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    Harriet Harman

    Age 61 Female
    Lawyer
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    Harriet Sansom Harris

    Age 57 Female
    Actress
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    Harriet Sansom Harris, often credited as "Harriet Harris" is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives. She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing the evil white slaver Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Apart from her television and theatre work, she has made various film appearances, including Memento and Nurse Betty.read more

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    Harriet Walter

    Age 61 Female
    Actress, Writer, Military Person
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    Dame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE is a British actress.

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    Harriet Miers

    Age 66 Female
    Lawyer, Politician, Counsel
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    Harriet Ellan Miers is an American lawyer and former White House Counsel. In 2005, she was nominated by President George W. Bush to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, but opposition from both sides of the political spectrum and Miers' request led President Bush to withdraw the nomination.read more

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    Harriet Tubman

    1820 - 1913 Female
    African-american Abolitionist and Union Spy

    Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.read more

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    Harriet Ann Jacobs

    1813 - 1897 Female
    Civil War Nurse, Slave, Writer and Abolitionist

    Harriet Ann Jacobs was an American writer, who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured.read more

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    Harriet Martineau

    1802 - 1876 Female
    Writer, Theorist, Sociologist

    Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote 35 books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and, perhaps most controversial, a feminine perspective; she also translated various works from Auguste Comte. She earned enough to be supported entirely by her writing, a challenging feat for a woman in the Victorian era.read more

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    Harriet Bosse

    1878 - 1961 Female
    Actor

    Harriet Sofie Bosse was a Swedish–Norwegian actress. A celebrity in her own day, Bosse is today most commonly remembered as the third wife of August Strindberg, an influential playwright. Bosse began her career in a minor company run by her forceful older sister Alma Fahlstrøm in Kristiania (now Oslo, the capital of Norway).read more

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    Harriet Cohen

    1895 - 1967 Female
    Pianist, Musician

    Harriet Cohen CBE was a British pianist.

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    Harriet Burns

    1928 - 2008 Female
    Designer, Model

    Harriet Burns was an American artist and designer. Burns was the first woman hired in the Walt Disney Imagineering department within the Walt Disney Company.

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    Harriet Mordaunt

    1848 - 1906 Female
    Baronet, Member of Parliament, Respondent

    Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt, formerly Harriet Moncreiffe, was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and Member of Parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Prince of Wales was embroiled and, after a counter-petition led to a finding of mental disorder, spent the remaining thirty-six years of her life in a lunatic asylum.read more

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    Harriet Arbuthnot

    1793 - 1834 Female
    Diarist

    Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the "closest woman friend" of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington.read more

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    Harriet Leve

    Female
    Broadway Producer

    Harriet Newman Leve is a three-time Tony Award–winning producer active on Broadway and in other cities.

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    1811 - 1896 Female
    Abolitionist, Author