Famous People with Name Betty

Betty Marion White            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Betty Marion White: is a film and television actress with a career spanning 60 years. White is perhaps best known for her close association with the game show, "Password", her affiliation with animal charities (Actors and Others for Animals), and her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mama's Family and The Golden Girls, as well as being a regular panelist on the extremely popular 1970s game show Match Game.

Betty Friedan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Betty Friedan: was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique.As a young girl, Betty was active in Marxist and Jewish circles; she later wrote how she felt isolated from the community at times, and felt her "passion against injustice...originated from my feelings of the injustice of anti-Semitism". She went to high school in Peoria. She briefly became involved in her high school newspaper, but when she was turned down for a column, she and six other friends launched a literary magazine called Tide. In this magazine, Betty and her friends talked about home life as opposed to school life.

Betty Aberlin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Betty Aberlin: is an actress, poet, and writer.She had a regular role on The Smothers Brothers Show. Aberlin worked on various TV spots, and played Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Her movie roles include work in Dogma and Jersey Girl.[1]

Betty Kelly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Betty Kelly: is a former American singer, most famous for her tenure in the popular Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas.Born in Attalla, Alabama, Kelly's family moved to Detroit, Michigan when Kelly was a child. Like many children growing up in the city, Kelly found herself aspiring for a career in music

Betty Parsons            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Betty Parsons: was an American artist and legendary art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism" [1] In 1946 she opened the Betty Parsons Gallery, which specialized in Abstract Expressionism. She showed work by Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg among others. Helen Frankenthaler, the painter, who met Parsons in 1950, said: "Betty and her gallery helped construct the center of the art world. She was one of the last of her breed." Many of the Abstract Expressionist artists she launched left her gallery for more commercial galleries. Art critic, B. H. Friedman: "She was resentful. She had struggled so long to get them established, and other dealers capitalized on her efforts." Her other artists include Agnes Martin, Richard Pousette-Dart and Richard Tuttle. She ran the gallery until her death in 1982. [2]