Hortensia

Hortensia Blanch Pita (1914 – 2004) was a writer who was born in Cuba and lived in Spain and Mexico. She wrote a noted book about the end of the Spanish Civil War that was published in Mexico. She wrote under the name Silvia Mistral. She had a lifelong interest in film and she died in Mexico.

Hortensia Soto is a Mexican–American mathematics educator, and a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University. In May 2018, she was appointed Associate Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

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In 2001, Chadron State College gave Soto their Distinguished Young Alumni Award.

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In 2012, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) gave Soto their Meritorious Service Award. She was the 2016 winner of the Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA, and one of the 2018 winners of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.

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She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.

Hortensia Antommarchi was a Colombian poet who published numerous poems. Hortensia's sisters, Dorila Antommarchi and Elmira Antommarchi, were also published poets.

Not a famous person, but this is Donald Duck's mother's name in Swedish.

Ortenzia Caviglia (whose last name means "ankle" in Italian) is the "heroine" of The Blue Aspic, a story by Edward Gorey. She is an opera singer who is utterly unscrupulous in her efforts to further her career. She gets her just deserts at the hands of a crazed fan.

Hortensia was a famous Roman orator and daughter of another, the great orator Quintus Hortensius, who was also renowned for his beautiful singing voice and sharp memory.

The girl in the film "Matilda", the girl who is one of Matilda's friends, is called Hortensia.