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Harriet Bruce-Annan is a Ghanaian programmer and humanitarian living in Düsseldorf, Germany. She has become known as the founder of African Angel, a charity organisation which supports and provides training for children from the slums of Accra's Bukom district.
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Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
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Topsy Sinden (born Harriet Augusta Sinden; 1877–1950), was an English dancer, actress and singer. She was best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, both in London and on tour. Sinden was an accomplished tap dancer and skirt dancer.
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Harriet is the name of the pink poodle hairstylist who appears in multiple entries of the Animal Crossing video game series. She runs her own shop (cleverly named Shampoodle) and offers differing services depending on the entry in the series, but always in the realm of cosmetic changes.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman. Two Harriets who were partially responsible for the end of slavery in America.
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One of Harriet Beecher Stowe's daughters was also named Harriet Beecher Stowe - the younger usually went by Hattie :-)
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There is an English theatre actress and soprano named Harriet Jones. She is known for playing Christine Daae in the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera and the Prince's mother in the live action Beauty and the Beast (2017).
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In the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, one of Woodstock's bird friends is named Harriet.
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In the very popular series Grey's Anatomy, the baby girl of April Kepner and Jackson Avery is called Harriet. This may increase it's U. S popularity somewhat.
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Harriet is the name of Franklin's little sister in the Franklin the Turtle books. Franklin and his parents named her after Franklin's great-aunt Harriet.
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Harriet Martineau (1802-76) was a famous English writer and social theorist.
Harriet Cohen (1895-1967) was a celebrated English pianist.
Harriet Harman (b. 1950) was a prominent member of Tony Blair's Cabinet.
Harriette Wilson (1786-1845) was an English courtesan with lovers in high places.
British actress Harriet Walter played the character Harriet Vane in the TV adaptations of Dorothy Sayers's "Lord Peter Wimsey" stories.
Noel Streatfeild's classic children's book "Ballet Shoes" features a girl called Harriet - and another girl called Lalla.
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Harriet Cohen (1895-1967) was a celebrated English pianist.
Harriet Harman (b. 1950) was a prominent member of Tony Blair's Cabinet.
Harriette Wilson (1786-1845) was an English courtesan with lovers in high places.
British actress Harriet Walter played the character Harriet Vane in the TV adaptations of Dorothy Sayers's "Lord Peter Wimsey" stories.
Noel Streatfeild's classic children's book "Ballet Shoes" features a girl called Harriet - and another girl called Lalla.
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (born 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut) was an American author and abolitionist.
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A famous bearer is American actress Harriet Sansom Harris (born 8 January 1955). Her television credits include Frasier's agent Bebe Glazer in "Frasier" and Felicia Tilman in "Desperate Housewives". She's also well-known for her roles in theatre, including Paul Rudnick's "Jeffrey", with which she rose to prominence, and her Tony Award-winning role as the evil Mrs. Meers in "Thoroughly Modern Millie".
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Harriet Jones is a fictional politician who later goes on to become the Prime Minister of Britain in the long-running sci-fi series, "Doctor Who".
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I cannot believe that no one has mentioned Harriet the Spy yet! A lot of people have read that.
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Harriet Oleson was the name of the mean and horrible shopkeeper in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book Little Town on the Prairie.
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Harriet Andersson is a famous actress in Sweden, she played in several films by Ingmar Bergman.
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Harriet Vane was Lord Peter Wimsey's great love in the detective novels by Dorothy Sayers. It is said that Sayers consciously modelled Harriet on herself.
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Harriet Smith was a character in Jane Austen's novel Emma. Harriet was Emma's best friend.
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Harriet M. Welsch is the name of the title character in Louise Fitzhugh's classic children's novel Harriet the Spy. The only child of upper-middle-class New Yorkers, Harriet has a spy route and writes "everything about everyone" in her composition notebook. When her classmates discover the sometimes cruel things she's written down, Harriet becomes a pariah in her class. The book is a classic for its honest characters and its refusal to talk down to its readers.
A film was made of the book in 1996, starring Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as her wise nurse, Ole Golly.
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A film was made of the book in 1996, starring Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as her wise nurse, Ole Golly.
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Harriet Tubman is an important woman in American history.
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Jo Marie Payton played Harriet Winslow in the sitcom "Family Matters."
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In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot certificate, issued to her by the Aero Club of America. In 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Although Quimby lived only to age 37, she influenced the role of women in aviation.