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

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• People with the given name
• People with the nickname
• Women
• Men
• Fictional characters
• Other

People with the given name

• Minne Atairu, Nigerian artist who generates synthetic Benin Bronzes
• Minnie Lou Bradley (1931–2025), American cattle rancher
• 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 Braithwaite Jenkins (1874–1954), American school teacher and 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
• Minnie T. Wright (c. 1874–c. 1929), American composer and pianist
• Minnie T. Wright (fl. 1920s–1930s), African American clubwoman

People with the nickname

Fictional characters

• 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

Other

• 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

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