Hortense

Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:

Persons

 * Hortense Allart (1801–1879), Italian-French feminist writer and essayist
 * Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), stepdaughter of Napoleon and Queen consort of Holland
 * Hortense Béwouda (born 1978), sprinter from Cameroon
 * Hortense Clews (1926–2006), member of the Belgian Resistance in World War II
 * Hortense Dufour (born 1946), French writer
 * Hortense Ellis (1941–2000), Jamaican reggae singer
 * Hortense Calisher (1911–2009), American fiction writer, author of In the Absence of Angels
 * Hortense Gabel (1912–1990), New York Supreme Court Justice
 * Hortense Globensky-Prévost (1804–1873), Canadian heroine
 * Hortense Gordon (1886–1961), Canadian abstract painter
 * Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1784–1845), French painter of genre scenes
 * Hortense Mancini (1646–1699), Duchess of Mazarin and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
 * Hortense Monath (1905–1956), American pianist
 * Hortense Powdermaker (1900–1970), American anthropologist
 * Hortense Parker (1859–1938), music teacher and daughter of African–American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist John Parker
 * Hortense Rhéa (1844–1899), French actress
 * Hortense Schneider (1833–1920), French soprano
 * Hortense Sparks Ward (1872–1944), pioneering Texas lawyer and women's rights activist
 * Hortense Spillers (born 1942), American literary critic and theorist of Black studies

Fictional characters

 * Hortense Bellacourt, the unattractive eldest of the Bellacourt sisters in the Another Period tv series
 * Hortense Briggs, in the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
 * Hortense Cumberbatch, in the film Secrets & Lies by British director, Mike Leigh
 * Hortense Daigle, portrayed by Eileen Heckart in The Bad Seed play and film
 * Hortense Derry, as Frank Derry’s Dana Andrews step-mother, portrayed by Gladys George in the film The Best Years of Our Lives
 * Hortense McDuck, a Disney character who is Scrooge McDuck's sister and Donald Duck's mother
 * Hortense, adopted sister of Michael Roberts in the novel "Small Island" by Andrea Levy
 * Hortense Toomey Campanati, in the novel Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
 * Mademoiselle Hortense, in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens
 * Hortense, later known as Mist, from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
 * Hortense, Donald Duck's pet in comic books and a cartoon – see Donald's Ostrich
 * Hortense, Sapphire's sister in the TV show Amos 'n' Andy.
 * Hortense, another Disney character who was the horse of young Scrooge McDuck and was named after Scrooge's sister
 * Hortense, brothel madam in the TV show Maison Close
 * Hortense the Hornbill from Jim Henson's Animal Show
 * Two members of the extended Simpson family: Aunt Hortense, who died prior to the events of Bart Gets Hit by a Car; and Great Aunt Hortense, who died prior to the events of Bart the Fink