# Minna (given name)

Minna is a feminine name of Germanic origin, meaning courtly love, and is also a diminutive of Wilhelmina. It is now particularly known in Finland and Sweden.

## Notable people
### A–F

* Minna Aalto (born 1965), Finnish sport sailor
* Minna Aaltonen (1966–2021), Finnish actress
* Minna Antrim (1861–1950), American writer
* Minna Arve (born 1974), Finnish politician
* Minna Atherton (born 2000), Australian competitive swimmer
* Minna Beckmann-Tube (1881–1964), German painter and opera singer, and wife of Max Beckmann
* Minna Canth (1844–1897), Finnish writer and social activist
* Minna Carleton (1847–1918), English novelist
* Minna Cauer (1841–1922), German educator, journalist and radical activist
* Minna Citron (1896–1991), American painter and printmaker
* Minna Cowan (1878–1951), British political activist
* Minna Craucher (1891–1932), Finnish socialite and spy
* Minna Everleigh (1866–1948), American brothel owner
* Minna Fernald (1860–1954), American botanical artist
* Minna Flake (1886–1958), German physician and socialist

### G–M

* Minna Gale (1869–1944), American stage and film actress
* Minna Gombell (1892–1973), American stage and film actress
* Minna Grey (1868–1935), English film actress
* Minna Haapkylä (born 1973), Finnish film actress
* Minna B. Hall, American socialite and environmentalist
* Minna Harkavy (1887–1987), Estonian-American sculptor
* Minna Heponiemi (born 1977), Swedish footballer
* Minna Herzlieb (1789–1865), German publisher
* Minna Hesso (born 1976), Finnish snowboarder
* Minna Jørgensen (1904–1975), Danish film actress
* Minna Karhu (born 1971), Finnish freestyle skier
* Minna Kauppi (born 1982), Finnish orienteer
* Minna Keal (1909–1999), British composer
* Minna Keene (1861–1943), German-Canadian portrait photographer
* Minna Kleeberg (1841–1878), German-American poet
* Minna Lachs (1907–1993), Austrian educator and memoirist
* Minna Lammert or Tamm (1852–1921), German operatic mezzo-soprano
* Minna Lederman (1896–1995), American music writer and editor
* Minna Lehtola (born 1967), Finnish fencer
* Minna Lewinson (1897–1938), American journalist
* Minna Lindgren (born 1963), Finnish writer and journalist
* Minna Meriluoto (born 1985), Finnish football goalkeeper

### N–Z

* Minna Nieminen (born 1976), Finnish rower
* Minna Nikkanen (born 1988), Finnish pole vaulter
* Minna Nystedt (born 1967), Norwegian speed skater
* Minna Painilainen-Soon (born 1964), Finnish sprinter
* Minna Palmroth, Finnish professor in computational space physics
* Minna Peschka-Leutner (1839–1890), Austrian opera singer
* Minna Planer (1809–1866), German actress and first wife of Richard Wagner
* Minna Rozen (born 1947), Israeli professor of Jewish history
* Minna Salami (born 1978), Finnish Nigerian journalist
* Minna Salmela (born 1971), Finnish freestyle sprint swimmer
* Minna Sirnö (born 1966), Finnish politician
* Minna Specht (1879–1961), German educator and socialist
* Minna Stess (born 2006), American Olympic skateboarder
* Minna Stocks (1846–1928), German painter
* Minna Sundberg (born 1990), Finnish illustrator and cartoonist
* Minna Telde (born 1974), Swedish horse rider
* Minna Turunen (born 1969), Finnish TV and film actress
* Minna Vehmasto (born 1962), Finnish high jumper
* Minna Weizmann (1889–?), Russian Jewish doctor
* Minna Wetlesen (1821–1891), Norwegian educator, teacher and author
* Minna Wettstein-Adelt (1869–c.1908), German-French journalist and writer
* Minna of Worms (died 1096), Jewish martyr

## Fictional characters

* Minna Troil, a leading character in Walter Scott's novel The Pirate
* Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke, a major character in the media franchise Strike Witches
* Minna Häkkinen, the fictional Prime Minister of Finland in the US TV series Veep, played by Sally Phillips