Jessie

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Jessie can be:

• A shortened form of Jessica
• Lake Jessie, a lake in Minnesota.
• Jessie's Girl, a pop song written and performed by pop singer Rick Springfield.
• Jessie, a hit song written and performed by Joshua Kadison
• Jessie's Song, an indie song written and performed by My Getaway.
• Colloquial "false singular" of jesses (falconry).
• See Jessy.

[edit] People

• Jessie Cooper, the first female member of the South Australian Parliament.
• Jessie MacWilliams, an English mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory.
• Jessie Tuggle, a former NFL linebacker.
• Jessie Spinks Rooke, an Australian suffragette.
• Jessie Misskelley, one of the 3 members of the West Memphis 3, a group accused and convicted of a triple homicide.
• Jessie Oonark, a Canadian Inuit artist.
• Jessie Pope, an English poet during World War I.
• Jessie Laidlay Weston, an independent scholar.
• Jessie Redmon Fauset, an African American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.
• Elaine Riddick Jessie, in 1968 at age 14, was forcibly sterilized by the US government.
• Jessie Ward, an American actress
• Jessie E. Woods, one of the first female air pilots in the United States.
• Jessie M. Rattley, Mayor of the City of Newport News from 1986 to 1990.
• Jessie Lynn Ward, professional wrestler and reality television contestant.
• Jessie Flower an american voice actress.

[edit] People in Media

• Sally Jessie Raphaël, an American talk show host.
• Jessie Flaws, an American actress working in Sweden.
• Jessie Wallace, a British actress who stars in Eastenders.
• Jessie Matthews, a popular British actress and singer of the 1930s.
• Jessie Camacho, a contestant on the television show, Survivor.
• Jessie Royce Landis, an American actress in the 1950s.
• Jessie Mae Hemphill, a pioneering electric guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist.

[edit] Fictional Characters

• Jessie is a female toy character in Disney/Pixar's animated movie Toy Story 2.
• Jessie of Team Rocket, a Character in the Pokémon anime and video games.
• A character in the play, 'night, Mother.
• Jessie Burlingame, a character in Gerald's Game.
• Jessie Brewer, a character in General Hospital
• Jessie Jackson, a character from Coronation Street.