Judy (given name)

Judy is a (usually) female personal name. It is sometimes a given name, but more often it is a hypocorism (affectionate diminutive of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Judith . Jude is another occasionally used short form of the name.

People

Politics

• Judy Agnew, wife of former American Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew
• Judy Baker (born 1960), American politician
• Judy Bethel (born 1943), Canadian politician
• Judy Biggert (born 1937), American politician
• Judy Bonds (1952–2011), American anti-mountaintop-removal activist
• Judy Boyle, American politician
• Judy Bradley (born 1952), Canadian politician
• Judy Burges (born 1943), American politician
• Judy Chirco, American politician
• Judy Chu (born 1953), American politician
• Judy Clibborn, American politician
• Judy Darcy (born 1950), Canadian politician and national union executive
• Judy Edwards (born 1955), Australian politician
• Judy Emmons, American politician
• Judy Erola (born 1934), Canadian politician
• Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician
• Judy Fryd (1909–2000), British advocate for mentally handicapped children
• Judy Gamin (1930–2022), Australian politician
• Judy Gingell (born 1946), Canadian politician
• Judy Goldsmith, American activist and President of NOW
• Judy Gordon (1948–2020), Canadian politician
• Judy Hopwood (born 1954), Australian politician
• Judy Hughes (born 1959), Australian politician
• Judy Jackson (born 1947), Australian politician
• Judy Junor (born 1948), Canadian politician
• Judy Kany (born 1937), American politician
• Judy Keall (born 1942), New Zealand politician
• Judy Koehler (born 1941), American politician
• Judy Krawczyk (born 1939), American politician
• Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980), Canadian politician, member of the federal cabinet, and author
• Judy Lee (born 1942), American politician
• Judy Maddigan (born 1948), Australian politician
• Judy Mallaber (born 1951), British politician
• Judy Manning (born 1943), American politician
• Judy Manning, Canadian politician
• Judy Martin (politician)
• Judy Marsales, Canadian politician
• Judy Martz (1943–2017), American skater politician, and Governor of Montana
• Judy Mbugua (born 1947), Kenyan activist
• Judy Mundey (born 1944), Canadian activist and communist
• Judy Eason McIntyre (born 1945), American politician
• Judy Nerat (1948–2012), American politician
• Judy Olson Duhamel (born 1939), American politician and educator
• Judy Paradis (born 1944), American politician
• Judy Rebick (born 1945), Canadian activist and journalist
• Judy Richardson, American activist and documentary film producer
• Judy Robson (born 1939), American politician
• Judy Rogers, Canadian politician
• Judy Schwank (born 1951), American politician
• Judy Sgro (born 1944), Canadian politician
• Judy Sheerer (1940–2016), American politician
• Judy Shepard (born 1952), American activist
• Judy Spence (born 1957), Australian politician
• Judy Streatch (born 1966), Canadian politician
• Judy Syjuco, Filipino politician
• Judy Thongori (c. 1965–2025), Kenyan women's rights activist
• Judy Baar Topinka (1944–2014), American politician
• Judy Turner (born 1956), New Zealand politician
• Judy Wakhungu, Kenyan cabinet minister, executive, and academic
• Judy Wasylycia-Leis (born 1951), Canadian politician
• Judy Petty Wolf, American politician

Entertainment

• Judy Bailey (born 1952/1953), New Zealand broadcaster
• Judy Bailey (pianist) (1935–2025), New Zealand jazz pianist
• Judy Banks Australian television host
• Judy Becker, American film production designer
• Judy Bennett (born 1943), English voice actor
• Judy Blair (born 1948), Franco-American jazz and R&B singer and keyboardist
• Judy Boucher, Vincentian reggae and R&B singer
• Judy Brooke (born 1970), English actress
• Judy Buxton (born 1949), English actress
• Judy Campbell (1916–2004), British actress and cabaret singer
• Judy Canova (1913–1983), American comedian, actress, pop singer, and radio personality
• Judy Carmichael (born 1957), American jazz vocalist and pianist
• Judy Carne (1939–2015), English actress
• Judy Chamberlain (born 1944), American singer
• Judy Cheeks (born 1954), American soul and R&B singer
• Judy Clark (1921–2002), American actress
• Judy Clay (1938–2001), American soul and gospel singer
• Judy Collins (born 1939), American folk, popular, and art singer
• Judy Cornwell (born 1940), English actress
• Judy Craig (born 1946), American girl-group singer
• Judy Craymer, English musical theater producer
• Judy Dan (born 1931), Chinese–American actress
• Judy Davis (born 1955), Australian actress
• Judy Dearing (1940–1995) American costume designer
• Judy Dyble (1949–2020), British singer–songwriter
• Judy Farr (set decorator), British
• Judy Farrell (1938–2023), American actress
• Judy Flynn (born c. 1963–1964), British actress
• Judy Freudberg (1949–2012), American television screenwriter
• Judy Garland (1922–1969), American pop singer and actress
• Judy Adelman Gershon of Canadian children's music duo Judy & David
• Judy Gold (born 1962), American comedian, actress, screenwriter, and producer
• Judy Graubart (born 1943), American actress
• Judy Finnigan (born 1948), English television personality and author
• Judy Geeson (born 1948), English actress
• Judy Gilroy, Irish television presenter
• Judy Greer (born 1975), American actress
• Judy Gringer (born 1941), Danish actress
• Judy Gunn (1915–1991), British actress
• Judy Henske (1936–2022), American singer–songwriter
• Judy Herrera, American actress
• Judy Holliday (1921–1965), American actress, comedian, and pop singer
• Judy Holt, British actress
• Judy Huxtable (born 1942), English actress
• Judy Jack, Australian TV host of The Judy Jack Show and Geoff and Judy
• Judy Jacobs (born 1957), American gospel musician
• Judy Johnson (born 1928–2025), American pop singer
• Judy Kaye (born 1948), American singer and actress
• Judy Kelly (1913–1991), Australian-British actress
• Judy Kuhn (born 1958), American actress and singer
• Judy Landers (born 1958), American actress
• Judy Landon, American actress
• Judy Lewis (1935–2011), American Hollywood lovechild and actress
• Judy Loe (born 1947), English actress
• Judy Lynn (1936–2010), American singer and Miss Idaho 1955
• Judy Lynne (born 1943), American-Australian actress
• Judy Malcolm (1910–1998), American actress
• Judy Marte (born 1983), American actress
• Judy Martin (1917–1951), American country music singer
• Judy Matheson, British actress
• Judy McBurney (1948–2018), Australian actress
• Judy McDonald, American comedian
• Judy Minx (born circa 1989), French pornographic actress
• Judy Moorcroft (1933–1991), costume designer
• Judy Morris (born 1947), Australian actress, director, and screenwriter
• Judy Mowatt (born 1952), Jamaican reggae singer
• Judy Munsen (born 1949), television and video game score composer
• Judy Kay Newton, birth name of Juice Newton (born 1952), American country and pop singer
• Judy Niemack (born 1954), American jazz vocalist
• Judy Nugent (born 1940), American actress
• Judy Nunn (born 1945), Australian actress, screenwriter, and novelist
• Judy Ongg (born 1950), Taiwanese actress and singer
• Judy Pace (born 1942), American actress
• Judy Pancoast (born 1959), American children's musician
• Judy Parfitt (born 1935), English actress
• Judy Prescott, American actress and poet
• Judy Reyes (born 1967), American actress
• Judy Roderick (1942–1992), American folk and blues singer
• Judy Rodman (born 1951), American country music singer
• Judy Ann Santos (born 1978), Filipino actress and pop singer
• Judy Sheindlin (born 1942), American television personality known as "Judge Judy"
• Judy Shepherd (died 2009) of the Shepherd Sisters, American singing group
• Judy Small, Australian singer–songwriter and judge
• Judy Strangis (born 1949), American actress
• Judy Street (born c. 1949), American soul singer
• Judy Stone (born 1942), Australian pop and country music singer
• Judy Norton Taylor (born 1958), American actress
• Judy Tenuta (1956–2022), American comedian and musician
• Judy Toll (1958–2002), American comedian and screenwriter
• Judy Lee Tomerlin (1939–2008), model
• Judy Torres (born 1968), American electronic musician and singer
• Judy Trammell (born 1958), American cheerleader and cheer choreographer
• Judy Tyler (1932–1957), American actress
• Judy Tyler (model), American (1947–2013)
• Judy Tylor, birth name of Jud Tylor (born 1979), Canadian actress
• Judy Wadsworth, Miss Nevada 1958
• Judy Wilson (actress), English (1938—2006)
• Judy Blye Wilson, American television casting director
• Judy Weinstein, American dance music scene figure
• Judy Weiss (born 1972), German theater and jazz singer
• Judy Winter (born 1944), German actress

Athletics

• Judy Amoore (born 1940), Australian runner
• Judy Bell (born 1936), American golfer and golf executive
• Judy Blumberg (born 1957), American ice dancer
• Judy Canty (long jumper), Australian (1931–2016)
• Judy Wills Cline (born 1948), American gymnast and acrobat
• Judy Connor (born 1953), New Zealand tennis player
• Judy Crawford (born 1951), Canadian skier
• Judy-Joy Davies (1928–2016), Australian swimmer
• Judy Devlin (born 1935), American badminton player
• Judy Dickinson (born 1950), American golfer
• Judy Diduck (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
• Judy Dixon (born 1949), American tennis player and coach
• Judy Doyle, Irish camogie player
• Judy Esmond (born 1960), Australian cricket player
• Judy Gans (1886–1949), American Negro leagues baseball player and manager
• Judy Glenney (born 1949), American weightlifter and coach
• Judy Goodrich (fencer) (born 1939), American fencer
• Judy Green (volleyball coach), American
• Judy Grinham (born 1939), British swimmer
• Judy Guinness (1910–1952), British fencer
• Judy Hahn, American volleyball coach
• Judy Harlan (1896–1978), American football (gridiron) player
• Judy Johnson (1899–1989), American Negro leagues baseball player
• Judy Kimball (born 1938), American golfer
• Judy Leden (born 1959)), British hang glider and paraglider
• Judy Long (born 1969), Chinese-Canadian table tennis player
• Judy MacMillan (1865–1936), Scottish rugby player
• Judy Martin (wrestler), American (born 1955)
• Judy Melick (born 1954)), American swimmer
• Judy Mosley-McAfee (1968–2013), American basketball player
• Judy Nagel (born 1951), American skier
• Judy Masters (1892–1955), Australian football (soccer) player
• Judy Murray (born 1959), Scottish tennis coach
• Judy Oakes (born 1958), British shot putter
• Judy Peckham (born 1950), Australian runner
• Judy Playfair (born 1953), Australian swimmer
• Judy Porter, New Zealand football (soccer) player
• Judy Rabinowitz (born 1958), American skier
• Judy Rankin (born 1945), American golfer
• Judy Reeder (born 1948), American swimmer
• Judy Reynolds (born 1981), Irish dressage rider
• Judy Rose, American basketball coach and athletic director
• Judy Samuel (born 1943), British swimmer
• Judy Schwomeyer (born 1950), American ice dancer
• Judy Shapiro-Ikenberry (born 1942), American long-distance runner
• Judy Simpson (born 1960), British heptathlete
• Judy Sowinski (1940–2011), American roller derby skater and coach
• Judy Strong (born 1960), American field hockey player
• Judy Tegart (born 1937), Australian tennis player
• Judy Vernon (born 1945), British hurdler

Academia

• Judy Armitage (born 1951), British biochemist
• Judy Baca (born 1946), American social science professor, artist, and activist
• Judy Bonner, American academic executive
• Judy Birmingham, English-Australian archaeologist
• Judy Clapp (born 1930), American computer scientist
• Judy Delin, British linguist
• Judy Dempsey (born 1956), Irish journalist and researcher
• Judy Feder, American political scientist
• Judy Fierstein, American geologist
• Judy Franz (born 1938), American physicist
• Judy Genshaft (born 1948), American academic executive
• Judy Hample (born 1957), American academic executive
• Judy Ho, Taiwanese-American psychologist, professor, and television personality
• Judy Holdener (born 1965), American mathematician
• Judy Illes (born 1960), American neurologist
• Judy Klitsner, religion lecturer and writer
• Judy Mikovits, American researcher
• Judy Jolley Mohraz (born 1943), American women's studies historian and philanthropist
• Judy Olian, American academic executive
• Judy Roitman (born 1945), American mathematician
• Judy Shepard-Kegl, American linguist
• Judy Stamps, American ecologist
• Judy Wajcman (born 1950), sociologist
• Judy L. Walker, American mathematician
• Judy Yung (1946–2020), American historian
• Judy Zeh , American statistician

Literature

• Judy Balan, Indian satirical writer
• Judy Blume (born 1938), American children's and young adult novelist
• Judy Blundell, American children's and young adult writer (under the name Jude Watson)
• Judy Blunt (born 1954), American essayist
• Judy Budnitz (born 1973), American fiction writer
• Judy Clemens, American mystery writer
• Judy Corbalis, New Zealand fiction writer
• Judy Croome (born 1958), South African fiction writer and poet
• Judy-Lynn del Rey (1943–1986), American science fiction editor
• Judy Fong Bates (born 1949), Chinese-Canadian writer
• Judy GeBauer, American playwright
• Judy Grahn (born 1940), American poet and writer
• Judy Jordan (born 1961), American poet
• Judy Lucero (deceased), American poet
• Judy Malloy (born 1942), American poet
• Judy Pascoe, Australian novelist and acrobat
• Judy Rothman, American screenwriter
• Judy Troy, American fiction writer and literature professor
• Judy Waite, British picture book writer and young adult novelist
• Judy Upton (born 1967), British playwright

Journalism

• Judy Bailey (born c. 1952–1953), Australian television news anchor
• Judy Battista (born 1966), American sports journalist
• Judy Bolch, American journalist
• Judy Crichton (1929–2007), American television news producer
• Judy Fortin, American television reporter and anchor
• Judy Lee Klemesrud (1939–1985), American magazine and newspaper journalist
• Judy Licht, American television reporter and fashion writer
• Judy MacDonald (born 1964), Canadian magazine and television journalist, and writer
• Judy Maddren, Canadian radio announcer
• Judy Mann (1943–2005), American newspaper reporter
• Judy Muller, American television reporter
• Judy Stone (journalist) (1924–2017), American film critic
• Judy Waytiuk, Canadian freelance writer and reporter
• Judy Woodruff (born 1946), American television journalist and anchor

Fine arts

• Judy Cassab (1920–2015), Australian painter
• Judy Chicago (born 1939), American installation artist
• Judy Clark (artist) (born 1949), British
• Judy Dater (born 1941), American photographer
• Judy Dunaway (born 1964), composer and sonic installation artist
• Judy Fox (born 1957), American sculptor
• Judy Fiskin (born 1945), American photographer and art film maker
• Judy Francesconi (born 1957), American photographer
• Judy Jensen (born 1953), American glass artist
• Judy Millar (born 1957), New Zealand painter
• Judy Watson Napangardi, Australian painter
• Judy Nylon, Anglo-American multidisciplinary artist and punk rocker
• Judy Pfaff (born 1946), American installation artist
• Judy Radul (born 1962), American multimedia, performance, and installation artist
• Judy Rifka (born 1945), American painter and video artist
• Judy McIntosh Wilson (born 1937), New Zealand sculptor and fibre artist

Classical music

• Judy Kang, Canadian violinist, producer, singer, and composer
• Judy Klein (born 1943), American composer, pianist, and music educator

Crime and justice

• Judy Amar, American burglar
• Judy Buenoano (1943–1998), American murderer
• Judy Clarke (born 1952), American criminal defense attorney
• Judy Moran (born 1944), Australian gangster and murderer

Culinary arts

• Judy Joo (born 1974), American restaurateur, chef, and television personality
• Judy Mazel (1943–2007), author of "The Beverly Hills Diet"
• Judy Rodgers (1956–2013), American chef and cookbook writer

Other

• Judy Bentinck (born 1952), couture milliner
• Judy Blame (1960–2018), English club hipster, stylist, designer, and art director
• Judy Cannato, American retreat facilitator, spiritual director, and writer
• Judy Feld Carr (born 1938), Canadian population rescuer
• Judy Gao (born 1994), New Zealand fashion designer and chess player
• Judy Green (socialite) (1931–2001), American
• Judy Harrow (1945–2014), American counselor, Wiccan priestess, and writer
• Judy Horacek (born 1961), Australian cartoonist, illustrator, and children's writer
• Judy Hornby, British-American fashion designer
• Judy Irving, American documentary filmmaker
• Judy Lewent, American business executive
• Judy McGrath (born 1952), American television executive
• Judy Hoback Miller (born 1937), American Watergate scandal figure
• Judy Nelson, American litigant and memoirist
• Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes (born 1958), Israeli socialite and television host
• Judy Peiser (born 1945), American folk music and folklore expert
• Judy Castle Scott, American bind advocate and activist in the field of vision loss
• Judy Smith, American crisis manager
• Judy Spreckels (1933–2015), American confidante of Elvis Presley

Fictional characters

• Judy, a character in the 1984 American teen sex comedy movie Revenge of the Nerds
• Judy, a character 1991 and 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama movies My Girl and My Girl 2
• Judy, a character in the 2000 American comedy film The Photographer
• Judy Alvarez, techie, braindance editor from Cyberpunk 2077
• Judy, wife of Pulcinella in Punch and Judy shows
• Judy, another alias used by the character Judith Myers from the film Halloween
• title character of the film Judy Berlin
• Judy Bolton, protagonist of the Judy Bolton Series of books
• Judy Brownlee, in the TV soap opera Shortland Street
• Judy Foster, protagonist of the radio show A Date with Judy and film A Date with Judy
• Judy Geller, recurring character in the TV show Friends
• Judy Hensler, in the TV sitcom Leave It to Beaver
• Judy Hopps, rabbit protagonist of the animated film Zootopia
• Judy Jetson, cartoon character in the TV sitcom The Jetsons
• Judy Miller, in the TV sitcom Still Standing
• Judy Moody, protagonist of a series of books by Megan McDonald
• Judy of the Jungle, golden-age comic book heroine
• Judy Shepherd, a character in the film Jumanji
• Judy Stoneface, a news reporter of the No Nonsense News from The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder
• Judy Turner, from the 1975 musical A Chorus Line
• Judy, a character from the children's show, Tweenies

See also

• Judi
• Judie
• Judy (disambiguation)
• Judith (disambiguation)