26 April: Teresa Name Day

In Scandinavia, today is the name day for people called Teresa. Theresa is an alternative spelling. The name comes from the Greek verb meaning to harvest. 10 famous Teresas.

1. Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, the Albanian nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in India.
2. Teresa Brewer, an American singer whose hits include Music! Music! Music! and Till I Waltz Again With You, which was one of the first songs Elvis Presley performed in public, when he was in the 12^th grade.
3. Saint Teresa of Avila, 16^th century Spanish saint who founded the Discalced Carmelites.
4. Theresa May, second female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
5. Teresa Bond, fictional character, the wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
6. Teresa the fashion doll, Barbie's best friend.
7. Teresa Edgerton, American fantasy author.
8. Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress consort of Dom Pedro II of Brazil.
9. Theresa Lawson, perpetrator of one of the largest fraud cases in New South Wales, Australia. She was a payroll clerk with Woolworths, who falsified the accounts so she could steal A$2.7 million over three years until she was caught with A$10,130 in her handbag. The rest of the money was never recovered.
10. Teresa Sickles, wife of Daniel E Sickles, a New York State Assemblyman. She is known because her husband killed her lover, Philip Barton Key, who happened to be the son of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the US national anthem. Sickles was the first person in the US to plead temporary insanity as a defence. He was acquitted.

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