Literature
- Hester Latterly, main character of Anne Perry's 'Monk' detective series
- Miss Hester Asa Moore, a character in Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle Trilogy
- Hester Prynne, main character of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
- The Character and Death of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers, a 1794 Methodist tract
- Hester Shaw, a character from Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet
- Hester Street (film)
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