Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:
Persons
- Hortense de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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
- Mademoiselle Hortense, character in the novel Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Other
- Hortense, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States
- Hurricane Hortense, a 1996 category 4 Atlantic hurricane
| This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. |