Dorothy

Dorothy is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

Dorothy is the English form of Dorothea .

Well-known namesake

• Dorothy Christy (1906–1977) American actress
• Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), American actress and singer
• Dorothy Day (1897–1980), American social and peace activist
• Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968), British prehistorian
• Dorothy Hart (1923-2004), American actress
• Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (1910-1994), English biochemist
• Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965), American actress, reporter, and television presenter
• Dorothy La Bostrie (1928–2007), American songwriter
• Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), British author of letters
• Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), American writer
• Dorothy L. Sayers ( Dorothy Leigh Sayers ; 1893–1957), English writer and translator

Others

• Dorothy Lane is the pseudonym of Elisabeth Hauptmann , Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill under whom the gangster comedy "Happy End" was written.
• Dorothy (band) , an American rock band from Los Angeles formed in 2014