Augusta (name) explained

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 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 Wallace (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Augusta Wallace (actress), 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”

See also

• August (name)