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Tessa Bonhomme

Tessa Bonhomme, Canadian ice hockey defenceman born 1985 in Sudbury, Ontario; 2010 Olympic gold medallist, two-time world champion, 2014 Clarkson Cup winner with Toronto Furies, later TSN broadcaster and PWHL podcast cohost.

Tessa Gobbo

Tessa Gobbo (Tessa Gobbo-Zimmerman), American rower born 1990 in Keene, New Hampshire; Olympic gold in the women's eight at Rio 2016, three World Championship medals, Brown 2013 graduate, now Brown women's crew head coach.

Tessa Janecke

Tessa Janecke, American ice hockey forward (born 2004, Orangeville, Illinois), 2026 Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, Penn State record-holder with 201 points, drafted third overall by PWHL Las Vegas in 2026.

Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jowell, Baroness Jowell (1947–2018), British Labour politician, MP for Dulwich 1992–2015, Culture Secretary 2001–2007, founder of Sure Start and driving force behind London's 2012 Olympics bid.

Tessa Lynn Hodge

Tessa Lynn Hodge is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in California's 23rd district in 2026, a lifelong High Desert resident and licensed clinical social worker.

Tessa Parkinson

Tessa Parkinson (born 1986, Perth) is an Australian 470 sailor who won Olympic gold in the women's two-person dinghy with Elise Rechichi at Beijing 2008, took 2008 Worlds bronze, and received the OAM in 2009.

Tessa Peake-Jones

Tessa Peake-Jones (born 1957, Hammersmith) is an English actor known as Raquel in Only Fools and Horses (1988–2003) and Mrs Maguire/Chapman in Grantchester (2014–2026), trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Tessa Prieto-Valdes

Tessa Prieto-Valdes (Maria Theresa Isabel Prieto Valdes), Filipino interior designer, Inquirer columnist, and TV host; founder of Tessa Group and co-founder of the Red Charity Gala, which raised over 30 million pesos.

Tessa Rao

Tessa Rao (born 1998) is a New Zealand actress and singer-songwriter, the Green Ranger Izzy Garcia in Power Rangers Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury, the franchise's first LGBTQ+ Ranger, and Dr. Poppy Achari on Shortland Street.

Tessa Sanderson

Tessa Sanderson (Theresa Ione Sanderson), Jamaican-born British javelin thrower; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold with 69.56m, first black British woman Olympic champion, six Games 1976–1996, three Commonwealth titles.

Tessa Therapeutics

Tessa Therapeutics was a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology company developing cell therapies for cancer, co-founded in 2012 by Andrew Khoo, which ceased operations in 2023 after its lead Phase III trial failed.

Tessa Thompson

Tessa Thompson (Tessa Lynne Thompson), American actress born 1983 in Los Angeles; known for Dear White People, Selma, Creed and Thor franchises, Westworld, and Viva Maude productions Hedda and His & Hers.

Tessa Violet

Tessa Violet (Tessa Violet Williams), formerly the YouTuber Meekakitty, is an American indie-pop singer-songwriter. Albums: Maybe Trapped Mostly Troubled (2014), Bad Ideas (2019), MY GOD! (2023); viral singles "Crush" and "YES MOM."

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancers, five-time Olympic medalists (gold 2010, 2018), three-time world champions, most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history, retired 2019.

Tessa West

Tessa West is an American social psychologist, professor of psychology at New York University, who studies interpersonal interaction and wrote Jerks at Work (2022) and Job Therapy.

Tessa Worley

Tessa Worley, French-Australian alpine skier (born 1989, Annemasse), giant slalom specialist; double world champion 2013 and 2017, 16 World Cup wins, two crystal globes, retired March 2023.

Tessa Wyatt

Tessa Wyatt (born 1948, Woking, Surrey) is an English actress best known as Vicky Tripp in ITV's Robin's Nest (1977–1981); also Pride and Prejudice (1967), Peep Show, EastEnders; ex-wife of DJ Tony Blackburn.

Tessanne Chin

Tessanne Chin, also known as Tessanne Amanda Chin, is a Jamaican singer who won season 5 of The Voice in December 2013, the first Jamaican to win.

Tessellation

A tessellation, also called a tiling, is a pattern of shapes covering a surface without gaps or overlaps, ranging from square grids to patterns that never repeat.

Tessera Therapeutics

Tessera Therapeutics is a Somerville, Massachusetts biotechnology company founded in 2018 by Flagship Pioneering scientists that develops Gene Writing, a genome-engineering platform that writes therapeutic instructions into DNA without cutting it.

Tesseract

The tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, also called the hypercube or 8-cell, one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes, with 16 vertices and 8 cubic cells.

Tesseract (band)

TesseracT is a British progressive metal band formed in Milton Keynes in 2003 by guitarist Acle Kahney, a founding act of the djent movement; albums include One, Altered State, Polaris, Sonder, and War of Being.

Tesseract (software)

Tesseract, also known as Tesseract OCR or Google Tesseract, is an open source optical character recognition engine that extracts printed text from images, developed at Hewlett-Packard from 1985 and later at Google.

Tessica Brown

Tessica Brown, the "Gorilla Glue girl" (born 1981), is a Louisiana daycare owner who went viral in February 2021 for using Gorilla Glue spray adhesive as hairspray, requiring a four-hour procedure by Dr. Michael Obeng to remove it.

Tessier number 5 facial cleft

Tessier number 5 facial cleft (infraorbital facial cleft, Morian III): rare congenital oblique cleft from upper lip medial to the oral commissure across the cheek to the lower eyelid, with premolar-maxilla-orbital floor bony cleft; least common Tessier cleft.

Tessier number 7 facial cleft

Tessier number 7 facial cleft, also called transverse facial cleft or macrostomia, is a rare temporozygomatic congenital cleft through the pterygomaxillary junction, associated with hemifacial microsomia and Treacher Collins syndrome, repaired by commissuroplasty.

Tessitura

Tessitura (Italian, "texture") is the average register where a melody, vocal part, or instrument's notes mostly lie, distinct from range; for singers it is the comfortable part of the voice, quantified by Titze's time and cycle doses and the tessiturogram.

Tessl

Tessl (Tessl Holdings, Inc.) is a London-based startup founded in 2024 by Snyk founder Guy Podjarny that builds an AI-native development platform centered on specifications rather than code.

Tessy Thomas

Tessy Thomas, born 1963 in Kerala, is an Indian scientist known as the "Missile Woman of India" who led the Agni-IV and Agni-V ballistic missile programs at DRDO.

Test (2025 film)

Test (2025) is a Tamil-language Indian sports drama, the directorial debut of S. Sashikanth for YNOT Studios, starring Madhavan, Nayanthara, Siddharth, and Meera Jasmine. It premiered on Netflix April 4, 2025, in five languages, set around a Chennai cricket test match.