Dorothy "Dot" Lemon (1907–1986) was a 20th century aviator whose career ranged from barnstorming in the 1920s to becoming the first woman president of the Institute of Navigation in the 1960s.
Hailing from Sadorus, Illinois, Dorothy (also known as Dottie) Schroeder, was an American baseball player for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Dorothy Kathleen Benham is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Edina, Minnesota, who was Miss America 1977 and Miss Minnesota 1976. Dorothy Benham was born to Archie and Mary Dorothy Tuomi Benham. She attended Southwest High School in Minneapolis, and graduated in 1973. She sang in her high school choir. She has one sister named Totiana and two brothers named Sean and Archibald. Benham currently lives in Edina, Minnesota.
A famous bearer of this name is Dorothy DeLay (March 31, 1917 – March 24, 2002). She was a violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School in New York, instructing a number of professional violinists over the course of her lengthy career.
There's a female dinosaur mascot in an Australian band called the Wiggles, but don't get me wrong, I love the name and if I have a 3rd daughter, she'll be named Dorothy, or Dottie for short.
She is obviously based off of the Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.
― Anonymous User 6/20/2008
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A famous bearer is American actress Dorothy Gish (March 11, 1898 - June 4, 1968). Born Dorothy Elizabeth de Guiche, she was the sister of actress Lillian Gish. Among her best-known films are "The Little Yankee" and "Battling Jane".
Dorothy was Dustin Hoffman's female name in the film Tootsie, where he played actor Michael Dorsey who invented Dorothy Michaels in order to get a job.
Dorothy L. Sayers is another famous writer with this name.
― Anonymous User 12/16/2005
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Dorothy Wordsworth, a famous bearer of this name, is best known as being the sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In recent years there has been a new resurgence of interest in Dorothy's own literary contributions as the writer of the Glasmere Journals, recorder of objective nature experiences that Wordsworth used as raw material for his poetry, and poetess in her own right.