Hortense (given name)
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| Region of Origin | French |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Hortense |
Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:
Persons
- Hortense Béwouda, sprinter from Cameroon
- Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin from 1646 to 1699, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
- Hortense Ellis, reggae singer
- Hortense Calisher, author of In the Absence of Angels
- Hortense Schneider, French soprano from the Bordeaux region
- Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist best known for her studies of African-Americans in rural America and of Hollywood
- Hortense Parker, daughter of African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (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, an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States
- Hurricane Hortense, a 1996 category 4 Atlantic hurricane
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