Esperanza (given name)
Esperanza is a Spanish feminine given name, meaning "hope" or "expectation".
List of people with the given name Esperanza
- Esperanza Aguirre, Aristocrat and president of the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid since 2003
- Esperanza Andrade, Secretary of State of Texas
- Esperanza Baur, Mexican actress and second wife of John Wayne
- Esperanza Cabral, current Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines
- Esperanza García, Spanish lawyer and politician
- Esperanza Guisán, Spanish philosopher
- Esperanza Malchi, economic agent of the Valide Sultan Safiye
- Esperanza Martinez, Mexican painter
- Esperanza Osmeña, second wife of Philippine President Sergio Osmeña and is considered the fourth First Lady of the Philippines
- Esperanza Perez Padilla, better known as Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipina singer and actress
- Esperanza Roy, Spanish actress
- Esperanza Spalding, American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist, singer and composer
- Esperanza Zambrano, Mexican poet