Kathryn
Kathryn is a feminine given name and comes from the Greek meaning for 'pure'. It is a variant of Katherine. It may refer to:
In television and film:
- Kathryn Beaumont, English voice actress and school teacher best known for her Disney animation film works
- Kathryn Bernardo, Filipina actress and recording artist
- Kathryn Bigelow, American film director, first woman to win the Academy Award, BAFTA, and DGA award for Best Director
- Kathryn Busby, American television and film executive
- Kathryn Cressida also known as "Kat" Cressida, American voice actress
- Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer who performed her most memorable roles under her birth-name Kathryn Grant
- Kathryn Drysdale, English actress
- Kathryn Eames, American screen, stage, and television actress
- Kathryn Erbe, American actress best known for her lead role as Detective Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Kathryn Grayson, American lead actress and operatic soprano singer with MGM and Warner Brothers
- Kathryn Hahn, American actress best known for her role as Lily Lebowski on Crossing Jordan
- Kathryn Hess, American mathematician
- Kathryn Joosten, American actress known for roles on The West Wing and Desperate Housewives
- Kathryn Kinley, American television personality, journalist and musical theater actress
- Kathryn McGuire, American silent-film actress and dancer
- Kathryn Morris, American actress best known for her lead role as Detective Lilly Rush on Cold Case
- Kathryn Leigh Scott, American television and film actress known for her roles in the soap opera Dark Shadows
- Kathryn P. Hire, American astronaut with over 381 hours in space
- Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, in 1984 became the first American woman to walk in space, and with 532 hours in space
- Kathryn C. Thornton, American astronaut with over 975 hours in space
- Kathryn Calder, Canadian singer-songwriter and member of The New Pornographers
- Kathryn Dawn Lang , Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
- Kathryn Roberts, English folk singer
- Kathryn Scott, a singer-songwriter of Contemporary Christian music Northern Ireland
- Kathryn Tickell,, English player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle
- Kathryn Deans, Australian children's fantasy author
- Kathryn H. Kidd, Orson Scott Card's co-author in writing a novel named Lovelock
- Kathryn Hulme, American author best known for The Nun's Story
- Kathryn Schulz, American freelance writer and journalist
- Kathryn Stockett, American novelist
- Kathryn Tucker Windham, American storyteller, author, photographer and journalist
- Kathryn I. Bowers, American politician and Democratic former member of the Tennessee Senate representing the 33rd district
- Kathryn Garcia, Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department
- Kathryn E. Granahan née O'Hay, American Democratic U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 32nd Treasurer of the United States
- Kathryn Hay, Tasmanian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Bass
- Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy née O'Loughlin, American Democratic politician and first female U.S. Representative from Kansas
- Kathryn Stone, British politician
- Kathryn H. Stone, American politician from Virginia
- Kathryn Ainsworth, Australian netballer
- Kathryn Binns later became Kathryn Davis, English long-distance runner of marathons and half marathon events
- Kathryn Colin "Kathy" Colin, American Olympic contender and Pan American Games medalist in canoeing
- Kathryn Sandercock, American softball player
- Kathryn Teasdale, Canadian auto racing driver
- Kathryn Westbeld, American basketball player
- Kathryn Janeway, fictional Federation starship captain of the USS Voyager in Star Trek: Voyager and admiral in Star Trek: Nemesis
- Kathryn Howard
- Kathryn Mann, mathematician
- Kathryn S. McKinley, American computer scientist
- Kathryn Morgan, American ballet dancer
- Kathryn Parsons, British tech entrepreneur
- Kathryn Shaw, Canadian theatre actor and director
- Shooting of Kathryn Steinle, a 2015 incident in San Francisco carried out by illegal immigrant Jose Inez Garcia Zarate