Minnie
Minnie is a feminine given name. It can be a diminutive of Minerva, Winifred, Wilhelmina, Willemina, Winona, Margaret, Hermione, Jasmine, Mary, Miriam, Maria, Marie, Naomi, Miranda, Clementine, Dominique, Dominic, or Amelia. It may refer to:
People with the given name
- Minne Atairu, Nigerian artist who generates synthetic Benin Bronzes
- Minnie Lou Bradley, American cattle rancher
- Minnie Tittell Brune, American stage actress
- Minnie Campbell, Canadian clubwoman, lecturer, and editor
- Minnie D. Craig, American legislator and the first female speaker of a state House of Representatives in the United States
- Minnie Fisher Cunningham, suffrage politician and first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters
- Minnie Devereaux, Canadian Cheyenne silent film actress
- Minnie Dupree, American stage and film actress
- Minnie Egener, American operatic mezzo-soprano
- Minnie Evans, African-American folk artist
- Minnie Maddern Fiske, leading American actress
- Minnie Rutherford Fuller, American farmer, broker, temperance leader, suffragist
- Minnie Gentry, American actress
- Minnie Goodnow, American nurse and nursing educator
- Minnie Braithwaite Jenkins, American school teacher and educator
- Minnie Lansbury, English suffragette
- Minnie Marx, mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, born Miene Schönberg
- Minnie Mumford, better known as Jerri Mumford, Canadian military servicewoman during World War II
- Minnie Nast, German soprano
- Minnie Ward Patterson, American poet and author
- Minnie Pwerle, Australian Aboriginal painter
- Minnie Rayner, British film actress
- Minnie Riperton, singer and song writer
- Minnie Soo, Hong Kong table tennis player
- Minnie T. Wright, American composer and pianist
- Minnie T. Wright, African American clubwoman
People with the nickname
Women
- Maria Feodorovna , Empress of Russia, known within her family as Minnie
- Minnie Cormack, Irish-British painter and engraver
- Minnie Dean, only woman to receive the death penalty in New Zealand
- Minnie Driver, English actress and singer-songwriter
- Minnie Hauk, American operatic soprano
- Minnie Pearl, stage name for American comedienne Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon
- Minnie Vautrin, American missionary who saved the lives of many women during the Nanking Massacre
- Minnie Warren, American dwarf associated with P. T. Barnum
- Memphis Minnie, American blues singer
- Minnie West, stage name for Mexican actress Amparo West Serrano
- Minnie , Thai singer and member of K-pop group I-dle
Men
- Roy McGiffin, ice hockey player
- Minnie Mendoza, Cuban retired Major League Baseball player and coach
- Minnie Miñoso, Cuban retired Major League Baseball and Negro leagues player
- Minnie Rojas, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Fictional characters
- Minnie Mouse, an animated character in Disney media, girlfriend of Mickey Mouse
- Minnie Bannister, on the British radio series The Goon Show, played by Spike Milligan
- Minnie Crozier, on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Minnie Caldwell, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Minnie the Minx, a comic strip character from The Beano
- Minnie Bishop, from the anime/manga Strike Witches
- Minnie Fay, in the musical Hello, Dolly! and the film adaptation
- Minnie Goetze, the lead and titular character in the semi-autobiographical graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl and the film adaptation
Other
- Minnie , the only female chimpanzee in the US Mercury space program, backup to Ham
- "Minnie the Moocher", a song first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931
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