Bessie

Bessie Mae Smith was an American blues singer from St. Louis, who recorded for the Okeh, Vocalion and Paramount record labels under a variety of names between 1927 and 1941. She is reported to have been married to Delta bluesman Big Joe Williams, who sometimes credited her with writing his song “Baby, Please Don't Go”. Her songs often included surreal imagery and sexual metaphors.

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She is not to be confused with classic blues singer Bessie Smith (mentioned in the very first comment).

Bessie Norris (1953 – 2020), better known by her stage name Betty Wright, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager, Wright rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night". Wright was also prominent in her use of whistle register.

Elizabeth Blackwell's nickname was Bessie as a kid.

Lucille Bogan (born Lucile Anderson; 1897 – 1948) was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Music critic Ernest Borneman noted that Bogan was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Many of Bogan's songs have been recorded by later blues and jazz musicians.

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Many of her songs were sexually explicit, and she is generally considered to have been a "dirty blues" musician.

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In 2022, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) was the first African American woman and first Native American to earn a pilot's license and the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license.

Bessie Love (1898-1986) was an American actress. In her long career spanning from the 1910s to the 1980s, she made dozens of films. She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1929.

Bessie was Wallis Simpson's real first name.

This name always remind me of Bessie Turf. I don't know if it's also the English name. Billy and Bessie Turf were brother and sister in comics. They had their own comic series apart from each other. They were very fat children and the funny stories mostly told about how they got their candy. There was also a teacher, who wanted to stop the children from eating.

Elizabeth Blount (c. 1502 - 1539/1540), who was better known by her nickname of "Bessie", was a mistress of Henry VIII of England. She was the daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Pershall, of Kinlet, Shropshire. Sir John Blount was a loyal, if unremarkable, servant to the Royal Family, who accompanied King Henry to France in 1513 when he waged war against Louis XII of France.

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Their relationship lasted for some length of time, compared to King Henry's other affairs, which were generally short-lived and unacknowledged. On 15 June, 1519, Blount bore the King an illegitimate son who was named Henry FitzRoy, and who was later created Duke of Richmond and Somerset. He was the only illegitimate son of Henry VIII that the King recognized as his own. After the child's birth, the affair ended for unknown reasons. For proving that King Henry was capable of fathering healthy sons, Elizabeth Blount prompted a popular saying — "Bless 'ee, Bessie Blount" — often heard during and after this period, and persists today in some social quarters of England.

The cartoon Mighty B! stars a girl named Bessie.

On "Doctor Who", the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) owned a Yellow vintage car nicknamed Bessie!

Bessie Glass was the name of the head of the Glass family in J. D Salinger's Novels.

Bessie is a character in Charlotte Bronte's best known novel 'Jane Eyre'. When Jane is ten and lives with her aunt and cousins in Gateshead, Bessie is a maid or something like that. She is the person Jane likes most at awful Gateshead, due to the fact that everyone else there is mean to her.

Blues singer Bessie Smith was a famous bearer.