Betty
Betty is a common diminutive for the names "Elizabeth" and "Bethany".
Actresses and musicians
- Betty (band), American alternative rock band
- 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 Ballhaus, German television presenter and photo model
- Betty Davies, Calico Cat based in Caldy on the Wirral, UK.
- Betty Ford, Former First Lady of the United States, wife of Gerald Ford
- Betty Friedan, American feminist and author of The Feminine Mystique
- Betty Linderoth, Swedish clockmaker
- Betty Shabazz, American educator and civil rights advocate, wife of Malcolm X.
- Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
Fictional characters
- 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 character of Archie Comics
- Betty Crocker, a brand name
- Betty Draper, a character of AMC's TV Series Mad Men
- 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 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
- Atomic Betty or 'Betty Barrett', Cartoon Network-Teletoon's first child superhero
- Brickhouse Betty, a character from the animated cartoon series of the same name featured on Playboy TV and the Web
- Betty (Naked Brothers Band), a character from the TV series, The Naked Brothers Band
Other
See also