Minnie
For other uses, see Minnie (disambiguation).
As a first name, Minnie is a diminutive of Minerva, Winifred, Wilhelmina, Hermione, Mary, or Amelia. It may refer to:
People with the given name
- Minnie Tittell Brune (1875–1974), American stage actress
- Minnie D. Craig (1883-1966), American legislator and the first female speaker of a state House of Representatives (North Dakota) in the United States
- Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964), suffrage politician and first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters
- Minnie Devereaux (1891–1984), Canadian Cheyenne silent film actress
- Minnie Dupree (1873-1947), American stage and film actress
- Minnie Egener (1881–1938), American operatic mezzo-soprano
- Minnie Evans (1892–1987), African-American folk artist
- Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932), leading American actress
- Minnie Gentry (1915–1993), American actress
- Minnie Lansbury (1889-1922), English suffragette
- Minnie Marx (1865-1929), mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, born Miene Schönberg
- Minnie Nast (1874–1956), German soprano
- Minnie Pwerle (between 1910 and 1922-2006), Australian Aboriginal painter
- Minnie Rayner (1869–1941), British film actress
- Minnie Riperton (1947-1979), singer and song writer
People with the nickname
Women
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847-1928), Empress of Russia, known within her family as Minnie
- Minnie Dean (1844-1895), only woman to suffer the death penalty in New Zealand
- Minnie Driver (born 1970), born Amelia Fiona Driver, English actress and singer-songwriter
- Minnie Hauk (1851-1929), American operatic soprano
- Minnie Vautrin (1886-1941), American missionary who saved the lives of many women during the Nanking Massacre
- Minnie Warren (1849-1878), American dwarf associated with P. T. Barnum
Men
- Roy McGiffin (1891-1918), ice hockey player
- Minnie Mendoza (born 1933), Cuban retired Major League Baseball player and coach
- Minnie Miñoso (born 1925), Cuban retired Major League Baseball and Negro leagues player
- Minnie Rojas (1933-2002), Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Fictional characters with the given name
- Minnie Mouse, an animated character
- Minnie Bannister, on the British radio series The Goon Show, played by Spike Milligan
- Minnie Crozier, on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Minnie the Minx, a comic strip character from The Beano
- Minnie Bishop, from the anime/manga Strike Witches
- Minnie Fay, in the musical Hello, Dolly! and the film adaptation
Other
- Minnie (died 1998), the only female chimpanzee in the US Mercury space program, backup to Ham (chimpanzee)
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