List of Famous people named Karen

Karen Smyers is a triathlete from the United States. She is the 1990 and 1995 ITU Triathlon World Champion as well as the 1995 Ironman World Champion. She was inducted into the Triathlon Hall of Fame in January 2009.

Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist of Armenian descent. He is known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and the author of several hundred articles in his area.

Karen Carlson is an American actress.

Karen Sillas is an American stage and film actress. She graduated from the Acting Conservatory of the State University of New York. She is also a speech coach.

Karen Young is an American film, television, and stage actress.

Karen Arthur is an American film director, producer, and actress.

Karen Baker Landers is a two-time Academy Award-winning sound editor. She also has won and been nominated for several Motion Picture Sound Editors awards as well as winning the BAFTA Award for Best Sound. She often works with Per Hallberg.

Karen Vogtmann is an American mathematician working primarily in the area of geometric group theory. She is known for having introduced, in a 1986 paper with Marc Culler, an object now known as the Culler–Vogtmann Outer space. The Outer space is a free group analog of the Teichmüller space of a Riemann surface and is particularly useful in the study of the group of outer automorphisms of the free group on n generators, Out(F_n). Vogtmann is a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University and The University of Warwick.