Katharina

{{Infobox given name | name = Katharina | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = Female | meaning = | region = | origin = | related names = Katherine, Catherine | footnotes = }} thumb | right | Autorin Katharina Wolf '''Katharina''' is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine.<ref>[http://www.mfnames.com/fnames/k/origin-and-meaning-of-katharina.htm MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Katharina]</ref> Notable people with this name include:

== Television and film == *Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter *Katharina Mückstein, Austrian film director *Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director *Katherine Pierce, a character in ''The Vampire Diaries'' originally named Katharina Petrova *Katharina Stark, German actress

== Arts ==

* Katharina Bergobzoomová (1755–1788), Czech opera singer

*Katharina Fröhlich (1800–1879), Austrian lover of Franz Grillparzer, patron of artists and writers *Katharina Rapp (born 1948), German artist *Katja Oxman (born 1942), born Katharina Protassowsky, German-born American visual artist

== Alpine skiers ==

*Katharina Gallhuber, Austrian alpine skier *Katharina Huber, Austrian alpine skier *Katharina Liensberger, Austrian alpine skier *Katharina Truppe, Austrian alpine skier

== Politics ==

* Katharina Graf (1873–1936), Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria (SAI) * Katharina Kucharowits (born 1983), Austrian politician * Katharina Senge (born 1982), German politician * Katharina Slanina (born 1977), German politician

== Other == *Katharina Baunach, German footballer *Katharina Dalton, British physician and pioneer in the research of premenstrual stress syndrome *Katharina Klafsky, Hungarian operatic singer *Katharina von Bora, German Catholic nun who was an early convert to Protestantism *Katharina Franziska von Wattenwyl (1645–1714), Swiss spy *Katharina von Zimmern (1478–1547), Swiss last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey

==See also== *320 Katharina, small Main belt asteroid *''Katharina'', a genus of chiton mollusc in the family Mopaliidae *The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll *Catherina (and similar spellings)

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