Harriet (name)

Harriet is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

Harriet is an English form of Henriette. More on the meaning can be found under Henry.

Name winners

  • Harriet Andersson ( born 1932 ), Swedish actress
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe (born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, 1811-1896 ), American writer and declared opponent of slavery
  • Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (born Kensit; 1877-1970 ), South African botanist
  • Harriet Boyd Hawes - (1871-1945), American archaeologist
  • Harriet Brooks (1876-1933), Canadian nuclear physicist
  • Harriet Baldwin Creighton (1909-2004), American biologist
  • Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), American sculptor
  • Harriet Hunt (born 1978 ), British chess champion
  • Harriet Quimby (1875-1912), American pilot
  • Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876-1961), English feminist editor and author
  • Harriet Taylor Mill ( née Hardy; 1807-1858 ), British suffragette and author
  • Harriet Tubman ( Araminta Ross Birth name; approx. 1820-1913 ), U.S. assistant escape the Underground Railroad
  • Harriet Wegener (1890-1980), Hamburger author, politician (FDP) and women's rights activist
  • Harriet Williams Russell Strong (1844-1926), American inventor, conservationist and women's rights activist

Fictional people

  • Harriet Smith, Emma's best friend in Emma by Jane Austen
Harriet Backer Emma (novel)
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