Kiran Shaw is a scale double in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson, not those awful animated ones where Gollum looks like a frog) and is also the queen's servant in The Chronicles of Narnia movie.
The Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai became the youngest woman to win the Man Booker literature prize with her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, in 2006.
Kiran Hayes is one of the all-powerful Billings Girls in the first four novels in Kate Brian's Private series.
-- Anonymous User 12/27/2007
I have a friend named Kiran, but people (mainly teachers) have been calling her Karen for so long (misreading it as Karin), she jut has everyone outside of her family call her Karen. Personally, I think she should appreciate her name more, because it is beautiful.