Harriet (name)

Harriet
Harriet Beecher Stowe is one famous Harriet.
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Germanic
Meaning	"home ruler"
Other names
Related names	Henry, Henriette, Henrietta, Harolda, Harry, Henrik, Hattie, Hatty

Harriet Adams (1892–1982), American juvenile novelist
Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937), American writer, explorer and photographer
Harriet Ryan Albee (1829-1873), American social reformer and philanthropist
Harriet Andersson (born 1937), Swedish actress
Harriet Anena, Ugandan writer and performer
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey (1819-1901), American educator, author, editor, publisher
Harriet Pritchard Arnold (1858-1901), American author
Harriet Auber (1773–1862), English poet, hymnwriter
Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1849–1903), American cosmetics entrepreneur and journalist
Harriet Backer (1845-1932), Norwegian painter
Harriett Baldwin (born 1960), British politician
Harriett Ball (1941-2011), American educator who inspired the KIPP program
Harriet Bates (1856-1886), American novelist, poet
Harriet Bibby (born 1998), English actress
Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), American artist
Harriet Bland (1915-1991), American sprinter
Harriet Bosse (1878–1961), Swedish-Norwegian actress
Harriet Boyd-Hawes (1871–1945), American archaeologist
Harriet G. Brittan (1822–1897), British-born American missionary
Harriet Brooks (1876–1933), Canadian nuclear physicist
Harriet Browne (1798–1858), British music composer
Harriet Browne (1932–1997), American tap dancer, educator and choreographer
Harriet Louisa Browne (1829–1906), New Zealand political salon hostess, community leader, and writer
Harriet Bruce-Annan (born 1965), Ghanaian programmer and humanitarian
Harriet Starr Cannon (1823–1896), American nun who founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary
Harriet Frances Carpenter (1868/75 – 1956), American educator, writer, suffragist
Harriet Carr (1771–1848), British artist
Harriet E. Clark (1850-1945), American teacher and author
Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 1866), British artist
Harriet Sophia Cobb (1846–1929), New Zealand photographer
Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematics educator
Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge (1849-1902), American author, philanthropist, reformer
Harriet L. Cramer (1847-1922), American newspaper publisher
Harriet Dart (born 1996), British tennis player
Harriet Ball Dunlap (1867-1957), American social reformer
Harriet Dyer (born 1988), Australian actress
Harriet Elphinstone-Dick (1852–1902), English-Australian swimmer
Harriet Farley (1812–1907), American writer, abolitionist, journalist, editor
Harriet Ford (1863/8–1949), American actress, playwright
Harriet Mary Ford (1859–1938), Canadian artist
Harriet Bliss Ford (1876–1964), American writer
Harriet Putnam Fowler (1842–1901), American writer
Harriet Schneider French (1824–1906), American physician and temperance movement activist
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980), American sculptor
Harriet E. Garrison (1848–1930), American physician, writer
Harriet Glanville (born 1927), American amateur golfer
Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff (1828-1901), American author, temperance reformer
Harriet Green (born 1961), British businesswoman
Harriet Grote (1792–1878), English biographer, political strategist, and supporter of women's suffrage
Harriet Hageman (born 1962), American politician and attorney
Harriet Hall (1945–2023), American medical doctor and skeptic
Harriet Louise Hardy (1905–1993), American physician and professor
Harriet Harman (born 1950), British politician and life peer
Harriet Newell Haskell (1835-1907), American educator and administrator
Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945), American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor
Harriet Bell Hayden (1816–1893), African-American antislavery activist
Harriet Hemings (1801–1870), one of four mixed-race children born to Sally Hemings
Harriet Herbig-Matten (born 2003), German actress
Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908), American sculptor
Harriet Howard (1823–1865), mistress of Napoleon III
Harriet Hunt (born 1978), English chess player
Harriet Lane Huntress (1860-1922), American civil servant
Harriet S. Iglehart (1927–2021), American philanthropist
Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897), American abolitionist and writer
Harriet Johnson, multiple people
Harriet Jones (musician) (born 1993), British singer
Harriet B. Jones (1856–1943), American physician and politician
Harriet B. Kells (1842–1913), American educator, activist, suffragist, feminist, editor
Harriet Keopuolani (1778–1823), Hawaiian queen
Harriet Byron McAllister (1798–1888), American philanthropist
Harriet McEwen Kimball (1834–1917), American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist, hospital co-founder
Harriet Kemsley (born 1987), English comedian.
Harriet Kerr (1859–1940) – British suffragette and manager of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)'s headquarters
Harriet Knowles (fl. 1845), Australian actress
Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1873–1949), American social reformer and suffragist
Harriet Lane (1830–1903), First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Harriet Nisbet Latta (1853–1910), American civic leader
Harriet Law (1831–1897), British freethinker
Harriet Lerner (born 1944), American feminist and clinical psychologist
Harriet Leve, American theater and movie producer
Harriet Lindeman (born 1946), Finnish politician
Harriet Livingston Fulton (1783–1826), Colonial aristocrat and painter
Harriet Low (1809–1877), American diarist
Harriet MacGibbon (1905–1987), American actress
Hattie Mahood (1860–1940), British Baptist deacon and women's suffragist
Harriet McClintock Marshall (1840–1925), American conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Gibbs Marshall (1868–1941), African-American musician, writer, and educator
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer, feminist philosopher, and political economist
Harriet McDougal (born 1939), American writer and editor
Harriet Metcalf (born 1958), American rower
Harriet Miers (born 1945), American lawyer and politician
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English philosopher and women's rights advocate
Harriet Mann Miller (1831–1918), American author, naturalist, ornithologist
Harriet Cornelia Mills (1920–2016), Japanese Chinese scholar
Harriet May Mills (1857–1935), American politician
Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American poet and editor
Harriet Earhart Monroe (1842–1927), American lecturer, educator, writer, and theater producer
Harriet Converse Moody (1857–1932), American businesswoman and arts patron^[3]
Harriet Morgan (1830–1907) Australian artist
Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy (1853–1935), British-American artist
Harriet Mitchell Murphy (1927–2024), African-American judge
Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007), Canadian Aboriginal rights activist
Harriet Nahienaena (1815–1836), Hawaiian princess
Harriet Ndow (1926–2019), Gambian educator
Harriet Nelson (1909–1994), American singer and actress
Harriet Hayes Skinner (1817–1893), American writer and editor
Harriet Wright O'Leary (1916-1999), American teacher and politician
Harriet Owen (born 1993), British cyclist
Harriet Pilpel (1911–1991), American attorney and women's rights activist
Harriet Powers (1837–1910), American female folk artist and quilter
Harriet Barnes Pratt (1878– 1969), American philanthropist, collector, administrator and horticulturist
Harriet Augusta Prunk (1840-1911) American reader, educator, school principal
Harriet Forten Purvis (1810–1875), American abolitionist
Harriet Quimby (1875-1912), American aviation pioneer
Harriet Newell Ralston (1828-1920), American poet
Harriet Redmond (c.1862–1952), African-American suffragist
Harriet Roberts, stage name Harriet (born 1966), British dance pop singer
Harriët van Reek (born 1957), Dutch writer and illustrator
Harriet Richardson (1874–1958), American carcinologist
Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825–1911), American suffragist
Harriet A. Roche (1835–1921), Canadian author
Harriet Samuel (1836–1908), English businesswoman and founder the jewelry retailer H. Samuel
Harriet Sansom Harris (born 1955), American actress
Harriet Schock (born 1941), American singer
Harriet Scott (born 1972), English radio presenter
Harriet Scott (born 1993), Irish footballer
Harriet Anne Scott (1819–1894), English novelist
Harriet Robinson Scott (c. 1820–1876), African American abolitionist and wife of Dred Scott
Harriet Smithson (1800–1854), Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz
Harriet Mabel Spalding (1862–1935), American poet, litterateur
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), American writer
Harriet Staunton (1841–1877), British murder victim
Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart (1798–1830), American missionary
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), American abolitionist and writer
Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, American writer
Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer (1854–1945), British botanical illustrator
Harriet Alfarata Thompson (1871–1922), American author
Harriet Thorpe (born 1957), English actress
Harriet Toompere (born 1975), Estonian actress
Harriet Tracy (1834–1918), American inventor
Harriet Tubman (1822–1913), American abolitionist
Harriet Taylor Upton (1853–1945), American suffragette and author
Harriet Vittum (1872–1953), American social reformer
Harriet Walter, English actress
Harriet Merrick Warren (1843–1893), American editor
Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), Political activist, magazine editor, literary executor of James Joyce
Harriet Wheeler (born 1963), English rock singer
Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), African-American novelist
Harriet Wistrich (born 1960), British lawyer and radical feminist
Harriet Zinnes (1919–2019), American writer
Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (1928–2019), American writer

Animals

Harriet (tortoise), a Galápagos tortoise which had an estimated age of 175 years at the time of her death

Mad Harriet, a DC Comics super villain
Harriet Arkham, daughter of the founder of Arkham Asylum in Batman comic books
Harriet Brindle, a character from the American science fiction sitcom, Small Wonder
Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, main character in novel by the American author Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Aunt Harriet Cooper, a character within the DC Universe
Harriet Garth, a character in Wilkie Collins's No Name
Harriet Hyde, Julia Jekyll's alter-ego in Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde
Harriet Jones, British Prime Minister in Doctor Who
Harriet Kepner-Avery, daughter of April Kepner and Jackson Avery in the television series Grey's Anatomy
Harriet Morton, protagonist of Eva Ibbotson's novel A Company of Swans
Harriet Schulenburg, character in the British sitcom Green Wing
Harriet Sims, U.S. Navy officer in the TV show JAG
Harriet Shelton, police officer in the British soap opera Doctors
Harriet Smith, character from Jane Austen's novel Emma
Harriet Swanson, character from the anime series Glitter Force (originally named Haru Midorikawa)
Harriet Vane, fictional mystery author in Dorothy L. Sayers' "Lord Peter" stories
Harriet Vanger, character from the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harriet Watson, John Watson's sister in the TV series Sherlock
Harriet M. Welsch, title character of Harriet the Spy
Harriet "Harry" Wild, the main character of the Irish comedy-drama television series, Harry Wild
Harriet Broodal, fictional rabbit character in the video game Super Mario Odyssey
Harriet the Turtle, from Franklin
Harriet the Hamster Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Harriet, a Simon Kidgits character developed by Simon Brand Ventures

Variants

As a given name

Animals

As a surname

Fictional Characters

Notes

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