Betty
For other uses, see Betty (disambiguation).
Betty is a common diminutive for the names Elizabeth and Bethany.[1] In Latin America, it is also a common diminutive for the name Beatriz, Spanish form of the Latin name Beatrix and the English name Beatrice. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was more often a diminutive of Bethia.[2]
Actresses and musicians
- "Betty", pseudonym of the French Resistance agent Madeleine Passot
- Betty (band), American alternative rock band
- Betty (singer), Armenian child singer
- Betty Boo, English dance-music artist, singer, and songwriter
- Betty Buckley, American theater, film, and television actress
- Betty Deland, Swedish actress
- Betty Driver, British singer and actress
- Betty Grable, American actress, singer, dancer, and pin-up girl whose sensational bathing-suit photo became the number one pinup of the World War II era
- Betty Harris, American soul singer
- Betty Hutton, American actress and singer
- Betty Kennedy, Canadian author and senator
- Betty Moschona, Greek actress
- Bettie Page, American pin-up, and early fetish model of the 1950s.
- Betty White, American television actress best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls
Other people
- Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- Betty Ford, former First Lady of the United States, wife of Gerald Ford
- Betty Friedan, American feminist and author of The Feminine Mystique
- Betty Gardner also known as Elizabeth (1927-1994), had parental custody of her two granddaughters at the time of her murder. She was strangled to death with a kite string by James Evans in her Saugerties, New York residence on December 28, 1994. James was the boyfriend of her then 13-year-old granddaughter Gweneviere Gardner who is better known as "Wendy". James was convicted and sentenced to 9 years to life in prison. Wendy was also convicted and sentenced to almost 8 years in prison. She was paroled in the year 2004.
- Betty Jackson, British fashion designer
- Betty Linderoth, Swedish clockmaker
- Betty Pariso, American IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Betty Shabazz, American educator and civil rights advocate, wife of Malcolm X
- Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
- Betty Williams, North Irish peace activist
Fictional characters
- Betty, title character of the comic strip Betty (1920–1943) by Charles A. Voight
- Betty (Naked Brothers Band), a character from the TV series, The Naked Brothers Band
- Atomic Betty or 'Betty Barrett', Cartoon Network-Teletoon's first child superhero
- Betty Blue, the main character of the film Betty Blue by Jean-Jacques Beineix, played by Béatrice Dalle
- Betty Boop, a Paramount Pictures cartoon character
- Betty Cooper, a comic book character published by Archie Comics
- Betty Crocker, a brand name
- Betty Draper, a character of AMC's TV Series Mad Men
- Betty Eagleton, a character from the British soap opera, Emmerdale'
- Betty Kane, now known as Bette Kane
- Betty La Fea or Ugly Betty, a fictional character created in a Colombian soap opera with tremendous international success and which was the origin for the US version Ugly Betty
- Betty Rizzo, the character played by Stockard Channing in the 1978 film Grease
- Betty Ross, a character from the Hulk comics: Bruce Banner's love interest
- Betty Rubble, Flintstones character
- Betty Slug, the lead character in the Canadian comic strip, "Betty"
- Betty Smith, the former owner of Speedy Shellberg in Littlest Pet Shop (2012 TV series), who resembles Blythe Baxter
- Betty Spaghetty, a bendable rubber doll
- Betty Spencer, wife of Frank Spencer in the British sitcom Some Mothers do 'ave 'em, played by Michele Dotrice
- Betty Suarez, the title character and heroine of the ABC series Ugly Betty
- Betty Williams, a character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
- Brickhouse Betty, a character from the animated cartoon series of the same name featured on Playboy TV and the Web
- Betty, the antagonist from the 2002 comedy Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
- Betty, the love interest of protagonist Tom Green's character in the 2001 film Freddy Got Fingered, played by Marisa Coughlan
References
- ↑ "Betty- Girl l Baby Names, Name Meanings". BabyCenter LLC. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
- ↑ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39284/39284-h/39284-h.htm
See also
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