Famous People with Name Henrietta

Henrietta Swan Leavitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henrietta Swan Leavitt: was an American astronomer, and the deaf daughter of a Congregational minister.[1] A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a 'computer,' assigned to count images on photographic plates. Study of the plates led Leavitt to propound a groundbreaking theory, worked out while she labored as a $10.50-a-week assistant, that was the basis for the Nobel Prize-winning work of astronomer Edwin Hubble and radically changed the theory of modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which Leavitt received almost no credit during her lifetime.

Henrietta Ebert            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Henrietta Ebert: is a German rower, who won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and was a member of the SC Dynamo Potsdam.[

Henrietta “Henni” Zuël            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Henrietta “Henni” Zuël: is a British professional golfer and the youngest ever player to join the Ladies European Tour as an amateur. She was a nominee for Britain’s Best Awards for Home Grown Talent and entered the professional Ladies European Tour after turning pro in 2008.

Henrietta Catherine Knight            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Henrietta Catherine Knight: is an English racehorse trainer. Henrietta began training under rules in 1989 having previously trained over 100 winners in point-to-points between 1984 to 1989 and trains the horses on a farm in Lockinge, near Wantage in Oxfordshire. She is best known fo