Lettice is both a given name and a surname. It is medieval vernacular form of Letitia, meaning "joy, gladness". Notable people with the name include:
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Given name
Lettice Boyle, wife of George Goring, Lord Goring
Lettice Bryan (1805–1877), American author
Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), English writer
Lettice Curtis (1915–2014), English woman aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot and sportswoman
Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly (1580–1658), Irish peeress and landowner
Lettice Digby (scientist) (1877–1972), British cytologist, botanist and malacologist
Lettice D'Oyly Walters (1880–1940), English writer
Lettice Fisher (1875–1956), English economist and historian
Lettice Jowitt (1878–1962), English Quaker educationalist
Lettice Knollys (1543–1634), mother of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth I's courtier
Lettice Lee (1731–1776), Colonial American society hostess
Lady Lettice Lygon (1906–1973), English socialite and aristocrat who was one of the Bright Young Things.
Lettice Mary Tredway (1595–1677), English abbess
Lettice Paget, Baroness Paget (1583–1655), English noblewoman born to Sir Henry Knollys and Margaret Cave, wife of William Paget, 4th Baron Paget
Lettice Ramsey (1898–1985), English photographer
Lettice Sandford (1902–1993), draftsman, wood-engraver, corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist from Herefordshire
Surname
John Lettice (1737–1832), English clergyman, translator, academic, and author
Fictional characters
Lettice Protheroe, a character in Agatha Christie's novel The Murder at the Vicarage
Lettice the Mercy, a tomb-colonist in the game Fallen London
Lady Lettice Liskeard, a character in Howard Spring's novel Fame is the Spur (novel)