Biddy or Biddie is a given name which may refer to:
People
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Biddy Anderson
James Henry "Biddy" Anderson (26 April 1874 – 11 March 1926) was a South African cricketer and rugby union player.
Anderson attended Diocesan College in Rondebosch before going to Oxford University, where he was awarded a rugby Blue (universit ...
(1874–1926), South African cricketer
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Biddy Baxter
Joan Maureen "Biddy" Baxter, MBE (born 25 May 1933) is a British television producer, best known for editing the long-running BBC TV children's magazine show '' Blue Peter'' from 1965 to 1988. As editor of the programme, Baxter devised much of t ...
(born 1933), English television producer
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Biddy Dolan
Leon Mark "Biddy" Dolan (July 9, 1881 – July 15, 1950) was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played in 32 games in for the Indianapolis Hoosiers Indianapolis Hoosiers was the name of three major league and at least three minor league ba ...
(1881–1950), American Major League Baseball player
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Biddy Early
Bridget Ellen "Biddy" Early (née O'Connor or Connors; 1798 – 1872) was a traditional Irish herbalist who helped her neighbours. She acted against the wishes of the local tenant farmer landlords and Catholic priests and was accused of witch ...
(c. 1798–1874), Irish traditional healer
* Biddy Hodson, stage name of
Bridget Hodson
Bridget Hodson is an English actress better known for her roles of Elaine in the mini-series ''The Mists of Avalon'' and Ilsa Haupstein in the film ''Hellboy
Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character ...
, British actress
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Gertrude Macdonald
Gertrude Macdonald or Biddy Jamieson (1871 – 1952) was an English painter.
Macdonald was born and trained in England but moved to Paris where she met and married her husband, the Scottish painter Alexander Jamieson. They married in 1907. Her w ...
or Biddy Jamieson (1871–1952), English painter
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Carolyn Martin (born 1951), nicknamed "Biddy", president of Amherst College
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Biddy Mason (1818–1891), African American nurse, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
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Biddy Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1940), indigenous Australian artist
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Biddy O'Sullivan, Irish former camogie player
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Biddy White Lennon (1946–2017), Irish actress and food writer
Fictional characters
* Biddy, in the novel ''
Great Expectations
''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (Great Expectations), Pip (the book is a ''bildungsroman''; a coming-of-age story). It ...
'' by Charles Dickens
* Biddy Paget, in the crime novel ''
Mystery Mile'' by Margery Allingham
* Biddy Byrne, a protagonist in ''
Glenroe
''Glenroe'' was a television drama series broadcast on RTÉ One in Ireland between September 1983, when the first episode was aired, and May 2001. A spin-off from ''Bracken'' — a short-lived RTÉ drama itself spun off from ''The Riordans'' †...
'', an Irish television drama
* Biddie Cloom, in ''
Here Come the Brides'', an American television series
* Biddy Mulligan, played by
Jimmy O'Dea, an Irish actor and comedian
Sports
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Biddy Basketball a type of basketball games played by youth
See also
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Bridget (given name), of which Biddy is a contraction
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''Biddie'' (steamboat) – see
Steamboats on Lake Coeur d'Alene
Steam navigation on Lake Coeur d'Alene lasted from the 1880s to the 1930s. More steamboats operated on Lake Coeur d’Alene than on any other lake west of the Great Lakes. The high point of steam navigation was probably from 1908 to 1913. After ...
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Acaena novae-zelandiae'' or biddy-biddy, an ornamental plant
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Silver biddy
Silver biddies (singular: silver biddy), also spelled silver-biddies, is the name used to refer to bony fishes belonging to the family Gerreidae in the order Perciformes. They are also known as jerki (Sin) or mudro (Bal). Silver biddies are kno ...
, a fish
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