Catherine

For other uses, see Catherine (disambiguation).

Catherine
Pronunciation	Kah-th-ehr-in
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	directly from French, and ultimately from Greek
Meaning	From the Greek Αἰκατερίνη Aikaterínē of debated meaning, possibly from ἑκάτερος (hekáteros, “each of the two”)
Region of origin	Throughout English-speaking world
Other names
Nickname(s)	Cat, Cath, Cathy, Cati, Cate, Kitty, Kat, Katrin
Related names	Katherine, Katheryn, Kathryn, Katharyn, Katherin, Katharine, Katheryne, Katrin, Katarzyna, Catharine, Cathryn, Cathrin, Catherin, Catalina, Caterina, Kaitlen

Catherine is a feminine given name. For the history of the name Catherine, see Katherine. The nicknames include Catie, Caty, Cate, Cathy, Cat, Kitty, Erin, and others.

Notable people with the given name include:

Nobility

• Catherine of Aragon (Queen of England and first wife of King Henry VIII)
• Catherine of Portugal (Queen of Great Britain, wife of Charles II)
• Catherine Howard (Queen of England and fifth wife of King Henry VIII).
• Catherine I of Navarre (Queen of the Navarre from 1483 to 1517)
• Catherine I of Russia (Empress of Russia)
• Catherine II of Russia, more commonly known as Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia)
• Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (known before marriage as Kate Middleton)

Literature

• Catherine Ames from East of Eden
• Catherine Barkley from A Farewell to Arms
• Catherine Crawfield or Kitten, from Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress
• Catherine or Kitty, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
• Catherine Earnshaw from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
• Catherine from Roger O. Hirson's Pippin
• Catherine Mckenna from Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes
• Catherine Sloper, the protagonist in Henry James' Washington Square
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

Music

• Catherine, metalcore band
• Katerine, French musician
• Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, better known as Katy Perry, singer
• Katharine McPhee (born 1984), singer

Movies, television, and video games

• Catherine Bell (born 1968), American actress
• Catherine "Kate" Bosworth (born 1983), American actress
• Katharine Houghton Hepburn (born 1907), American actress
• Katie Holmes, (born 1978), American actress
• Catherine Deneuve, (born 1943), French actress
• Catherine Keener (born 1959), American actress
• Catherine Oxenberg (born 1961), American actress
• Catherine Tate (born 1968), English actress
• Catherine, a 2011 puzzle-platformer adventure video game

Other fictional characters

• Dr. Catherine Halsey, the creator of the SPARTAN supersoldiers in Halo: Reach and other releases in the Halo franchise
• Catherine Tramell, the lead character from the film Basic Instinct (1992)
• Catherine Willows, a character from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Katherine, a character from the television show Ten Things I Hate About You
• Katherine Mayfair, a character in the television show Desperate Housewives
• Catherine Ann Archer, the protagonist of the game series The Operative: No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2
• Catherine-B320, a SPARTAN-III supersoldier in Halo: Reach
• Katherine Hillard, the second pink Power Ranger
• Catherine (Birdo), a character from Super Mario Bros.
• Cather and Wren, characters from Fangirl, a novel by Rainbow Rowel

Ships

• Catherine, the ship that Edward III was aboard in 1345 when he brought the fleet to Flanders and met with Jacob van Artevelde
• Catherine (1811 ship) - a whaler that also made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales

See also

• Catharine (disambiguation)
• Katherine (given name)
• St. Catherine (disambiguation)
• Ecaterina (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Catherine"
• All pages beginning with "Katharine"
• All pages beginning with "Katherine"
• Karen (name), usually a feminine given name, derived from the Danish short form of Katherine
• Catriona
• Catherina (and similar spellings)