Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS (née Yardley; 1903 – 1971), was an Irish-born British crystallographer, pacifist and prison reformer. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945 (along with Marjory Stephenson), first woman tenured professor at University College London, first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography, and first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Kathleen Kim is an Korean-American operatic coloratura soprano. Her repertoire includes roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi and Offenbach, among others, as well as in oratorios such as the Messiah and sacred works such as Mozart's Great Mass in C minor.
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, DBE (née Timpson; 1912 – 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 government in the 1980s.
Kathleen Beauchamp, then Kathleen Murry, was the birth name, then married name, of the writer and poet Katherine MANSFIELD (1888-1923). Born in colonial New Zealand, she was part of the modernist artistic movement and she revolutionized the short story as a literary genre. When Mansfield died of tuberculosis aged 34, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary 'I was jealous of her writing - the only writing I have ever been jealous of'.
Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin is an American stand up comedian, writer, producer, actress, and television host. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she moved to Los Angeles in 1978, where she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and became a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. In the 1990s, Griffin began performing as a standup comedian and also appeared as a guest star on several television shows. She achieved recognition in a supporting role on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.
Kathleen Winsor (Born: October 16, 1919, Died: May 26, 2003) was an American author. She is best known for the novel Forever Amber.
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Kathleen Anne Brien, better known as Katy B, is an English singer and songwriter.
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Archduchess Kathleen Elizabeth of Austria, née Walker, is the American-born wife of Archduke Imre of Austria. Kathleen ("Katie") married Imre on 8 September 2012 at Saint Mary, Mother of God Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. She is also known as Kathleen de Habsbourg-Lorraine.
Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (born 1997 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
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Two members of the Kennedy family bear this name- Kathleen Cavendish, the sister of JFK, and RFK's daughter Kathleen Townsend, who was named after her aunt.
Actually, Jo Rowling doesn't have a middle name. Her grandmother's name was Kathleen, and she took it for a middle initial because her publishers thought that boys wouldn't read a book that was obviously written by a woman. I once had an arguement with a classmate a few years ago about that. He was convinced she was a man! :)
My father named me Kathleen after an old Irish Folk Song "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen". He used to sing it to me when I was small. Very special meaning.