Famous People with Name Henriette

Henriette Roosenburg            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Henriette Roosenburg: was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner, perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of World War II. Born in the Netherlands to an upper-class family, she was a graduate student at the University of Leiden at the start of World War II and became a courier in the Dutch resistance, where she served under the code name Zip. During this time she also wrote for the Dutch newspaper Het Parool. In 1944 she was caught and sentenced to death, and became a Night and Fog prisoner in a German prison at Waldheim.

Henriette Nissen-Saloman            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Henriette Nissen-Saloman: was a Swedish singer (mezzosoprano) and singing pedagogue.Henriette was a student of organist Georg Günther in Gothenburg before she went to Paris in 1838, where she learned singing from Manuel Garcia and piano from Frederic Chopin. She debuted as Elvira in Don Juan at the Comedie-Italienne in Paris in 1842. She toured Europe in 1844-1855 before she was employed at the Italian Opera at Saint Petersburg in Russia in 1859, where she was an instructor at the conservatory until 1873. She was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1870 and rewarded Litteris et Artibus in 1871. She married the Danish composer Siegfried Saloman in 1850.

Henriette Heichel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Henriette Heichel: a Dutch singer that was a member of the German pop group, Dschinghis Khan.Henriette Heichel was born as Henriette Strobel as the daughter of the dentist, Helmut Karl Strobel and the housewife and secretary, Catharina Jeanette Strobel. She went to school a

Henriette Ragon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Henriette Ragon: a French singer from the 12th arrondissement of Paris. She grew up in the capital and began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller , an antique dealer. In 1948, with her husband Jean Billou she took over a cabaret-restaurant on

Henriette Diabaté            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Henriette Diabaté: is an Ivorian politician and writer. A member of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), Diabaté was Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1993 and again in 2000; later, she was Minister of Justice from 2003 to 2005. She has been the Secretary-General of the RDR since 1999.

Didier Henriette            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Didier Henriette: is a French professional racing cyclist.