Augusta (name)

Augusta can be a given name or surname. It could be derived from Augustae, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires or simply as a feminine variant of August.

Given name

Royalty

Augusta, birth name of Constantina (c. 560–c. 605), Byzantine empress
Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772), later Princess of Wales
Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788)
Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840)
Princess Augusta of Prussia (1780–1841), German salonist and Electress consort of Hesse
Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851)
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797–1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890), German empress
Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1768–1849), Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921), German empress

Other

Augusta Anderson (1875–1951), Swedish film actress
Augusta Foote Arnold (1844–1904) American naturalist and author
Augusta Fox Bronner (1881–1966), American psychologist
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859–1927), American-born French medical doctor, first female medical intern to work in a hospital in Paris, specialised in neuroanatomy.
Augusta Holmès (1847–1903), French composer
Augusta Jansson (1859–1932), Swedish entrepreneur
Augusta Jane Evans (1835–1909), American Southern author
Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover (1802–1896), Welsh heiress, patron of the Welsh arts.
Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842–1932), American philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852), English mathematician and writer
Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish dramatist and folklorist
Augusta Leigh (1783–1851), half-sister of George Gordon Byron
Augusta Lenska (flourished 1910s and 1920s), American opera singer
Augusta Löwenhielm (née von Fersen; 1754–1846), Swedish countess and courtier
Augusta Lundin (1840–1919) fashion designer
Augusta Montaruli (born 1983), Italian politician
Emily Augusta Patmore (1824–1862), British author, Pre-Raphaelite muse, inspiration for poem The Angel in the House.
Augusta Schrumpf (1813–1900), Norwegian opera singer
Augusta Schultz (1871–1925), American tennis player
Augusta Solberg (1856–1922), Norwegian professional photographer
Augusta Emma Stetson (1842–1928), American Christian Scientist
Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857–1943), was a Canadian medical doctor, lecturer and suffragist
Augusta Tabor (1833–1895), American mining philanthropist
Mary Augusta Tappage (1888–1978), Shuswap-Métis storyteller
Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964), American composer
St. Augusta of Treviso, 1st century virgin martyr
Augusta W. Urquhart (1870–1960), American social leader and clubwoman
Augusta Wallace (1929–2008), New Zealand jurist
Augusta Webster (1837–1894), English poet
Augusta Harvey Worthen (1823–1910), American educator, author

Surname

Jaroslav Augusta, Czech painter
Josef Augusta (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Josef Augusta (ice hockey) (1946–2017), Czech ice hockey player and coach
- Josef Augusta (paleontologist) (1903–1968), Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
Pavel Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player
Patrik Augusta (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player

Ship name

Princess Augusta shipwreck

Fictional characters

"Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
Lady Augusta Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
Aunt Augusta, a character in Grahame Greene's novel Travels with My Aunt
Aunt Augusta, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels
Augusta Longbottom, the grandmother of Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter books
Mrs. Augusta Elton (formerly Ms. Hawkins). Mr. Elton's wife in Jane Austen's “Emma”
Augusta, a character in the 2024 video game Wuthering Waves

References

↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 6 November 2025.

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[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 6 November 2025.