Kathleen (given name)

Literature

• Kathleen Raine, British poet
• Kathleen Winsor, American author
• The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, the second poetry collection of William Butler Yeats
• Joanne Kathleen Rowling, British author
• Kathleen Vereecken, Belgian writer
• Kathleen O'Meara, Irish-French Catholic writer

  Military

• Kathleen Best, director of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
• Kathleen Soliah, member of the Symbionese Liberation Army

  Music

• Kathleen Sergerie, Québécoise pop singer
• Kathleen Battle, American soprano
• Kathleen de Leon Jones, Filipino-Australian singer, dancer, actress and television performer, Hi-5
• Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna, Dominican-American R&B singer
• Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto, after whom the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award is named
• Kathleen Hanna, American musician

  Peeresses

• Kathleen Pelham-Clinton, Duchess of Newcastle, dog breeder
• Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
• Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon, abolitionist
• Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British peer
• Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland
• Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

  Politics

• Kathleen Fleur Anderson, British politician, known as Fleur Anderson
• Kathleen Blanco, former Governor of Louisiana
• Kathleen Brown, Californian politician
• Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania Attorney General convicted of felony perjury
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
• Kathleen Lynch, Irish politician
• Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture of the United States
• Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematician and politician
• Kathleen O'Meara, Irish politician
• Kathleen Sebelius, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Governor of Kansas
• Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario

  Science

• Kathleen Hall Jamieson, American professor of communications
• Kathleen R. Johnson, American paleoclimatologist
• Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist
• Kathleen Lamborn, American biostatistician
• Kathleen Lonsdale, British crystallographer
• Kathleen Madden, American mathematician
• Kathleen I. Pritchard, Canadian oncologist
• Kathleen Treseder, American ecologist

  Sports

• Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
• Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy, Australian wheelchair basketball player

  Television and film

• Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress
• Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates, American actress
• Kathleen Freeman, American character actress
• Kate Hackett, American actress
• Kathleen Harrison, British character actress
• Kathleen Kennedy, movie producer
• Kathleen McDermott, Scottish actress
• Kathleen Noone, American actress
• Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
• Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress
• Kathleen Turner, American film actress, director, and producer
• Kathleen Warner, Trinidadian actress and radio personality, also known as "Aunty Kay"
• Kathy Griffin, American comedian, actress, and television personality
• Kate Walsh, American actress

  Other

• Kathleen O'Toole, police commissioner of Boston, Massachusetts
• Kathleen Salmond, New Zealand artist
• Kathleen Wrasama, Ethiopian-born British community organiser
• Kathleen Zellner, American attorney