Hortense (given name)
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Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:

Persons
  • Hortense de Beauharnais
    Hortense de Beauharnais
    Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte , Queen Consort of Holland, was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I, being the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. She later became the wife of the former's brother, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and the mother of Napoleon III, Emperor of...

    , stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte
    Napoleon I of France
    Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

  • Hortense Béwouda
    Hortense Béwouda
    Hortense Béwouda is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Her personal best time is 51.04 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Algiers...

    , sprinter from Cameroon
  • Hortense Mancini
    Hortense Mancini
    Hortense Mancini, duchesse Mazarin , was the favourite niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland...

    , Duchess of Mazarin from 1646 to 1699, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
  • Hortense Ellis
    Hortense Ellis
    Hortense Ellis was a reggae musician, and the younger sister of fellow artist, Alton Ellis.-Biography:Her father worked on the railways while her mother ran a fruit stall. She was 18 years old when she appeared on the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour, then Jamaica's foremost outlet for young...

    , reggae singer
  • Hortense Calisher
    Hortense Calisher
    Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction.-Personal life:Born in New York City, New York, and a graduate of Hunter College High School and Barnard College , Calisher was the daughter of a young German Jewish immigrant mother and a somewhat older Jewish father from Virginia whose family...

    , author of In the Absence of Angels
  • Hortense Schneider
    Hortense Schneider
    Hortense Catherine Schneider, La Snédèr, was a French soprano, one of the greatest operetta stars of the 19th century, particularly associated with the works of composer Jacques Offenbach.-Biography:...

    , French soprano from the Bordeaux region
  • Hortense Powdermaker
    Hortense Powdermaker
    Hortense Powdermaker was an anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood. Born to a Jewish family, Powdermaker spent her childhood in Reading, Pennsylvania and in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied history and the humanities at...

    , anthropologist best known for her studies of African-Americans in rural America and of Hollywood
  • Hortense Parker
    Hortense Parker
    Hortense Parker Gilliam, born Hortense Parker , was the first known African-American graduate of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, in 1883. She taught music and piano at elementary school in Kansas City, Missouri from 1906-1913. That year she married James Marcus Gilliam, and moved with him to St...

    , daughter of African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker
  • Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
    Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
    Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot was a French painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of Paris, she began studies with Guillaume Lethière, a popular history painter and family friend, at the age of seven; when he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1807, she...

     (Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot), French painter of genre scenes


Fictional characters
  • Hortense McDuck, character from the Scrooge McDuck universe
  • Hortense Briggs, character in the novel An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser


Other
  • Hortense, Georgia
    Hortense, Georgia
    Hortense is an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its ZIP code is 31543.Hortense lies at an elevation of 56 feet ....

    , an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia
    Brantley County, Georgia
    Brantley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the 'Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Brantley, Glynn, and McIntosh counties. As of 2000, the population is 14,629. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 15,440...

    , United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

  • Hurricane Hortense
    Hurricane Hortense
    Hurricane Hortense was the eighth tropical storm, sixth hurricane, and second Category 4 hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. Lasting from September 3 to September 16, Hortense brought torrential flooding as it moved through the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic...

    , a 1996 category 4 Atlantic hurricane
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