Katrina (given name)
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Katrina or Katrine is a feminine English
, German
, Norwegian
, Swedish
and Dutch
given name
. It is a derivative of Katherine
.
People with this name include:
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
and Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. It is a derivative of Katherine
Katherine (given name)
Katherine is a feminine name, which is popular in historically Christian countries, owing to its having been the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria.-Origin and meaning:...
.
People with this name include:
Music
- Katrina ElamKatrina ElamKatrina Ruth Elam is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal South Records in 2004, she released her self-titled debut album that year, charting in the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks with the #29 "No End in Sight" and the #59 "I Want a Cowboy"...
, country music singer - Katrina LeskanichKatrina LeskanichKatrina Leskanich is an American singer and musician, long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for being the lead singer and namesake of the pop band Katrina and the Waves.-Early life:...
, former lead vocalist of the music group Katrina and the Waves - TrinaTrinaKatrina Laverne Taylor , better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper, songwriter and model from Miami, Florida. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddy's second studio album www.thug.com to the single "Nann Nigga"...
(née Katrina Le’verne Taylor), African-American female rap artist - Katrine GislingeKatrine GislingeKatrine Gislinge is a Danish pianist.She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York, Boris Berman at Yale, and Peter Feuchtwanger in London.In recent...
, pianist - Katrine MadsenKatrine MadsenKatrine Madsen is a Danish jazz singer.She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has worked in Copenhagen on albums with transplanted American jazz artists Ed Thigpen and Richard Boone....
, jazz singer
Television and cinema
- Katrina HaliliKatrina HaliliKatrina Halili is a Filipina actress, commercial model and music producer. She made her screen debut via StarStruck, but did not gain popularity until playing the antagonist roles in Darna, Majika and MariMar and becoming the protagonist in One Night Only, Gagambino and Magdusa...
, Filipina actor - Katrina Holden BronsonKatrina Holden BronsonKatrina Holden Bronson is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She is the adopted daughter of fellow actors Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland.-Filmography:* Last Exit to Earth - actress* Defying Gravity - actress...
, film director and actor - Katrina JohnsonKatrina JohnsonKatrina Ann Johnson is an American actress. Born in San Diego, California, she starred on Nickelodeon's All That sketch comedy show from 1994 to 1997. Nickelodeon planned her to be a panelist of Figure it Out, but she departed All That before it premiered. She played characters such as the...
, American actress - Katrina KaifKatrina KaifKatrina Kaif is a British Indian actress and former model who appears in Indian films, mainly in the Hindi-language film industry. She has also appeared in Telugu and Malayalam films. She was voted the sexiest Asian woman in the world by Eastern Eye in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011...
, model and BollywoodBollywoodBollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
actress - Katrina KravenKatrina KravenKatrina Kraven is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in 2003 at age 26.-Awards:*2004 XRCO Award nominee – Best Threeway Sex Scene...
, occasional stage name of porn star - Katrina OnstadKatrina OnstadKatrina Onstad is a noted Canadian film critic and journalist. She was the film critic for the National Post and CBC Arts Online for several years, and her work has also appeared in Toronto Life, The New York Times, The Guardian and Salon...
, Canadian film critic and journalist - Katrina WarrenKatrina WarrenDr Katrina Warren is an Australian veterinarian, best known as the host of several popular television programs.- Background Information :...
, veterinarian and television presenter - Katrina Jansson, Scottish Super model
- Katrina Carrot, English Moviestar
Other fields
- Katrina, Wifi at Vinod Punjabi's home
- Katrina vanden HeuvelKatrina vanden HeuvelKatrina vanden Heuvel is the editor, publisher, and part-owner of the magazine The Nation. She has been the magazine's editor since 1995. She is a frequent guest on numerous television programs...
, editor of The Nation - Katrina HodgkinsonKatrina HodgkinsonKatrina Ann Hodgkinson MP JP is an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. She has represented the Burrinjuck for the National Party of Australia since 27 March 1999...
, Australian politician - Katrina LeungKatrina LeungKatrina Leung was a former high value Federal Bureau of Investigation and PRC Ministry of State Security agent who, on April 9, 2003, was indicted by the United States Department of Justice for "Unauthorized Copying of National Defense Information with Intent to Injure or Benefit a Foreign...
, Chinese American businesswoman and accused spy - Katrina PowellKatrina PowellKatrina Maree Powell is a field hockey player from Australia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996, for her native country....
, Australian field hockey player - Katrina PriceKatrina PriceKatrina Price was an American basketball player. A star guard in her college career at Stephen F. Austin State University, Price's professional career was cut short when she died by suicide in her rookie season....
, American basketball player - Katrina Von SassKatrina Von SassKatrina Von Sass is a retired female volleyball player from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There the resident of Calgary, Alberta ended up in tenth place with the Women's National Team. Katrina now lives in Edmonton, Alberta and enjoys...
, Canadian volleyball player
Fictional characters
- Katrina FinlayKatrina FinlayKatrina Finlay is a fictional character in the TV series Monarch of the Glen. Glenbogle Headteacher Katrina is played by Irish actress Lorraine Pilkington....
in Monarch of the Glen - Katrina Silber, minor recurring character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Katrina in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
- Katrina (Quest for Glory) in the Quest for GloryQuest for GloryQuest for Glory is a series of hybrid role-playing/adventure computer games designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. The series combined humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a 5-part series of the Sierra stable.Although...
universe - Katrina de Voort, main antagonist of JunoJuno (film)Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K....
- Katrina Van Tassel in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy HollowThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820...
" - Katrina Spellman in Sabrina, the Teenage WitchSabrina, the Teenage WitchSabrina the Teenage Witch is a comic book series published by Archie Comics about the adventures of a teenage fictional character named Sabrina Spellman. The character was created by writer George Gladir and artist Dan DeCarlo. The comic's characters have also appeared in various other media...
- Katrina in "Gathering BlueGathering BlueGathering Blue is a 2000 children's, social science fiction, dystopian novel by noted children's author Lois Lowry. The book is a companion novel to The Giver , and is followed by Messenger in The Giver trilogy. It is set in the same future time period and it treats some of the same themes...
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