Esperanza

Esperanza "Zsa Zsa" Padilla is a Filipino singer, actress, television host, music producer and businesswoman.

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Referred to as the "Divine Diva", Padilla is recognized as one of the top female recording artists in the Philippines. Before going solo in 1982, Padilla began her career in the mid 70s with the renowned Filipino band, Hotdog. She has won a Gawad Urian Award, 2 FAP Awards, 3 Golden Screen Awards including the prestigious 'Decade Award' and received multiple nominations at the FAMAS Award. Padilla is also among the biggest-selling female music artists in the Philippines. According to Philippine Association of the Record Industry, some of her best-selling albums include: Ikaw Lamang (Gold), Zsa Zsa (4× Platinum), Sentiments (Platinum) and Unchanging Love (Gold). As an acclaimed actress, Padilla has played various genres ranging from drama, comedy and fantasy. She's best known for ZsaZsa Zaturnnah Ze Moveeh, Batang PX, Ako Legal Wife: Mano Po 4 and Minsan Lang Kitang Iibigin.

Esperanza Icasas-Cabral is a Filipina cardiologist and clinical pharmacologist. She served as Secretary of the Department of Health in the Philippines, taking office in January 2010 to replace Dr. Francisco Duque III after his appointment as chairperson of the Civil Service Commission. Before her appointment as Secretary of Health she was previously the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, replacing Corazon Soliman.

Esperanza is the name of Leo's mother in the Rick Riordan fantasy series "The Heroes of Olympus".

There is a lovely children's book called "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Muñoz Ryan. It's a true story of hope. It's about a privileged, European-blooded girl from Mexico who comes from a wealthy landowning family during the time of the Mexican Civil War. Her father dies in the beginning of the novel in a fire. Her family's ranch is burned down and she is forced to immigrate to California with her mother and perform manual labor during the Great Depression. They flee for their lives with a Mestizo family who had worked on their land. Despite the fact that Mexicans of Spanish descent are being murdered at the time of the Civil War, her family had a reputation of being kind and generous to their employees which ultimately saved their lives. They live in labor camps like many Hispanic and Anglo Americans at the time. She experiences poverty, her mother nearly dies of dust pneumonia, and Esperanza is discriminated against by her fellow Mexican workers because she's white and comes from luxury. Despite being rejected by both Americans and her own people, she grows into a strong young adult and falls in love with Miguel, the boy with whom she traveled after escaping from Mexico. It's a beautiful story and I'd recommend that all young people read it. Discrimination, injustice, strife, trauma, and life's challenges come in many forms, which is why we shouldn't make assumptions about people. We can't take our blessings for granted because when we lose everything all that's left is our spirit and our hope. In the book, she is sometimes referred to as "Anza" which is very pretty to me!

Esperanza López Mateos was a Mexican translator, political activist, syndicalist, and mountaineer. She translated several of B. Traven's novels and was his literary agent in Latin America from 1941 to 1951. She was the sister of politician Adolfo López Mateos and sister-in-law of cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. She participated in the strike by the miners of Nueva Rosita (1950–1951) and worked with Vicente Lombardo Toledano; together they supported many Jewish exiles fleeing European wars and seeking refuge in Mexico.

Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Murillo and Bornos, Grandee of Spain, DBE is a Spanish politician and a former President of Madrid. She was President of Madrid's People's Party and the first female politician to have held the office of President of the Senate and Minister of Education and Culture in Spanish democratic history.

Esperanza Spalding is a Grammy-winning singer and musician.

The mother of the main character Spirit in the 2002 animated film 'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron' is named Esperanza.

There's a book called Esperanza Rising. It is the story of a Spanish girl of 14/15 years whose land, life, and family is broken by the white men. She is forced to work in a low position in the fields and live in squalor.

Esperanza is the main character in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan.

Esperanza is one of the female protagonists of Ana Castillo's So Far From God. She is the politically ambitious sister to Caridad, Fe and Loca.

This name was used by Sandra Cisneros for the main character of her autobiographical novel 'The House on Mango Street', and is also the name of the title character in the children's novel 'Esperanza Rising'.