Famous Bearers
- Dorothy Allison, American writer
- Dorothy Arnold, American socialite who disappeared mysteriously
- Dorothy Dandridge, actress
- D. C. Fontana (Dorothy Catherine), screenplay writer
- Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist
- Dorothy Gish, American actress
- Dorothy Hamill, figure skater
- Dorothy Hodgkin, British biochemist and winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Dorothy Lee, 1930s American actress-comedian
- Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
- Dorothy Parker, American poet
- Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer
- Dorothy Scharf, English philanthropist
- Dorothy Stang (1931-2005), Catholic nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
- Dorothy Sterling, American writer
- Dorothy Vest, American female tennis player
- Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of William Wordsworth
- Dorothy Faye Dunaway, American actress
- Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush and sister of George W. Bush, the 43rd President
In fiction:
- Dorothy Catalonia, a character from the Gundam Wing anime series
- Dorothy Gale, little girl who was blown to the Land of Oz by a cyclone in L. Frank Baum's 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the classic 1939 movie adaptation The Wizard of Oz
- Dorothy Michaels, alias used by the female impersonator in the 1982 comedy film Tootsie, played by Dustin Hoffman
- Dorothy Zbornak, played by Bea Arthur on the long-running TV sitcom The Golden Girls
- R. Dorothy Wayneright, female android in the anime series Big O
- Dot Branning, fictional character on the television show EastEnders
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or bearers:
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.”
—T.E. (Thomas Edward)