Famous People with Name Harriet

Harriet Monroe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Monroe: was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry Magazine. Monroe was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Arequipa, Peru.

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer: American sculptor.She showed an early aptitude for modelling, and studied anatomy with her father, a physician, and afterwards at the St Louis Medical College. She then studied in Boston until 1852, when, with her friend Charlotte Cushman, she went to Rom

Harriet Nelson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Nelson: was an American singer and actress.Hilliard had a respectable film career as a solo performer, apart from the band. RKO Radio Pictures signed her to a one-year contract in 1936, and she appeared in three feature films, the most famous being the Fred Astai

Harriet Quimby            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Quimby: was an early American aviator and movie screenwriter. She was the first woman to gain a pilot license in the United States when, in 1911 she earned the first U.S. pilot's certificate issued to a woman by the Aero Club of America. Less than a year later, s

Harriet King            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet King: is an American Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.