Kiki
Kiki is a given name, surname or nickname; for example, in Spanish, Kiki, Kike (key-kay), or Kiko are forms of a nickname for Enrique (Henry), or Kika for the female Enriqueta (Henrietta). In Greek it is a shortening of Vasiliki (ki-key). Other spellings include Quiqui, Quique. In English, however, Kiki almost exclusively refers to a female.
Kiki may refer to:
People
Music
- Kiki Carter, activist, singer/songwriter, and columnist
- Kiki Dee, British singer/songwriter
- Kiki Djan, Ghanaian musician who was the keyboardist with the band Osibisa
- Kiki DuRane, of the fictitious cabaret act Kiki and Herb, played in drag by Justin Bond
- Kierra Sheard, gospel artist nicknamed Ki Ki
Sports
- Kiki Cutter, American alpine skier
- Kiki Cuyler, American baseball player; unlike others, his name is pronounced cuy-cuy from his surname.
- Kiki Musampa, Dutch footballer who currently plays for FC Seoul
- Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and sports analyst
Other fields
- "Kiki", nickname of Enrique Camarena, undercover agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration
- "Kiki de Montparnasse", or "Kiki" pseudonym/nickname of the French artist, writer and model Alice Prin
- Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet
- Kiki Håkansson, nickname for Kerstin Håkansson, the winner of the first Miss World beauty pageant in 1951
- Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress
- Kiki Kogelnik, Austrian painter, sculptor and filmmaker
- Katherina "Kiki" Kosinski (neé von Fraunhofer), wife of novelist Jerzy Kosinski
- Kiki of Paris, Parisian photographer
- Kiki (Kimberly) Cosemans, Belgian - Filipino Ergotherapist Student
- Kiki Preston, American socialite and alleged mother of a son born out of wedlock with HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent
- Kiki Sanford, American research scientist in neurophysiology
- Kiki Shepard, African-American television host
- Kiki Sheung, Hong Kong actress
- Kiki Smith, American feminist artist
Fictional characters
- Kirsten Cohen, a character nicknamed "Kiki" in The O.C. TV series
- Kiki, the name of the main character in the Japanese animation Kiki's Delivery Service
- Kiki Strike, one of the main characters in the Kiki Strike book series by Kirsten Miller.
- Kiki, Rolf Liechti's Griffon Bruxellois dog in the film Gosford Park
- Kiki, the name of a minor character in Saint Seiya, a Japanese manga series
- Kiki, the youngest of the Twin Stars, Sanrio characters
- Kiki Flores, the name of a main character in The Puzzle Place, a TV series
- Kiki, one of the four main characters of the Nickelodeon Network children's TV show The Fresh Beat Band.
- Kiki, a cockatoo in The Adventure Series novels
- Kiki, a ferret character in the Sluggy Freelance webcomic
- Kiki the Hyperactive Monkey of Sentosa is the former mascot of Sentosa in Singapore.He makes his first animated debut in Magical Sentosa.
- Kiki the frog in Hector's house - children's programme of 1960's
- Kiki Harrison, the name of Julia Roberts character in America's Sweethearts movie.
Films, books, magazines
Places
Radio stations
- KIKI (AM), a radio station (990 AM) licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- KHJZ, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, formerly KIKI, which operates an HD channel named KIKI
- KHVH, a radio station (830 AM) licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, which held the call sign KIKI from 1973 to 1990
Other uses
- Bouba/kiki effect, an observed neurophysiological effect tying certain sounds to specific shapes