Bette (given name)

Bette is a given name, sometimes short for Elizabeth and Bettina, and may refer to:

People

 * Bette Davis (1908–1989), American actress
 * Bette Franke (born 1989), Dutch fashion model
 * Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), inventor of liquid paper
 * Bette Korber, American computational biologist
 * Bette Midler (born 1945), American singer and actress
 * Bette Otto-Bliesner, American earth scientist
 * Bette Stephenson (1924–2019), Canadian physician and politician

Fictional characters

 * Bette Abney, main character in the young adult fiction novels Tiny Pretty Things and Shiny Broken Pieces
 * Bette Fischer, title character of Honoré de Balzac's 1846 novel Cousin Bette and its film adaptations
 * Bette Kane, a DC Comics superhero
 * Bette Porter, in the television series The L-Word and its sequel The L-Word: Generation Q
 * Bette Tattler, in American Horror Story: Freak Show