Katherina (Kate) Minola is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew.

Many men have deemed Kate to be a poor option for marriage as she does not fit within the societal standards of what a good wife should be.

On the way to Padua to visit Baptista, Kate is further humiliated and broken down as Petruchio forces her to say that the sun is the moon, and that an old man is a beautiful woman.

Mary Pickford then plays her in the 1929 "talkie" version alongside Douglas Fairbanks and Dorothy Jordan as Petruchio and Bianca.

In the modern remake 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Kate becomes Kat Stratford and is played by Julia Stiles.

There is also an ABC Family television series with the same title as the 1999 film, and Kat Stratford is played by Lindsey Shaw.