Katherine Alice Salvin Tristram (29 April 1858 – 24 August 1948) was a British missionary and teacher in Japan.

She was employed by the Church Missionary Society and for about forty years she led the Bishop Poole's Memorial Girls School in Osaka.

Her parents were Eleanor Mary (born Bowlby) and Henry Baker Tristram.

[3] She was assigned to the Japan Mission and she became the head teacher of the CMS's school for girls in Osaka.

[5] Her father was very involved with work for the CMS and he made a special trip to visit her in Japan in 1891,[6] although while he was there he continued his study of ornithology and Katherine helped with his collecting by acting as his translator.