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Hattie, Ettie

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Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter
Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and writer
Harriet Bland, Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter
Harriet Bosse, actress
Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist
Harriet Brooks, nuclear physicist
Harriet Chalmers Adams, American writer, explorer and photographer
Harriet Elphinstone-Dick, early English-Australian swimming champion
Harriet Harman, UK politician and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
Harriet Howard, mistress of Napoleon III
Harriet Lindeman, politician
Harriet Ann Jacobs, American abolitionist and writer
Harriet B. Jones (1856 - 1943), the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia
Harriet Keopuolani, Hawaiian queen
Harriet Lane, niece of President James Buchanan and acting First Lady of the United States
Harriet Lerner, feminist and clinical psychologist
Harriet Martineau, English writer, feminist philosopher, and political economist
Harriet Metcalf, Olympic gold medal-winning rower
Harriet Miers, lawyer and politician
Harriet Nahanee, Canadian aboriginal rights activist
Harriet Nahienaena, Hawaiian princess
Harriet Nelson of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Harriet Owen, actress
Harriet Quimby, pilot; first American female pilot and first woman to fly across the English channel
Harriet Roberts, British dance pop singer
Harriet Anne Scott, English novelist
Harriet Shaw Weaver, journalist and patron of James Joyce
Harriet Smithson, Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz
Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Beat writer
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 – 1858), philosopher and women's rights advocate.
Harriet Taylor Upton, suffragette and author
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, escaped slave and "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Wheeler, rock singer
Harriet E. Wilson, the first female African-American novelist

Harriet in song, story & screen: | Edit

Harriet The Spy (children's book)
In the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", Harriet Miller was the the name of the groom's mother. Her name was misprinted as "Harry" on the invitations.
Harriet Olson, mother of Nellie on "Little House on the Prairie"
Harriet Hayes, character in fabulous and short lived TV drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"
Harriet, love interest of Mike Myers' character in "So I Married an Axe Murderer"
Harriet Vane, client and eventual wife of Lord Peter Wimsey in the eponymous mysteries by Dorothy Sayers
Harriet Jones, character in British TV series "Dr. Who"
Harriet Schulenberg, lead character in British TV series "Green Wing"