Therese

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

Therese

 * Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773–1839), member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg
 * Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1728–1778), German noblewoman
 * Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, (1792–1854), queen of Bavaria
 * Therese Alshammar (born 1977), Swedish swimmer
 * Therese Björk (born 1981), Swedish footballer
 * Therese Borssén (born 1984), Swedish skier
 * Therese Brandl (1902–1948), Nazi concentration camp guard. Convicted of crimes against humanity after the war and executed
 * Therese Brophy, camogie player
 * Therese Crawford (born 1976), American volleyball player
 * Therese Elssler (1808–1878), Austrian dancer and baroness
 * Therese Giehse (1898–1975), German actress
 * Therese Grankvist (born 1977), Swedish singer and songwriter also known as Drömhus and Therese
 * Therese Grob (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 (born 1988), Norwegian cross-country skier
 * Therese Lundin (footballer) (born 1979), Swedish footballer
 * Therèse Lundin (swimmer) (born 1970), Swedish swimmer
 * Therese Maher, camogie player
 * Therese Malfatti (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 (1932–2019), German sprint canoer

Therése

 * Therése O'Callaghan, camogie player

Thérèse

 * Princess Thérèse of France (1736–1744), French Princesse du Sang
 * Thérèse Albert (c. 1805–1846), French actress
 * Thérèse Blondeau (1913–2013), French swimmer
 * Thérèse Bonney (1894–1978), American photographer and publicist
 * Thérèse Brenet (born 1935), French composer
 * Thérèse Casgrain (1896–1981), feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada
 * Thérèse Caval (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 (1946–2002), Quebec, Canada politician, an attorney and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec
 * Thérèse Delpech (1948–2012), French intellectual and writer
 * Thérèse Dion (1927–2020), popularly known as Maman Dion, Québécois television personality, and the mother of pop singer Céline Dion
 * Thérèse Dorny (1891–1976), French film and theatre actress
 * Thérèse Elfforss (1823–1905), Swedish actress and theatre director
 * Thérèse Karlsson (born 1972), Finnish soprano singer and actor
 * Thérèse Lavoie-Roux (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 (1873–1897), French saint
 * Thérèse Meyer (born 1948), Swiss politician
 * Thérèse McMurray (born 1945), British television actor
 * Thérèse Oulton (born 1953), English painter
 * Thérèse Peltier (1873–1926), French sculptor and aviator
 * Thérèse Quentin (1929–2015), French actress
 * Thérèse Rein (born 1958), Australian entrepreneur and founder of Ingeus
 * Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918), Dutch portrait painter
 * Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933–2006), Cameroonian filmmaker, pilot, journalist
 * Thérèse Steinmetz (born 1933), Dutch singer
 * Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877), opera and oratorio soprano singer
 * Thérèse Vanier (1923–2014), veteran and medical doctor
 * Thérèse Wartel (1814–1865), French pianist, music educator, composer and critic

Fictional characters

 * Thérèse Defarge, 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 Chronik eines Frauenlebens, 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