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Augusta (name)

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Augusta can be a given name or surname. It could be derived from Augusta, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires or simply as a feminine variant of August.

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Royalty

  • Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
  • Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772), later Princess of Wales
  • Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
  • Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788)
  • Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840)
  • Princess Augusta of Prussia (1780–1841), German salonist and Electress consort of Hesse
  • Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851)
  • Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797–1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
  • Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890), German empress
  • Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921), German empress

    • Other

  • Augusta Anderson (1875–1951), Swedish film actress
  • Augusta Jane Evans (1835–1909), American Southern author
  • Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish dramatist and folklorist
  • Augusta Holmès (1847–1903), French composer
  • Augusta Löwenhielm (née von Fersen; 1754–1846), Swedish countess and courtier
  • Augusta Lundin (1840–1919) fashion designer
  • Augusta Schrumpf (1813–1900), Norwegian opera singer
  • Augusta Schultz (1871–1925), American tennis player
  • Augusta Solberg (1856–1922), Norwegian professional photographer
  • Augusta Emma Stetson (1842–1928), American Christian Scientist
  • Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857–1943), was a Canadian medical doctor, lecturer and suffragist
  • Augusta Tabor (1833–1895), American mining philanthropist
  • Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964), American composer
  • St. Augusta of Treviso, 1st century virgin martyr
  • Augusta Wallace (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Augusta Wallace (actress) (fl. 1940s), American actress
  • Augusta Wallace (judge) (1929–2008), New Zealand jurist
  • Augusta Webster (1837–1894), English poet

    • Surname

  • Josef Augusta (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Josef Augusta (ice hockey) (born 1946), Czech ice hockey player and coach
  • Josef Augusta (paleontologist) (1903–1968), Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
  • Patrik Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player

    • 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, an elderly relative of a character in the Harry Potter books

    • References

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