Harriet

As a given name

Harriet Adams (1892–1982), American juvenile novelist

Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875–1937), American writer, explorer and photographer

Harriet Ryan Albee (1829–1873), American social reformer and philanthropist

Harriet Andersson (born 1937), Swedish actress

Harriet Anena, Ugandan writer and performer

Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess

Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey (1819–1901), American educator, author, editor, publisher

Harriet Pritchard Arnold (1858–1901), American author

Harriet Auber (1773–1862), English poet, hymnwriter

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1849–1903), American cosmetics entrepreneur and journalist

Harriet Backer (1845–1932), Norwegian painter

Harriett Baldwin (born 1960), British politician

Harriett Ball (1941–2011), American educator who inspired the KIPP program

Harriet Bates (1856–1886), American novelist, poet

Harriet Bibby (born 1998), English actress

Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), American artist

Harriet Bland (1915–1991), American sprinter

Harriet Bosse (1878–1961), Swedish-Norwegian actress

Harriet Boyd-Hawes (1871–1945), American archaeologist

Harriet G. Brittan (1822–1897), British-born American missionary

Harriet Brooks (1876–1933), Canadian nuclear physicist

Harriet Browne (1798–1858), British music composer

Harriet Browne (1932–1997), American tap dancer, educator and choreographer

Harriet Louisa Browne (1829–1906), New Zealand political salon hostess, community leader, and writer

Harriet Bruce-Annan (born 1965), Ghanaian programmer and humanitarian

Harriet Starr Cannon (1823–1896), American nun who founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary

Harriet Frances Carpenter (1868/75 – 1956), American educator, writer, suffragist

Harriet Carr (1771–1848), British artist

Harriet E. Clark (1850–1945), American teacher and author

Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 1866), British artist

Harriet Sophia Cobb (1846–1929), New Zealand photographer

Harriet Redfield Cobb (1866–1958), American mathematics educator

Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge (1849–1902), American author, philanthropist, reformer

Harriet L. Cramer (1847–1922), American newspaper publisher

Harriet Cross, British politician

Harriet Dart (born 1996), British tennis player

Harriet Ball Dunlap (1867–1957), American social reformer

Harriet Dyer (born 1988), Australian actress

Harriet Elphinstone-Dick (1852–1902), English-Australian swimmer

Harriet Farley (1812–1907), American writer, abolitionist, journalist, editor

Harriet Ford (1863/8–1949), American actress, playwright

Harriet Mary Ford (1859–1938), Canadian artist

Harriet Bliss Ford (1876–1964), American writer

Harriet Putnam Fowler (1842–1901), American writer

Harriet Schneider French (1824–1906), American physician and temperance movement activist

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980), American sculptor

Harriet E. Garrison (1848–1930), American physician, writer

Harriett Gilbert (born 1948), English writer and broadcaster

Harriet Glanville (born 1927), American amateur golfer

Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff (1828–1901), American author, temperance reformer

Harriet Green (born 1961), British businesswoman

Harriet Grote (1792–1878), English biographer, political strategist, and supporter of women's suffrage

Harriet Hageman (born 1962), American politician and attorney

Harriet Hall (1945–2023), American medical doctor and skeptic

Harriet Louise Hardy (1905–1993), American physician and professor

Harriet Harman (born 1950), British politician and life peer

Harriet Newell Haskell (1835–1907), American educator and administrator

Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945), American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor

Harriet Bell Hayden (1816–1893), African-American antislavery activist

Harriet Hemings (1801–1870), one of four mixed-race children born to Sally Hemings

Harriet Herbig-Matten (born 2003), German actress

Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908), American sculptor

Harriet Howard (1823–1865), mistress of Napoleon III

Harriet Hunt (born 1978), English chess player

Harriet Lane Huntress (1860–1922), American civil servant

Harriet S. Iglehart (1927–2021), American philanthropist

Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897), American abolitionist and writer

Harriet Johnson, multiple people

Harriet Jones (musician) (born 1993), British singer

Harriet B. Jones (1856–1943), American physician and politician

Harriet B. Kells (1842–1913), American educator, activist, suffragist, feminist, editor

Harriet Keopuolani (1778–1823), Hawaiian queen

Harriet Byron McAllister (1798–1888), American philanthropist

Harriet McEwen Kimball (1834–1917), American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist, hospital co-founder

Harriet Kemsley (born 1987), English comedian.

Harriet Kerr (1859–1940) – British suffragette and manager of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)'s headquarters

Harriet Knowles (fl. 1845), Australian actress

Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1873–1949), American social reformer and suffragist

Harriet Lane (1830–1903), First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861

Harriet Nisbet Latta (1853–1910), American civic leader

Harriet Law (1831–1897), British freethinker

Harriet Lerner (born 1944), American feminist and clinical psychologist

Harriet Leve, American theater and movie producer

Harriet Lindeman (born 1946), Finnish politician

Harriet Livingston Fulton (1783–1826), Colonial aristocrat and painter

Harriet Low (1809–1877), American diarist

Harriet MacGibbon (1905–1987), American actress

Hattie Mahood (1860–1940), British Baptist deacon and women's suffragist

Harriet McClintock Marshall (1840–1925), American conductor on the Underground Railroad

Harriet Gibbs Marshall (1868–1941), African-American musician, writer, and educator

Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer, feminist philosopher, and political economist

Harriet McDougal (born 1939), American writer and editor

Harriet Metcalf (born 1958), American rower

Harriet Miers (born 1945), American lawyer and politician

Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), English philosopher and women's rights advocate

Harriet Mann Miller (1831–1918), American author, naturalist, ornithologist

Harriet Cornelia Mills (1920–2016), Japanese Chinese scholar

Harriet May Mills (1857–1935), American politician

Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American poet and editor

Harriet Earhart Monroe (1842–1927), American lecturer, educator, writer, and theater producer

Harriet Converse Moody (1857–1932), American businesswoman and arts patron

Harriet Morgan (1830–1907) Australian artist

Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy (1853–1935), British-American artist

Harriet Mitchell Murphy (1927–2024), African-American judge

Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007), Canadian Aboriginal rights activist

Harriet Nāhiʻenaʻena (1815–1836), Hawaiian princess

Harriet Ndow (1926–2019), Gambian educator

Harriet Nelson (1909–1994), American singer and actress

Harriet Noble (1851–1919), American academic and suffragist

Harriet Hayes Skinner (1817–1893), American writer and editor

Harriet Wright O'Leary (1916–1999), American teacher and politician

Harriet Owen (born 1993), British cyclist

Harriet Pilpel (1911–1991), American attorney and women's rights activist

Harriet Powers (1837–1910), American female folk artist and quilter

Harriet Barnes Pratt (1878–1969), American philanthropist, collector, administrator, and horticulturist

Harriet Waters Preston (1836–1911), American writer and translator

Harriet Augusta Prunk (1840–1911) American reader, educator, school principal

Harriet Forten Purvis (1810–1875), American abolitionist

Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), American aviation pioneer

Harriet Newell Ralston (1828–1920), American poet

Harriet Redmond (c.1862–1952), African-American suffragist

Harriet Roberts, stage name Harriet (born 1966), British dance pop singer

Harriët van Reek (born 1957), Dutch writer and illustrator

Harriet Richardson (1874–1958), American carcinologist

Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825–1911), American suffragist

Harriet A. Roche (1835–1921), Canadian author

Harriet Samuel (1836–1908), English businesswoman and founder the jewelry retailer H. Samuel

Harriet Sansom Harris (born 1955), American actress

Harriet Schock (born 1941), American singer

Harriet Scott (born 1972), English radio presenter

Harriet Scott (born 1993), Irish footballer

Harriet Anne Scott (1819–1894), English novelist

Harriet Robinson Scott (c. 1820–1876), African American abolitionist and wife of Dred Scott

Harriet Smithson (1800–1854), Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz

Harriet Mabel Spalding (1862–1935), American poet, litterateur

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), American writer

Harriet Staunton (1841–1877), British murder victim

Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart (1798–1830), American missionary

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), American abolitionist and writer

Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, American writer

Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer (1854–1945), British botanical illustrator

Harriet Alfarata Thompson (1871–1922), American author

Harriet Thorpe (born 1957), English actress

Harriet Toompere (born 1975), Estonian actress

Harriet Tracy (1834–1918), American inventor

Harriet Tubman (1822–1913), American abolitionist

Harriet Taylor Upton (1853–1945), American suffragette and author

Harriet Vittum (1872–1953), American social reformer

Harriet Walter, English actress

Harriet Merrick Warren (1843–1893), American editor

Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), Political activist, magazine editor, literary executor of James Joyce

Harriet Wheeler (born 1963), English rock singer

Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), African-American novelist

Harriet Wistrich (born 1960), British lawyer and radical feminist

Harriet Zinnes (1919–2019), American writer

Harriett Blaisdell (born 1924), American businesswoman and philanthropist

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (1928–2019), American writer

Animals

Harriet (tortoise), a Galápagos tortoise which had an estimated age of 175 years at the time of her death

As a surname

Fulchran-Jean Harriet, French painter

Fictional Characters

Mad Harriet, a DC Comics super villain

Harriet Arkham, daughter of the founder of Arkham Asylum in Batman comic books

Harriet Brindle, a character from the American science fiction sitcom, Small Wonder

Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, main character in novel by the American author Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

Aunt Harriet Cooper, a character within the DC Universe

Harriet Garth, a character in Wilkie Collins's No Name

Harriet Hyde, Julia Jekyll's alter-ego in Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde

Harriet Jones, British Prime Minister in Doctor Who

Harriet Kepner-Avery, daughter of April Kepner and Jackson Avery in the television series Grey's Anatomy

Harriet Morton, protagonist of Eva Ibbotson's novel A Company of Swans

Harriet Schulenburg, character in the British sitcom Green Wing

Harriet Sims, U.S. Navy officer in the TV show JAG

Harriet Shelton, police officer in the British soap opera Doctors

Harriet Smith, character from Jane Austen's novel Emma

Harriet Swanson, character from the anime series Glitter Force (originally named Haru Midorikawa)