Kitty (given name)

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Kitty or Kittie is a feminine given name, an English diminutive of Katherine or Irish diminutive of Caitlin and an extension of Kit.

People

• Kitty (actor), Tamil actor Raja Krishnamurthy's stage name
• Kitty (drummer), a member of the band Mindless Self Indulgence
• Kitty (rapper), Florida hip-hop artist Kathryn Beckwith (born 1993)
• Kitty Barne (1883–1961), British writer
• George Kitty Bransfield (1875–1947), American baseball player
• Kittie Bruneau (1929–2021), Canadian painter and printmaker
• Kitty Burke, professional wrestler manager from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Kitty Canutt, American bronc rider
• Kitty Carlisle (1910–2007), American singer, actress and television personality, born Catherine Conn
• Caitlin Kitty Carruthers (born 1961), American figure skater
• Kitty Cheatham (1864–1946), American singer and monologist
• Kitty Cooper (born 1950), American bridge player
• Kittie Doswell (1939–2011), American R&B, soul and jazz vocalist
• Kitty Dukakis (1936–2025), wife of Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis
• Kitty Ferguson (born 1941), American science writer
• Kitty Fisher (died 1767), British courtesan
• Kitty Flanagan (born 1968), Australian comedian, writer, and actress
• Kitty Flynn (1926–2025), Irish historian and author
• Kitty Petrine Fredriksen (1910–2003), Norwegian politician
• Catherina Kitty Geisow (1876-1958), New Zealand painter
• Kitty Genovese (1935–1964), American murder victim
• Kitty Joyner, (1916–1993), American electrical engineer
• Kitty Jutbring, (born 1977), Swedish reality television contestant, radio and television host, singer and DJ
• Kitty Kallen (1921–2016), American singer
• Kitty Kelley (born 1942), American writer
• Kitty Kelly (1902–1968), American actress
• Caroline 'Kitty' Kenney (1880 – 1952), sister of Annie Kenney, and British suffragette hunger striker
• Kitty Lange Kielland (1843–1914), Norwegian painter
• Kitty Kiernan (1892–1945), Irish fiancée of Michael Collins
• Kitty Leroy (1850–1877), American Old West gambler, saloon owner, prostitute and trick shooter
• Kitty Margolis (born 1955), American jazz singer
• Kitty McShane (1897–1964), Irish actress
• Kitty O'Neil (1946–2018), American stuntwoman and racer
• Kitty Oppenheimer (1910–1972), American biologist
• Kitty Oxholm, American politician
• Kitty Pilgrim (born 1954), American journalist
• Lady Kitty Spencer (born 1990), English model
• Kitty Stryker (born 1984), American sex educator and activist
• Kitty Ussher (born 1971), British politician
• Kitty van Haperen (born 1976), Dutch athlete
• Kitty Wells (1919–2012), American country music singer
• Kitty White (1923–2009), American jazz vocalist
• Kitty Wilkins (1857–1936), American horse breeder
• Kitty Winn (born 1944), American actress
• Chicha Amatayakul, formerly Kanyawee Poomsiridol, with a nickname Kitty (born 1993), Thai actress and ex-member of Kiss Me Five.

Fictional characters

• Kitty, an imaginary friend in Anne Frank's diary
• Kitty, in the anime series Kimba the White Lion
• Kitty (Danny Phantom), in the television series Danny Phantom
• Kitty, from the television series Danger Rangers
• Kitty, a character from the animated series Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race
• Kitty, Laura's neighbor in The Hours (novel)
• Kitty, the titular character from the animated series, Kitty is Not a Cat
• Hello Kitty, also known as Kitty White
• Miss Kitty, in the television western series Gunsmoke
• Kitty Bell, in the Sailor Moon series
• Catherine "Kitty" Bennet, the fourth Bennet sister in Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice
• Kitty Carter, an 18th-century prostitute in the 2017 television series Harlots
• Kitty Cheshire, daughter of the Cheshire Cat in Ever After High
• Kitty Edwards (née Hawkins), in the television series Mr Selfridge
• Kitty Forman, in the television series That '70s Show
• Kitty Foyle, the title character of the 1939 novel Kitty Foyle and the 1940 film based on the novel
• Kitty Freekowtski, the name for the cat in the Tubi version of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
• Katherine "Kitty" Higham, in the UK television series Ghosts
• Kitty Jones, in The Bartimaeus Trilogy novels by Jonathan Stroud
• Kitty Katswell, in the animated television series T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Kitty Keene, the title character of Kitty Keene, Inc., a 1937–1941 American radio show
• Kitty Kenarban, Stevie's mother in Malcolm in the Middle
• Kitty Ko, in the television series Sidekick
• Kitty Lynxley, a minor antagonist in Zootopia 2
• Kitty Walker McCallister, in the television series Brothers & Sisters
• Kitty Norville, the title character of a series of urban fantasy novels by Carrie Vaughn
• Kitty Pryde, a superheroine from the Marvel Comics X-Men
• Kitty Ricketts, in the James Joyce novel Ulysses
• Kitty Sanchez, in the television series Arrested Development
• Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya, in the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Kitty Softpaws, a character from the animated film Puss in Boots
• Kitty Wilde, in the television series Glee

Notes

References

1. (2006). "Oxford Dictionary of First Names". Oxford University Press.

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