Bette (given name)
# Bette (given name)

Bette is a given name, sometimes short for Elizabeth and Bettina, and may refer to:

## People

* Bette Davis (1908–1989), American actress
* Bette Franke, 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

## 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
