Famous People with Name Karen

Karen Patricia Moe-Thornton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Patricia Moe-Thornton: is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the 200 m Butterfly at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Karen Hope Dunnell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Hope Dunnell: has been National Statistician, Registrar General and Director of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom since 1 September 2005.Karen Dunnell studied sciences at school because she wanted to go into medicine. However, a growing interest

Karen Akers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Akers: is an American actress and singer, who has appeared on Broadway, cabaret and film.Her ancestry was a mixture of European stock: her immigrant father, Heinrick C. Orth-Pallavicini (reportedly a member of the European nobility who dropped his title when he

Karen Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Alexander: was an American singer-songwriter who had some success in the 1970s.She was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in one of the suburbs of Hollywood. Her father had a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills. During the Cuban missile crisis she cam

Karen Brooks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Brooks: is an American country music singer who is best-known for a series of Top 40 hits on the Billboard Country Chart in the early 1980s, including "Faking Love," a duet with T.G. Sheppard.

Maulana Karenga            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maulana Karenga: and also known as Ron Everett) is an African American author, political activist, and ex-convict. He is best known as the founder of Kwanzaa, a week-long Pan-African celebration observed each year from December 26 to January 1, initiated in California in 1967.

Ron Karenga            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ron Karenga: is an African American author, political activist, college professor, and convicted felon. He is best known as the founder of Kwanzaa, a week-long Pan-African celebration observed almost exclusively in the United States each year from December 26 to Janua