Augusta (name)

Augusta can be a given name or surname. It could be derived from Augusta, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires or simply as a feminine variant of August.

Royalty

 * Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
 * Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772), later Princess of Wales
 * Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
 * Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788)
 * Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840)
 * Princess Augusta of Prussia (1780–1841), German salonist and Electress consort of Hesse
 * Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851)
 * Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797–1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
 * Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890), German empress
 * Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
 * Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1768–1849), Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
 * Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921), German empress

Other

 * Augusta Anderson (1875–1951), Swedish film actress
 * Augusta Foote Arnold (1844-1904) American naturalist and author
 * Augusta Fox Bronner (1881–1966), American psychologist
 * Augusta Holmès (1847–1903), French composer
 * Augusta Jansson (1859–1932), Swedish entrepreneur
 * Augusta Jane Evans (1835–1909), American Southern author
 * Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover (1802–1896), Welsh heiress, patron of the Welsh arts.
 * Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842–1932), American philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader
 * Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852), English mathematician and writer
 * Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish dramatist and folklorist
 * Augusta Leigh (1783–1851), half-sister of George Gordon Byron
 * Augusta Löwenhielm (née von Fersen; 1754–1846), Swedish countess and courtier
 * Augusta Lundin (1840–1919) fashion designer
 * Augusta Montaruli (born 1983), Italian politician
 * Emily Augusta Patmore (1824–1862), British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse, inspiration for poem The Angel in the House.
 * Augusta Schrumpf (1813–1900), Norwegian opera singer
 * Augusta Schultz (1871–1925), American tennis player
 * Augusta Solberg (1856–1922), Norwegian professional photographer
 * Augusta Emma Stetson (1842–1928), American Christian Scientist
 * Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857–1943), was a Canadian medical doctor, lecturer and suffragist
 * Augusta Tabor (1833–1895), American mining philanthropist
 * Mary Augusta Tappage (1888–1978), Shuswap-Métis storyteller
 * Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964), American composer
 * St. Augusta of Treviso, 1st century virgin martyr
 * Augusta Wallace (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Augusta Wallace (actress), American actress
 * Augusta Wallace (judge) (1929–2008), New Zealand jurist
 * Augusta Webster (1837–1894), English poet
 * Augusta Harvey Worthen (1823–1910), American educator, author

Surname

 * Jaroslav Augusta, Czech painter
 * Josef Augusta (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Josef Augusta (ice hockey) (1946–2017), Czech ice hockey player and coach
 * Josef Augusta (paleontologist) (1903–1968), Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
 * Pavel Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player
 * Patrik Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player

Ship name

 * Princess Augusta shipwreck

Fictional characters

 * "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
 * Lady Augusta Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
 * Aunt Augusta, a character in Grahame Greene's novel Travels with My Aunt
 * Aunt Augusta, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels
 * Augusta Longbottom, the grandmother of Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter books
 * Mrs. Augusta Elton (formerly Ms. Hawkins). Mr. Elton's wife in Jane Austen’s “Emma”