Bettina is a female name predominantly found in the

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languages. This name has various interpreted meanings and origins. In Italian, Bettina originated as a diminutive of the names Elisabetta and

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. Benedetta is the Italian feminine form of

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, meaning "Blessed," while Elisabetta is the Italian form of

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, which itself comes from the Hebrew name Elisheva or Elisheba, meaning "my God is an oath". The name has several variations including Bettine and Betina, and though it is a diminutive itself, it can be shortened to Betty, Bette, Ina, or Tina.

People

It was the professional name of

Simone Micheline Graziani Simone Micheline Bodin (8 May 1925 – 3 March 2015), known professionally as Bettina or Bettina Graziani, was a French fashion model of the 1940s and 1950s and an early muse to the fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy. She was a designer of knitw ...

, one of the most famous fashion models of the 1950s and an early muse of designer

Hubert de Givenchy Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (; 21 February 1927 – 10 March 2018) was a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded the luxury fashion and perfume house of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the ...

- Simone was given the name "Bettina" by designer

Pierre Balmain Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (; 18 May 1914 – 29 June 1982) was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain (fashion house), Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art of dre ...

. *

Bettina d'Andrea Bettina d'Andrea, (b. in Bologna – d. 1355) was an Italian legal scholar and professor in law and philosophy at the university of Padua. As the daughter of Giovanni d'Andrea, professor in Canon law at the university of Bologna, she was educated ...

(died 1335), Italian lawyer and professor *

Bettina von Arnim Bettina von Arnim (the Countess of Arnim) (4 April 178520 January 1859), born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist. Bettina (or Bettine) Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual art ...

(1785–1859), German writer and novelist *

Bettina Ehrlich Bettina Ehrlich, ''née'' Bauer, (10 March 1903 – 10 October 1985) was an Austrian painter and illustrator of children's books, many of which she also wrote. She lived briefly in Berlin and Paris, and from 1938 in England. Family and educ ...

(1903–1985), artist, writer, illustrator *

Bettina Baumer Bettina Sharada Bäumer (born 12 April 1940) is an Austrian-born Indian scholar of religion. Vandana Parthasarathy, writing in The Hindu, described Baumer as a "renowned Indologist, one of the foremost expounders of Kashmir Saivism and a well ...

(born 1940), Austrian-born Indian scholar of religion *

Bettina Aptheker Bettina Fay Aptheker (born September 13, 1944) is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author. Aptheker was active in civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and has since worked in developing femini ...

(born 1944), American political activist, feminist professor and author *

Bettina Werner Bettina Werner (born in 1965, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist based in New York City. She has created artwork with her colorized salt technique since the early 1980s. Werner became an American citizen in July 2010 and now bears dual citizen ...

(born 1965), Pioneering Artist of the World's 1st salt crystal paintings * Bettina Sabatini (born 1966), Italian marathon runner *

Bettina Banoun Bettina Banoun (born 1972) is a Norwegian barrister with a doctorate in tax law. She took the master's degree at Oxford University in 1993, the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1995, and the doctorate at the same institution in 2003. ...

(born 1972), Norwegian tax lawyer, partner at Wiersholm and actor *

Bettina Bush Bettina Bush, also known professionally and simply as Bettina, is an American actress and pop music singer. Early life She was born the youngest of three children. Her father was Charles V. Bush, the first African-American graduate of the US ...

(born 1973), voice actor and singer who was the original voice of ''

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''. * Bettina Grossman (1927–2021), American visual artist *

Bettina Linn Mary Bettina Linn (1905 – April 7, 1962) was an American writer and college professor. She wrote three published novels, and was on the faculty at Bryn Mawr College. She worked with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. ...

(1905–1962), American novelist and college professor *

Bettina Oneto Rosa Bertha Oneto Martínez (born 27 August 1957), better known as Bettina Oneto, is a Peruvian actress, humorist, singer, stand-up comedian, and producer. Biography The daughter of comedian Carlos Oneto, Bettina Oneto debuted as a singer in a re ...

(born 1957), Peruvian actress and comedian *

Betina Popova Betina Vadimovna Popova (russian: Бетина Вадимовна Попова, born 2 November 1996) is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With partner Sergey Mozgov, she was the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former partner Yuri Vlas ...

(born 1996), Russian ice dancer *

Bettina Meiser Bettina Meiser is a professor at the University of New South Wales, with expertise in the psychosocial aspects of genetics; cancer, hereditary cancer, and the impact of genetic counselling and testing. Career Meiser has a BAppSc, BA (Hons) an ...

, researcher of the psychosocial aspects of genetics and cancer *

Bettina Kupfer Bettina Kupfer (born 19 July 1963) is a German actress and author who has been active since the 1980s. She and her husband, , write screenplays and children's literature. Career Kupfer was born in Stuttgart. After acquiring her ''Abitur'' at the ...

(born 1963), German actress and writer *

Bettina Santo Domingo Bettina Santo Domingo is an American filmmaker, businesswoman, and former media manager of Moda Operandi, a fashion discovery platform. Career Santo Domingo worked as the media manager of Moda Operandi, a fashion discovery platform founded by La ...

, American filmmaker *

Bettina Wiesmann Bettina Wiesmann (born 20 October 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Born in Berlin, she served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2017 to 2021. Political career Wiesmann became a memb ...

(born 1966), German politician *

Bettina Wiegmann Bettina Wiegmann (born 7 October 1971) is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. Wiegmann scored 51 goals in 154 caps for the Germany national team between 1989 and 2003. In 1997, she was selected '' German Female Footballer of ...

(born 1971), German footballer *

Bettina Vollath Bettina Vollath (born 29 October 1962) is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 until 2022. Political career In parliament, Vollath served on the Committee on Ci ...

(born 1962), Austrian politician

Fictional characters

"Bettina" was the name of the woman artist (and her ranch) that the

Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Ha ...

character met at the end of the film ''

Cast Away ''Cast Away'' is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in ...

'' while delivering her package. He had retrieved the Bettina package years earlier from the ocean, while stranded on a tiny island following a plane crash.

References

External links

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