Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine.^[1] Notable people with this name include:

• 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

• Katharina Bergobzoomová (1755–1788), Czech opera singer

• Katharina Fröhlich (1800–1879), Austrian lover of Franz Grillparzer, patron of artists and writers
• Katharina Rapp (born 1948), German artist
• Katja Oxman (born 1942), born Katharina Protassowsky, German-born American visual artist

• Katharina Gallhuber, Austrian alpine skier
• Katharina Huber, Austrian alpine skier
• Katharina Liensberger, Austrian alpine skier
• Katharina Truppe, Austrian alpine skier

• Katharina Baunach, German footballer
• Katharina Dalton, British physician and pioneer in the research of premenstrual stress syndrome
• Katharina Klafsky, Hungarian operatic singer
• Katharina Kucharowits (born 1983), Austrian politician
• Katharina Slanina (born 1977), German politician
• 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), Swiss last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey

• 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)