# Augusta (name)

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

## Given name
### 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
* Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1768–1849), Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
* Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921), German empress

### Other

* Augusta Anderson (1875–1951), Swedish film actress
* Augusta Foote Arnold (1844-1904) American naturalist and author
* Augusta Fox Bronner (1881–1966), American psychologist
* Augusta Holmès (1847–1903), French composer
* Augusta Jansson (1859–1932), Swedish entrepreneur
* Augusta Jane Evans (1835–1909), American Southern author
* Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover (1802–1896), Welsh heiress, patron of the Welsh arts.
* Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842–1932), American philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader
* Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852), English mathematician and writer
* Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish dramatist and folklorist
* Augusta Leigh (1783–1851), half-sister of George Gordon Byron
* Augusta Lenska (flourished 1910s and 1920s), American opera singer
* Augusta Löwenhielm (née von Fersen; 1754–1846), Swedish countess and courtier
* Augusta Lundin (1840–1919) fashion designer
* Augusta Montaruli (born 1983), Italian politician
* Emily Augusta Patmore (1824–1862), British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse, inspiration for poem The Angel in the House.
* 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
* Mary Augusta Tappage (1888–1978), Shuswap-Métis storyteller
* Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964), American composer
* St. Augusta of Treviso, 1st century virgin martyr
* Augusta W. Urquhart (1870-1960), American social leader and clubwoman
* 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
* Augusta Harvey Worthen (1823–1910), American educator, author

## Surname

* Jaroslav Augusta, Czech painter
* Josef Augusta (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
** Josef Augusta (ice hockey) (1946–2017), Czech ice hockey player and coach
** Josef Augusta (paleontologist) (1903–1968), Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
* Pavel Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player
* Patrik Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player

## Ship name

* Princess Augusta shipwreck

## 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, the grandmother of Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter books
* Mrs. Augusta Elton (formerly Ms. Hawkins). Mr. Elton's wife in Jane Austen’s “Emma”