Hortense

For other uses, see Hortense (disambiguation).

Hortense
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