Hortense
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Hortense | |
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Gender | Feminine |
Origin | |
Region of origin | French |
Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:
Persons
- Hortense Allart (1801-1879), Italian-French feminist writer and essayist
- Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), stepdaughter of Napoleon and Queen consort of Holland
- Hortense Sapphire’s sister in TV show “Amos ‘N Andy 1928-1953. Sapphire was the wife of George "Kingfish" Stevens. Hortense was her sister who stayed with them in trying times.
- Hortense Béwouda (born 1978), sprinter from Cameroon
- Hortense Clews (1926-2006), member of the Belgian Resistance in World War II
- Hortense Dufour (born 1946), French writer
- Hortense Ellis (1941-2000), Jamaican reggae singer
- Hortense Calisher (1911-2009), American fiction writer, author of In the Absence of Angels
- Hortense Globensky-Prévost (1804-1873), Canadian heroine
- Hortense Gordon (1886-1961), Canadian abstract painter
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1784-1845), French painter of genre scenes
- Hortense or Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788), French astronomer and mathematician
- Hortense Mancini (1646-1699), Duchess of Mazarin and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
- Hortense Powdermaker (1900-1970), American anthropologist
- Hortense Parker (1859–1938), music teacher and daughter of African-American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist John Parker
- Hortense Rhéa (1844-1899), French actress
- Hortense Schneider (1833-1920), French soprano
- Hortense Sparks Ward (1872-1944), pioneering Texas lawyer and women's rights activist
Fictional characters
- Mademoiselle Hortense, in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Hortense Cumberbatch, in the film Secrets & Lies by British director, Mike Leigh
- Hortense Briggs, in the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Hortense Daigle, portrayed by Eileen Heckart in The Bad Seed play and film
- Hortense McDuck, a Disney character who is Scrooge McDuck's sister and Donald Duck's mother
- Hortense, another Disney character who was the horse of young Scrooge McDuck and was named after Scrooge's sister
- Hortense Derry, portrayed by Gladys George in The Best Years of Our Lives film
- Hortense Toomey Campanati, in the novel Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- Hortense, adopted sister of Michael Roberts in the novel "Small Island" by Andrea Levy
- Hortense, later known as Mist, from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
- Hortense, Donald Duck's pet in comic books and a cartoon - see Donald's Ostrich
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