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As a first name, Minnie is a feminine given name. It can be a diminutive (hypocorism) of Minerva, Winifred, Wilhelmina, Hermione, Mary, or Amelia. It may refer to:

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People with the given name

  • Minnie Tittell Brune (1875–1974), American stage actress
  • Minnie D. Craig (1883-1966), American legislator and the first female speaker of a state House of Representatives (North Dakota) in the United States
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964), suffrage politician and first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters
  • Minnie Devereaux (1891–1984), Canadian Cheyenne silent film actress
  • Minnie Dupree (1873-1947), American stage and film actress
  • Minnie Egener (1881–1938), American operatic mezzo-soprano
  • Minnie Evans (1892–1987), African-American folk artist
  • Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932), leading American actress
  • Minnie Gentry (1915–1993), American actress
  • Minnie Lansbury (1889-1922), English suffragette
  • Minnie Marx (1865-1929), mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, born Miene Schönberg
  • Minnie Nast (1874–1956), German soprano
  • Minnie Pwerle (between 1910 and 1922-2006), Australian Aboriginal painter
  • Minnie Rayner (1869–1941), British film actress
  • Minnie Riperton (1947-1979), singer and song writer

    • Women

  • Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847-1928), Empress of Russia, known within her family as Minnie
  • Minnie Dean (1844-1895), only woman to suffer the death penalty in New Zealand
  • Minnie Driver (born 1970), born Amelia Fiona Driver, English actress and singer-songwriter
  • Minnie Hauk (1851-1929), American operatic soprano
  • Minnie Vautrin (1886-1941), American missionary who saved the lives of many women during the Nanking Massacre
  • Minnie Warren (1849-1878), American dwarf associated with P. T. Barnum

    • Men

  • Roy McGiffin (1891-1918), ice hockey player
  • Minnie Mendoza (born 1933), Cuban retired Major League Baseball player and coach
  • Minnie Miñoso (born 1925), Cuban retired Major League Baseball and Negro leagues player
  • Minnie Rojas (1933-2002), Major League Baseball relief pitcher

    • Fictional characters with the given name

  • Minnie Mouse, an animated character
  • 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 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

    • Other

  • Minnie (chimpanzee) (died 1998), the only female chimpanzee in the US Mercury space program, backup to Ham (chimpanzee)

    • References

    Minnie Wikipedia
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