Augusta (name)
Augusta can be a given name or surname. It could be derived from Augustae, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires or simply as a feminine variant of August.
Given name
Royalty
- Augusta, birth name of Constantina, Byzantine empress
- Augusta of Denmark, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, later Princess of Wales
- Princess Augusta of Great Britain, later Duchess of Brunswick
- Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
- Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom
- Princess Augusta of Prussia, German salonist and Electress consort of Hesse
- Princess Augusta of Bavaria
- Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, later Duchess of Cambridge
- Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress
- Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, German empress
Other
- Augusta Anderson, Swedish film actress
- Augusta Foote Arnold American naturalist and author
- Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist
- Augusta Holmès, French composer
- Augusta Jansson, Swedish entrepreneur
- Augusta Jane Evans, American Southern author
- Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, Welsh heiress, patron of the Welsh arts.
- Augusta Merrill Hunt, American philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader
- Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, English mathematician and writer
- Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist and folklorist
- Augusta Leigh, half-sister of George Gordon Byron
- Augusta Lenska, American opera singer
- Augusta Löwenhielm, Swedish countess and courtier
- Augusta Lundin fashion designer
- Augusta Montaruli, Italian politician
- Emily Augusta Patmore, British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse, inspiration for poem The Angel in the House.
- Augusta Schrumpf, Norwegian opera singer
- Augusta Schultz, American tennis player
- Augusta Solberg, Norwegian professional photographer
- Augusta Emma Stetson, American Christian Scientist
- Augusta Stowe-Gullen, was a Canadian medical doctor, lecturer and suffragist
- Augusta Tabor, American mining philanthropist
- Mary Augusta Tappage, Shuswap-Métis storyteller
- Augusta Read Thomas, American composer
- St. Augusta of Treviso, 1st century virgin martyr
- Augusta W. Urquhart, American social leader and clubwoman
- Augusta Wallace, multiple people, including:
- * Augusta Wallace , American actress
- * Augusta Wallace , New Zealand jurist
- Augusta Webster, English poet
- Augusta Harvey Worthen, American educator, author
Surname
- Jaroslav Augusta, Czech painter
- Josef Augusta, multiple people, including:
- * Josef Augusta , Czech ice hockey player and coach
- * Josef Augusta , Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
- Pavel Augusta, Czech ice hockey player
- Patrik Augusta, Czech ice hockey player
Ship name
- Princess Augusta shipwreck
Fictional characters
- "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
- Lady Augusta Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
- Aunt Augusta, a character in Grahame Greene's novel Travels with My Aunt
- Aunt Augusta, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels
- Augusta Longbottom, the grandmother of Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter books
- Mrs. Augusta Elton. Mr. Elton's wife in Jane Austen's “Emma”
- Augusta, a character in the 2024 video game ''Wuthering Waves''