Hortense

Hortense Béwouda is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Hortense McDuck, Scrooge McDuck's youngest sister, mother of Donald Duck, and grandmother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck. Scrooge named a temperamental mare after her in Don Rosa's series, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck."

Hortense Beauharnais was Josephine's daughter and hence Napoleon's stepdaughter. She became queen of Holland.

For people who don't know about Josephine she was a creole from the island of Martinique who went to France to marry Hortense's father who died in the revolution. Josephine was crowned Empress by her 2nd husband Napoleon. Now my impression is it doesn't sound nice but when you look at the meaning it sounds ok.

Hortense Calisher, American writer.

Hortense Powdermaker, American anthropologist.

A character in the film Secrets & Lies is called Hortense, that was the first time I heard the name. In one of my name-books it just says "No!" as a coment on it.