Teresa

People

Aristocracy

Teresa of Portugal (disambiguation)

Theresa, Countess of Portugal (1080–1130), mother of Afonso Henriques, the first King of Portugal

Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders (1157–1218), daughter of Afonso Henriques and wife of Philip, Count of Flanders

Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León (1181–1250), daughter of Sancho I of Portugal and wife of Alfonso IX of León

Infanta Maria Teresa of Braganza (1793–1874), firstborn child of John VI of Portugal

Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676–1730), Electress consort of Bavaria, wife of Maximilian II Emanuel

Teresa Lubomirska, Polish noble lady

Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress-consort of Brazil

Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800–1873), the married lover of Lord Byron in Ravenna

Arts

Teresa Berganza (1933–2022), Spanish opera singer

Teresa Brewer (1931–2007), American pop and jazz singer

Teresa Cameselle (born 1968), Spanish writer of romantic novels and historical narratives

Teresa Carpenter (born 1948), Pulitzer Prize-winning American author

Teresa Carpio (born 1956), Cantopop singer and actress

Teresa Carreño (1853–1917), Venezuelan musician

Teresa Cheung Siu-wai (born 1963), Canadian actress and producer

Teresa Cheung Tak-lan (born 1959), Hong Kong singer

Teresa Cheung (socialite) (born 1963), Hong Kong socialite and actress

Theresa Chromati, American painter

Teresa De Sio (born 1952), Italian folk singer-songwriter

Teresa Edgerton, American author of fantasy novels and short stories

Theresa Fu (born 1984), Hong Kong singer and actress

Teresa Gallagher, British actress

Therese Grankvist (born 1977), Swedish singer

Teresa Graves (1948–2002), American actress and singer

Teresa Ha (1937–2019), former Chinese television and film actress

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 (born 1958), Italian Minister of Agriculture

Teresa Cheng (politician) (born 1958), Hong Kong Justice Minister

Teresa Chipia, Angolan politician

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 (born 1964), Malaysian Member of Parliament

Theresa May (born 1956), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party; UK Member of Parliament

Teresa Mosqueda (born 1980), American politician

Teresa Pearce (born 1955), former UK Member of Parliament

Teresa Reyes Sahagún (born 1963), Mexican politician

Teresa Ribera (born 1969), Spanish jurist, university professor and politician

Teresa Riera (born 1950), Spanish politician

Teresa Rodríguez (born 1981), Spanish politician

Religion

List of saints named Teresa

Teresa Chikaba, Ghanaian princess declared Venerable by the Catholic Church

Teresa Demjanovich, American nun of the Sisters of Charity

Sports

Teresa Abelleira (born 2000), Spanish footballer

Tereza Brandtlová (born 1985), Czech Paralympic archer

Teresa Ciepły (1937–2006), Polish sprinter

Teresa Earnhardt (born 1958), widow of racing legend Dale Earnhardt

Teresa Edwards (born 1964), American basketball player

Tereza Kmochová (born 1990), Czech alpine skier

Teresa Machado (1969–2020), Portuguese athlete

Teresa Piccini, Mexican ten-pin bowler

Tereza Pištěková (born 2005), Czech ice hockey player

Tereza Plosová (born 2006), Czech ice hockey

Teresa Rivera (born 1966), Mexican swimmer

Teresa Rohmann (born 1987), German medley swimmer

Teresa Ruiz (born 1974), American State Senator from New Jersey

Theresa Schafzahl (born 2000), Austrian ice hockey player

Teresa Vaill (born 1962), American racewalker

Theresa Zabell (born 1965), Spanish sailor

Other

Teresa Acosta (1777–1851), Spanish bank founder

Teresa Adams (1869–1947), American civil rights activist and suffragist.

Teresa Ciceri Castiglioni (1750–1821), Italian inventor, agronomist

Teresa Cormack, murder victim from New Zealand

Therese Crawford (died 1970), Australian murder victim

Teresa "Terri" Cruz (1927–2017), American community organizer

Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg (born 1961), academic administrator and engineering professor

Teresa del Valle (1937–2025), Spanish anthropologist

Teresa Grodzińska (1899–1920), Polish wartime nurse, the first woman in the Second Polish Republic to receive Poland's highest military decoration Virtuti Militari

Teresa de Lauretis (1938–2026), Italian academic, feminist and author

Theresa Lawson (1951–2014), Australian convicted of embezzlement

Teresa Lewis, American convicted murderer

Teresa Magbanua, Filipino schoolteacher and revolutionary

Teresa Manera, Argentine paleontologist

Teresa Merz (1879–1958), English social worker, philanthropist and magistrate

Teresa Pellegrino (born 1975), Italian chemist, academic

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 “Terry” Gionoffrio, in Rosemary's baby

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