Esperanza (given name)
{{Infobox given name
| name = Esperanza
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| gender = Female
| meaning = "hope", "expectation"
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| origin = Spanish
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| related names = Hope, Nadezhda, Nadia, Nadine
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Esperanza is a Spanish feminine given name, meaning "hope" or "expectation".[http://nameberry.com/babyname/Esperanza Esperanza], Nameberry.com
List of people with the given name Esperanza
- Esperanza Aguirre (born 1952), Aristocrat and president of the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid since 2003
- Esperanza Andrade (born 1949), Secretary of State of Texas
- Esperanza Baur (1920–1961), Mexican actress and second wife of John Wayne
- Esperanza Cabral, current Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines
- Esperanza Guisán, Spanish philosopher
- Esperanza Malchi (died 1600), economic agent of the Valide Sultan Safiye
- Esperanza Martinez (1934–1998), Mexican painter
- Esperanza Osmeña (1896–1978), second wife of Philippine President Sergio Osmeña and is considered the fourth First Lady of the Philippines
- Esperanza Perez Padilla (born 1964), better known as Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipina singer and actress
- Esperanza Roy (born 1935), Spanish actress
- Esperanza Spalding (born 1984), American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist, singer and composer
- Esperanza Zambrano (1901-1992), Mexican poet