Tess (given name)

Tess

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	"Harvester; to reap"

Tess is a feminine given name, typically a diminutive form of Theresa or Tessa.

People

• Tess Amorim (born 1994), Brazilian actress
• 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 Rafferty, American writer, comedian, and actress
• Tess Rothschild (1915-1996), British counter-intelligence officer and magistrate
• Tess Taylor (born 1972), American poet, academic, and CNN contributor
• Tess Wiley (born 1974), American singer-songwriter

Fictional characters

Film

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• Tess (disambiguation)