Kathryn is a 20th-century American variant of Catherine — from the Greek katharos (pure). **A top-50 US baby name from 1909 to 1925**. **Kathryn Bigelow (born 1951)** — **American filmmaker; in 2010, with *The Hurt Locker* (2008), became the first woman in the 82-year history of the Academy Awards to win Best Director — and the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award**. **Also won Best Picture as a producer of *The Hurt Locker* — only the second woman to win the top Oscar as a producer (after Sherry Lansing)**. **Directed *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012) — about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, written and based on actual reporting**. **Kathryn Hahn (born 1973)** — *WandaVision* (2021) Emmy nomination, *Agatha All Along* (2024). **Kathryn Hepburn** — covered separately under Katherine. **Kathryn Joosten** — Emmy-winning *Desperate Housewives* actress.
Subject of countless 2010 Oscars retrospectives.
Kathryn reduces to seven — the number of pure.