Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine.^[1] It may refer to:

In 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.

In artistry:

• Katharina Fröhlich, lover of Franz Grillparzer
• Katharina Rapp, German artist

In other fields:

• 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), 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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