Kitty (given name)
Encyclopedia
Kitty is an Irish
feminine given name, derived from Catherine
or Katherine. Kitty may refer to:
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
feminine given name, derived from Catherine
Catherine
Catherine is a feminine given name.The nicknames include Cathy, Cate, Cat, Cati, Catie and others. Catherine may refer to one of the following historical figures, place names, books, or bands.-Literature:...
or Katherine. Kitty may refer to:
People
- Kitty BarneKitty BarneMarion Catherine "Kitty" Barne was a British screenwriter and writer of children's books, especially on music and musical themes....
(1883–1961), British writer - Kitty BransfieldKitty BransfieldWilliam Edward "Kitty" Bransfield , was a professional baseball player who played first base in the Major Leagues from 1906–1914. He would play for the Boston Beaneaters, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs.-External links:...
(1875–1947), American baseball player - Kitty CanuttKitty CanuttKitty Canutt, stage name Kitty Wilks , was a professional bronc rider, and the All-Around Champion Cowgirl at the 1916 Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, for her bucking horse and relay race events...
, American bronc rider - Kitty CarruthersKitty CarruthersCaitlin A. "Kitty" Carruthers is an American figure skater. She competed in pairs with her brother Peter Carruthers. They are the 1981-1984 U.S. national champions, the 1982 World bronze medalists, and the 1984 Olympic silver medalists...
(born 1961), American figure skater - Kitty CheathamKitty CheathamKatherine "Kitty" Cheatham was an American singer, diseuse and actress. She was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee...
(1864–1946), American singer and actress - Kitty Dukakis (born 1936), wife of Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis
- Kitty GenoveseKitty GenoveseCatherine Susan "Kitty" Genovese , was a New York City woman who was stabbed to death near her home in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, New York on March 13, 1964....
(1935–1964), American murder victim - Kitty Carlisle (1910–2007), American singer and actress
- Kitty FergusonKitty FergusonKitty Gail Ferguson is a science writer and former professional musician.She is the author of Black Holes in Spacetime , The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion & the Search for God , Prisons of Light: Black Holes , Measuring the Universe: the Historical Quest to Quantify Space , Stephen...
(born 1941), American science writer - Kitty FisherKitty FisherKitty Fisher was a prominent British courtesan. Her celebrity was boosted by the attention that Sir Joshua Reynolds and other artists paid her...
(died 1767), British courtesan - Kitty Petrine FredriksenKitty Petrine FredriksenKitty Petrine Fredriksen was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms during the terms 1945–1949 and 1950–1953.-References:...
(1910–2003), Norwegian politician - Kitty KallenKitty KallenKitty Kallen is an American popular singer who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, "Little Things Mean a Lot" in 1954.-Career:...
(born 1922), American singer - Kitty KelleyKitty KelleyKitty Kelley is an American journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorized biographies of celebrities and politicians. Her subjects have included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey...
(born 1942), American writer - Kitty KellyKitty KellyKitty Kelly, Sue O'Neil in the life , was an American stage and film character actress. She was best known as a member of the Ziegfeld Follies and her radio hosting with Columbia Broadcasting....
(1902–1968), American actress - Kitty KiernanKitty KiernanCatherine Brigid Kiernan was an Irish woman best known as the fiancée of assassinated Irish revolutionary leader and Chairman of the Provisional Government Michael Collins.-Early life:...
(1892–1945), Irish fiancée of Michael Collins - Kitty Lange KiellandKitty Lange Kielland-Early life and training:Kielland was born to an affluent family in Stavanger, the older sister of Alexander Kielland. Kielland's mutual interactions with her brother would be important to shaping her as an artist. Although she received some training in drawing and painting, it was not until she...
(1843–1914), Norwegian painter - Kitty MargolisKitty MargolisKitty Margolis is an American jazz singer. In 1989, made her well-received debut at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival. Margolis has released five CD's on her own Mad Kat label that she co-founded with vocalist Madeline Eastman.Her first studio album, 1993's Evolution, was the one that really...
(born 1955), American jazz singer - Kitty McShaneKitty McShaneKathleen "Kitty" McShane is best known as the wife and acting partner of Arthur Lucan, with whom she appeared in a series of Old Mother Riley stage shows and films from the 1930s to the 1950s.-Early life:Catherine McShane was the fourth of seventeen children born to Daniel and Kate McShane, of...
(1897–1964), Irish actress - Kitty PilgrimKitty PilgrimKathryn Pilgrim , known professionally as Kitty Pilgrim , was a New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN for 24 years. Pilgrim anchored her own broadcast, Early Edition, in 1998 and 1999 and served as an anchor for CNN, CNNI, CNNfn, and Headline News for more than a decade...
(born 1954), American journalist - Kitty WellsKitty WellsEllen Muriel Deason , known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star...
(born 1919), American country music singer - Kitty UssherKitty UssherKatharine Anne "Kitty" Ussher is a British economist and former Labour Party politician.After training as an economist, she was elected Member of Parliament for Burnley from 2005 until 2010, succeeding Peter Pike. Ussher formerly held the position of Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in Gordon...
(born 1971), British politician - Kitty van HaperenKitty van HaperenKitty van Haperen is a Dutch athlete and bobsledder.Van Haperen was born at Tilburg. She started her career in athletics and reached the national rankings in 1991 in javelin throw...
(born 1976), Dutch athlete - Kitty WhiteKitty WhiteKitty White was a 1950s/60s jazz vocalist, who for years was a nightclub favorite among audiences in Los Angeles, known for her sophisticated songs with well-traveled lyrics....
(1923–2009), American jazz vocalist - Kitty WilkinsKitty WilkinsKatherine Caroline Wilkins , aka Kitty or Kittie, was a horse breeder at the turn of the 20th century known as the "Horse Queen of Idaho." She was the only American woman at that time whose livelihood was based solely on the trade. The Wilkins Horse Company at Bruneau's Diamond Ranch supplied...
(1857–1936), American horse breeder - Kitty WinnKitty WinnKitty Winn is an award-winning American actress.- Early life and career :Winn was born in Washington, D.C. She spent much of her childhood time traveling to China, India and Japan....
(born 1944), American actress - Kitty YungKitty YungKitty Yung is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actress of Korean and Hawaiian descent....
(born 1970), American porn actress
Fiction
- Kitty, fictional character in Felix the Cat series
- Kitty Bell, fictional character in the Sailor Moon series
- Kitty FormanKitty FormanKatherine Anne "Kitty" Forman is a fictional character on the Fox Network's That '70s Show, portrayed by comic actress Debra Jo Rupp. Kitty is a nurse but sometimes takes a break from her career to make peace in the family. She also has a very recognizable laugh and a fondness for square dancing...
, fictional character on the television series That '70s Show - Kitty FoyleKitty FoyleKitty Foyle may refer to:* Kitty Foyle , by Christopher Morley* Kitty Foyle * Kitty Foyle * Kitty Foyle , an American soap opera...
, fictional character in the 1939 novel Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley and 1940 film based on the novel - Kitty Jones, fictional character in The Bartimaeus Trilogy novels by Jonathan Stroud
- Kitty NorvilleKitty NorvilleKitty Norville is the main character of a series of novels by Carrie Vaughn. She is a werewolf who hosts a popular syndicated radio phone-in show based in Denver called "The Midnight Hour"...
, fictional character in a series of urban fantasy novels by Carrie Vaughn - Kitty PrydeKitty PrydeKatherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 and was created by writer-artist John Byrne....
, fictional character in the X-Men comics and films - Kitty Sanchez, fictional character on the television series Arrested Development
- Kitty WalkerKitty WalkerKatherine Anne "Kitty" Walker is a fictional character on the primetime showBrothers & Sisters. She is played by actress Calista Flockhart...
, fictional character on the television series Brothers & Sisters - Kitty Horton, fictional character on the Soap Opera Days of our LivesDays of our LivesDays of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
from 1967-1969. - Kitty Katswell, a character from T.U.F.F. PuppyT.U.F.F. PuppyT.U.F.F. Puppy is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It premiered on October 2, 2010 on Nickelodeon after the premiere of Planet Sheen. The series' main character is a dim-witted but determined dog named Dudley Puppy , who works as a secret agent for an...