Esperanza (given name)
Esperanza is a Spanish feminine given name, meaning "hope" or "expectation".- Esperanza Aguirre, President of the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid since 2003
- Esperanza Andrade, Secretary of State of Texas
- Esperanza Baur, 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, economic agent of the Valide Sultan Safiye
- Esperanza Martinez, Mexican painter
- Esperanza Osmeña, second wife of Philippine President Sergio Osmeña and is considered the fourth First Lady of the Philippines
- Esperanza Roy, Spanish actress
- Esperanza Spalding, American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist, singer and composer
