Abby

Abby or Abbie is generally a nickname for Abigail (name), but can also be a given name in its own right. It may refer to:

People

Women

• Abbie Betinis (born 1980), American composer
• 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
• Abbie Cornett (born 1966), American politician
• Abbie Cornish (born 1982), Australian actress and rapper
• Abby Dalton (born 1932), American actress
• Abby Elliott (born 1987), American actress and comedian
• Abbie Huston Evans (1881–1983), American poet and teacher
• Abbie Park Ferguson (1837-1919), American founder and president of Huguenot College in South Africa
• 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 pro-life activist
• Abby Kelley (1811-1887), American abolitionist and radical social reformer
• Abby Martin (born 1984), American journalist
• 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 Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), American socialite and philanthropist, wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
• Abby Rockefeller (born 1943), American ecologist and feminist
• Abby Stein (born 1991), American transgender activist and writer
• Abby Sunderland (born 1993), sailor who attempted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world
• Abby Travis (born 1969), American musician
• Abby Wambach (born 1980), American retired soccer player and coach

Men

• Albert Brunies (1900-1978), American jazz cornetist nicknamed "Abbie"
• Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), American social and political activist
• Abbie Johnson (1871-1960), Canadian-born Major League Baseball player
• Abbie Shaba (born 1958), Malawian politician
• Abbie Shadbolt (fl. 1909-1921), 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

• Abigail Van Buren, pen name used for the Dear Abby syndicated personal advice column
• 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 Holland, a fictional comic book character who exists in the DC Universe
• Abby Lockhart, a medical doctor on the television series ER
• Abby Maitland, on the ITV science-fiction drama Primeval
• 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)
• Abby the Cow, on the Nickelodeon animated series Back at the Barnyard
• 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
• Abbie, a 12-year-old vampire in the movie Let Me In
• Abby, in the Disney movie Chicken Little
• Abby, one of many mutant creatures on the American TV series Wayward Pines