Katya

Katya is a feminine given name. It is a very popular name in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia. It is a Russian diminutive form of Yekaterina, which is a Russian form of Katherine. The name is sometimes used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. In German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages it is spelled Katja. Katya may also refer to:

In the arts:
 * Katya Chilly (born 1978), Ukrainian singer
 * Katya Jones (born 1989), Russian dancer
 * Katya Lee (born 1984), Russian singer songwriter and fashion designer
 * Katya Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
 * Katya Paskaleva (1945–2002), Bulgarian actress
 * Katya Reimann (born 1965), American writer of fantasy novels
 * Katya Santos (born 1982), Filipina actress and model
 * Katya Zamolodchikova, (performed by Brian McCook, born 1982), American drag queen

In other fields:
 * Katya Adler, British journalist
 * Yekaterina Budanova (1916–1943), also known as Katya, female Soviet fighter ace in the Second World War
 * Katya De Giovanni, Maltese politician
 * Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American applied mathematician
 * Katya Soldak, journalist and documentary filmmaker (documentary The Long Breakup, 2020)

In fiction:
 * Katya Derevko, on the ABC television series Alias
 * Katya Kinski, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * Katya Nadanova, Bond girl in the game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
 * Katya Orlova, heroine of John le Carré's novel The Russia House and the film adaptation
 * Katya Vogt, the protagonist of Sandra Birdsell's historical novel The Russländer (aka Katya)
 * Katya (Highlander), an Immortal in Highlander: The Series
 * Katya, a character in the 2013 movie Stalingrad.
 * Katya Udinov, Alexandra Udinov's mother in Nikita
 * Katya, fictional villain portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in the 1996 Indian film Ghatak
 * Katya Michailov Goncharova, a character from the internet meme/nonexistant movie Goncharov (1973)

Other uses

 * Katya (spider), a genus of spiders