Harriet (name) - As A Given Name

As A Given Name

• Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress
• Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
• Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and writer
• Harriet Bland, Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter
• Harriet Bosse, actress
• Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist
• Harriet Brooks, nuclear physicist
• Harriet Chalmers Adams, American writer, explorer and photographer
• Harriet Elphinstone-Dick, early English-Australian swimming champion
• Harriet Harman, UK politician and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
• Harriet Hemings, one of four mixed-race children born to Sally Hemings; their father is widely believed to have been the president Thomas Jefferson
• Harriet Howard, mistress of Napoleon III
• Harriet Lindeman, politician
• Harriet Ann Jacobs, American abolitionist and writer
• Harriet B. Jones (1856 - 1943), the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia
• Harriet Keopuolani, Hawaiian queen
• Harriet Lane, niece of bachelor President James Buchanan and First Lady of the United States
• Harriet Lerner, feminist and clinical psychologist
• Harriet Low (1809-1877), American diarist
• Harriet Martineau, English writer, feminist philosopher, and political economist
• Harriet Metcalf, Olympic gold medal-winning rower
• Harriet Miers, lawyer and politician
• Harriet Nahanee, Canadian Aboriginal rights activist
• Harriet Nahienaena, Hawaiian princess
• Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress best known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
• Harriet Owen, actress
• Harriet Quimby, first American female pilot and first woman to fly across the English channel
• Harriet Roberts, British dance pop singer
• Harriet Anne Scott, English novelist
• Harriet Shaw Weaver, journalist and patron of James Joyce
• Harriet Smithson, Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz
• Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Beat writer
• Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 – 1858), philosopher and women's rights advocate.
• Harriet Taylor Upton, suffragette and author
• Harriet Tubman, abolitionist
• Harriet Wheeler, rock singer
• Harriet E. Wilson, first female African-American novelist