and theatre director Thérèse Karlsson (born 1972), Finnish soprano singer and actor Thérèse Lavoie-Roux (1928–2009), Quebec politician and Canadian Senator Thérèse Levasseur (1721–1801), domestic partner of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thérèse Liotard (born 1949), French actress Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897), French saint Thérèse Meyer (born 1948), Swiss politician Thérèse McMurray (born 1945), British television actor Thérèse Oulton (born 1953), English painter Thérèse Peltier (1873–1926), French sculptor and aviator Thérèse Quentin (1929–2015), French actress Thérèse Rein (born 1958), Australian entrepreneur and founder of Ingeus Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918), Dutch portrait painter Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933–2006), Cameroonian filmmaker, pilot, journalist Thérèse Steinmetz (born 1933), Dutch singer Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877), opera and oratorio soprano singer Thérèse Vanier (1923–2014), veteran and medical doctor Thérèse Wartel (1814–1865), French pianist, music educator, composer and critic Fictional characters Thérèse Defarge, a villain in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities Thérése Dragonheart, the main antagonist of Final Fantasy V. the title character of Therese (novel), or , a 1928 novel by Arthur Schnitzler the title character of Thérèse the Philosopher, a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens the title character of Thérèse Raquin, an 1867 novel and an 1873 play by the French writer Émile Zola the title character of: Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel), a 1927 novel by François Mauriac Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962 film), an adaptation of the novel Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012 film), an adaptation of the novel See also Mother Teresa Saint Therese (disambiguation) Marie Thérèse (disambiguation) Maria Theresa (disambiguation) Teréz Brunszvik (1775–1861), member of the Hungarian nobility, pedagogue Tess (disambiguation) Feminine given names German feminine given names