Teresa

People

Aristocracy

• Teresa of Portugal
• * Theresa, Countess of Portugal, mother of Afonso Henriques, the first King of Portugal
• * Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders, daughter of Afonso Henriques and wife of Philip, Count of Flanders
• * Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal and wife of Alfonso IX of León
• * Infanta Maria Teresa of Braganza, firstborn child of John VI of Portugal
• Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, 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, the married lover of Lord Byron in Ravenna

  Arts

• Teresa Berganza, Spanish opera singer
• Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer
• Teresa Cameselle, Spanish writer of romantic novels and historical narratives
• Teresa Carpenter, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author
• Teresa Carpio, Cantopop singer and actress
• Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan musician
• Teresa Cheung Siu-wai, Canadian actress and producer
• Teresa Cheung Tak-lan, Hong Kong singer
• Teresa Cheung , Hong Kong socialite and actress
• Theresa Chromati, American painter
• Teresa De Sio, Italian folk singer-songwriter
• Teresa Edgerton, American author of fantasy novels and short stories
• Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
• Teresa Gallagher, British actress
• Therese Grankvist, Swedish singer
• Teresa Graves, American actress and singer
• Teresa Ha, former Chinese television and film actress
• Theresa Harris, American actress, dancer and singer
• Theresa Ikoko, British playwright
• Tereza Kesovija, ex Yugoslav and Croatian singer
• Theresa Lee, Hong Kong-born Canadian actress
• Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
• Teresa Medeiros, American romance novelist
• Teresa Mo, Hong Kong actress
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden, American writer and teacher
• Teresa Palmer, Australian actress
• Teresa Parente, American actress
• Theresa Randle, American actress
• Teresa Reichlen, American ballet dancer
• Theresa Russell, American actress
• Theresa Saldana, American actress
• Teresa Salgueiro, Portuguese singer
• Theresa Sareo, American singer-songwriter
• Theresa Sokyrka, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
• Teresa Teng, Taiwanese queen of pop
• Teresa Villaverde, Portuguese film director
• Lady Teresa Waugh, British novelist and translator
• Teresa Wright, Academy Award-winning American actress
• Teresa Żarnowerówna, Polish avant-garde artist

  Politics

• Theresa Ahearn, Irish Member of Parliament
• Theresa Berg Andersen, Danish politician
• Teresa Aquino-Oreta, Filipino politician
• Teresa Bellanova, Italian Minister of Agriculture
• Teresa Cheng , Hong Kong Justice Minister
• Teresa Chipia, Angolan politician
• Teresa Heinz, 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, Malaysian Member of Parliament
• Theresa May, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party; UK Member of Parliament
• Teresa Mosqueda, American politician
• Teresa Pearce, former UK Member of Parliament
• Teresa Reyes Sahagún, Mexican politician
• Teresa Ribera, Spanish jurist, university professor and politician
• Teresa Riera, Spanish politician
• Teresa Rodríguez, Spanish politician
• Teresa Tomlinson, American politician
• Theresa Villiers, UK Member of Parliament
• Teresa Wat, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• Theresa Wood, American politician in Vermont

  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, Spanish footballer
• Tereza Brandtlová, Czech Paralympic archer
• Teresa Ciepły, Polish sprinter
• Teresa Earnhardt, widow of racing legend Dale Earnhardt
• Teresa Edwards, American basketball player
• Tereza Kmochová, Czech alpine skier
• Teresa Machado, Portuguese athlete
• Teresa Piccini, Mexican ten-pin bowler
• Tereza Pištěková, Czech ice hockey player
• Tereza Plosová, Czech ice hockey
• Teresa Rivera, Mexican swimmer
• Teresa Rohmann, German medley swimmer
• Teresa Ruiz, American State Senator from New Jersey
• Theresa Schafzahl, Austrian ice hockey player
• Teresa Vaill, American racewalker
• Theresa Zabell, Spanish sailor

  Other

• Teresa Adams, American civil rights activist and suffragist.
• Teresa Ciceri Castiglioni Italian inventor, agronomist
• Teresa Cormack, murder victim from New Zealand
• Therese Crawford, Australian murder victim
• Teresa "Terri" Cruz, American community organizer
• Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg, academic administrator and engineering professor
• Teresa del Valle, Spanish anthropologist
• Teresa Grodzińska, Polish wartime nurse, the first woman in the Second Polish Republic to receive Poland's highest military decoration Virtuti Militari
• Theresa Lawson, Australian convicted of embezzlement
• Teresa Lewis, American convicted murderer
• Teresa Magbanua, Filipino schoolteacher and revolutionary
• Teresa Manera, Argentine paleontologist
• Teresa Merz, English social worker, philanthropist and magistrate
• Teresa Pellegrino, Italian chemist, academic
• Theresa A. Powell, academic administrator
• Teresa Meana Suárez, Spanish feminist activist, teacher, and philologist
• Teresa Rodrigo, Spanish scientist
• Teresa Sampsonia, Persian noblewoman, diplomat, adventuress
• Teresa Sickles, wife of Daniel Edgar Sickles, who stood trial for killing her lover
• Teresa Toda, Basque journalist
• Teresa Webber, British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic

  Fictional characters

• Teresa Tracy Bond, 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 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
• Theresa McQueen, from the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Teresa Moreno, wife of Richard Sharpe in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series of historical fiction
• Teresa Parker, long lost younger sister of Peter Parker / Spider-Man from Marvel Comics.
• Theresa Rourke, also known as Siryn, is Banshee's daughter in Marvel Comics
• Theresa Russo, from Wizards of Waverly Place
• Theresa Spencer, girlfriend and research partner of the character Daniel Faraday from the TV series Lost
• Mary Therese Tribbiani, Joey Tribbiani's sister in NBC sitcom Friends
• Teresa Wisemail, from the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II
• Theresa, an immortal seeress, one of the main characters in the Fable video game series
• Teresa, a fashion doll and Barbie's best friend
• Teresa Agnes, from James Dashner's book series The Maze Runner
• Tereza, from Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Theresa, one of the main characters from the Canadian animated series Class of the Titans
• Teresa of Telezart, important character from the second series of the long-running space opera franchise Space Battleship Yamato
• Teresa of the Faint Smile, in Claymore
• Boos, known in Japan as Teresa, are ghosts from the Mario and Yoshi series of video games.
• Teresa Mendoza, protagonist and drug cartel leader from Queen of the South
• Theresa Keller, a new girl from the children's program Heidi
• Theresa Servopoulos, from The Last of Us
• Theresa Apocalypse, from ''Honkai Impact 3rd''