# Therese

Therese or Thérèse is a variant of the feminine given name Teresa. It may refer to:

## Persons
### Therese

* Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773–1839), member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg
* Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1728–1778), German noblewoman
* Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, (1792–1854), queen of Bavaria
* Therese Alshammar (born 1977), Swedish swimmer
* Therese Björk (born 1981), Swedish footballer
* Therese Borssén (born 1984), Swedish skier
* Therese Brandl (1902–1948), Nazi concentration camp guard. Convicted of crimes against humanity after the war and executed
* Therese Brophy, camogie player
* Therese Crawford (born 1976), American volleyball player
* Therese Elssler (1808–1878), Austrian dancer and baroness
* Therese Giehse (1898–1975), German actress
* Therese Grankvist (born 1977), Swedish singer and songwriter also known as Drömhus and Therese
* Therese Grob (1798–1875), first love of the composer Franz Schubert
* Therese Grünbaum (1791–1876), Austrian soprano and opera singer
* Therese Holbein von Holbeinsberg (1785–1859), Austrian landscape painter and etcher
* Therese Huber (1764–1829), German author
* Therese Johaug (born 1988), Norwegian cross-country skier
* Therese Lundin (footballer) (born 1979), Swedish footballer
* Therèse Lundin (swimmer) (born 1970), Swedish swimmer
* Therese Maher, camogie player
* Therese Malfatti (1792–1851), Austrian musician and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven
* Therese Malten (real name Therese Müller) (1855–1930), German dramatic soprano
* Therese Maron (1725–1806), German painter
* Therese Murray (born 1947), American state legislator
* Therese Neumann (1898–1962), German Catholic mystic and stigmatic
* Therese Raibaud, French model. Maria Raibaud's twin sister.
* Therese Schnabel (1876–1959), German contralto
* Therese Sjölander (born 1981), Swedish ice hockey player
* Therese Sjögran (born 1977), known as Terre, Swedish football (soccer) player
* Therese Svendsen (born 1989), Swedish swimmer
* Therese Torgersson (born 1976), Swedish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist
* Therese Vogl (1845–1921), German operatic soprano
* Therese Zenz (1932–2019), German sprint canoer

### Therése

* Therése O'Callaghan, camogie player

### Thérèse

* Princess Thérèse of France (1736–1744), French Princesse du Sang
* Thérèse Albert (c. 1805–1846), French actress
* Thérèse Blondeau (1913–2013), French swimmer
* Thérèse Bonney (1894–1978), American photographer and publicist
* Thérèse Brenet (born 1935), French composer
* Thérèse Casgrain (1896–1981), feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada
* Thérèse Caval (1750–1795), French revolutionary
* Thérèse Chardin, French hairstylist and celebrity
* Thérèse Coffey (born 1971), English politician
* Thérèse Couderc, also known as St. Theresa Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle, a Catholic religious order
* Thérèse Daviau (1946–2002), Quebec, Canada politician, an attorney and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec
* Thérèse Delpech (1948–2012), French intellectual and writer
* Thérèse Dion (1927–2020), popularly known as Maman Dion, Québécois television personality, and the mother of pop singer Céline Dion
* Thérèse Dorny (1891–1976), French film and theatre actress
* Thérèse Elfforss (1823–1905), Swedish actress and theatre director
* Thérèse Karlsson (born 1972), Finnish soprano singer and actor
* Thérèse Lavoie-Roux (1928–2009), Quebec politician and Canadian Senator
* Thérèse Levasseur (1721–1801), domestic partner of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* Thérèse Liotard (born 1949), French actress
* Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897), French saint
* Thérèse Meyer (born 1948), Swiss politician
* Thérèse McMurray (born 1945), British television actor
* Thérèse Oulton (born 1953), English painter
* Thérèse Peltier (1873–1926), French sculptor and aviator
* Thérèse Quentin (1929–2015), French actress
* Thérèse Rein (born 1958), Australian entrepreneur and founder of Ingeus
* Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918), Dutch portrait painter
* Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933–2006), Cameroonian filmmaker, pilot, journalist
* Thérèse Steinmetz (born 1933), Dutch singer
* Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877), opera and oratorio soprano singer
* Thérèse Vanier (1923–2014), veteran and medical doctor
* Thérèse Wartel (1814–1865), French pianist, music educator, composer and critic

## Fictional characters

* Thérèse Defarge, a villain in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities
* Thérèse, Massenet's 1906 opera
* the title character of Therese (novel), or Chronik eines Frauenlebens, a 1928 novel by Arthur Schnitzler
* the title character of Thérèse the Philosopher, a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
* the title character of Thérèse Raquin, an 1867 novel and an 1873 play by the French writer Émile Zola
* the title character of:
** Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel), a 1927 novel by François Mauriac
** Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962 film), an adaptation of the novel
** Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012 film), an adaptation of the novel