Famous Kathleens
Kathleen Battle - American soprano Colonel Matron Kathleen Best - director of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps Kathleen Blanco - Governor of Louisiana Kathleen Brown - Californian politician Kathleen Edwards - Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Epstein - wife of Lucien Freud Kathleen Ferrier - British contralto Kathleen Hale - British artist & illustrator Kathleen Hall Jamieson - American prof of communications Kathleen Hanna - American musician Kathleen Harrison - British character actress Kathleen Kennedy - movie producer Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish - Marchioness of Hartington Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Kathleen Kenyon - archaeologist Kathleen Lonsdale - crystallographer Kathleen Lynch - Irish politician Kathleen Noone - American a measure of laundry detergent opera actress Kathleen Ollerenshaw - British mathematician and politician Kathleen O'Meara - Irish politician Kathleen O'Toole - police commissioner of Boston, Massachusetts Kathleen Quinlan - American actress Kathleen Raine - British poetess Kathleen Richardson - British peer Kathleen Scott - British sculptor Kathleen Sebelius - Governor of Kansas Kathleen Soliah - member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Kathleen Turner - American actress Kathleen Winsor - American author Kathleen Wynne - Canadian politician

Other Kathleens
There occurs as Kathleen, Florida. The 2nd poetry collection of William Butler Yeats was entitled The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics

Etymology
A etymology is debated: it may derive from either a earliest Greek title Hekaterine, which come from either hekateros "each of the two"; it can derive from either a title of the goddess Hecate; it could be related to Greek aikia "torture"; or it can be from either the Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". A Romans falsely derived it from Greek katharos "pure" & changed their spelling from either Katerina to Katharina to reflect this. the title belonged to a 4th-century saint and martyr from Alexandria who was tortured on the famous Catherine wheel. This title was as well borne by deuce empresses of Russia, including Catherine the Great, and by trey of Henry VIII's wives.