Famous People with Name Harriet

Harriet Tubman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Tubman: was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy 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

Harriet Baldwin Creighton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Baldwin Creighton: was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933. During her time at Cornell she worked in the field of maize cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock, the pair published a very influential paper in 1931 in which they described chromosomal crossover for the first time. This paper provided key evidence that chromosomes carried and exchanged genetic information and hence that 'genes' for physical traits are carried on chromosomes.

Harriet Monroe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Monroe: was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry Magazine. Monroe was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Arequipa, Peru.

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer: American sculptor.She showed an early aptitude for modelling, and studied anatomy with her father, a physician, and afterwards at the St Louis Medical College. She then studied in Boston until 1852, when, with her friend Charlotte Cushman, she went to Rom

Harriet Nelson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Nelson: was an American singer and actress.Hilliard had a respectable film career as a solo performer, apart from the band. RKO Radio Pictures signed her to a one-year contract in 1936, and she appeared in three feature films, the most famous being the Fred Astai