Minnie

It can be a diminutive (hypocorism) of Minerva, Winifred, Wilhelmina, Willemina, Winona, Hermione, Jasmine, Mary, Miriam, Maria, Marie, Naomi, Miranda, Clementine, Dominique, Dominic, or Amelia. It may refer to:

• Minnie Tittell Brune (1875–1974), American stage actress
• Minnie Campbell (1862–1952), Canadian clubwoman, lecturer, and editor
• 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 Rutherford Fuller (1868-1946), American farmer, broker, temperance leader, suffragist
• Minnie Gentry (1915–1993), American actress
• Minnie Goodnow (1871 – 1952), American nurse and nursing educator
• Minnie Lansbury (1889–1922), English suffragette
• Minnie Marx (1865–1929), mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, born Miene Schönberg
• Minnie Mumford, better known as Jerri Mumford (1909–2002), Canadian military servicewoman during World War II
• Minnie Nast (1874–1956), German soprano
• Minnie Ward Patterson, American poet and author
• 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
• Minnie Soo (born 1998), Hong Kong table tennis player

Women

• Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847–1928), Empress of Russia, known within her family as Minnie
• Minnie Dean (1844–1895), only woman to receive the death penalty in New Zealand
• Minnie Driver (born 1970), English actress and singer-songwriter
• Minnie Hauk (1851–1929), American operatic soprano
• Minnie Pearl (1912-1996), stage name for American comedienne, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon
• 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
• Memphis Minnie (1897-1973), American blues singer
• Minnie (1997), Thailand-born K-pop singer of (G)I-dle, Nicha Yontararak

Men

• Roy McGiffin (1891–1918), ice hockey player
• Minnie Mendoza (born 1933), Cuban retired Major League Baseball player and coach
• Minnie Miñoso (1923–2015), Cuban retired Major League Baseball and Negro leagues player
• Minnie Rojas (1933–2002), Major League Baseball relief pitcher

• 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

• Minnie (chimpanzee) (died 1998), the only female chimpanzee in the US Mercury space program, backup to Ham (chimpanzee)
• "Minnie the Moocher", a song first recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931