Katya is a feminine given name. It is a very popular name in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia. It is a Russian diminutive form of Yekaterina,^[1] which is a Russian form of Katherine.^[2] The name is sometimes used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. In German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages it is spelled Katja. Katya may also refer to:

In the arts:

• Katya Chilly (born 1978), Ukrainian singer
• Katya Jones (born 1989), Russian dancer
• Katya Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
• Katya Paskaleva (1945–2002), Bulgarian actress
• Katya Reimann (born 1965), American writer of fantasy novels
• Katya Santos (born 1982), Filipina actress and model
• Katya Zamolodchikova, (performed by Brian McCook, born 1982), American drag queen

In other fields:

• Katya Adler, British journalist
• Yekaterina Budanova (1916–1943), also known as Katya, female Soviet fighter ace in the Second World War
• Katya De Giovanni, Maltese politician
• Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American applied mathematician
• Katya Soldak, journalist and documentary filmmaker (documentary The Long Breakup, 2020)

In fiction:

• Katya Derevko, on the ABC television series Alias
• Katya Kinski, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Katya Nadanova, Bond girl in the game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
• Katya Orlova, heroine of John le Carré's novel The Russia House and the film adaptation
• Katya Vogt, the protagonist of Sandra Birdsell's historical novel The Russländer (aka Katya)
• Katya (Highlander), an Immortal in Highlander: The Series
• Katya, a character in the 2013 movie Stalingrad.
• Katya Udinov, Alexandra Udinov's mother in Nikita
• Katya, fictional villain portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in the 1996 Indian film Ghatak
• Katya Michailov Goncharova, a character from the internet meme/nonexistant movie Goncharov (1973)

Other uses

• Katya (spider), a genus of spiders

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