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    Tess (given name)

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    Tess
    GenderFemale
    Origin
    Word/nameGreek
    Meaning"Harvester; to reap," "Summer," "Star"
    Other names
    Related namesTheresa, Therese, Tessa, Esther, Hester

    Tess is a feminine given name, typically a diminutive form of Theresa or Tessa. It is occasionally a diminutive form of Esther or Hester.

    People

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    • Tess Amorim (born 1994), Brazilian actress
    • Tess Annique, American model
    • Tess Broussard (born 1972), American model and actress
    • Tess Daly (born 1969), British television presenter
    • Tess Frazer, American actress
    • Tess Gaerthé (born 1991), Dutch singer
    • Tess Gallagher (born 1943), American writer
    • Tess Gardella (1894–1950), American actress and vaudeville performer
    • Tess Gerritsen (born 1953), American novelist
    • Tess Harper (born 1950), American actress
    • Tess Haubrich (born 1990), Australian actress
    • Tess Henley (born 1987), American singer-songwriter
    • Tess Holliday (born 1985), American model and blogger
    • Tess Jaray (born 1937), British painter and printmaker
    • Tess Joffroy (born 1994), Réunionese singer-songwriter
    • Tess Kingham (born 1963), British politician and one-term Member of Parliament
    • Tess Lambe, Irish vaccine development scientist
    • Tess Ledeux (born 2001), French freestyle skier
    • Tess Mattisson (born 1978), Swedish singer
    • Tess Merkel (born 1970), Swedish singer
    • Tess Oliveira (born 1987), Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
    • Tess Olofsson (born 1988), Swedish football referee
    • Tess Rafferty, American writer, comedian, and actress
    • Tess Richey (1994–2017), Canadian murder victim
    • Tess Rothschild (1915–1996), British counter-intelligence officer and magistrate
    • Tess Routliffe (born 1998), Canadian Paralympic swimmer
    • Tess Taylor (born 1972), American poet, academic, and CNN contributor
    • Tess Wiley (born 1974), American singer-songwriter

    Fictional characters

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    Film

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    • Tess Skeffington, in Murder By Death, played by Eileen Brennan
    • Tess Carlisle, in Guarding Tess, played by Shirley MacLaine
    • Tess Carroll, in Charlie St. Cloud, played by Amanda Crew
    • Tess Coleman, in Freaky Friday, played by Jamie Lee Curtis
    • Tess Durbeyfield/D'Urberville, in Tess, based on Thomas Hardy's novel, played by Nastassja Kinski
    • Tess Finnegan, in Fool's Gold (2008), played by Kate Hudson
    • Tess Harding, in Woman of the Year, played by Katharine Hepburn
    • Tess McGill, in Working Girl, played by Melanie Griffith
    • Tess Nichols, in 27 Dresses, played by Malin Åkerman
    • Tess Ocean, in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and the sequel Ocean's Twelve, played by Julia Roberts
    • Tess Tyler, in the television movie Camp Rock and Billboard Dad, played by Meaghan Jette Martin
    • Tess Scali, in Burlesque, played by Cher

    Television

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    • Tess Adamson, on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
    • Tess Bateman, on the British medical drama Casualty, played by Suzanne Packer
    • Teresa Bell, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
    • Tess Doerner, on the American science fiction series The 4400, played by Summer Glau
    • Tess Fontana, on the American series Eureka
    • Tess Foster, protagonist of the Canadian sitcom Life with Boys
    • Tess Harding, on the series Roswell, played by Emilie de Ravin
    • Tess Silverman McLeod, on the Australian series McLeod's Daughters, played by Bridie Carter
    • Tess Mercer, on the American series Smallville
    • Tess O’Malley, on the Disney Channel series Raven's Home
    • Tess Ramsey, on the American soap opera Port Charles, played by Kelly Monaco
    • Tess Smith, an alternate personality of the character Jessica Buchanan on the American soap opera One Life to Live, played by Bree Williamson
    • Tess, on the television series Touched by an Angel, played by Della Reese

    Books and comics

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    • Tess Durbeyfield/D'Urberville, in the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    • Tess Clark, in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Haunted
    • Tess Trueheart, in the Dick Tracy comic strip series
    • Tess Turbo, in the Bloom County comic strip

    Video games

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    • Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos, in the game The Last of Us
    • Tess Wintory, in the game Test Drive Unlimited 2
    • Tess Everis, in the game Destiny (video game)
    • Tess Greymane, in the game World of Warcraft

    See also

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    • Tessa
    • Tess (disambiguation)
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