Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:
Persons
Hortense Allart, an Italian-French feminist writer and essayist
Hortense de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Napoleon and amateur musician
Hortense Béwouda, sprinter from Cameroon
Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin from 1646 to 1699, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
Hortense Ellis, reggae singer
Hortense Calisher, author of In the Absence of Angels
Hortense Schneider, French soprano from the Bordeaux region
Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist best known for her studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood
Hortense Parker, daughter of African-American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker
Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot), French painter of genre scenes
Hortense Rhéa, French actress
Fictional characters
Mademoiselle Hortense, character in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Hortense Briggs, character in the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Hortense Daigle, portrayed by Eileen Heckart in the The Bad Seed play and film
Hortense McDuck, character from the Scrooge McDuck universe
Hortense Toomey Campanati, character in the novel Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess
Hortense, later known as Mist, character from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
Other
Hortense, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States
Hurricane Hortense, a 1996 category 4 Atlantic hurricane
Hortense-class frigate
