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Just like Queen Esther who with Mordecai the Prince and King Xerxes defeat Haman and the Agagites.

Esther is the name of grandma Walton on the Waltons played by Ellen Corby.

Esther Brandeau was a French-Jewish woman known for being the first Jew to live in Canada. She settled in Quebec in 1738 and lived there for a year before being forcibly sent back to France.

Esther "Etty" Hillesum was the author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.

Princess Esther Kamatari is a writer, model, and exiled Burundian princess. Esther Kamatari grew up in Burundi as a member of the royal family. She was educated at l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration du Burundi. Following independence in 1962, the king was overthrown in a military coup d'état, and the monarchy abolished in 1966. Kamatari fled the country in 1970 after her father's assassination and settled in Paris, where she became a model. An attempt to re-establish the kingdom ended with the murder of King Ntare V in 1972.

Esther Wanjiru Mwikamba was a Kenyan woman who died on March 20, 2012 following a coma state since February 18, 2012 when she was brutally assaulted for questioning the molestation of her friend, while she with her friends were leaving a night club in Dubai.

Esther Elizabeth Rolle was a Bahamian American actress. Rolle is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude for two seasons and its spin-off series Good Times for five seasons for which Rolle was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976.

Esther Victoria Abraham, better known by her stage name Pramila, was an Indian model, actress and first woman film producer in the Hindi film industry. She is also well known for winning the first Miss India pageant in 1947.

Esther Chae is a Korean-American actress and writer. Chae has appeared in numerous television shows such as NCIS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The West Wing, The Shield, and ER. She has also performed on theater stages including Yale Repertory Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Mark Taper Forum/ Kirk Douglas Theater, East West Players, P.S. 122, and Harvard/American Repertory Theater. Chae was among the inaugural class of TED fellows in 2009. She wrote and performed in So The Arrow Flies, an 80-minute one-woman performance about a North Korean spy and the FBI agent that hunts her down. It touches on post-9/11 themes of terrorism, political ideology, national identity and mother-daughter relationships.

Esther Cardoso is a Cuban film and theater actress, producer, director and educator. Cardoso was a professor of literature at Central University of Las Villas. In 1977, she went to the Instituto Superior de Arte. She holds a doctorate in Stage Arts. Cardoso was a co-founder of two of Cuba's leading theater companies, Teatro Buendia and Argos Teatro. She has taught at the Instituto Superior de Arte and has given numerous workshops in Cuba, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany and Australia. As a director, she has staged important shows, fusing genres and making use of diverse artistic strands.

Esther Kia'āina is an American politician who heads the Office of Insular Affairs as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas. Esther Kia'āina was born in Guam to parents Lorelei Haunani Kia'āina and Melvin Leialoha Kia'āina. Before she was born, her parents left Hawaii due to her father being stationed in Guam while serving in the U.S. Navy. Kia'āina moved to Oahu in 1978, graduating from Kamehameha Schools in 1981.

Esther Kwan was born on July 16, 1964 in Hong Kong. She is an actress, known for Run and Kill, Shen si guan fan an and Qing feng xia. She has been married to Nick Cheung since December 8, 2003. They have one child.

Esther Wong was a Chinese-American restaurant owner and music promoter, called the "Godmother of Punk" in Los Angeles, California. She was born in Shanghai, China, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.

Esther Shimazu is an American sculptor who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1957. Her grandparents were immigrant laborers from Japan. She attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa before transferring to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1980 and a Master of Fine Art in 1982.

Esther Zaied, better known by her married name Esther Ofarim, is an Israeli international singer. She came second in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 with the song "T'en vas pas", representing Switzerland. After marrying Abi Ofarim and for a full decade in the 1960s, she was half of the singing husband and wife duo, Esther & Abi Ofarim. After they divorced, the duo broke up and she undertook a successful solo career.

Esther Cañadas is a Spanish actress and model. Originally, Cañadas wanted to pursue a career as a criminologist, but her mother persuaded her to give modeling a try.

Esther Ijewere-Kalejaiye is a Nigerian author, advocate, women and girl child's rights activist and a columnist for The Guardian. A graduate of Sociology from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria, Ijewere-Kalejaiye is the founder of Rubies Ink Initiative for Women and Children, an umbrella organization which covers several women and girl child-related projects including Walk Against Rape, Women of Rubies, Project Capable, Rubies Ink Media and the College Acquaintance Rape Education Workshop. In 2013, her activism against rape led her to write the book Breaking the Silence, a book that informs about rape and its scourge. Her contributions to the Nigerian society has been recognized by several institutions and governmental parastatal. On 9 July 2016, she was awarded the “Young Person of the Year Award” at the 2016 Miss Tourism Nigeria beauty pageant. She is also a recipient of Wise Women Awards' "Christian Woman in Media Award" which she won in June 2016. Ijewere-Kalejaiye is married with two children.

Esther Grace Earl was an American author, internet vlogger, online personality and a Nerdfighter, as well as an activist in the Harry Potter Alliance. Prior to her death from cancer in 2010, Earl became friends with author John Green, who credited her for inspiring him to complete the novel that became 2012 bestseller The Fault in Our Stars. In 2014, Earl's writings were compiled and released as the book This Star Won't Go Out, which appeared in 2014 on the New York Times bestseller list for young adult books.

Esther Eng was a Chinese–American film director and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States. Eng made four feature films in America and five in Hong Kong. She was recognized as a female pioneer who crossed the boundaries of race, language, culture and gender. Eng died of cancer at the age of 55 in January, 1970.

Esther Ku is a Korean-American stand-up comedian, television personality, and actress. Ku is a cast member on the MTV show Girl Code and Wild 'N Out. Ku is a comedian who frequently appeared on the Opie and Jim Norton Show on Sirius XM Radio. Ku was chosen as one of the ten best comedians for the 2006 NBC Stand-up for Diversity Showcase in New York City. Ku has also been a featured regular performer in the Boston International Comedy Festival and the New York Underground Festival.

Esther Fernández was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s.

Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude for two seasons (1972–1974) and its spin-off series Good Times for five seasons (1974–77, 1978–79).

Esther Hicks is an American inspirational speaker and author. She has co-written nine books with her husband Jerry Hicks, presented numerous workshops on the law of attraction with Abraham Hicks Publications and appeared in the original version of the 2006 film The Secret.[1] The Hicks' books, including the series The Law of Attraction, are — according to Esther Hicks — "translated from a group of non-physical entities called Abraham." Hicks describes what she is doing as tapping into "infinite intelligence".

Esther Arroyo is a Spanish actress and model. She was Miss Spain 1990. Since winning the Miss Spain contest she appeared in many TV programs as a host and collaborator She also acted in many TV series, her most famous role was playing Ali in Periodistas from 1998 to 2002.

Esther Blanchett is one of the main characters in the gothic vampire series Trinity Blood.

Esther is the creepy girl in Orphan.

Esther Grace Earl; the author of This Star Won't Go Out, the creator of Esther Day, and the girl that The Fault In Our Stars was dedicated to.

Esther Summerson is the main character of Charles Dickens' 1852 novel, 'Bleak House'.

Esther is the name of the pretty, strong, and rebellious Amish girl on the reality show "Amish Mafia".

Esther Lofgren (born 1985 in Long Beach, California) is an American rower and Olympic gold medalist.

Estelita Rodriguez is a famous bearer. Estelita Rodriguez was a Cuban-born actress who became popular in a number of Western movies, including a number of movies which starred Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

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Estelita means "little star" in Spanish.

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A variation of the same name is Estrellita, which also means "little star."

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I believe that both names are very pretty variations of the name Esther.

Esther is the name of a central character in the 2009 horror film "Orphan". The film's tagline is "There's something wrong with Esther."

Esther was the name of Fred Sanford's mother-in-law on 'Sanford and Son'.

Actor Ewan McGregor has a daughter named Esther Rose.

Esther Ofarim is a famous and beautiful Israeli singer. She first rose to prominence in the 1960s, singing with her then husband, as Esther and Abu Ofarim. Their songs included the hit "Cinderella Rockefella".

I LOVE this name, but I always think of crazy Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son! lol!

'Esther' is a dramatic play in three acts, written by French playwright Jean Racine. It premiered on January 26, 1689. It remains one of Racine's lesser-known works.

Esther Turveydrop is Caddy's deaf daughter in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens.

Esther Summerson is a character in Charles Dicken's novel "Bleak House."

Esther Smith is the name of Judy Garland's character in the movie Meet Me In St. Louis.

Madonna took Esther as her Kabbalah name.

Esther Forbes, author of such books as "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In" and "Johnny Tremain", bears this name.

The main character in Silvia Plath's only book, "The Bell Jar", was named Esther.

Actress Esther Williams was a famous bearer.

Esther Phillips - great soul singer.