Therese or Thérèse is a variant of the feminine given name Teresa. It may refer to:

• Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773–1839), member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg
• Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1728–1778), German noblewoman
• Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, (1792–1854), queen of Bavaria
• Therese Alshammar (born 1977), Swedish swimmer
• Therese Björk (born 1981), Swedish footballer
• Therese Borssén (born 1984), Swedish skier
• Therese Brandl (1902–1948), Nazi concentration camp guard. Convicted of crimes against humanity after the war and executed
• Therese Brophy, camogie player
• Therese Crawford (born 1976), American volleyball player
• Therese Elssler (1808–1878), Austrian dancer and baroness
• Therese Giehse (1898–1975), German actress
• Therese Grankvist (born 1977), Swedish singer and songwriter also known as Drömhus and Therese
• Therese Grob (1798–1875), first love of the composer Franz Schubert
• Therese Grünbaum (1791–1876), Austrian soprano and opera singer
• Therese Holbein von Holbeinsberg (1785–1859), Austrian landscape painter and etcher
• Therese Huber (1764–1829), German author
• Therese Johaug (born 1988), Norwegian cross-country skier
• Therese Lundin (footballer) (born 1979), Swedish footballer
• Therèse Lundin (swimmer) (born 1970), Swedish swimmer
• Therese Maher, camogie player
• Therese Malfatti (1792–1851), Austrian musician and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven
• Therese Malten (real name Therese Müller) (1855–1930), German dramatic soprano
• Therese Maron (1725–1806), German painter
• Therese Murray (born 1947), American state legislator
• Therese Neumann (1898–1962), German Catholic mystic and stigmatic
• Therese Raibaud, French model. Maria Raibaud's twin sister.
• Therese Schnabel (1876–1959), German contralto
• Therese Sjölander (born 1981), Swedish ice hockey player
• Therese Sjögran (born 1977), known as Terre, Swedish football (soccer) player
• Therese Svendsen (born 1989), Swedish swimmer
• Therese Torgersson (born 1976), Swedish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist
• Therese Vogl (1845–1921), German operatic soprano
• Therese Zenz (1932–2019), German sprint canoer

• Therése O'Callaghan, camogie player

• Princess Thérèse of France (1736–1744), French Princesse du Sang
• Thérèse Albert (c. 1805–1846), French actress
• Thérèse Blondeau (1913–2013), French swimmer
• Thérèse Bonney (1894–1978), American photographer and publicist
• Thérèse Brenet (born 1935), French composer
• Thérèse Casgrain (1896–1981), feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada
• Thérèse Caval (1750–1795), French revolutionary
• Thérèse Chardin, French hairstylist and celebrity
• Thérèse Coffey (born 1971), English politician
• Thérèse Couderc, also known as St. Theresa Couderc (1805–1885), co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle, a Catholic religious order
• Thérèse Daviau (1946–2002), Quebec, Canada politician, an attorney and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec
• Thérèse Delpech (1948–2012), French intellectual and writer
• Thérèse Dion (1927–2020), popularly known as Maman Dion, Québécois television personality, and the mother of pop singer Céline Dion
• Thérèse Dorny (1891–1976), French film and theatre actress
• Thérèse Elfforss (1823–1905), Swedish actress 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

• Thérèse Defarge, a villain in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities
• Thérèse, Massenet's 1906 opera
• the title character of Therese (novel), or Chronik eines Frauenlebens, 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

• Mother Teresa
• Saint Therese (disambiguation)
• Marie Thérèse (disambiguation)
• Maria Theresa (disambiguation)
• Teréz Brunszvik (1775–1861), member of the Hungarian nobility, pedagogue
• Tess (disambiguation)