Betsy

This article is about the given name. For the English football coach and former player, see Kevin Betsy. For other uses, see Betsy (disambiguation).

Betsy is an English feminine given name, often a nickname for Elizabeth.

People

• Betsy, stage name of Welsh singer Elizabeth Humfrey
• Betsy (born 2013), Russian singer and blogger
• Betsy Abbas (born 1930s), South African-Egyptian tennis player
• Betsy Aidem (born 1957), American actress
• Betsy Alison (born 1960), American sailor
• Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927–2020), American plasma physicist
• Betsy Arakawa (1959–2025), American musician
• Betsy Atkins (born 1953), American business executive and entrepreneur
• Betsy Baker (born 1955), American actress
• Betsy Bakker-Nort (1874–1946), Dutch lawyer and politician
• Betsy Balcombe (1802−1871), English friend of Napoleon I at Saint Helena
• Betsy Bang (c. 1912–2003), biologist, illustrator and translator
• Betsy Barr (born 1981), American soccer player
• Betsy Beard (born 1961), American coxswain
• Betsy Becker, American researcher
• Betsy Beers (born 1957), American television and film producer
• Betsy Beutler (born 1988), American actress
• Betsy Blackwell (c. 1905–1985), American journalist
• Betsy Blair (1923–2009), American actress
• Betsy Bloomingdale (1922–2016), American socialite
• Betsy Dewar Boyce (1913–2007), Canadian historian
• Betsy Boze, American academic and education administrator
• Betsy Brandt (born 1973), American actress
• Betsy Brantley (born 1955), American actress
• Betsy Brown (born 1963), American poet
• Betsy Bryan (born 1949), American Egyptologist
• Betsy Butler (born 1963), American politician
• Betsy Byars (1928–2020), American author
• Betsy B. Carr (born 1946), American politician
• Betsy or Betty Careless (c. 1704 – 1739), English courtesan
• Betsy Clifford (born 1953), Canadian alpine skier
• Betsy Close (born 1950), American politician
• Betsy Coffia (born 1977), American politician
• Betsy Z. Cohen (born 1941), American business executive
• Betsy Colquitt (1927–2009), American writer
• Betsy Cook, American-born singer, songwriter and musician
• Betsy Mix Cowles (1810–1876), American abolitionist
• Betsy Cullen (born 1938), American professional golfer
• Betsy Curtis (1917–2002), American writer
• Betsy Damon (born 1940), American artist
• Betsy Devine (born 1946), American journalist
• Betsy DeVos (born 1958), American businesswoman and politician
• Betsy DiSalvo (born 1969), American professor
• Betsy Drake (1923–2015), American actress, writer and psychotherapist
• Betsy Drambour (born 1965), American soccer player and golfer
• Betsy Driver, mayor of Flemington and intersex activist
• Betsy Dunn, American politician and member of the Vermont House of Representatives
• Betsy Eby (born 1967), American painter
• Betsy Ettorre (born 1948), Anglo-American feminist sociologist
• Betsy Robertson Eyre (1911–1983), New Zealand teacher, community worker and local politician
• Betsy Fagin (born 1972), American poet
• Betsy Fogle, American politician
• Betsy Foxman, American epidemiologist
• Betsy Freese, American editor, blogger, and radio personality
• Betsy von Furstenberg (1931–2015), German-American actress
• Betsy Gay (1929–2025), American yodeler and actress
• Betsy Gotbaum (born 1938), New York City Public Advocate
• Betsy Gray (1780–1798), Irish folkloric figure
• Betsy Brannon Green (born 1958), American novelist
• Betsy Greer, American writer
• Betsy Grunch, American neurosurgeon
• Betsy Hager (1750–1843), farmer and blacksmith during the American Revolution
• Betsy Haines (born 1960), American skier
• Betsy Hands, American politician
• Betsy Hannig (born 1963), American politician
• Betsy Harris (born 1972), American basketball coach
• Betsy Harrison Gagne (1947–2020), American botanist
• Betsy Hart (born c. 1963), American journalist
• Betsy Hassett (born 1990), New Zealand football player
• Betsy Haynes, American author
• Betsy Heard (1759–1810s), Euro-African slave trader and merchant
• Betsy Heimann, American costume designer
• Betsy Hill, American rugby union player
• Betsy Ann Hisle (1917–1978), American child actress
• Betsy Hodges (born 1969), mayor of Minneapolis
• Betsy Holden (born 1955), American businesswoman
• Betsy Holland (born 1976), American politician
• Betsy Hoza, American clinical psychologist
• Betsy Humphreys (born 1947), American medical librarian
• Betsy Rivers Jackes (born 1935), Australian botanist and author
• Betsy James, American youth fiction writer and illustrator
• Betsy Jochum (1921–2025), American baseball pitcher
• Betsy Johnson (born 1951), American politician
• Betsy Jolas (born 1926), French composer
• Betsy Jones-Moreland (1930–2006), American actress
• Betsy Joslyn (born 1954), American actress and singer
• Betsy Kaufman, American visual artist
• Betsy King (born 1955), American golfer
• Lizzie Lloyd King (1847–?), also known as Betsy King, alleged murderer of Charles Goodrich
• Betsy Leondar-Wright (born 1956), economic justice activist, sociologist, and author
• Betsy Levy Paluck, American psychology professor
• Betsy Lewin (born 1937), American illustrator
• Betsy Lobb (1868–1956), British businesswoman
• Betsy Love Allen, Chickasaw merchant and planter
• Betsy Markey (born 1956), American politician
• Betsy Martin (born 1970), American journalist
• Betsy McCaughey (born 1948), American politician
• Betsy McLaughlin (born 1960), American businesswoman
• Betsy Flagg Melcher (1900–1991), American miniature portraitist
• Betsy Mitchell (born 1966), American swimmer
• Betsy Nagelsen (born 1956), American former professional tennis player
• Betsy Norden (born 1945), American soprano
• Betsy Palmer (1926–2015), American actress
• Betsy Pecanins (1954–2016), American-born Mexican singer, songwriter and record producer
• Betsy Perk (1833–1906), Dutch author
• Betsy Plank (1924–2010), American public relations executive
• Betsy Price (born 1949), American mayor
• Betsy Prioleau, American author
• Betsy Randle (born 1955), American actress
• Betsy Rawls (1928–2023), American golfer
• Betsy Reed (born 1968), American journalist and editor
• Betsy Repelius (1848–1921), Dutch painter and watercolorist who specialized in simple, one-figure, genre scenes
• Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888–1964), American portrait painter
• Betsy Rosenberg, American Radio host
• Betsy King Ross (1922–1989), American actress, anthropologist and author
• Betsy Ross (1752–1836), American patriot credited with sewing the first American flag
• Betsy Rue (born 1979), American actress
• Betsy Russell (born 1963), American actress
• Betsy Ruth (born 1985), American wrestler, ring name Mary Kate
• Betsy Rutherford (1944–1991), American singer
• Betsy Saina (born 1988), Kenyan athlete
• Betsy Schneider, American photographer
• Betsy Shaw (born 1965), American snowboarder
• Betsy Sheridan (1756–1837), Anglo Irish diarist
• Betsy Sholl, American poet
• Betsy Snite (1938–1984), American alpine ski racer
• Betsy Sodaro (born 1984), American actress and comedian
• Betsy Stanko (born 1950), American criminologist
• Betsy Stark, American television journalist
• Betsy Stovall, American mathematician
• Betsy Struthers (born 1951), Canadian poet and novelist
• Betsy Struxness, American actress, singer, and dancer
• Betsy Sullivan (born 1956), Jamaican diver
• Betsy Thom, British sociologist
• Betsy Thomas, American screenwriter
• Betsy Thornton, American novelist
• Betsy Thunder, Native American medicine woman
• Betsy Túrnez (born 1974), Spanish actress
• Betsy Wade (1929–2020), American journalist and columnist
• Betsy Warland, American feminist writer
• Betsy Warrior (born 1940), American feminist and author
• Betsy Weatherhead, American climatologist
• Betsy Weiss, lead singer of Bitch (band)
• Betsy Wergin (born 1952), American politician
• Betsy West, American producer, filmmaker and video journalist
• Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880–1968), Dutch painter
• Betsy Whyte, Scottish traveler, traditional-bearer, folksinger and storyteller
• Betsy Wieseman (born 1958), American art historian and curator
• Betsy Wolfe (born 1982), American actress and singer
• Betsy Wolfston, American artist
• Betsy Wollheim (born 1951), American science fiction editor
• Betsy Woodruff Swan (born 1989), American journalist
• Betsy Wyeth (1921–2020), American author and collector
• Betsy Yanik, American mathematics educator
• Betsy Youngman (born 1959), American skier

Dogs

• Betsy (dog), an Austrian Border Collie credited with high intelligence

Fictional characters

• Betsy, main character in the Betsy series of children's books by Carolyn Haywood
• Betsy Bobbin, in the Oz books
• Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock, Marvel Comics superheroine also known as Psylocke and Captain Britain
• Betsy Ray, protagonist of the Betsy-Tacy series of novels by Maud Hart Lovelace
• Betsy Chernak Taylor, on the canceled American soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing
• Betsy, an infected monkey in the film Outbreak
• Elizabeth Ann, main character of the novel Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

See also

• Betsey (disambiguation)