{{About|the given name|the English football coach and former player|Kevin Betsy|other uses}}
'''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 ({{circa|1704}}{{snd}}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)
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