📖 About Dorothy
Dorothy is the English form of Dorothea ("gift of God"). It reigned at US rank 2-3 for fifteen years (1912-1927). Forever linked to Oz's Dorothy Gale and Dorothy Parker's razor wit, it's a name of deep American cultural resonance.
🔀 Variants & Related Names
⭐ Famous People
- Dorothy Gale — Fictional heroine of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), immortalized by Judy Garland in the 1939 film — her ruby slippers and "There's no place like home" are icons of American culture
- Dorothy Parker — American poet, writer, and critic whose devastating wit made her the queen of the Algonquin Round Table, known for lines like "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses"
- Dorothy Hodgkin — British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964) for determining the structures of important biochemical substances including penicillin and vitamin B12 using X-ray crystallography
- Dorothy Dandridge — American actress and singer who became the first African American woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), breaking Hollywood's racial barriers