Betsy

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 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