Kim (given name)
Kim is one of both male and female first name.
Origin and Meaning of the Name
- English short form of Kimball Kimberly or
- Russian and Scandinavian short form for Joachim respectively Joakim
- Name of Chinese origin金( Mandarin: Jin, Cantonese: Kam, Vietnamese: Kim) = gold, metal
Name Days
Well-known bearers of the name
Female
- Kim Appleby ( born 1961 ), British pop singer
- Kim Basinger ( b. 1953 ), American actress
- Kim Bui (* 1989), German power gymnast
- Kim Buss (* 1986), German badminton player
- Kim Carnes ( born 1945 ), American musician and composer
- Kim Cattrall ( born 1956 ), Canadian- American actress
- Kim Clarke (born 1954 ), American jazz bassist and music educator
- Kim Clijsters ( b. 1983 ), Belgian tennis player
- Kim Darby ( born 1947 ), American actress
- Kim Delaney ( born 1961 ), American actress
- Kim Dickens (born 1965 ), American actress
- Kim Echlin ( born 1955 ), Canadian writer, university teacher and writer of documentaries
- Kim Fisher (born 1969 ), German singer and presenter
- Kim Gevaert (born 1978 ), former Belgian sprinter
- Kim Gordon ( born 1953 ), American rock musician, visual artist and curator
- Kim Gloss (* 1992), German singer of Polish descent
- Kim Greist (born 1958 ), American actress
- Kim Kardashian ( born 1980 ), American actress, model and entrepreneur
- Kim Kashkashian ( born 1952 ), American violist of Armenian descent
- Kim Kulig (* 1990), German football player
- Kim Lankford ( b. 1962 ), American actress
- Kim Little ( * 1990), Scottish football player
- Kim Martin ( born 1986 ), Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper
- Kim Novak ( born 1933), American actress
- Kim Petras (* 1992), German transsexual singer
- Kim Plofker (born 1964 ), American mathematics historian
- Kim Poirier ( born 1980 ), Canadian actress, singer and television presenter
- Kim Raisner (* 1972), German Modern pentathlete
- Kim Raver (born 1969 ), American actress
- Kim Rhode ( born 1979 ), American marksman
- Kim Rhodes (born 1969 ), American actress
- Kim Thomson ( born 1959 ), British actress
- Kim Tolliver (1937-2007), American soul singer
- Kim Weston ( born 1939 ), American soul singer
- Kim Wilde ( born 1960 ), British singer
Male
- Kim Fupz Aakeson (born 1958 ), Danish writer, illustrator and writer
- Kim Adler ( b. 1979 ), German television presenter
- Kim Andersen (born 1958 in ), former Danish cyclist
- Kim Andersson ( b. 1982 ), Swedish handball player
- Kim Berg beach ( born 1968 ), former Swedish footballer
- Kim Bodnia (born 1965 ), Danish film and theater actor
- Kim Borg (1919-2000), Finnish opera singer
- Kim Cascone ( born 1955 ), American composer of electronic and electro-acoustic music
- Kim Coates ( born 1959 ), Canadian actor
- Kim Collins (born 1976 ), athlete from St. Kitts and Nevis
- Kim Falkenberg ( * 1988), German football player
- Kim Fowley ( born 1939 ), American record producer, songwriter and musician
- Kim Frank (* 1982 ), German singer
- Kim Hasper (* 1975), German actor and voice actor
- Kim Hirschovits ( b. 1982 ), Finnish ice hockey player
- Kim Johnsson (born 1976 ), former Swedish professional ice hockey player
- Kim Kallstrom ( b. 1982 ), Swedish football player
- Kim Kirchen (born 1978 ), Luxembourgian cyclist
- Kim Larsen ( born 1945 ), Danish musician
- Kim leash ( b. 1961 ), Danish- Norwegian writer
- Kim Lindemann ( b. 1982 ), Swiss ice hockey player
- Kim Lykkeskov ( b. 1983 ), Danish hockey players
- Kim Magnusson (born 1965 ), Danish film producer
- Kim Mehmeti ( born 1955 ), the Albanian- Macedonian journalist and writer
- Kim Nasmyth ( born 1952 ), British molecular geneticist and cell biologist
- Kim Nekarda (* 1973), German painter
- Kim Newman ( born 1959 ), British film critic, journalist and writer
- Kim Nielsen ( born 1986 ), Danish track and road cyclist
- Kim Olsen ( born 1979 ), Danish football player
- Kim Peacock (1901-1966), British actor and radio speaker
- Kim Peek (1951-2009), American island Gifted
- Kim Philby (1912-1988), British secret agent and Soviet spy
- Kim Schmitz ( * 1974 ), German entrepreneur and conman
- Kim Rene Elverum Sorsell (* 1988), Norwegian ski jumper
- Kim Rossi Stuart (born 1969 ), Italian film and theater actor and film director
- Kim Vilfort (born 1962 ), former Danish football player
- Kim Wan ( born 1961 ), South Korean table tennis players
- Kim Warwick ( born 1952 ), former Australian tennis player
- Kim Weber (born 1971 ), former German heavyweight boxer
Fictitious
- Kim Possible cartoon character in the eponymous animated series
- Kim ( Kimball O'Hara ), fictional character from Rudyard Kipling
- Male first name
- Female first name
- Short form ( first name )
- English personal name