Biddy or Biddie is a given name which may refer to:
People
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Biddy Anderson (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 1962 to 1988. As editor of the programme, Baxter devised much of ...
(born 1933), English television producer
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Biddy Dolan (1881–1950), American Major League Baseball player
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Biddy Early
Bridget Ellen "Biddy" Early (née O'Connor or Connors; 1798 – 1874) was a traditional Irish traditional medicine, herbalist and ''Cunning folk, bean-feasa'' ("seer, wisewoman") who helped her neighbours. When she acted against the wishes o ...
(1874), Irish traditional healer
* Biddy Hodson, stage name of
Bridget Hodson, British actress
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Gertrude Macdonald 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 ), 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 English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after ''Dav ...
'' by Charles Dickens
* Biddy Paget, in the crime novel ''
Mystery Mile
''Mystery Mile'' is a Crime fiction, crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1930, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds Publishing, London, and in the United States by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday, Doran, New York. Following his ...
'' by Margery Allingham
* Biddy Byrne, a protagonist in ''
Glenroe
''Glenroe'' is an Irish television soap opera broadcast on RTÉ One for 18 years between September 1983 and May 2001. ''Glenroe was'' centred on the lives of the people living in the fictional rural village of the same name in County Wicklow. ...
'', an Irish television drama
* Biddie Cloom, in ''
Here Come the Brides
''Here Come the Brides'' is an American comedy Western television series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968, to April 3, 1970. It was loosely based on Asa Mercer's efforts in the 1860s to import m ...
'', an American television series
* Biddy Mulligan, played by
Jimmy O'Dea
James Augustine O'Dea (26 April 1899 – 7 January 1965) was an Irish actor and comedian.
Life
Jimmy O'Dea was born at 11 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin, to James O'Dea, an ironmonger, and Martha O'Gorman, who kept a small toy shop. He was one of ...
, an Irish actor and comedian
* Biddy, in the film ''
Biddy (1983)'' by
Christine Edzard
Sports
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Biddy Basketball a type of basketball games played by youth
See also
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Bridget (given name)
Bridget is an Irish language, Irish female name derived from the Goidelic languages, Gaelic noun , meaning "power, strength, vigor, virtue". An alternative meaning of the name is "exalted one". Its popularity, especially in Ireland, is largely re ...
, of which Biddy is a contraction
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''Biddie'' (steamboat) – see
Steamboats on Lake Coeur d'Alene
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Acaena novae-zelandiae
''Acaena novae-zelandiae'', commonly known as red bidibid, bidgee-widgee, buzzy and piri-piri bur, is a small Herbaceous plant, herbaceous, prostrate Perennial plant, perennial, native to New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea, of the family Ro ...
'' or biddy-biddy, an ornamental plant
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Silver biddy, a fish
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