Kim (given name)
Kim is a male and female unisex given name. It is also used as a diminutive or nickname for names such as Kimber, Kimberly, Kimberley, Kimball  and Kimiko. In Kenya it is short for various male names such as Kimutai and Kimani. In Vietnam it is also a unisex name. 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. 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  (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim (), "Joachim". Its popularity in the early Soviet era was explained as it being also the acronym for  (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International). Notable people

Movies and TV
 Kim Atienza (born 1967), Filipino entertainer
 Kim Basinger (born 1953), American actress
 Kim Bodnia (born 1965), Danish actor and director
 Kim Cattrall (born 1956), Canadian actress 
 Kim Chiu (born 1990), Filipino actress and singer
 Kim Coates (born 1958), Canadian actor 
 Kim Domingo (born 1995), Filipino entertainer
 Kim Fields (born 1969), American actress
 Kim Henkel (born 1946), American screenwriter and director
 Kim Manners (1951–2009), American television director and producer
 Kim Novak (born 1933), American actress
 Kim O'Brien, American actress
 Kim Richards (born 1964), American reality television personality, actress and socialite
 Kim Rossi Stuart (born 1969), Italian actor and director
 Kim Spradlin (born 1983), American interior designer
 Kim Woodburn (born 1942), English television personality
 Kim Yashpal, Indian actress and model
 Kim Zolciak-Biermann (born 1978), American television personality

Musicians
 Kim Appleby (born 1961), English singer
 Kim Boekbinder, Canadian musician 
 Kim Carnes (born 1945), American singer 
 Kim Cascone (born 1955), Italian American electronic music composer 
 Kim Deal (born 1961), American musician
 Kim Gannon (1900-1974), American songwriter
 Kim Gordon (born 1953), American musician
 Lil' Kim (born Kimberly Denise Jones, 1974), American rapper
 Kim Ljung (born 1971), Norwegian musician
 Kim Mitchell (born 1952), Canadian musician
 Kim Molina (born 1991), Filipino singer
 Kim Moyes (born 1976), Australian musician
 Kim Petersen (born 1956), Danish singer
 Kim Petras (born 1992), German singer
 Kimberley Rew (born 1951), English singer-songwriter
 Kim Thayil (born 1960), American musician
 Kim Walker-Smith (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
 Kim Wilde (born 1960), English singer
 Kim Wyatt (born 1982), American singer and dancer

Politics
 Kim Aas (born 1970), Danish politician
 Kim Beazley (born 1948), Australian politician
 Kim Beazley Sr. (1917–2007), Australian politician
 Kim Campbell (born 1947), Canadian politician
 Kim Carr (born 1955), Australian former politician
 Kim Guadagno (born 1959), American politician and lawyer
 Kim Kataguiri (born 1996), Brazilian politician and activist
 Kim Richards (born 1971), Australian politician
 Trần Trọng Kim (1883–1953), Vietnamese scholar and politician

Sports
 Kim Amb (born 1990), Swedish track and field athlete
 Kim Barnett (born 1960), former English cricketer
 Kim Batiste (1968–2020), American baseball player
 Kim Bokamper (born 1954), American former professional football player
 Kim Boutin (born 1994), Canadian short track speed skater
 Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls (born 1968), American professional bodybuilder
 Kim Clijsters (born 1983), Belgian former professional tennis player
 Kim Eagles (born 1976), Canadian sport shooter
 Kim English (born 1988), American former professional basketball player
 Kim Gevaert (born 1978), Belgian former sprint athlete
 Kim Grant (footballer) (born 1972), Ghanaian former footballer
 Kim Grant (tennis) (born 1971), South African former professional tennis player
 Kim Green, British-Australian former racing driver
 Kim Hagger (born 1961), English retired track and field athlete
 Kim Hirschovits (born 1982), Finnish former professional ice hockey player
 Kim Hughes (born 1954), Australian former cricketer
 Kim Huybrechts (born 1985), Belgian professional darts player
 Kim Johnsson (born 1976), Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman 
 Kim Källström (born 1982), Swedish former professional footballer
 Kim Kilpatrick (born  1966), Canadian Paralympic swimmer
 Kim Ng (born 1968), Chinese-American professional baseball executive
 Kim Rhode (born 1979), American double trap and skeet shooter
 Kim Staal (born 1978), Danish former professional ice hockey player
 Kim Sunna (born 1987), Swedish professional ice hockey player
 Kim Warwick (born 1952), Australian former tennis player

Other people
 Kim Cloutier (born 1987), Canadian-American model
 Kim Deitch (born 1944), American cartoonist
 Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz, 1974), German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist
 Kim Jones (disambiguation), several people
 Kim Kardashian (born 1980), American personality and businesswoman
 Kim Komando (born 1967), American talk-radio program host
 Kim Newman (born 1959), English author
 Kim Peek (1951–2009), American savant
 Kim Philby (born Harold Philby, 1912–1988), British spy and defector to the Soviet Union
 Kim Smith, several people
 Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952), American science fiction writer
 Kim Stolz (born 1983), American fashion model and television personality
 Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020), Dutch Canadian historian of science and art
 Kim Wall (died 2017), female murder victim

Fictional characters
 Kim, the main protagonist in Seedfolks
 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 in Class of 3000
 Kimball Cho in the American TV series The Mentalist
 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 Kitsuragi in the role-playing video game Disco Elysium
 Kim Moon, a character in the American sitcom It's Garry Shandling's Show
 Kim Pine in the series of graphic novels Scott Pilgrim
 Kim Possible, animated teenage crime fighter heroine 
 Kimiko Ross in webcomic Dresden Codak
 Kim Tate in the British soap opera Emmerdale
 Kimberly Wexler in the AMC television series Better Call Saul, portrayed by Rhea Seehorn

