Karen Young may refer to:

• Karen Young (actress) (born 1958), American film and TV actress
• Karen Young (author), American romance novelist of the late 20th / early 21st centuries
• Karen Young (American singer) (1951–1991), disco singer, one-hit-wonder of the late 1970s
• Karen Young (British singer) (born 1946), released several singles in the late 1960s
• Karen Young (Canadian singer) (born 1951), singer and composer
• Karen Young (cricketer) (born 1968), Irish cricketer
• Karen Lewis Young (born 1951), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates
• Karen Young, one of the pseudonyms of Mary Millington (1945–1979)