Therese or Thérèse is a variant of the feminine given name Teresa. It may refer to:

Persons

Therese

* Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773–1839), member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg *

Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Princess Therese Natalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (4 June 1728 in Wolfenbüttel – 26 June 1778 in Gandersheim Abbey, in Bad Gandersheim) was a German noblewoman. She was a member of the House of Welf and was princess-abbess of th ...

(1728–1778), German noblewoman * Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, (1792–1854), queen of Bavaria *

Therese Alshammar Malin Therese Alshammar (born 26 August 1977) is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. She is a specialist in short distances races in freestyle and butterfly. She ...

(born 1977), Swedish swimmer *

Therese Björk Therese Björk (born 15 September 1981) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Bergdalens IK. External links ;Kristianstads Runner-up * Svenska Cupen Svenska Cupen (, ''The Swedish Cup'') is a knockout cup competition in Swedish football a ...

(born 1981), Swedish footballer *

Therese Borssén Therese Borssén, (born 12 December 1984) in Rättvik, is a Swedish former skier specialized in slalom. Her first World Cup win came in Semmering, on 29 December 2006. She resides in Rättvik and Stockholm. Therese participated in the 2006 Wi ...

(born 1984), Swedish skier *

Therese Brandl Therese Brandl (1 February 1902 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi concentration camp guard. In March 1942, Brandl was among the SS women assigned to Auschwitz I concentration camp. Her duties included watching over women in the sorting sheds and as ...

(1902–1948), Nazi concentration camp guard. Convicted of crimes against humanity after the war and executed * Therese Brophy, player * Therese Crawford (born 1976), American volleyball player * Therese Elssler (1808–1878), Austrian dancer and baroness * Therese Giehse (1898–1975), German actress *

Therese Grankvist Therese Grankvist (born 2 May 1977) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She started recording in 1997 under the Drömhus alias, and goes by Therese since the release of her single "Monkey" in 2002. She may be best known for her internationally ...

(born 1977), Swedish singer and songwriter also known as Drömhus and Therese *

Therese Grob Therese Grob (16 November 1798 – 17 March 1875) was a singer and is alleged to have been the first love of the composer Franz Schubert. The composer's friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner recalled – twenty-six years after Schubert's death: "Fr ...

(1798–1875), first love of the composer Franz Schubert * Therese Grünbaum (1791–1876), Austrian soprano and opera singer * Therese Huber (1764–1829), German author *

Therese Johaug Therese Johaug (born 25 June 1988) is a Norwegian cross-country skier from the village of Dalsbygda in Os municipality who has competed for the clubs Tynset IF and IL Nansen. In World Ski Championships she has won ten individual gold medals ...

(born 1988), Norwegian cross-country skier * Therese Lundin (footballer) (born 1979), Swedish footballer *

Therèse Lundin (swimmer) Therèse Lundin (born August 2, 1970 in Uddevalla, Västra Götaland) is a former Swedish Olympic Butterfly stroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmer. She competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she finished 12th in the 100 m butterfl ...

(born 1970), Swedish swimmer *

Therese Maher Therese Maher is a camogie player, and winner of Five All Star awards 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2011 and 2013. She finally got an All-Ireland Medal in 2013 after 16 years when her team defeated Kilkenny in the final 1-09 to 0-07 points. She plays ...

, camogie player *

Therese Malfatti Baroness Therese von Droßdik, née Malfatti (1 January 1792 – 27 April 1851), was an Austrian musician and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. She is best known as one of the possible dedicatees of Beethoven's famous bagatelle, ''Für Eli ...

(1792–1851), Austrian musician and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven * Therese Malten (real name Therese Müller) (1855–1930), German dramatic soprano * Therese Maron (1725–1806), German painter * Therese Murray (born 1947), American state legislator * Therese Neumann (1898–1962), German Catholic mystic and stigmatic * Therese Schnabel (1876–1959), German contralto * Therese Sjölander (born 1981), Swedish ice hockey player * Therese Sjögran (born 1977), known as Terre, Swedish football (soccer) player * Therese Svendsen (born 1989), Swedish swimmer * Therese Torgersson (born 1976), Swedish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist * Therese Vogl (1845–1921), German operatic soprano *

Therese Zenz Theresia Maria “Therese” Zenz (15 October 1932 – 22 October 2019) was a Saar-born German sprint canoer. She took part in the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won three silver medals for the United Team of Germany in 1956 and 1960. At ...

(1932–2019), German sprint canoer

Therése

Therése O'Callaghan Therése O'Callaghan is a camogie player, captain of the winning National Camogie League team in 1991 and again in 1996. She also captained her club Glen Rovers to the All Ireland club championship of 1990. Career She won All Ireland medals ...

, camogie player

Thérèse

Princess Thérèse of France Princess is a regal rank and the feminine equivalent of prince (from Latin ''princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a king or prince. Princess as a subst ...

(1736–1744), French Princesse du Sang *

Thérèse Albert Thérèse Vernet (-1846) was a French actress, widely known as Madame Albert from her marriage to Albert Rodrigues, an actor who performed under his given name. Born to an acting family, she attained fame for her grace and beauty as well as for t ...

(c. 1805–1846), French actress *

Thérèse Blondeau Thérèse Blondeau (December 4, 1913 – June 28, 2013) was a French swimmer who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. She failed to advance beyond the first round of the women's 100 metre backstroke event. She had swum previously a ...

(1913–2013), French swimmer *

Thérèse Bonney Thérèse Bonney (born Mabel Bonney, Syracuse, New York, July 15, 1894 – Paris, France, January 15, 1978) was an American photographer and publicist. Bonney was best known for her images taken during World War II on the Russian-Finnish front. H ...

(1894–1978), American photographer and publicist *

Thérèse Brenet Thérèse Brenet (born 22 October 1935) is a French composer. Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Reims and since 1954 the Conservatoire de Paris. Among her teachers were Maurice Duruflé, Henri Dutilleux, Darius Milhaud, and Jean R ...

(born 1935), French composer *

Thérèse Casgrain Marie Thérèse Casgrain, ., née Forget (10 July 1896 – 3 November 1981) was a French Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first ...

(1896–1981), feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada *

Thérèse Caval Thérèse Caval (1750–1795), was a French revolutionary. She is regarded as a symbolic heroine of the French revolution in Marseilles Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the Frenc ...

(1750–1795), French revolutionary * Thérèse Chardin, French hairstylist and celebrity * Thérèse Coffey (born 1971), English politician * Thérèse Couderc, also known as St. Theresa Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle, a Catholic religious order *

Thérèse Daviau Thérèse Daviau, also known as Thérèse Daviau-Bergeron (1946–2002), was a Canadian politician, an attorney and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec. Career Daviau was born in 1946 and received a law degree from Université de Montréal. In ...

(1946–2002), Quebec, Canada politician, an attorney and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec *

Thérèse Delpech Thérèse Delpech (11 February 1948 – 17 January 2012) was a French international relations expert and prolific public intellectual. Thèrese Delpech graduated from the École Normale Supérieure and went on to pass the agrégation of philoso ...

(1948–2012), French intellectual and writer *

Thérèse Dion Thérèse Tanguay-Dion, (20 March 1927 – 17 January 2020), popularly known as ''Maman Dion'' ("Mommy Dion" in French), was a Canadian television personality and the mother of singer Celine Dion. She was born on the Gaspé Peninsula, in Sain ...

(1927–2020), popularly known as Maman Dion, Québécois television personality, and the mother of pop singer Céline Dion *

Thérèse Dorny Thérèse Dorny (born Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni; 18 September 1891 – 14 March 1976) was a French film and stage actress. Biography Thérèse Jeanne Longo-Dorni was born on 18 September 1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France, the only child ...

(1891–1976), French film and theatre actress *

Thérèse Elfforss Antoinette Thérèse Elfforss (née Öberg; 30 November 1823 – 16 April 1905) was a Swedish stage actress and theatre director. She was the managing director of the travelling Elfforss Theater Company between 1869 and 1888.Nordensvan, Georg, ...

(1823–1905), Swedish actress and theatre director * Thérèse Karlsson (born 1972), Finnish soprano singer and actor *

Thérèse Lavoie-Roux Thérèse Lavoie-Roux (March 12, 1928 – January 31, 2009) was a Canadian politician and social worker who served in the National Assembly of Quebec and the Senate of Canada. She was the Minister of Health and Social Services from 1985 to 1 ...

(1928–2009), Quebec politician and Canadian Senator * Thérèse Levasseur (1721–1801), domestic partner of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau * Thérèse Liotard (born 1949), French actress *

Thérèse of Lisieux Thérèse of Lisieux (french: Thérèse de Lisieux ), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (), was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite ...

(1873–1897), French saint *

Thérèse Meyer Thérèse Meyer-Kaelin (born 17 May 1948, in Châtel-Saint-Denis) is a Swiss politician. She is a member of the Swiss National Council and President of the National Council for 2005. Christian-democratic member of the local Parliament of Esta ...

(born 1948), Swiss politician *

Thérèse McMurray Thérèse Ellen McMurray (born 6 July 1947) is an Irish-British television actor. Biography McMurray comes from a variety theatre background as both her parents, grandparents and aunts were renowned variety artistes represented by the agents Lew ...

(born 1945), British television actor * Thérèse Oulton (born 1953), English painter *

Thérèse Peltier Thérèse Peltier (1873 – 1926), born Thérèse Juliette Cochet, was a French sculptor and early aviation pioneer. Popularly believed to have been the first ever female passenger in an airplane, she may also have been the first woman to pil ...

(1873–1926), French sculptor and aviator *

Thérèse Quentin Thérèse Quentin (5 July 1929 – 20 February 2015) was a French actress. She was married to the actor and stage director Marcel Cuvelier (1924–2015), with whom she had a daughter, actress Marie Cuvelier. Filmography * '' Les Aventuriers ...

(1929–2015), French actress *

Thérèse Rein Thérèse Virginia Rein (born 17 July 1958) is an Australian entrepreneur who is the founder of Ingeus, an international employment and business psychology services company. Rein is the wife of Kevin Rudd, who was the Prime Minister of Austra ...

(born 1958), Australian entrepreneur and founder of Ingeus *

Thérèse Schwartze Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 185123 December 1918) was a Dutch people, Dutch portrait Painting, painter. Life Thérèse Schwartze was born on 20 December 1851 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the painter Johan Georg ...

(1851–1918), Dutch portrait painter *

Thérèse Sita-Bella Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933–27 February 2006), born Thérèse Bella Mbida, was a Cameroonian film director who became the first woman filmmaker of Africa and Cameroon. Early life and education She was born into the Beti tribe in southern Cameroo ...

(1933–2006), Cameroonian filmmaker, pilot, journalist *

Thérèse Steinmetz Thérèse Steinmetz (born 17 May 1933) is a Dutch singer, best known for her participation in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest. Early career Steinmetz studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and appeared in various theatre, television an ...

(born 1933), Dutch singer *

Thérèse Tietjens Thérèse Carolina Johanne Alexandra Tietjens (17 July 1831, Hamburg3 October 1877, London) was a leading opera and oratorio soprano. She made her career chiefly in London during the 1860s and 1870s, but her sequence of musical triumphs in th ...

(1831–1877), opera and oratorio soprano singer *

Thérèse Vanier Thérèse Marie Chérisy Vanier (27 February 1923 – 16 June 2014) was an English decorated veteran and medical doctor who specialised in haematology and palliative care. With her brother, she co-founded L'Arche UK, a branch of the internation ...

(1923–2014), veteran and medical doctor *

Thérèse Wartel Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien (2 July 1814 – 6 November 1865), was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.Fétis F.-J.: ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', vol. 2 (Paris, 1878). Biography Born in Paris, Thér� ...

(1814–1865), French pianist, music educator, composer and critic

Fictional characters

Thérèse Defarge Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1859 novel ''A Tale of Two Cities'' by Charles Dickens. She is a ringleader of the tricoteuses, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, memorably knitting besid ...

, a villain in Charles Dickens' novel ''A Tale of Two Cities'' * Thérése Dragonheart, the main antagonist of Final Fantasy V. *the title character of ''Therese'' (novel), or ', a 1928 novel by Arthur Schnitzler *the title character of '' Thérèse the Philosopher'', a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens *the title character of '' Thérèse Raquin'', an 1867 novel and an 1873 play by the French writer Émile Zola *the title character of: ** ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (novel), a 1927 novel by François Mauriac ** ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (1962 film), an adaptation of the novel ** ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (2012 film), an adaptation of the novel

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Fictional characters

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