Cathy (given name) explained
Cathy is a feminine given name. It is a pet form of Catherine or Cathleen.[1]
Cathy may refer to:
People
Artists
In sports
In acting
- Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress
- Cathy Downs, American film actress
- Cathy Jones, Canadian actress and comedian
- Cathy Keenan, Canadian actress
- Cathy O'Donnell, American actress
- Cathy Podewell, American actress
- Cathy Rigby, American actress and gymnast
- Cathy Silvers, the daughter of actor/comedian Phil Silvers
- Cathy Tyson, British actress
- Cathy Weseluck, Canadian voice actress
In music
- Cathy Berberian, American mezzosoprano and composer; first wife of Luciano Berio
- Cathy Davey, Irish singer/songwriter
- Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, musical partners
In other fields
Fictional characters
- Cathy Ames, the main antagonist from East of Eden
- Cathy Brenner, a character in Alfred Hitchcock's film The birds, played by Veronica Cartwright
- the title character of Cathy (comic strip)
- Cathy Lane, on The Patty Duke Show, played by Patty Duke
- Cathy Linton, from Wuthering Heights
- Cathy Matthews, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Cathy Simms, fictional character in The Office
- Cathy, fictional character in Palibhasa Lalake portrayed by Carmina Villarroel.
- Cathy Smith, a fictional character from the animated science fiction series, Monster Buster Club.
See also
- Cathee Dahmen (1945–1997), American model
- Catherina
- S. Truett Cathy (1921–2014), American businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist, founder of the fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A
- Bubba Cathy (born), American billionaire businessman, son of the above
- Kathy, feminine given name
Notes and References
- Web site: MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Cathy . 2009-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090909113351/http://www.mfnames.com/fnames/c/origin-and-meaning-of-cathy.htm . 2009-09-09 . dead .
