Minna (given name)
Minna is a feminine name of Germanic origin, meaning courtly love, and is also a diminutive of Wilhelmina. It is now particularly known in Finland and Sweden.
Notable people
A–F
- Minna Aalto, Finnish sport sailor
- Minna Aaltonen, Finnish actress
- Minna Antrim, American writer
- Minna Arve, Finnish politician
- Minna Atherton, Australian competitive swimmer
- Minna Beckmann-Tube, German painter and opera singer, and wife of Max Beckmann
- Minna Canth, Finnish writer and social activist
- Minna Carleton, English novelist
- Minna Cauer, German educator, journalist and radical activist
- Minna Citron, American painter and printmaker
- Minna Cowan, British political activist
- Minna Craucher, Finnish socialite and spy
- Minna Everleigh, American brothel owner
- Minna Fernald, American botanical artist
- Minna Flake, German physician and socialist
G–M
- Minna Gale, American stage and film actress
- Minna Gombell, American stage and film actress
- Minna Grey, English film actress
- Minna Haapkylä, Finnish film actress
- Minna B. Hall, American socialite and environmentalist
- Minna Harkavy, Estonian-American sculptor
- Minna Heponiemi, Swedish footballer
- Minna Herzlieb, German publisher
- Minna Hesso, Finnish snowboarder
- Minna Irving, American writer
- Minna Jørgensen, Danish film actress
- Minna Karhu, Finnish freestyle skier
- Minna Kauppi, Finnish orienteer
- Minna Keal, British composer
- Minna Keene, German-Canadian portrait photographer
- Minna Kleeberg, German-American poet
- Minna Lachs, Austrian educator and memoirist
- Minna Lammert or Tamm, German operatic mezzo-soprano
- Minna Lederman, American music writer and editor
- Minna Lehtola, Finnish fencer
- Minna Lewinson, American journalist
- Minna Lindgren, Finnish writer and journalist
- Minna Meriluoto, Finnish football goalkeeper
N–Z
- Minna Nieminen, Finnish rower
- Minna Nikkanen, Finnish pole vaulter
- Minna Nystedt, Norwegian speed skater
- Minna Painilainen-Soon, Finnish sprinter
- Minna Palmroth, Finnish professor in computational space physics
- Minna Peschka-Leutner, Austrian opera singer
- Minna Planer, German actress and first wife of Richard Wagner
- Minna Rozen, Israeli professor of Jewish history
- Minna Salami, Finnish Nigerian journalist
- Minna Salmela, Finnish freestyle sprint swimmer
- Minna Sirnö, Finnish politician
- Minna Specht, German educator and socialist
- Minna Stess, American Olympic skateboarder
- Minna Stocks, German painter
- Minna Sundberg, Finnish illustrator and cartoonist
- Minna Telde, Swedish horse rider
- Minna Turunen, Finnish TV and film actress
- Minna Vehmasto, Finnish high jumper
- Minna Weizmann, Russian Jewish doctor
- Minna Wetlesen, Norwegian educator, teacher and author
- Minna Wettstein-Adelt, German-French journalist and writer
- Minna of Worms, Jewish martyr
Fictional characters
- Minna Troil, a leading character in Walter Scott's novel The Pirate
- Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke, a major character in the media franchise Strike Witches
- Minna Häkkinen, the fictional Prime Minister of Finland in the US TV series Veep, played by Sally Phillips