Katarina (given name)

Katarina^[1] (Cyrillic: Катарина^[1]) is a feminine given name. It is the standard Swedish, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian form of Katherine, and a variant spelling in several other languages.^[2] In Croatia, it is the fourth most common female given name, or third if combined with the short form Kata,^[3] and in Serbia it is within the 10 most popular names for girls born since 1991.^[4]

Notable people with the given name include:

In acting:

• Katarina Ewerlöf, Swedish actress
• Katarina Radivojević, Serbian actress
• Katarina Čas, Slovenian actress

In royalty:

• Katarina Eriksdotter, daughter of the Swedish king Eric the Saint
• Katarina Stenbock, third and last consort of Gustav I of Sweden and the Queen of Sweden
• Katarina Kosača, Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Stephen Thomas, the penultimate Bosnian sovereign

In sports:

• Katarina Ježić, Croatian handball player
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English track and field athlete
• Katarina Krpež Slezak, Serbian handball player
• Katarina Lavtar, Slovenian alpine skier
• Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian professional tennis player who lives in Dubai
• Katarina Timglas, Swedish ice hockey player
• Katarina Tomašević, Serbian handball player
• Katarina Vukomanović, Serbian volleyball player
• Katarina Waters, English professional wrestler
• Katarina Witt, German figure skater
• Katarina Wolfkostin, American ice dancer

In other fields:

• Katarina Carroll, Australian police officer
• Katarina Cicak, physicist working in the United States
• Katarina Frostenson, Swedish writer
• Katarina Ivanovska, Macedonian model
• Katarina Konstantinović, Serbian noblewoman
• Katarina Kruhonja, Croatian peace activist

In fiction:

• Katarina (Doctor Who), from the British television series Doctor Who
• Katarina Alves, from the video game series Tekken
• Katarina, from the anime Sailor Moon
• Katarina Cott, from the video game Suikoden IV
• Katarina de Leon, the protagonist in the video game Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat
• Katarina du Couteau, the Sinister Blade, a playable champion character in the MOBA video game League of Legends
• Katarina Claes, the protagonist in the light novel My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
• Katherine Pierce, born Katarina Petrova, doppelgänger in American TV series The Vampire Diaries

See also[]

• Katharina

References[]

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