List of Famous people named Ketty

Ketty Lester is an American singer and actress known for her 1962 hit single "Love Letters", which reached the top 5 of the charts in the U.S. and the UK. She is also known for her role as Hester-Sue Terhune on the American television series Little House on the Prairie.

Ketty Nivyabandi is a Burundian poet and human rights activist living in exile in Canada. She was born in Belgium and grew up in Bujumbura, Burundi, where she studied International Relations and worked as a journalist. Her French-language poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as World Literature Today and Words Without Borders, and in anthologies including We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa (2012) and Margaret Busby's New Daughters of Africa (2019). In 2012 Nivyabandi represented Burundi in the London Poetry Parnassus as part of the Summer Olympics.