Minnie

For other uses, see Minnie (disambiguation).

As a first name, Minnie is a diminutive of Minerva, Winifred, Wilhelmina, Hermione, Mary, or Amelia. It may refer to:

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

People with the nickname

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