Harriet Iona Cross[1] (born 1990 or 1991)[2] is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament for Gordon and Buchan since the 2024 general election.

[3] Harriet Cross was born in Harrogate and lived in West Cork in Ireland where her mother was from before settling in Aberdeenshire.

[4] She attended Bandon Grammar School,[5] Imperial College London where she studied zoology and earned a master's degree in Rural Land and Business Management and from the University of Reading.

[6] In 2018, she returned to Aberdeenshire to work as a rural surveyor and later stood as the Conservative candidate for Aberdeen Donside in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, finishing second to Jackie Dunbar.

[7] In the 2024 UK Conservative party leadership election she backed Tom Tugendhat.