Kirsten (surname)

Kirsten is a surname which may refer to:

People

• Amy Beth Kirsten (born 1972), American composer
• Benjamin Kirsten (born 1987), German football goalkeeper
• Dorothy Kirsten (1910–1992), American opera singer
• Frik Kirsten (born 1988), South African rugby union footballer
• Gary Kirsten (born 1967), South African cricket coach and former player, half-brother of Peter Kirsten
• Jannes Kirsten (born 1993), South African rugby union footballer
• Noel Kirsten (1925–1986), South African cricketer, father of Gary, Paul and Peter Kirsten
• Odine Kirsten (born 1994), South African cricketer
• Paul Kirsten (born 1969), South African cricketer, brother of Gary Kirsten and half-brother of Peter Kirsten
• Peter Kirsten (born 1955), South African cricketer
• Ralf Kirsten (1930–1998), German film director and screenwriter
• Ulf Kirsten (born 1965), German footballer
• Werner H. Kirsten (1925—1992), German pathologist and cancer researcher
• Wulf Kirsten (1934–2022), German poet, novelist and writer

Fictional characters

• Cameron Kirsten, in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless