English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
- and
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
-language communities. Sometimes spelled ''
Cathleen
Cathleen is a feminine given name in the English language. It is a variant form of '' Kathleen''. Notable people with the name include:
* Cathleen Chaffee, American curator, art historian, writer
* Cathleen Falsani, American journalist and writ ...
'', it is an Anglicized form of ''Caitlín'', the Irish form of ''Cateline'', which was the
Old French
Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligib ...
form of ''Catherine''. It ultimately derives from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
name ''Aikaterine'', the meaning of which is highly debated (see
Katherine
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and Catherina, other variations are feminine Given name, names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria ...
). Kathleen was the 8th most popular girls' name in Ireland in 1911, but by 1965 it had sunk to number 18.
Literature
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Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic, and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently ...
, British poet
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Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 – May 26, 2003) was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel '' Forever Amber''. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism ...
, American author
* ''
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics
''The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'' ( 1892) is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats.
It includes the play '' The Countess Kathleen'' and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of ''The ...
'' (1892), the second poetry collection of
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
* Kathleen Best, director of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
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Kathleen Soliah
Sara Jane Olson (born Kathleen Ann Soliah on January 16, 1947) is an American far-left activist who was convicted of an attempted murder charge related to a failed bombing plot and a second-degree murder charge related to a botched bank robber ...
Kathleen Battle
Kathleen Deanna Battle (born August 13, 1948) is an American operatic soprano known for her distinctive vocal range and tone. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances ...
, American soprano
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Kathleen de Leon Jones
Kathleen de Leon Jones (born Kathleen de León on 1 September 1977) is a Filipina-born Australian actress, dancer, and singer. She was an original cast member of the ARIA Award winning Australian children's musical group Hi-5. She left Hi-5 ...
, Filipino-Australian singer, dancer, actress and television performer, Hi-5
* Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna, Dominican-American R&B singer
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Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978 ) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her 2002 debut album, ''
Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the cl ...
, British contralto, after whom the prestigious
Kathleen Ferrier Award
The Kathleen Ferrier Award is a prestigious contest for Opera singers held each April in London, England. The first competition was held in 1956. According to the ''Telegraph'', the competition has a record of "spotting winners".
Originally conc ...
is named
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Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band B ...
, American musician
Peeresses
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Kathleen Pelham-Clinton, Duchess of Newcastle
Kathleen Florence May Pelham-Clinton, Duchess of Newcastle-under-Lyne Order of the British Empire, OBE (née Candy; 1872 – 1 June 1955), was a well-known conformation show judge and dog breeder who influenced the Borzoi and Wire Fox Terrier dog ...
, dog breeder
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Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (' Kennedy; February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), also known as "Kick" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy as well as a si ...
, the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
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Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon
Kathleen Rochard Simon, Viscountess Simon, DBE (formerly Manning, Harvey; 23 September 1869 – 27 March 1955) was an Anglo-Irish anti-slavery activist. She was inspired to research slavery after living in Tennessee with her first husband, and ...
, abolitionist
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Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow
Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, (born 24 February 1938) is a British Methodist Minister. Created a life peer in 1998, she was a crossbench member of the House of Lords until her retirement in 2018.
Early life and e ...
, British peer
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Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland
Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland (' Tennant; 30 January 18944 December 1989) was an English aristocrat and the wife of John Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland.
Early life and family
Kathleen Tennant was born on 30 January 1894 in London. Her mo ...
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Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
Katherine Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, (born Hon. Mary Katherine Crichton; 8 July 1905 – 2 February 1990)
was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1964 until the Duchess's death in 1990. She was invested as a D ...
Politics
* Kathleen Fleur Anderson, British politician, known as
Fleur Anderson
Kathleen Fleur Anderson (born 6 February 1971) the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney, elected in 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Shadow Paymaster General since 2021 and was a member of Wandsworth London Borough Council fro ...
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Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Marie Blanco (née Babineaux; December 15, 1942 – August 18, 2019) was an American politician who served as the 54th Governor of Louisiana from January 2004 to January 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first and, ...
, former Governor of Louisiana
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Kathleen Brown
Kathleen Lynn Brown (born September 25, 1945) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 29th Treasurer of California from 1991 to 1995. Brown unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California in the 1994 election.
Early life and e ...
, Californian politician
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Kathalijne Buitenweg
Dr. Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg (born 27 March 1970) is a Dutch politician for the GreenLeft who served as a member of the House of Representatives between 2017 and 2021. Between 1999 and 2009, she was a Member of the European Parliament, and s ...
Kathleen Kane
Kathleen Granahan Kane (born Kathleen Margaret Granahan; June 14, 1966) is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the 48th Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016 following her conviction for per ...
, Pennsylvania Attorney General convicted of felony perjury
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. She was the first female lieutenant g ...
, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
* Kathleen Lynch, Irish politician
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Kathleen Merrigan
Kathleen Ann Merrigan (born October 6, 1959) is an American politician who served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from April 8, 2009, until her resignation from this position on March 14, 2013. She was the first woman to chai ...
, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture of the United States
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Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, (''née'' Timpson; 1 October 1912 – 10 August 2014) was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's go ...
, British mathematician and politician
* Kathleen O'Meara, Irish politician
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Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius (; née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 21st United States secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014. As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sebeli ...
, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Governor of Kansas
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Kathleen Wynne
Kathleen O'Day Wynne ( ; born May 21, 1953) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2003 and sat as the ...
, Premier of Ontario
Science
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born November 24, 1946) is an American professor of communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-founded FactCheck.org, and she is an author, most recently ...
, American professor of communications
* Kathleen R. Johnson, American paleoclimatologist
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Kathleen Kenyon
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...
, British archaeologist
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Kathleen Lamborn
Kathleen Rundle Lamborn is an American biostatistician, known for her highly-cited publications on glioma.
She is an Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and former Director of the Cancer Center Biostatistics Core at the University of ...
, American biostatistician
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Kathleen Lonsdale
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale ( Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was an Irish-born British pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate t ...
, British crystallographer
* Kathleen Madden, American mathematician
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Kathleen Martínez
Kathleen Teresa Martínez Berry (born 1966) is a Dominican lawyer, archaeologist, and diplomat, best known for her work since 2005 in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra in the Taposiris Magna temple in Egypt. She heads the Egyptian-Dominican m ...
Kathleen Comley
Kathleen Comley is a British Paralympic archer.
She competed at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
The 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, retroactively designated as the 1960 Summer Paralympics ( it, Giochi paralimpici estivi del 1960 ...
Kathleen Barr
Kathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is best known for voicing Marie Kanker and Kevin in ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' and Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis in '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic''. She also voiced Henri Richard Maurice D ...
Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1923August 23, 2001) was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives, almost in ...
, American character actress
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Kate Hackett
Kate Hackett is an actress, writer, and producer best known for creating & starring as Alice Rackham in the Amazon web series ''Classic Alice''. She is also known for Hulu's '' Best Laid Plans'' and Netflix's ''Real Rob''.
Career
Hackett acte ...
, American actress (Kathleen Hackett)
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Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison (23 February 1892 – 7 December 1995) was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett (opposite Jack Warner and Petula Clark) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working ...
, British character actress
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Kathleen Hepburn
Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim for her film ''Never Steady, Never Still'', which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017.
, Canadian screenwriter and film director
* Kathleen Kennedy, movie producer
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Kathleen de Leon Jones
Kathleen de Leon Jones (born Kathleen de León on 1 September 1977) is a Filipina-born Australian actress, dancer, and singer. She was an original cast member of the ARIA Award winning Australian children's musical group Hi-5. She left Hi-5 ...
, retired Filipino-Australian singer and actress
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Kathleen Madigan
Kathleen Madigan is an American comedian and TV personality. In addition to her stand up comedy performances, she is a regular guest on a variety of U.S. television programs.
Early life and education
Kathleen Madigan is one of seven children in ...
Kathleen Noone
Kathleen Noone ( O'Meara; January 8, 1945) is an American actress. She began her career as a singer in nightclubs and performed in musicals off-Broadway before making her television debut in the CBS daytime soap opera, ''As the World Turns'' (197 ...
, American actress
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Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel '' I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,'' and her Golde ...
, American actress
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Kathleen Robertson
Kathleen Robertson (born July 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress, producer, writer and showrunner. She is best known for her roles as Kitty O' Neill in the Starz, Golden Globe winning series Boss, Hildy Mulligan in TNT's Murder in the First, Tina Edi ...
, Canadian actress
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Kathleen Turner
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards.
Turner became widely k ...
, American film actress, director, and producer
* Kathleen Warner (born Davis), Trinidadian actress and radio personality, also known as "Aunty Kay"
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Kathleen York
Kathleen York is an American actress, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter recording artist. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for " In the Deep" from the 2004 film ''Crash.''
Life and career Actress
Ac ...
, American actress
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Kathy Griffin
Kathleen Mary Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American comedian and actress who has starred in television comedy specials and has released comedy albums. In 2007 and 2008, Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show '' Kathy ...
(born Kathleen Mary Griffin), American comedian, actress, and television personality
* Kate Walsh (born Kathleen Erin Walsh), American actress
Other
* Kathleen Mary Burrow, Australian physiotherapist, businesswoman, Catholic lay leader
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Kathleen O'Toole
Kathleen M. O'Toole ( Horton; born May 9, 1954) is an American law enforcement officer who served as Chief of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) from June 23, 2014 to January 4, 2018. She was previously the first female commissioner of the Bost ...
, police commissioner of Boston, Massachusetts
* Kathleen Salmond, New Zealand artist
* Kathleen Wrasama, Ethiopian-born British community organiser
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Kathleen Zellner
Kathleen Zellner is an American attorney who has worked extensively in wrongful conviction advocacy. Notable clients Zellner has represented include Steven Avery (who was the subject of the 2015 and 2018 Netflix series ''Making a Murderer''), Ke ...
, American attorney
See also
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Caitlín
Caitlin () is a female given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , whic ...
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Cathleen
Cathleen is a feminine given name in the English language. It is a variant form of '' Kathleen''. Notable people with the name include:
* Cathleen Chaffee, American curator, art historian, writer
* Cathleen Falsani, American journalist and writ ...