Bessie

People

• Bessie Abott, American operatic soprano
• Bessie Acland, New Zealand painter
• Bessie Anthony, American golfer
• Bessie Anstice Baker, Australian writer
• Bessie Bamber, British artist
• Bessie Bangay, English church worker
• Bessie Banks , American actress and screenwriter
• Bessie Banks, American soul singer
• Bessie Bardot, Australian businesswoman, writer, model and television host
• Bessie Barriscale, American actress
• Bessie Beatty, American journalist
• Bessie Morse Bellingrath, American philanthropist
• Bessie Bellwood, British music hall entertainer
• Bessie Bennett, American jewelry designer and museum curator
• Bessie Blomfield, New Zealand artist
• Bessie Blount, several people
• Bessie Bonehill, English vaudeville performer
• Bessie Braddock, British politician
• Bessie Breuer, American journalist
• Bessie Marsh Brewer, Canadian printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher
• Bessie Brown, American singer
• Bessie A. Buchanan, American politician
• Bessie Burke, American teacher and principal
• Bessie Buskirk, American actress
• Bessie Callender, American sculptor
• Bessie Carter, English actress
• Bessie Charles, British architect
• Bessie Christie, New Zealand painter
• Bessie Clayton, American dancer
• Bessie Olive Cole, American pharmacist
• Bessie Coleman, American civil aviator
• Bessie Bell Collier, American violinist
• Bessie Boies Cotton, American YWCA staff member
• Bessie Lee Cowie, Australian-New Zealand temperance campaigner, social reformer, lecturer and writer
• Bessie Craigmyle, Scottish poet
• Bessie Cursons, British actress
• Bessie Darling, American murder victim
• Bessie Davidson, Australian artist
• Bessie De Voie, American actress and dancer
• Annie Elizabeth Delany, American civil rights pioneer
• Bessie Hall Dempsey, American aeronautical engineer
• Bessie Dewar, American judge
• Bessie Downes, botanical artist
• Bessie Drysdale, British teacher, suffragette and birth control campaigner
• Bessie Dwyer, American librarian
• Bessie Eyton, American actress
• Bessie Alexander Ficklen, American poet and artist
• Bessie Flower, Aboriginal teacher
• Bessie Bartlett Frankel, American concert singer, composer and clubwoman
• Bessie Gibson, Australian artist
• Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, New Zealand teacher and education leader
• Bessie Griffin, American gospel singer
• Bessie Guthrie, Australian designer, publisher, feminist and campaigner
• Bessie Pease Gutmann, American painter
• Bessie Mecklem Hackenberger, American saxophonist
• Bessie Hall, Canadian seafarer
• Bessie Harvey, American sculptor
• Bessie Hatton, English actress and feminist
• Bessie Ella Hazen, Canadian-American painter
• Bessie Head, South African writer
• Bessie Bradwell Helmer, American lawyer, editor and publisher
• Bessie Abramowitz Hillman, American labor organizer
• Bessie Hocken, New Zealand artist and translator
• Bessie Holland, Australian actress
• Bessilyn Johnson, wife of Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson
• Elizabeth Jones, several people
• Bessie B. Kanouse, American mycologist
• Bessie Mae Kelley, American animator
• Bessie Learn, American actress
• Bessie Lee, Chinese-Canadian community organizer
• Bessie Locke, American educator
• Bessie Loo, American actress and talent agent
• Bessie Love, American-British actress
• Bessie Margolin, American lawyer
• Bessie Niemeyer Marshall, American artist
• Bessie Lee Mauldin, American musician
• Bessie Maxwell, American journalist
• Bessie S. McColgin, American politician
• Bessie McCoy, Irish-American singer
• Bessie Brown Mention, American suffragist and activist
• Betty Mitchell , Canadian theatre director and educator
• Bessie Moody-Lawrence, American politician
• Diamond Bessie, American murder victim
• Bessie Boehm Moore, American educator
• Bessie Morse, American educator
• Bessie Moses, American gynecologist and obstetrician
• Bessie I. Murray, American politician
• Bessie Rayner Parkes, English feminist, women's rights activist, poet, essayist and journalist
• Bessie Louise Pierce, American historian
• Bessie Pocock, Australian nursing sister and army matron
• Bessie Gardner du Pont, American historian
• Bessie Leach Priddy, educator, social reformer and leader of the Delta Delta Delta women's fraternity
• Bessie Pullen-Burry, British novelist, explorer and suffragist
• Bessie Raiche, American dentist, physician, and America's first female aviator
• Bessie Bown Ricker, American performer
• Bessie Rischbieth, Australian feminist and social activist
• Bessie Schonberg, German-born dancer, choreographer and teacher
• Bessie Skea, Scottish writer and poet
• Bessie Smith, American blues singer
• Bessie Mae Smith, American blues singer
• Bessie Anderson Stanley, American writer
• Bessie Staples, English badminton player
• Bessie Starkman, Jewish-Canadian gangster
• Bessie Stillman, educator and contributor
• Bessie Stockard, American tennis player
• Bessie Stringfield, American motorcyclist
• Bessie Sudlow, British singer and entertainer
• Bessie Thomashefsky, American actress
• Bessie Toner, American actress
• Bessie Tucker, American blues singer
• Bessie Turner, British singer-songwriter
• Bessie Van Vorst, American author and journalist
• Bessie Potter Vonnoh, American sculptor
• Bessie Watson, Scottish child suffragette
• Bessie Wentworth, English entertainer
• Bessie Williamson, Scottish distillery owner
• Bessie Wynn, American actress and singer
• Bessie Woodson Yancey, African-American poet
• Bessie, South African traditional aristocrat

  Fictional characters

• Bessie Higgenbottom, a character in the TV animated series The Mighty B!
• Elizabeth Bessie Potter, a character on the TV series Dawson's Creek
• Bessie, a road paving machine in the 2006 animated film Cars
• Bessie Busybody, a character in the TV series LazyTown
• Bessie, a car in the TV series Doctor Who
• Bessie Blithesome, a character from the 1902 L. Frank Baum book ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus''