Bette (given name) explained

Bette
Gender:	Female
Related Names:	Elizabeth Bettina

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

See also

• Betti (given name)
• Betty, given name
• Bettye, given name