Betsy

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

People

 * Betsy, stage name of Welsh singer Elizabeth Humfrey
 * Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927–2020), American plasma physicist
 * Betsy Atkins (born 1953), American business executive and entrepreneur
 * Betsy Balcombe (1802−1871), English friend of Napoleon I at Saint Helena
 * Betsy Beard (born 1961), American coxswain
 * Betsy Beers (born 1957), American television and film producer
 * Betsy Beutler, American actress
 * Betsy Blair (1923–2009), American actress
 * Betsy Boze, American academic and education administrator
 * 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 Cook, American-born singer, songwriter and musician
 * Betsy Mix Cowles (1810–1876), American abolitionist
 * Betsy Cullen (born 1938), American professional golfer
 * Betsy Devine (born 1946), American journalist
 * Betsy DeVos (born 1958), American businesswoman and politician
 * Betsy Robertson Eyre (1911–1983), New Zealand teacher, community worker and local politician
 * Betsy Fagin (born 1972), American poet
 * Betsy Freese, American editor, blogger, and radio personality
 * Betsy Gotbaum (born 1938), New York City Public Advocate
 * Betsy Hager (1750–1843), farmer and blacksmith during the American Revolution
 * Betsy Hands, American politician
 * Betsy Hassett (born 1990), New Zealand football player
 * Betsy Heard (1759–1810s), Euro‐African slave trader and merchant
 * Betsy Hodges (born 1969), mayor of Minneapolis
 * Betsy Holden (born 1955), American businesswoman
 * Betsy Jochum (born 1921), American baseball pitcher
 * Betsy Jolas (born 1926), French composer
 * Betsy Joslyn (born 1954), American actress and singer
 * 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 Lewin (born 1937), American illustrator
 * Betsy McCaughey (born 1948), American politician
 * Betsy McLaughlin (born 1960), American businesswoman
 * Betsy Flagg Melcher (1900–1991), American miniature portraitist
 * 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 Plank (1924–2010), American public relations executive
 * Betsy Rawls, American golfer
 * 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 Ross (1752–1836), American patriot credited with sewing the first American flag
 * Betsy Rue (born 1979), 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 Snite (1938–1984), American alpine ski racer
 * Betsy Sodaro (born 1984), American actress and comedian
 * Betsy Struxness, American actress, singer, and dancer
 * Betsy Warrior (born 1940), American feminist and author
 * Betsy Weiss, lead singer of Bitch (band)

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