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Teresa (also Theresa , Therese ;
French :
Thérèse ) is a feminine given name.
It originates in the
Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from
Greek θερίζω (therízō ) "to
harvest or reap", or from θέρος (theros ) "summer".
It is first recorded in the form Therasia , the name of
Therasia of Nola , an aristocrat of the 4th century.
Its popularity outside of Iberia increased because of saint
Teresa of Ávila , and more recently
Thérèse of Lisieux and
Mother Teresa .
In the
United States it was ranked as the 852nd most popular name for girls born in 2008, down from 226th in 1992 (it ranked 65th in 1950, and 102nd in 1900). Spelled "Teresa," it was the 580th most popular name for girls born in 2008, down from 206th in 1992 (it ranked 81st in 1950, and 220th in 1900).
People
Aristocracy
Arts
Teresa Berganza , Spanish opera singer
Teresa Brewer , American pop and jazz singer
Teresa Carpenter ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning American author
Teresa Carpio , Cantopop singer and actress
Teresa Carreño , Venezuelan musician
Teresa Cheung Siu-wai , Canadian actress and producer
Teresa Cheung Tak-lan , Hong Kong singer
Teresa Cheung (socialite) , Hong Kong socialite and actress
Theresa Chromati , American painter
Teresa De Sio , Italian folk singer-songwriter
Teresa Edgerton , American author of fantasy novels and short stories
Theresa Fu , Hong Kong singer and actress
Teresa Gallagher , British actress
Therese Grankvist , Swedish singer
Teresa Graves , American actress and singer
Teresa Ha , former Chinese television and film actress
Theresa Harris , American actress, dancer and singer
Theresa Ikoko , British playwright
Tereza Kesovija , ex Yugoslav and Croatian singer
Theresa Lee , Hong Kong-born Canadian actress
Teresa Mak , Hong Kong actress
Teresa Medeiros , American romance novelist
Teresa Mo , Hong Kong actress
Teresa Nielsen Hayden , American writer and teacher
Teresa Palmer , Australian actress
Teresa Parente , American actress
Theresa Randle , American actress
Teresa Reichlen , American ballet dancer
Theresa Russell , American actress
Theresa Saldana , American actress
Teresa Salgueiro , Portuguese singer
Theresa Sokyrka , Canadian singer-songwriter
Teresa Stratas , Canadian soprano
Teresa Teng , Taiwanese queen of pop
Teresa Villaverde , Portuguese film director
Lady Teresa Waugh , British novelist and translator
Teresa Wright , Academy Award-winning American actress
Teresa Żarnowerówna , Polish avant-garde artist
Politics
Theresa Ahearn (1951-2000), Irish Member of Parliament
Theresa Berg Andersen (born 1979), Danish politician
Teresa Aquino-Oreta (1944–2020), Filipino politician
Teresa Bellanova , Italian Minister of Agriculture
Teresa Cheng (politician) , Hong Kong Justice Minister
Teresa Heinz (born 1938), former widow of U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III; wife of Senator John Kerry
Teresa Isaac , American politician, former mayor of Lexington, Kentucky
Teresa Kok , Malaysian Member of Parliament
Theresa May , former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party; UK Member of Parliament
Teresa Mosqueda , American politician
Teresa Pearce , former UK Member of Parliament
Teresa Reyes Sahagún , Mexican politician
Teresa Ribera (born 1969), Spanish jurist, university professor and politician
Teresa Riera (born 1950), Spanish politician
Teresa Rodríguez , Spanish politician
Teresa Tomlinson , American politician
Theresa Villiers , UK Member of Parliament
Teresa Wat , Canadian member of the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Theresa Wood , American politician in Vermont
Religion
Sports
Teresa Abelleira , Spanish footballer
Teresa Ciepły , Polish sprinter
Teresa Earnhardt , widow of racing legend Dale Earnhardt
Teresa Edwards , American basketball player
Tereza Kmochová , Czech alpine skier
Teresa Machado , Portuguese athlete
Teresa Piccini , Mexican ten-pin bowler
Teresa Rivera , Mexican swimmer
Teresa Rohmann , German medley swimmer
Teresa Ruiz , American State Senator from New Jersey
Theresa Schafzahl (born 2000), Austrian ice hockey player
Teresa Vaill , American racewalker
Theresa Zabell , Spanish sailor
Other
Teresa Ciceri Castiglioni (1750–1821) Italian inventor, agronomist
Teresa Cormack , murder victim from New Zealand
Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg (born 1961), academic administrator and engineering professor
Teresa Grodzińska , Polish wartime nurse, the first woman in the
Second Polish Republic to receive Poland's highest military decoration
Virtuti Militari
Theresa Lawson (1951-2014), Australian convicted of embezzlement
Teresa Magbanua , Filipino schoolteacher and revolutionary
Teresa Manera , Argentine paleontologist
Teresa Merz (1879 – 1958), English social worker, philanthropist and magistrate
Theresa A. Powell (1952–2023), academic administrator
Teresa Meana Suárez (born 1952), Spanish feminist activist, teacher, and philologist
Teresa Rodrigo (1956-2020), Spanish scientist
Teresa Sampsonia , Persian noblewoman, diplomat, adventuress
Teresa Webber , British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic
Teresa Sickles , wife of Daniel Edgar Sickles, who stood trial for killing her lover
Fictional characters
Teresa
Tracy Bond (née Di Vicenzo), Bond girl and wife of James Bond in the film
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Teresa Bryant , on the British soap opera Coronation Street
Theresa Burke, wife of main character Ethan Burke on the American TV series
Wayward Pines
Teresa Cammeniti , on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
Theresa Rourke Cassidy, alter-ego of the Marvel Comics heroine
Siryn
Teresa Chávez, protagonist and villain from the TV series
Teresa
Theresa "Tess" Durbeyfield, title character of Thomas Hardy's novel
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Theresa Fowler, from the animated TV series
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
Theresa "Tessa" Gray, protagonist and main character of
The Infernal Devices novel series by Cassandra Clare
Tessie (Teresa) Hutchinson, the only character to protest the village tradition of stoning in Shirley Jackson's
The Lottery
Teresa Lisbon , one of the main characters in the drama
The Mentalist
Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald , a main character in the soap opera Passions
Theresa
Terri McGreggor , in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Theresa McQueen , from the British soap opera Hollyoaks
Teresa Moreno , wife of Richard Sharpe in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series of historical fiction
Teresa Parker, long lost younger sister of
Peter Parker / Spider-Man from
Marvel Comics .
Theresa Russo , from
Wizards of Waverly Place
Theresa Spencer, girlfriend and research partner of the character
Daniel Faraday from the TV series
Lost
Teresa Wisemail , from the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II
Theresa, an immortal seeress, one of the main characters in the
Fable video game series
Teresa (Barbie) , a fashion doll and
Barbie 's best friend
Teresa Agnes, from
James Dashner 's book series
The Maze Runner
Tereza, from Milan Kundera's novel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Theresa (a.k.a. The Fighter), one of the main characters from the Canadian animated series
Class of the Titans
Teresa of Telezart, important character from the second series of the long-running space opera franchise
Space Battleship Yamato
Teresa of the Faint Smile , in Claymore
Boos , known in Japan as Teresa, are ghosts from the Mario and Yoshi series of video games.
Teresa Mendoza, protagonist and drug cartel leader from
Queen of the South
Theresa Keller, a new girl from the children's program
Heidi (2015 TV series)
Theresa Servopoulos, from
The Last of Us
Theresa Apocalypse, from
Honkai Impact 3rd
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