Betty

For other uses, see Betty (disambiguation).

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

• "Betty", a country song by Chris Cummings from the album Ooh, That Could Cost Him the Gold, Bob!
• The Mitsubishi G4M used by the Imperial Japanese Navy had the reporting name "Betty"
• The American Mark 90 nuclear bomb, given the nickname "Betty"
• USS Betty M. II (SP-623), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918

See also

• Betti