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
• Kiki Rindt, Austrian TV host. One of the torchbearer of 2012 Winter Youth Olympics.

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

• Kiki, the collective name for the two most prominent texts, Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, of Japanese mythology
• Kiki (magazine), a magazine for young girls
• Kiki (1926 film), starring Norma Talmadge
• Kiki (1931 film), a 1931 film starring Mary Pickford, a remake of the 1926 film

Places

• Ki Ki, South Australia
• Near Łódź, Poland:
  • Kiki, Łask County
  • Kiki, Poddębice County

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