Hedvig is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

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* Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie (1732–1800), Swedish noblewoman of French descent *

Hedvig Catharina Lilje Hedvig is a given name. Notable people with the name include: People *Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie (1732–1800), Swedish noblewoman of French descent * Hedvig Catharina Lilje (1695–1745), Swedish noblewoman, salonist and informal amateur-polit ...

(1695–1745), Swedish noblewoman, salonist and informal amateur-politician *

Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht ( Stockholm, Sweden, 28 November 1718 – Stockholm, Sweden, 29 June 1763) was a Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess. Biography She was the youngest of five children of the wealthy official Anders Ander ...

(1718–1763), Swedish poet, feminist and salon-hostess *

Hedvig Eleonora Church Hedvig Eleonora Church ( sv, Hedvig Eleonora kyrka) is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located at Östermalm and belongs to the Church of Sweden and is parish church for Hedvig Eleonora Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm. The church ...

, church in central Stockholm, Sweden *

Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (23 October 1636 – 24 November 1715) was Queen of Sweden from 1654 until 1660 as the wife of King Charles X Gustav. She served as regent during the minority of her son, King Charles XI, from 1660 until 1672, ...

(1636–1715), the queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden and queen mother of King Charles XI * Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen (1753–1792), Swedish noblewoman * Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818), the queen consort of Charles XIII of Sweden, famed diarist, memoirist and wit *

Hedvig Hricak Hedvig Hricak was born in 1946, in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia and earned her MD degree from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1970. She has been Chairman of the Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...

(born 1946), Croatian American radiologist *

Hedvig Karakas Hedvig Karakas (born 21 February 1990) is a Hungarian judoka. She is a World Championship bronze medalist, and multi-time European medalist (silver in 2015, and bronze in 2009 and 2010). She competed in the women's 57 kg event at the 2012 ...

(born 1990), Hungarian judoka * Hedvig Lindahl (born 1983), Swedish soccer goalkeeper *

Hedvig Malina Hedvig Malina ( sk, Hedviga Malinová) (born 1983) is an ethnic Hungarian woman from Horné Mýto ( hu, Felsővámos), Slovakia, whose situation gained publicity in 2006 for claiming that she was physically assaulted in a hate crime incident. ...

, ethnic Hungarian student from Slovakia, physically assaulted in a hate crime incident * Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm (1838–1907), Swedish actor active in Sweden, Norway and Finland * Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (1681–1708), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, was the eldest child of King Charles XI of Sweden * Hedvig Taube (1714–1744), Swedish noblewoman, official mistress to King Frederick I of Sweden *

Hedvig Wigert Hedvig Christina Wigert née ''Falk'' (February 1748 – 4 January 1780) was a Swedish opera singer. She belonged to the pioneer generation of performers of the Royal Swedish Opera. Hedvig Falk belonged to the first group of singers hired at th ...

(1748–1780), Swedish opera singer

Fictional characters

*Hedvig, a main character in

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

's play '' the Wild Duck''

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