akira Hiramoto's Prison School
- Kate Thompson, a character in the 1980 comedy film The Gods Must Be Crazy
- Kate Tomten, the eldest of the Tomten kids in the children's show Noddy
- Kate Walker, the central character from the video game series Syberia
- Kate Pierce, one of the main characters from The Christmas Chronicles and The Christmas Chronicles 2, played by Darby Camp