Dorothy (given name)

Dorothy is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

Dorothy is the English form of Dorothea.

Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (1910-1994), English biochemist
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), American actress and singer
Dorothy Day (1897-1980), American social and peace activist
Dorothy Hart (1923-2004), American actress
Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (1913-1965), American actress, journalist and television presenter
Dorothy La Bostrie ( born 1938 ), American songwriter
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), American writer
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), English writer and translator

Dorothy Lane is the pseudonym of Elisabeth Hauptmann, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill under which the gangster comedy " Happy End" was written.

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