Bessie Smith
American jazz singer
(Bessie) Wallis Warfield Simpson
Duchess of Windsor, American socialite; wife of Britain's King Edward VIII
Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton)
American silent film actress
Bessie Barriscale (born Elizabeth Barry Scale)
American stage and silent film actress
Bessie Coleman
American aviatrix
Elizabeth Margaret "Bessie" Braddock
English MP for Liverpool
Bessie Amelia Emery Head
Botswanian writer
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
American sculptor
Bessie Banks
American soul singer
Bessie Carter
English actress
(Bessie) Lillian Gordy Carter
mother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter