title: Hetty
text: # Hetty
  
  Hetty or Hettie is a female first name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Henrietta.
  
  Hetty may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Hetty Balkenende (born 1939), Dutch former freestyle and synchronized swimmer
  * Hettie Vyrine Barnhill, (born 1984), American dancer and choreographer
  * Henrietta Hetty Baynes (born 1956), English actress
  * Hetty Burlingame Beatty (1907–1971), American sculptor, children's author, and illustrator
  * Hetty Cary (1836–1892), a noted beauty of the Confederacy and one of the makers of the Confederate battle flag
  * Henrietta Hetty Green (1834–1916), American businesswoman and notorious miser
  * Hetty Goldman (1881–1972), American archaeologist, the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study
  * Hetty Johnston (born 1958), Australian child protection activist and founder of the Bravehearts children's charity
  * Hettie Jones (born 1934), American poet and writer
  * Hetty King (1883–1972), stage name of English music hall entertainer Winifred Emms
  * Hetty Krist [de] (born 1942), illustrator
  * Hettie MacDonald, British film, theatre and television director
  * Hetty Perkins (1900–1979), elder of the Arrernte people of Central Australia
  * Henrietta Hetty Tayler (1869–1951), British historical writer
  * Hetty Verolme (born 1930), Belgian-born Australian writer and Holocaust survivor
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Henrietta "Hettie" Hubble, the heroine of The New Worst Witch, a sequel television series of The Worst Witch
  * Henrietta "Hetty" King, a major character in the television show Road to Avonlea
  * Henrietta "Hetty" Lange, from the American television show NCIS: Los Angeles
  * Hetty Sorrel, a major character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede
  * Hetty Wainthropp, heroine of the British television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
  * Hettie, a nanny in the 1975 comedy film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
  * Hetty Woodstone, one of the ghosts on the CBS television sitcom Ghosts.
  
  ## Other
  
  * Hetty (vacuum), a vacuum in the Henry family of vacuums by Numatic
  