Tess (given name)

Tess is a feminine given name, typically a diminutive form of Theresa or Tessa.

People

 * Tess Amorim (born 1994), Brazilian actress
 * Tess Annique, American model
 * Tess Broussard (born 1972), American model and actress
 * Tess Daly (born 1969), British television presenter
 * Tess Frazer, American actress
 * Tess Gaerthé (born 1991), Dutch singer
 * Tess Gallagher (born 1943), American writer
 * Tess Gardella (1894-1950), American actress and vaudeville performer
 * Tess Gerritsen (born 1953), American novelist
 * Tess Harper (born 1950), American actress
 * Tess Haubrich (born 1990), Australian actress
 * Tess Henley (born 1987), American singer-songwriter
 * Tess Holliday (born 1985), American model and blogger
 * Tess Jaray (born 1937), British painter and printmaker
 * Tess Joffroy (born 1994), Réunionese singer-songwriter
 * Tess Kingham (born 1963), British politician and one-term Member of Parliament
 * Tess Lambe, Irish vaccine development scientist
 * Tess Ledeux (born 2001), French freestyle skier
 * Tess Mattisson (born 1978), Swedish singer
 * Tess Merkel (born 1970), Swedish singer
 * Tess Oliveira (born 1987), Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
 * Tess Olofsson (born 1988), Swedish football referee
 * Tess Rafferty, American writer, comedian, and actress
 * Tess Rothschild (1915-1996), British counter-intelligence officer and magistrate
 * Tess Routliffe (born 1998), Canadian Paralympic swimmer
 * Tess Taylor (born 1972), American poet, academic, and CNN contributor
 * Tess Wiley (born 1974), American singer-songwriter

Film

 * Tess Skeffington, in Murder By Death, played by Eileen Brennan
 * Tess Carlisle, in Guarding Tess, played by Shirley MacLaine
 * Tess Carroll, in Charlie St. Cloud, played by Amanda Crew
 * Tess Coleman, in Freaky Friday, played by Jamie Lee Curtis
 * Tess Durbeyfield/D'Urberville, in Tess, based on Thomas Hardy's novel, played by Nastassja Kinski
 * Tess Finnegan, in Fool's Gold (2008), played by Kate Hudson
 * Tess Harding, in Woman of the Year, played by Katharine Hepburn
 * Tess McGill, in Working Girl, played by Melanie Griffith
 * Tess Nichols, in 27 Dresses, played by Malin Åkerman
 * Tess Ocean, in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and the sequel Ocean's Twelve, played by Julia Roberts
 * Tess Tyler, in the television movie Camp Rock and Billboard Dad, played by Meaghan Jette Martin
 * Tess Scali, in Burlesque, played by Cher

Television

 * Tess Adamson, on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
 * Tess Bateman, on the British medical drama Casualty, played by Suzanne Packer
 * Teresa Bell, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * Tess Doerner, on the American science fiction series The 4400, played by Summer Glau
 * Tess Fontana, on the American series Eureka
 * Tess Foster, protagonist of the Canadian sitcom Life with Boys
 * Tess Harding, on the series Roswell, played by Emilie de Ravin
 * Tess Silverman McLeod, on the Australian series McLeod's Daughters, played by Bridie Carter
 * Tess Mercer, on the American series Smallville
 * Tess O’Malley, on the Disney Channel series Raven’s Home
 * Tess Ramsey, on the American soap opera Port Charles, played by Kelly Monaco
 * Tess Smith, an alternate personality of the character Jessica Buchanan on the American soap opera One Life to Live, played by Bree Williamson
 * Tess, on the television series Touched by an Angel, played by Della Reese

Books and comics

 * Tess Durbeyfield/D'Urberville, in the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
 * Tess Clark, in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Haunted
 * Tess Trueheart, in the Dick Tracy comic strip series
 * Tess Turbo, in the Bloom County comic strip

Video games

 * Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos, in the game The Last of Us
 * Tess Wintory, in the game Test Drive Unlimited 2
 * Tess Everis, in the game Destiny (video game)
 * Tess Greymane, in the game World of Warcraft