Katharine

Katharine Wright Haskell (1874 – 1929) was the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, with whom she worked closely. She managed the bicycle shop, helped with flight operations, writing, communications and iterated ideas with her brothers, was a high school teacher and later became an international celebrity when the whole family team went to Europe. The French recognized her contributions, awarding the French Legion of Honor to all three Wright siblings. Wright also worked to support women's suffrage efforts in Ohio.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, Winston's wife was named Katharine.

Actress Katharine Cornell (1893-1974).

Katharine Blake is an English singer. She is the founder of Mediæval Bæbes and was the frontwoman for Miranda Sex Garden.

St. Katharine Drexel was a nun who inherited an insanely large amount of money and used it to build schools for Native Americans and blacks. She was beatified on November 20, 1988 and canonized on October 1, 2000.

Henry VIII of England's first wife was a Spanish princess named Katharine of Aragon, daughter of Spain's Fernando and Isabel.

Katharine was one of the characters of William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew".

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This play has also been adapted into a Broadway musical entitled "Kiss Me, Kate".

Katharine Comstock is a character in Gene Stratton-Porter's novel "A Girl of the Limberlost."

Famous American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee bears this name.

Katharine was in one of Shakespere's stories, I think it was 'A Wildcat for a Wife' or something like that. It's a bit popular though. I prefer Catharine.

Katharine was the name of E.B. White's wife.

A famous bearer of this name is Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003).