Betty (first name)
Betty or Bettie is a common English short form of the female first name Elizabeth or Elisabeth .
Well-known namesake
- Betty Allen (1927–2009), American mezzo-soprano
- Betty Amann (1907–1990), German-American actress
- Betty Balfour (1903-1977), British actress
- Bettie Ballhaus (* 1978), German television presenter
- Betty Bird (1901–1998), Austrian film actress
- Betty Blythe (1893–1972), American actress
- Betty Boo (* 1970), British singer, rapper and songwriter
- Betty Boothroyd (* 1929), British politician
- Betty Buckley (born 1947), American actress
- Betty Carter (1929–1998), American jazz singer
- Betty Chandler (1915-2006), Canadian-Chinese nutritionist and lecturer
- Betty Comden (1917–2006), American songwriter, screenwriter, and actress
- Betty Compson (1897–1974), American film actress
- Betty Curtis (1936-2006), Italian singer
- Betty Cuthbert (1938-2017), Australian track and field athlete
- Betty Davis (* 1945), American singer
- Betty Dorsey (1945–2020), American pop and jazz singer
- Betty Field (1913–1973), American stage and film actress
- Betty Ford (1918–2011), widow of 38th US President Gerald Ford
- Betty Friedan (1921–2006), American feminist and publicist
- Betty Gilpin (* 1986), American actress
- Betty Gleim (1781–1827), German teacher, school founder and writer
- Betty Grable (1916–1973), American actress
- Betty Hall Jones (1911–2009), American R&B musician
- Betty Heidler (* 1983), German hammer thrower
- Betty Heimann (1888–1961), German Indologist
- Betty Hirsch (1873–1957), Danish-German singer and teacher for the blind and language
- Betty Hutton (1921–2007), American actress, singer and entertainer
- Betty Kolodzy (* 1963), German writer
- Betty Legler (* 1961), Swiss singer and songwriter
- Betty Leslie-Melville (1927-2005), American nature activist
- Betty Mahmoody (* 1945), American writer
- Betty Miles (1910–1992), American actress, stunt woman, equestrian artist and teacher
- Betty Nuthall (1911-1983), English tennis player
- Betty O'Hara (≈1926–2000), American brass player and singer
- Bettie Page (1923-2008), American model
- Betty Paoli (1814–1894), Austrian writer
- Betty Roose (1778–1808), German actress
- Betty Shabazz (1936–1997), widow of Malcolm X
- Betty Smith (1896–1972), American writer
- Betty Smith (1929–2011), British jazz musician
- Betty Taube (* 1994), German model
- Betty Thomas (* 1948), American actress and director
- Betty White (born 1922), American actress
- Betty Williams (1943-2020), Irish peace activist
- Betty Wright (1953-2020), American soul singer
Fictional characters
- Atomic Betty , Canadian cartoon character
- Betty Bernstein , Austrian cartoon character
- Betty Blue , main character in the film Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning
- Betty Boop , cartoon character from the Max Fleischer cartoons produced by Paramount Studio
- Betty Bossi , fictional Swiss cook
- Betty Cooper , cartoon character from the Archie Comics
- Betty Crocker , fictional mascot and brand name of the food company General Mills
- Betty George , collective pseudonym used on EUROPA radio plays for the composers Carsten Bohn , Heikedine Körting and Andreas E. Beurmann
- Betty Rubble (English: Betty Rubble ), character from the cartoon series Flintstones ( The Flintstones )
- Betty Kane , first Batgirl in the DC Universe
- Betty (Master Pain) Master Pain is called Betty (see Kung Pow )