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Betty Draper
Betty Draper (Betty Francis, née Elizabeth Hofstadt) is January Jones's fictional housewife character in AMC's Mad Men (2007–2015), Don Draper's wife, later Henry Francis's, embodying Friedan's Feminine Mystique and dying of cancer in the final season.
Betty Driver
Betty Driver (Elizabeth Mary Driver, 1920–2011), English singer and comic actor, was Betty Turpin/Williams, the hotpot-serving barmaid of Coronation Street's Rovers Return from 1969, after a variety career with Henry Hall and ENSA.
Betty en NY
Betty en NY (Betty in New York) is Telemundo's 2019 Spanish-language telenovela adaptation of Yo soy Betty, la fea, set in New York, starring Elyfer Torres and Erick Elías, 123 episodes, aired February to August 2019.
Betty Field
Betty Field was an American film and stage actress active from the late 1930s to 1971, starring on Broadway in Dream Girl and appearing in Picnic and Bus Stop.
Betty Ford
Betty Ford (1918–2011), born Elizabeth Anne Bloomer, was first lady of the United States 1974–1977, dancer and wife of Gerald Ford, known for breast cancer openness, ERA advocacy, and co-founding the Betty Ford Center.
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), co-founded the National Organization for Women in June 1966 and served as its first president, 1966–1970, leading EEOC lobbying and the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality.
Betty Gabriel
Betty Gabriel (born 1981, Washington, D.C.) is an American actress and Juilliard graduate known as Georgina in Get Out, a Blumhouse scream queen, and as Elizabeth Wright in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett (1919-2011), American actress, singer, and dancer; MGM musical star opposite Frank Sinatra in On the Town; wife of blacklisted actor Larry Parks; later Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family and Edna Babish on Laverne & Shirley.
Betty Gilpin
Betty Gilpin (Elizabeth Folan Gilpin) is an American actress and writer born 1986 in New York, known for Debbie Eagan in GLOW, Mrs. Davis, The Hunt, and her 2026 Emmy-winning Widow's Bay guest role.
Betty Grable
Betty Grable (Ruth Elizabeth Grable, 1916-1973), American actress, dancer, and singer, Twentieth Century-Fox's leading 1940s Technicolor musical star and WWII's most popular pin-up, famous for her million-dollar insured legs and the 1943 Frank Powolny bathing-suit photo.
Betty Grable filmography
Betty Grable filmography: screen record of the American star (1916–1973), AFI-listed 79 titles, 1930–1955. Key films: Down Argentine Way, Mother Wore Tights, Pin Up Girl, The Dolly Sisters, How to Marry a Millionaire, last film How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955).
Betty Hay
Elizabeth Dexter "Betty" Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell and developmental biologist at Harvard Medical School, the first woman to chair a preclinical department there, known for discovering epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Betty Heidler
Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower (born 1983, East Berlin), 2007 world champion, 2012 Olympic silver medallist, and world record holder at 79.42 m set in Halle in 2011; retired 2016.
Betty Hemings
Betty (Elizabeth) Hemings, 1735–1807, matriarch of the enslaved Hemings family at Monticello; daughter of an English sea captain, mother of twelve including Sally Hemings, six likely by John Wayles.
Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton, born Elizabeth June Thornburg (1921–2007), American actress, singer, and dancer nicknamed the Blonde Bombshell; Paramount musical star of Annie Get Your Gun and The Greatest Show on Earth.
Betty Kim
Betty Y.S. Kim is a neurosurgeon and physician-scientist, Professor of Neurosurgery at MD Anderson since 2022, known for bispecific nanobioconjugate engagers that trigger macrophages to engulf tumor cells.
Betty Lou Beets
Betty Lou Beets, Texas woman executed February 24, 2000 for the 1983 capital murder of her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets for remuneration; second woman and oldest person executed in Texas since 1982; case centered on battered woman syndrome claims.
Betty Lou Gerson
Betty Lou Gerson (1914-1999), American radio, film, and voice actress, original voice of Cruella De Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), narrator of Cinderella, Disney Legend 1996.
Betty Lynn
Betty Lynn (1926–2021), born Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn, American actress best known as Thelma Lou, Barney Fife's sweetheart on The Andy Griffith Show (1961–1966), USO performer in WWII, later a fixture at the Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Betty Mahmoody
Betty Mahmoody is an American author whose memoir Not Without My Daughter (1987), recounting her escape from Iran with her daughter, sold 12 million copies and became a 1991 film.
Betty McCollum
Betty McCollum, born in 1954, is an American Democratic politician serving as U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 4th district since 2001, after serving in the Minnesota House.
Betty Moore
Betty Moore (née McReavie, born 21 November 1934) is an Australian-born hurdler who ran for Great Britain, set the 80m hurdles world record of 10.5 at Kassel in 1962, and won two 1962 Empire Games silvers for England.
Betty Ong
Betty Ann Ong (1956–2001), American Airlines flight attendant aboard hijacked Flight 11 on 9/11, made the first call reporting the hijacking, a 23-minute call to AA reservations in Cary, North Carolina.
Betty R. Ferrell
Betty R. Ferrell is an American nurse scientist who directs nursing research at City of Hope in California and leads the ELNEC palliative care training program.
Betty Ray McCain
Betty Ray McCain (1931-2022), North Carolina Democratic leader from Faison and Wilson; first woman to chair the state Democratic Party (1976-1979) and Secretary of Cultural Resources (1993-2001) under Governor Jim Hunt.
Betty Reid Soskin
Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025), America's oldest National Park Service ranger, retired at 100 in 2022; a Black WWII home front clerk who reshaped the Rosie the Riveter park's story.
Betty Robinson
Elizabeth (Betty) Robinson, American sprinter (1911-1999), first woman to win Olympic track gold, 100m at Amsterdam 1928 in 12.2, plus 1928 relay silver and 1936 relay gold after surviving a 1931 plane crash; distinct from Australian Edie Robinson.
Betty Ross
Betty Ross, Elizabeth Ross, Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in The Incredible Hulk #1 (1962); daughter of Thunderbolt Ross, Bruce Banner's love interest, later Harpy, Red She-Hulk, and Red Harpy; distinct from the Golden Age Betty Ross of Captain America.
Betty Shabazz
Betty Shabazz (Betty Dean Sanders, Betty X), 1934-1997, American educator and civil rights advocate, wife of Malcolm X; raised six daughters, earned a 1975 education doctorate, taught at Medgar Evers College, died of 1997 fire burns.
Betty T. Ang
Betty T. Ang is a Filipina businesswoman who cofounded Monde Nissin, maker of Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes, in 1979 and has led it as president since.