Judy (given name)

Judy is a (usually) female personal name. It is sometimes a given name, but more often it is a hypocorism (affectionate diminutive of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Judith.

The great majority of persons named Judy are female, but not all.

Politics

 * Judy Agnew, wife of former American Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew
 * Judy Baker (born 1960), American politician
 * Judy Bethel (born 1943), Canadian politician
 * Judy Biggert (born 1937), American politician
 * Judy Bonds (1952–2011), American anti-mountaintop-removal activist
 * Judy Boyle, American politician
 * Judy Bradley (born 1952), Canadian politician
 * Judy Burges (born 1943), American politician
 * Judy Chirco, American politician
 * Judy Chu (born 1953), American politician
 * Judy Clibborn, American politician
 * Judy Darcy (born 1950), Canadian politician and national union executive
 * Judy Edwards (born 1955), Australian politician
 * Judy Emmons, American politician
 * Judy Erola (born 1934), Canadian politician
 * Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician
 * Judy Fryd (1909–2000), British advocate for mentally handicapped children
 * Judy Gamin (1930–2022), Australian politician
 * Judy Gingell (born 1946), Canadian politician
 * Judy Goldsmith, American activist and President of NOW
 * Judy Gordon (1948–2020), Canadian politician
 * Judy Hopwood (born 1954), Australian politician
 * Judy Hughes (born 1959), Australian politician
 * Judy Jackson (born 1947), Australian politician
 * Judy Junor (born 1948), Canadian politician
 * Judy Kany (born 1937), American politician
 * Judy Keall (born 1942), New Zealand politician
 * Judy Koehler (born 1941), American politician
 * Judy Krawczyk (born 1939), American politician
 * Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980), Canadian politician, member of the federal cabinet, and author
 * Judy Lee (born 1942), American politician
 * Judy Maddigan (born 1948), Australian politician
 * Judy Mallaber (born 1951), British politician
 * Judy Manning (born 1943), American politician
 * Judy Manning, Canadian politician
 * Judy Martin (politician)
 * Judy Marsales, Canadian politician
 * Judy Martz (1943–2017), American skater politician, and Governor of Montana
 * Judy Mbugua (born 1947), Kenyan activist
 * Judy Mundey (born 1944), Canadian activist and communist
 * Judy Eason McIntyre (born 1945), American politician
 * Judy Nerat (1948–2012), American politician
 * Judy Olson Duhamel (born 1939), American politician and educator
 * Judy Paradis (born 1944), American politician
 * Judy Rebick (born 1945), Canadian activist and journalist
 * Judy Richardson, American activist and documentary film producer
 * Judy Robson (born 1939), American politician
 * Judy Rogers, Canadian politician
 * Judy Schwank (born 1951), American politician
 * Judy Sgro (born 1944), Canadian politician
 * Judy Sheerer (born 1940), American politician
 * Judy Shepard (born 1952), American activist
 * Judy Spence (born 1957), Australian politician
 * Judy Streatch (born 1966), Canadian politician
 * Judy Syjuco, Filipino politician
 * Judy Thongori, Kenyan women's rights activist
 * Judy Baar Topinka (1944–2014), American politician
 * Judy Turner (born 1956), New Zealand politician
 * Judy Wakhungu, Kenyan cabinet minister, executive, and academic
 * Judy Wasylycia-Leis (born 1951), Canadian politician
 * Judy Petty Wolf, American politician

Entertainment

 * Judy Bailey (born 1952/1953), New Zealand broadcaster
 * Judy Bailey (pianist) (born 1935), New Zealand jazz pianist
 * Judy Banks Australian television host
 * Judy Becker, American film production designer
 * Judy Bennett (born 1943), English voice actor
 * Judy Blair (born 1948), Franco-American jazz and R&B singer and keyboardist
 * Judy Boucher, Vincentian reggae and R&B singer
 * Judy Brooke (born 1970), English actress
 * Judy Buxton (born 1949), English actress
 * Judy Campbell (1916–2004), British actress and cabaret singer
 * Judy Canova (1913–1983), American comedian, actress, pop singer, and radio personality
 * Judy Carmichael (born 1957), American jazz vocalist and pianist
 * Judy Carne (1939–2015), English actress
 * Judy Chamberlain (born 1944), American singer
 * Judy Cheeks (born 1954), American soul and R&B singer
 * Judy Clark (1921–2002), American actress
 * Judy Clay (1938–2001), American soul and gospel singer
 * Judy Collins (born 1939), American folk, popular, and art singer
 * Judy Cornwell (born 1940), English actress
 * Judy Craig (born 1946), American girl-group singer
 * Judy Craymer, English musical theater producer
 * Judy Dan (born 1931), Chinese–American actress
 * Judy Davis (born 1955), Australian actress
 * Judy Dearing (1940–1995) American costume designer
 * Judy Dyble (1949–2020), British singer–songwriter
 * Judy Farr (set decorator), British
 * Judy Farrell (1938–2023), American actress
 * Judy Flynn (born c. 1963–1964), British actress
 * Judy Freudberg (1949–2012), American television screenwriter
 * Judy Garland (1922–1969), American pop singer and actress
 * Judy Adelman Gershon of Canadian children's music duo Judy & David
 * Judy Gold (born 1962), American comedian, actress, screenwriter, and producer
 * Judy Graubart (born 1943), American actress
 * Judy Finnigan (born 1948), English television personality and author
 * Judy Geeson (born 1948), English actress
 * Judy Gilroy, Irish television presenter
 * Judy Greer (born 1975), American actress
 * Judy Gringer (born 1941), Danish actress
 * Judy Gunn (1915–1991), British actress
 * Judy Henske (1936–2022), American singer–songwriter
 * Judy Herrera, American actress
 * Judy Holliday (1921–1965), American actress, comedian, and pop singer
 * Judy Holt, British actress
 * Judy Huxtable (born 1942), English actress
 * Judy Jack, Australian TV host of The Judy Jack Show and Geoff and Judy
 * Judy Jacobs (born 1957), American gospel musician
 * Judy Johnson (born 1928), American pop singer
 * Judy Kaye (born 1948), American singer and actress
 * Judy Kelly (1913–1991), Australian-British actress
 * Judy Kuhn (born 1958), American actress and singer
 * Judy Landers (born 1958), American actress
 * Judy Landon, American actress
 * Judy Lewis (1935–2011), American Hollywood lovechild and actress
 * Judy Loe (born 1947), English actress
 * Judy Lynn (1936–2010), American singer and Miss Idaho 1955
 * Judy Lynne (born 1943), American-Australian actress
 * Judy Malcolm (1910–1998), American actress
 * Judy Marte (born 1983), American actress
 * Judy Martin (1917–1951), American country music singer
 * Judy Matheson, British actress
 * Judy McBurney (1948–2018), Australian actress
 * Judy McDonald, American comedian
 * Judy Minx (born circa 1989), French pornographic actress
 * Judy Moorcroft (1933–1991), costume designer
 * Judy Morris (born 1947), Australian actress, director, and screenwriter
 * Judy Mowatt (born 1952), Jamaican reggae singer
 * Judy Munsen (born 1949), television and video game score composer
 * Judy Kay Newton, birth name of Juice Newton (born 1952), American country and pop singer
 * Judy Niemack (born 1954), American jazz vocalist
 * Judy Nugent (born 1940), American actress
 * Judy Nunn (born 1945), Australian actress, screenwriter, and novelist
 * Judy Ongg (born 1950), Taiwanese actress and singer
 * Judy Pace (born 1942), American actress
 * Judy Pancoast (born 1959), American children's musician
 * Judy Parfitt (born 1935), English actress
 * Judy Prescott, American actress and poet
 * Judy Reyes (born 1967), American actress
 * Judy Roderick (1942–1992), American folk and blues singer
 * Judy Rodman (born 1951), American country music singer
 * Judy Ann Santos (born 1978), Filipino actress and pop singer
 * Judy Sheindlin (born 1942), American television personality known as "Judge Judy"
 * Judy Shepherd (died 2009) of the Shepherd Sisters, American singing group
 * Judy Small, Australian singer–songwriter and judge
 * Judy Strangis (born 1949), American actress
 * Judy Street (born c. 1949), American soul singer
 * Judy Stone (born 1942), Australian pop and country music singer
 * Judy Norton Taylor (born 1958), American actress
 * Judy Tenuta (1956–2022), American comedian and musician
 * Judy Toll (1958–2002), American comedian and screenwriter
 * Judy Lee Tomerlin (1939–2008), model
 * Judy Torres (born 1968), American electronic musician and singer
 * Judy Trammell (born 1958), American cheerleader and cheer choreographer
 * Judy Tyler (1932–1957), American actress
 * Judy Tyler (model), American (1947–2013)
 * Judy Tylor, birth name of Jud Tylor (born 1979), Canadian actress
 * Judy Wadsworth, Miss Nevada 1958
 * Judy Wilson (actress), English (1938—2006)
 * Judy Blye Wilson, American television casting director
 * Judy Weinstein, American dance music scene figure
 * Judy Weiss (born 1972), German theater and jazz singer
 * Judy Winter (born 1944), German actress

Athletics

 * Judy Amoore (born 1940), Australian runner
 * Judy Bell (born 1936), American golfer and golf executive
 * Judy Blumberg (born 1957), American ice dancer
 * Judy Canty (long jumper), Australian (1931–2016)
 * Judy Wills Cline (born 1948), American gymnast and acrobat
 * Judy Connor (born 1953), New Zealand tennis player
 * Judy Crawford (born 1951), Canadian skier
 * Judy-Joy Davies (1928–2016), Australian swimmer
 * Judy Devlin (born 1935), American badminton player
 * Judy Dickinson (born 1950), American golfer
 * Judy Diduck (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Judy Dixon (born 1949), American tennis player and coach
 * Judy Doyle, Irish camogie player
 * Judy Esmond (born 1960), Australian cricket player
 * Judy Gans (1886–1949), American Negro leagues baseball player and manager
 * Judy Glenney (born 1949), American weightlifter and coach
 * Judy Goodrich (born 1939), American fencer
 * Judy Green (volleyball coach), American
 * Judy Grinham (born 1939), British swimmer
 * Judy Guinness (1910–1952), British fencer
 * Judy Hahn, American volleyball coach
 * Judy Harlan (1896–1978), American football (gridiron) player
 * Judy Johnson (1899–1989), American Negro leagues baseball player
 * Judy Kimball (born 1938), American golfer
 * Judy Leden (born 1959)), British hang glider and paraglider
 * Judy Long (born 1969), Chinese-Canadian table tennis player
 * Judy MacMillan (1865–1936), Scottish rugby player
 * Judy Martin (wrestler), American (born 1955)
 * Judy Melick (born 1954)), American swimmer
 * Judy Mosley-McAfee (1968–2013), American basketball player
 * Judy Nagel (born 1951), American skier
 * Judy Masters (1892–1955), Australian football (soccer) player
 * Judy Murray (born 1959), Scottish tennis coach
 * Judy Oakes (born 1958), British shot putter
 * Judy Peckham (born 1950), Australian runner
 * Judy Playfair (born 1953), Australian swimmer
 * Judy Porter, New Zealand football (soccer) player
 * Judy Rabinowitz (born 1958), American skier
 * Judy Rankin (born 1945), American golfer
 * Judy Reeder (born 1948), American swimmer
 * Judy Reynolds (born 1981), Irish dressage rider
 * Judy Rose, American basketball coach and athletic director
 * Judy Samuel (born 1943), British swimmer
 * Judy Schwomeyer (born 1950), American ice dancer
 * Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942), American long-distance runner
 * Judy Simpson (born 1960), British heptathlete
 * Judy Sowinski (1940–2011), American roller derby skater and coach
 * Judy Strong (born 1960), American field hockey player
 * Judy Tegart (born 1937), Australian tennis player
 * Judy Vernon (born 1945), British hurdler

Academia

 * Judy Armitage (born 1951), British biochemist
 * Judy Baca (born 1946), American social science professor, artist, and activist
 * Judy Bonner, American academic executive
 * Judy Birmingham, English-Australian archaeologist
 * Judy Clapp (born 1930), American computer scientist
 * Judy Delin, British linguist
 * Judy Dempsey (born 1956), Irish journalist and researcher
 * Judy Feder, American political scientist
 * Judy Fierstein, American geologist
 * Judy Franz (born 1938), American physicist
 * Judy Genshaft (born 1948), American academic executive
 * Judy Hample (born 1957), American academic executive
 * Judy Ho, Taiwanese-American psychologist, professor, and television personality
 * Judy Holdener (born 1965), American mathematician
 * Judy Illes (born 1960), American neurologist
 * Judy Klitsner, religion lecturer and writer
 * Judy Mikovits, American researcher
 * Judy Jolley Mohraz (born 1943), American women's studies historian and philanthropist
 * Judy Olian, American academic executive
 * Judy Roitman (born 1945), American mathematician
 * Judy Shepard-Kegl, American linguist
 * Judy Stamps, American ecologist
 * Judy Wajcman (born 1950), sociologist
 * Judy L. Walker, American mathematician
 * Judy Yung (1946–2020), American historian
 * Judy Zeh, American statistician

Literature

 * Judy Balan, Indian satirical writer
 * Judy Blume (born 1938), American children's and young adult novelist
 * Judy Blundell, American children's and young adult writer (under the name Jude Watson)
 * Judy Blunt (born 1954), American essayist
 * Judy Budnitz (born 1973), American fiction writer
 * Judy Clemens, American mystery writer
 * Judy Corbalis, New Zealand fiction writer
 * Judy Croome (born 1958), South African fiction writer and poet
 * Judy-Lynn del Rey (1943–1986), American science fiction editor
 * Judy Fong Bates (born 1949), Chinese-Canadian writer
 * Judy GeBauer, American playwright
 * Judy Grahn (born 1940), American poet and writer
 * Judy Jordan (born 1961), American poet
 * Judy Lucero (deceased), American poet
 * Judy Malloy (born 1942), American poet
 * Judy Pascoe, Australian novelist and acrobat
 * Judy Rothman, American screenwriter
 * Judy Troy, American fiction writer and literature professor
 * Judy Waite, British picture book writer and young adult novelist
 * Judy Upton (born 1967), British playwright

Journalism

 * Judy Bailey (born c. 1952–1953), Australian television news anchor
 * Judy Battista (born 1966), American sports journalist
 * Judy Bolch, American journalist
 * Judy Crichton (1929–2007), American television news producer
 * Judy Fortin, American television reporter and anchor
 * Judy Lee Klemesrud (1939–1985), American magazine and newspaper journalist
 * Judy Licht, American television reporter and fashion writer
 * Judy MacDonald (born 1964), Canadian magazine and television journalist, and writer
 * Judy Maddren, Canadian radio announcer
 * Judy Mann (1943–2005), American newspaper reporter
 * Judy Muller, American television reporter
 * Judy Stone (journalist) (1924–2017), American film critic
 * Judy Waytiuk, Canadian freelance writer and reporter
 * Judy Woodruff (born 1946), American television journalist and anchor

Fine arts

 * Judy Cassab (1920–2015), Australian painter
 * Judy Chicago (born 1939), American installation artist
 * Judy Clark (artist) (born 1949), British
 * Judy Dater (born 1941), American photographer
 * Judy Dunaway (born 1964), composer and sonic installation artist
 * Judy Fox (born 1957), American sculptor
 * Judy Fiskin (born 1945), American photographer and art film maker
 * Judy Francesconi (born 1957), American photographer
 * Judy Jensen (born 1953), American glass artist
 * Judy Millar (born 1957), New Zealand painter
 * Judy Watson Napangardi, Australian painter
 * Judy Nylon, Anglo-American multidisciplinary artist and punk rocker
 * Judy Pfaff (born 1946), American installation artist
 * Judy Radul (born 1962), American multimedia, performance, and installation artist
 * Judy Rifka (born 1945), American painter and video artist
 * Judy McIntosh Wilson (born 1937), New Zealand sculptor and fibre artist

Classical music

 * Judy Kang, Canadian violinist, producer, singer, and composer
 * Judy Klein (born 1943), American composer, pianist, and music educator

Crime and justice

 * Judy Amar, American burglar
 * Judy Buenoano (1943–1998), American murderer
 * Judy Clarke (born 1952), American criminal defense attorney
 * Judy Moran (born 1944), Australian gangster and murderer

Culinary arts

 * Judy Joo (born 1974), American restaurateur, chef, and television personality
 * Judy Mazel (1943–2007), author of "The Beverly Hills Diet"
 * Judy Rodgers (1956–2013), American chef and cookbook writer

Other

 * Judy Bentinck (born 1952), couture milliner
 * Judy Blame (1960–2018), English club hipster, stylist, designer, and art director
 * Judy Cannato, American retreat facilitator, spiritual director, and writer
 * Judy Feld Carr (born 1938), Canadian population rescuer
 * Judy Gao (born 1994), New Zealand fashion designer and chess player
 * Judy Green (socialite) (1931–2001), American
 * Judy Harrow (1945–2014), American counselor, Wiccan priestess, and writer
 * Judy Horacek (born 1961), Australian cartoonist, illustrator, and children's writer
 * Judy Hornby, British-American fashion designer
 * Judy Irving, American documentary filmmaker
 * Judy Lewent, American business executive
 * Judy McGrath (born 1952), American television executive
 * Judy Hoback Miller (born 1937), American Watergate scandal figure
 * Judy Nelson, American litigant and memoirist
 * Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes (born 1958), Israeli socialite and television host
 * Judy Peiser (born 1945), American folk music and folklore expert
 * Judy Castle Scott, American bind advocate and activist in the field of vision loss
 * Judy Smith, American crisis manager
 * Judy Spreckels (1933–2015), American confidante of Elvis Presley
 * Judy Hanna Beautiful princess in Syria

Fictional characters

 * Judy, a character in the 1984 American teen sex comedy movie Revenge of the Nerds
 * Judy, a character 1991 and 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama movies My Girl and My Girl 2
 * Judy, a character in the 2000 American comedy film The Photographer
 * Judy Alvarez, techie, braindance editor from Cyberpunk 2077
 * Judy, wife of Pulcinella in Punch and Judy shows
 * Judy, another alias used by the character Judith Myers from the film Halloween
 * title character of the film Judy Berlin
 * Judy Bolton, protagonist of the Judy Bolton Series of books
 * Judy Brownlee, in the TV soap opera Shortland Street
 * Judy Foster, protagonist of the radio show A Date with Judy and film A Date with Judy
 * Judy Geller, recurring character in the TV show Friends
 * Judy Hensler, in the TV sitcom Leave It to Beaver
 * Judy Hopps, rabbit protagonist of the animated film Zootopia
 * Judy Jetson, cartoon character in the TV sitcom The Jetsons
 * Judy Miller, in the TV sitcom Still Standing
 * Judy Moody, protagonist of a series of books by Megan McDonald
 * Judy of the Jungle, golden-age comic book heroine
 * Judy Shepherd, a character in the film Jumanji
 * Judy Stoneface, a news reporter of the No Nonsense News from The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder
 * Judy, a character from the children's show, Tweenies