# Abby

Abby or Abbie is a given name, most often a shortened form of Abigail and Albert.

## Notable women

* Abbie Betinis (born 1980), American composer
* Abby Binay (born 1975), Filipino politician
* Abbie Boudreau (born 1979), American television news correspondent
* Abbie Farwell Brown (1871–1927), American author
* Abbie Brown (rugby union) (born 1996), British rugby sevens player
* Abbie Burgess (1839–1892), American lighthouse keeper
* Abby Choi (1995–2023), Hongkonger celebrity and murder victim
* Abby Cook (ice hockey) (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
* Abbie Cornett (born 1966), American politician
* Abbie Cornish (born 1982), Australian actress and rapper
* Abby Dalton (1932–2020), American actress
* Abbie Eaton (born 1992), British racing driver
* Abby Ellin, American author and journalist
* Abby Elliott (born 1987), American actress and comedian
* Abby Erceg (born 1989), New Zealand footballer
* Abby Ershow, American nutritionist
* Abbie Huston Evans (1881–1983), American poet and teacher
* Abby Franquemont (born 1972), American textile crafts writer and lecturer
* Abbie Park Ferguson (1837–1919), American founder and president of Huguenot College in South Africa
* Abbie M. Gannett (1845–1895), American essayist, poet and philanthropist
* Abby and Brittany Hensel (born 1990), American conjoined twins
* Abby Hoffman (born 1947), Canadian former middle-distance runner
* Abigail Johnson (born 1961), American businesswoman
* Abby Johnson (activist) (born 1980), American anti-abortion activist
* Abby Kelley (1811–1887), American abolitionist and radical social reformer
* Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins (1842–1924), American businesswoman
* Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), American social reformer
* Abby Martin (born 1984), American journalist
* Abbie K. Mason (1861–1908), Black American suffragist.
* Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903–1976), American philanthropist, first child of Abby Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr.
* Abbie Mitchell (1884–1960), African-American operatic soprano
* Abbie Myers (born 1994), Australian tennis player
* Abby Meyers (born 1999), American basketball player
* Abby Phillip (born 1988, American journalist
* Abby Ringquist (born 1989), American ski jumper
* Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874–1948), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
* Abby Rockefeller (ecologist) (born 1943), American ecologist and feminist
* Abby Stein (born 1991), American transgender activist and writer
* Abby Steiner (born 1999), American sprinter
* Abby Sunderland (born 1993), American sailor who attempted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world
* Abbie Sweetwine (1921–2009), American military nurse, founder of modern paramedic medicine
* Abby Taylor (born 1985), Tobago politician
* Abby Travis (born 1969), American musician
* Abby Trott, American voice actress
* Abby Wambach (born 1980), American retired soccer player and co
* Abby Moon Zeciroski (born 1973), American mixed media artist

## Notable men

* Abby Altson (1866–1948), British artist
* Albert Brunies (1900–1978), American jazz cornetist nicknamed "Abbie"
* Abby Berlin (1907–1965), American film and TV director
* Abbie Cox (1902–1985), Canadian ice hockey player
* Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989), American social and political activist
* Abbie Johnson (1871–1960), Canadian-born Major League Baseball player
* Abby Mann (1927–2008), American film writer and producer
* Abbie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
* Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Ugandan actor
* Abbie Newell (1897–1967), Canadian ice hockey player
* Abbie Rowe (1905–1967), American photographer
* Abbie Shaba (born 1958), Malawian politician
* Abbie Shadbolt (1887–1971), New Zealand rugby league player
* Abby Singer (1917–2014), film production manager and assistant director from the 1950s to the 1980s
* Abbie Wolanow, Israeli-born American soccer player in the early 1960s

## Fictional characters

* Abbie, a character from the upcoming video game Mindwave
* Abby, a character from the horror comic series Witch Creek Road
* Abby (Doctor Who), in audio dramas based on the TV series Doctor Who
* Abigail "Abby" Anderson, character in the 2020 video game, The Last of Us Part II
* Abby Archer, main protagonist of the 2006 YTV animated program Grossology
* Abigail Van Buren, pen name used for the Dear Abby syndicated personal advice column
* Abigail "Abby" Cadabby, on the television show Sesame Street
* Abbie Carmichael, on the television show Law & Order, played by Angie Harmon
* Abby Davies, on the soap opera Hollyoaks
* Abby Deveraux, on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
* Abby Hatcher, main protagonist of the eponymous 2018 animated children's program produced by Guru Studio
* Abby Holland, a fictional comic book character who exists in the DC Universe
* Abigail “Abby” Jenson, the main character in the 2010 film 16 Wishes
* Abby Littman, on the Netflix comedy-drama series Ginny & Georgia
* Abby Lockhart, a medical doctor on the television series ER
* Abby Maitland, on the ITV science-fiction drama Primeval
* Abby Mallard, character in the 2005 animated film Chicken Little
* Abby Martin, the antagonist in season 2 of the television series K.C. Undercover
* Abby Newman, on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
* Abby Sciuto, a forensic scientist on the television series NCIS
* Abigail "Abbie" Scrapple, in the American comic strip Abbie an' Slats (1937–1971)
* The title character of Abby, a 2003 television series starring Sydney Tamiia Poitier
* The title character of Abby (film), a 1974 blaxploitation/horror film about a woman possessed by an African demon
* Abby Schmidt, the sister of Mike Schmidt in the Five Nights at Freddy's film