1. Notable people
    Politics  Sports  Artists  Other people 

2. Fictional characters

3. See also

4. References

Kim is a male or female given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for names such as Kimberly, Kimberley, Kimball and Kimiko. In Kenya it is short for Kimani or Kimathi which are male names

A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, published in 1901. The name is also found in the opening of Edna Ferber's 1926 novel Show Boat, whose female protagonist, Magnolia names her baby daughter Kim; the name was inspired by the convergence of the three states Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri – where the child was born.

From the 1900s to the 1960s, the name Kim was mainly given to boys, despite the use of this name for both male and female characters in popular literature and, later, movies of the time.^[1] In Scandinavia Kim can more often be used as a male name in its own right, being a common short form of Joakim.

In Russia {{lang|ru|Ким}} (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim ({{lang-ru|Иоаким}}), "Joachim".^[2] Its popularity in the early Soviet era was explained as it being also the acronym for {{lang|ru|Коммунистический Интернационал Молодежи}} (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International).

Notable people

Politics

• Kim Beazley, Australian politician, son of Kim Edward Beazley
• Kim Edward Beazley, Australian politician
• Kim Kataguiri, Brazilian political activist
• Kim Campbell, first and only (to date) female Canadian Prime Minister
• Kim Guadagno, New Jersey politician

Sports

• Kim Batiste, American baseball player
• Kim Bokamper, American football player
• Kim Boutin, Canadian short track ice skater
• Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Kim Clijsters (born 1983), Belgian tennis player
• Kim Eagles (born 1976), Canadian sport shooter
• Kim English, American basketball player
• Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprint athlete
• Kim Grant (footballer), Ghanaian former footballer
• Kim Grant (tennis), South African tennis player
• Kim Green, British-Australian racing team owner and promoter
• Kim Hagger, English track and field athlete
• Kim Hirschovits, Finnish ice hockey player
• Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer
• Kim Huybrechts, Belgian darts player
• Kim Johnsson, Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman
• Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
• Kim Rhode, skeet shooter
• Kim Staal, Danish ice hockey player
• Kim Sunna, Swedish professional ice hockey player
• Kim Warwick, Australian former tennis player
• Carlos Henrique Dias, Brazilian footballer nicknamed "Kim"

Artists

• Lil' Kim (born 1975), American rapper
• Kim Appleby (born 1961), British singer
• Kim Basinger (born 1953), actress
• Kim Bodnia (born 1965), Danish actor and director
• Kim Carnes (born 1945), American singer
• Kim Cascone (born 1955), American electronic music composer
• Kim Cattrall(born 1956), Canadian actress
• Kim Chiu (born 1990), teen actress in the Philippines
• Kim Coates (born 1958), Canadian actor
• Kim Deal (born 1961), American musician
• Kim Deitch (born 1944), comic book artist
• Kim Fields (born 1969), American actress
• Kim Gannon (1900-1974), American songwriter
• Kim Gordon (born 1953), American musician
• Kim Ljung (born 1971), Norwegian musician
• Kim Manners (1951–2009), television director and producer
• Kim Mitchell (born 1952), musician and radio personality
• Kim Moyes, Australian musician
• Kim Novak (born 1933), actress
• Kim Petersen, also known as King Diamond, singer
• Kim Petras, German singer
• Kimberley Rew (born 1951), English singer-songwriter
• Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and film director
• Kim Thayil, lead guitarist for Soundgarden
• Kim Walker-Smith, Singer in band "Jesus Culture"
• Kim Wilde, singer
• Kim Wyatt, singer and dancer
• Kim Zolciak, American singer and reality star from The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Other people

• Kim, a Jaredite king in the Book of Mormon
• Kim Dotcom, Founder of MegaUpload, two-time Gumball 3000 winner and Internet entrepreneur
• Kim Jones (disambiguation), any of several people
• Kim Kardashian, American personality
• Kim Komando, American talk-radio program host
• Kim Mathers, wife of Eminem, subject of song "Kim" from The Marshall Mathers LP
• Kim Newman, English author
• Kim Peek (1951–2009), American savant
• Kim Philby, British spy and defector to the Soviet Union. He was said to have derived his nickname from the book Kim
• Kim Smith (disambiguation), British Royal Navy Officer and submariner
• Kim Stanley Robinson, American science fiction writer
• Kim Stolz, American fashion model, television personality
• Kim Wall, Swedish freelance journalist, killed by Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen
• Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish racing driver

Fictional characters

• Kim Possible (character), animated teenage crime fighter heroine
• Kim Bauer in the TV series 24
• Kim Butterfield in the soap opera Hollyoaks
• Kim Chan in Have Gun Will Travel, usually called Hey Boy
• Kim Chin, a character in Class of 3000
• Kim Pine, a character in the series of graphic novels Scott Pilgrim
• Kim Craig in the Australian sitcom Kath & Kim
• Kim Fox in the soap opera EastEnders
• Kimberly Hart in the Power Rangers franchise, portrayed by Amy Jo Johnson
• Kim Kaphwan from the Fatal Fury series
• Kimiko Ross in webcomic Dresden Codak
• Kim Tate in the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Kim, the main protagonist in Seedfolks
• Kimball Cho in the American TV series The Mentalist

See also

• Kim (surname)
• Kim (Korean surname)
• Kim (disambiguation) (other meanings)

References

• BSNP
• BS Nymph
• BSO Airport
• Bsouss
• BSP-1915
• B. spectabilis
• BSP - Left Bulgaria
• Bspline
• BSP Madhya Pradesh
• Bs pradeep varma
• B.S. Pradeep Varma
• BSP thread
• BSRM
• BSRPS
• BSSFP
• BSSH
• B S Shiju
• B.S. Stomoniakov
• B. S. Stomoniakov
• B. S. Stomonyakov
• B.S. Stomonyakov
• B.S.T.
• B-Stabmine
• B-staged
• BSTI