| Office: | Member of Parliament for Gordon and Buchan |
| Predecessor: | Richard Thomson |
| Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
| Majority: | 878 (2.0%) |
| Birth Place: | Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England |
| Party: | Scottish Conservatives |
Harriet Iona Cross[1] (born 1990 or 1991) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament for Gordon and Buchan since the 2024 general election.[2]
Harriet Cross was born in Harrogate and lived in West Cork in Ireland where her mother was from before settling in Aberdeenshire.[3] She attended Imperial College London where she studied zoology and earned a master's degree in Rural Land and Business Management and from the University of Reading.[4] In 2018, she returned to Aberdeenshire to work as a rural surveyor and later stood as the Conservative candidate for Aberdeen Donside in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, finishing second to Jackie Dunbar.[5]
In the 2024 UK general election, she narrowly unseated incumbent SNP member Richard Thomson.[6] She became the first female Scottish Conservative MP since Kirstene Hair.[7]
In the 2024 UK Conservative party leadership election she backed Tom Tugendhat.[8]