Arts, entertainments and writers •
Dorothy Abbott (1920–1968), American actress •
Dorothy Adams (1900–1988), American actress •
Dorothy Aldis (1896–1966), American writer and author •
Dorothy Alison (1925–1992), Australian actress •
Dorothy Allen (1896–1970), American actress •
Dorothy Allison (1949–2024), American writer •
Dorothy Amenuke, Ghanaian sculptor •
Dorothy Angus (1891–1979), Scottish embroidery artist •
Dorothy Annan (1900–1983), Brazilian-British painter, potter and muralist •
Dorothy Appleby (1906–1990), American actress •
Dorothy Arnold (1917–1984), American actress •
Dorothy Arzner (1897–1979), American film director and film editor •
Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986), American jazz harpist and composer •
Dorothy A. Atabong, Cameroonian-Canadian actress •
Dorothy Atkinson, English actress and singer •
Dorothy Bar-Adon (1907–1950), American-born Israeli journalist •
Dorothy Gill Barnes (1927–2020), American artist •
Dorothy Barresi (born 1957), American poet •
Dorothy Bartlam (1907–1991), English actress •
Dorothy Batley (1902–1983), British actor •
Dorothy Bellew (1891–1973), English actress •
Dorothy Bennett (1907–1988), American screenwriter •
Dorothy Bernard (1890–1955), American actress •
Dorothy Berry (born 1942), Australian female artist •
Dorothy Bishop, American singer •
Dorothy Blackham (1896–1975), Irish illustrator, artist and teacher •
Dorothy Blewett, Australian playwright and novelist •
Dorothy Block (1904–1984), American painter •
Dorothy Bonarjee (1894–1983), Indian poet and artist •
Dorothy Bond (c. 1921–1952), English soprano •
Dorothy Bordass, British artist •
Dorothy Stokes Bostwick (1899–2001), American artist •
Dorothy Boulger (1846–1923), British novelist •
Dorothy Bowers (1902–1948), British writer •
Dorothy Boyd (1907–1996), English actress •
Dorothy Braddell, British writer •
Dorothy Bramhall (1911–2004), British actress and former model •
Dorothy Brandon, British playwright •
Dorothy Braudy, American painter •
Dorothy Mary Braund (1926–2013), Australian artist •
Dorothy Brett (1883–1977), American painter •
Dorothy Bridges (1915–2009), American actress •
Dorothy Bromiley (1930–2024), British actress •
Dorothy Brunton (1890–1977), Australian singer and actress •
Dorothy Bryant (c. 1930–2017), American dramatist •
Dorothy Burgess (1907–1961), American actress •
Dorothy Burroughes, English painter •
Dorothy Bussy (1865–1960), English novelist and translator •
Dorothy Butler (1925–2015), children's book author •
Dorothy Byrne, American operatic mezzo-soprano •
Dorothy A. Cadman, English painter •
Dorothy Caldwell, Canadian artist •
Dorothy Cannell, English-American mystery writer •
Dorothy Carnegie (1912–1998), American writer •
Dorothy Carter (1935–2003), American musician •
Dorothy Caruso (1893–1955), American writer •
Dorothy Chan, American poet and author based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin •
Dorothy Christy/Christie (1906–1977), American actress •
Dorothy Claire (1920–1982), American singer •
Dorothy "Dodie" Clark (born 1995), British singer-songwriter and YouTuber •
Dorothy Love Coates (1928–2003), American gospel singer •
Dorothy Coburn (1905–1978), American actress •
Dorothy Coke (1897–1979), English artist •
Dorothy Collins (1926–1994), American singer •
Dorothy Comingore (1913–1971), American actress •
Dorothy Compton, American actress •
Dorothy Cooper (1911–2004), American screenwriter •
Dorothy Cottrell (1902–1957), Australian writer •
Dorothy Cowlin (1911–2010), British novelist, poet, newspaper columnist and article writer •
Dorothy M. Cray, British novelist •
Dorothy Cross, Irish artist •
Dorothy Cullman (1918–2009), American television producer •
Dorothy Cumming (1894–1983), American actress •
Dorothy Dalton (1893–1972), American actress •
Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), American actress •
Dorothy Dare (1911–1981), American actress •
Dorothy Davenport (1895–1977), American actress •
Dorothy Davies (1899–1987), New Zealand pianist and piano teacher •
Dorothy Davison (1889–1984), British medical artist and scientific illustrator •
Dorothy Dean (1932–1987), American actress •
Dorothy Dearing (1913–1965), American actress •
Dorothy DeBorba (1925–2010), American child actress •
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), American artist •
Dorothy Dell (1915–1934), American actress •
Dorothy Dene (1859–1899), English stage actress and artist’s model •
Dorothy Devore (1899–1976), American actress •
Dorothy Dewhurst (1886–1959), English stage and film actress •
Dorothy Dickson (1893–1995), American actress •
Dorothy Dietrich (born 1948), American stage magician and escapologist •
Dorothy Cameron Disney (1903–1992), American advice columnist •
Dorothy Dittrich, Canadian playwright •
Dorothy Dix (1861–1951), American newspaper columnist •
Dorothy Djukulul (born 1942), Australian artist •
Dorothy Donegan (1922–1998), American jazz pianist and vocalist •
Dorothy Dorow (1930–2017), British classical soprano •
Dorothy Doughty, British sculptor and potter •
Dorothy Dow (1920–2005), American singer •
Dorothy Drain (1909–1996), Australian journalist •
Dorothy Draper (1889–1969), American interior decorator •
Dorothy Drew, American actress •
Dorothy Duffy, Irish actress •
Dorothy Dunbar (1902–1992), American actress •
Dorothy Duncan (1903–1957), American writer and artist •
Dorothy Dunckley (1890–1972), Australian make-up artist and actress •
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001), Scottish historical novelist •
Dorothy Dury, 17th-century Anglo-Irish writer •
Dorothy Dwan (1906–1981), American actress •
Dorothy Eagle, English editor •
Dorothy Eaton (1893–1968), American painter •
Dorothy Eden (1912–1982), New Zealand writer •
Dorothy Meigs Eidlitz (1891–1976), American photographer and patron of the arts •
Dorothy Eisner (1906–1984), American painter •
Dorothy Elias-Fahn, American voice actress •
Dorothy Ellis (1935–2018), American singer •
Dorothy Emmerson, American actress and singer •
Dorothy Fadiman (born 1939), American film director and producer •
Dorothy Faison, American painter •
Dorothy Fane (1889–1976), British actress •
Dorothy Farnum (1900–1970), American screenwriter •
Dorothy Fay (1915–2003), American actress •
Dorothy Fernando (1907–c. 1981), Sri Lankan author and illustrator •
Dorothy Fields (1904–1974), American librettist and lyricist •
Dorothy Follis (c. 1892–1923), American actress and soprano singer •
Dorothy Catherine Fontana (1939–2019), screenplay writer •
Dorothy Ford (1922–2010), American actress and model •
Dorothy Foster (1908–1981), Australian radio producer, comedy scriptwriter and actress •
Dorothy Fowler, New Zealand writer •
Dorothy Fratt (1923–2017), American painter •
Dorothy Freed (1919–2000), New Zealand author, composer and music historian •
Dorothy Frooks (1896–1997), American journalist •
Dorothy Gallagher (born 1935), American memoirist and biographer •
Dorothy Gambrell, American cartoonist •
Dorothy Garlock (1919–2018), American author •
Dorothy Gibson (1889–1946), American actress •
Dorothy Giles (1892–1960), writer •
Dorothy Gill (1891–1969), British opera singer and actress •
Dorothy Gillespie (1920–2012), American artist and illustrator •
Dorothy Gilman (1923–2012), American novelist •
Dorothy Gish (1898–1968), American actress •
Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg (1908–1988), American writer •
Dorothy Gould (1910–2000), American actress •
Dorothy Gow (1893–1982), English composer •
Dorothy Granger (1911–1995), American actress •
Dorothy Grant, Haida fashion designer •
Dorothy Grebenak (1913–1990), American artist •
Dorothy Greener (1917–1971) English-born American actress and comedian •
Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893–1975), American painter •
Dorothy Grider (1915–2012), American artist •
Dorothy Gulliver (1908–1997), American actress •
Dorothy Gurney (1858–1932), British hymn writer and poet •
Dorothy Hafner, American ceramist and glass artist •
Dorothy Hammond (1876–1950), English actress •
Dorothy Antoinette Handy (1930–2002), American musician and scholar •
Dorothy Joan Harris (born 1931), Canadian writer •
Dorothy Hart (1922–2004), American actress •
Dorothy Schurman Hawes (1905–1977), American writer •
Dorothy Hawksley, British artist •
Dorothy Hawtree (1902–1981), Australian model and actress •
Dorothy Heller, American painter •
Dorothy Henry (1925–2020), American cartoonist •
Dorothy Hepworth, British painter •
Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002), Australian feminist poet, playwright and novelist •
Dorothy J. Heydt (1942–2022), American novelist •
Dorothy Heyward (1890–1961), American dramatist •
Dorothy Hood (1918–2000), American painter •
Dorothy Hood (illustrator), American fashion illustrator •
Dorothy Howard, American folklorist •
Dorothy Howard (1929–2013), Canadian mezzo-soprano and voice teacher •
Dorothy Hutton (1889–1984), English painter, calligrapher and printmaker •
Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996), American actress •
Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022), American visual artist •
Dorothy James (1901–1982), American music educator and composer •
Dorothy Janis (1912–2010), American actress •
Dorothy Jardon (1883–1966), American singer •
Dorothy Jenkin (1892–1995), New Zealand artist and printmaker •
Dorothy Johnston (born 1948), Australian author •
Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980), Scottish painter and watercolorist •
Dorothy Rieber Joralemon (1893–1987), American sculptor •
Dorothy Jordan (1906–1988), American film actress •
Dorothy Misener Jurney (1909–2002), American journalist •
Dorothy Kay, Irish-born South African artist •
Dorothy Khadem-Missagh (born 1992), Austrian pianist and conductor •
Dorothy Kelly (1894–1966), American actress •
Dorothy Ker, New Zealand-born composer •
Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965), American journalist and television game show panelist •
Dorothy Kilner (1755–1836), English children’s writer •
Dorothy King (artist), British artist, curator and teacher •
Dorothy Stratton King (1909–2007), American painter and printmaker •
Dorothy Kingsley (1909–1997), American screenwriter •
Dorothy Kirsten (1910–1992), American opera singer •
Dorothy Kloss (born 1923), American dancer •
Dorothy Knapp, American dancer, actress, model and Ziegfeld girl •
Dorothy Knapp (artist) (1907–1986), American cover maker •
Dorothy Koomson (born 1971), English writer •
Dorothy K. Kripke (1912–2000), American author •
Dorothy Kunhardt (1901–1979), American writer •
Dorothy LaBostrie (1928–2007), American songwriter •
Dorothy, Lady Pakington (1623–1679), English writer •
Dorothy Lamour (1914–1996), American film actress •
Dorothy Langley (1904–1969), American novelist •
Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891–1980), American writer and illustrator •
Dorothy Lawson, Canadian cellist and composer •
Dorothy Layton (1912–2009), American actress •
Dorothy Leigh (died ), British writer •
Dorothy Leviny (1881–1968), Australian artist •
Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996), Canadian poet •
Dorothy Lockwood, British artist known for her watercolor paintings •
Dorothy Loeb (1887–1971), American painter •
Dorothy Loudon (1925–2003), American actress, singer and performer •
Dorothy Lovett (1915–1998), American actress •
Dorothy Mackie Low (1916–2002), British writer •
Dorothy Lucey (born 1958), American actress •
Dorothy Lyman (born 1947), American actress •
Dorothy Mackaill (1903–1990), British-American actress •
Dorothy Maclean (1920–2020), Canadian writer •
Dorothy Malone (1924–2018), American actress •
Dorothy Malone (writer), American writer •
Dorothy Manners, American gossip columnist •
Dorothy Manning (1919–2012), New Zealand artist •
Dorothy Marcic, American dramatist •
Dorothy Massingham (1889–1933), British actress and playwright •
Dorothy Masuka (1935–2019), South African jazz singer •
Dorothy Mayhall, American sculptor •
Dorothy Maynor (1910–1996), American singer •
Dorothy McGuire (1916–2001), American actress •
Dorothy McKim (born 1961), American film producer •
Dorothy Mead (1928–1975), British painter •
Dorothy Meyer (1924–1987), American actress •
Dorothy Canning Miller (1904–2003), American curator •
Dorothy Minto (c. 1886–1957), Scottish actress •
Dorothy Molloy (1942–2004), Irish poet, journalist and artist •
Dorothy Morang (1906–1994), American painter and pastelist •
Dorothy Morlan (1882–1967), American painter •
Dorothy Morris (1922–2011), American actress •
Dorothy Morton (1869–1939), American stage actress •
Dorothy Morton (pianist) (1924–2008), Canadian pianist and music educator •
Dorothy Moskowitz (born 1940), American singer • Dorothy Milne Murdock, better known by her pen name
Acharya S (1960–2015), American Christ myth theorist •
Dorothy Napangardi (died 2013), Australian artist •
Dorothy Nimmo (1932–2001), British poet •
Dorothy Norwood (born 1935), American gospel singer and songwriter •
Dorothy O'Connor (born 1970), American photographer and installation artist •
Dorothy Ochtman, American painter •
Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), British letter writer •
Dorothy Papadakos, American concert organist, composer, lyricist, playwright and author •
Dorothy Parke (1904–1990), Irish musician and composer •
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American satirist and poet •
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent (born 1940), American writer •
Dorothy Patrick (1921–1987), Canadian-American actress •
Dorothy Patten (1905–1975), American theatre producer •
Dorothy Paul, Scottish actress, comedian and entertainer •
Dorothy Margaret Paulin (1904–1982), Scottish poet and editor •
Dorothy Peterson (1897–1979), American actress •
Dorothy Randolph Peterson, American actress •
Dorothy Phillips (1889–1980), American actress •
Dorothy Provine (1935–2010), American singer, dancer and actress •
Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli (1901–1974), American painter •
Dorothy Ann Purser, American screenwriter •
Dorothy Quick (1896–1962), American novelist and poet •
Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson (1904–2005), American dancer, novelist and vaudeville performer •
Dorothy Revier (1904–1993), American actress •
Dorothy Reynolds (1913–1977), British writer and actress •
Dorothy Rhoads (1895–1986), American children’s author •
Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), British author and journalist •
Dorothy Robertson (died 1979), New Zealand painter •
Dorothy Rockfort (1877–1924), American screenwriter •
Dorothy Roe (1904–1985), American newspaper editor •
Dorothy Rouse Bottom (1896–1990), American newspaper editor •
Dorothy Rutka, American artist •
Dorothy Samuelson-Sandvid (1902–1984), author and journalist •
Dorothy Sarbitt, British artist •
Dorothy Sarnoff (1914–2008), American actress •
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), English writer •
Dorothy Scarborough (1878–1935), American novelist •
Dorothy Seacombe (1906–1994), British actress •
Dorothy Seastrom (1903–1930), American actress •
Dorothy Sebastian (1903–1957), American actress •
Dorothy Shakespear (1886–1973), English painter •
Dorothy Shay (1921–1978), American singer •
Dorothy Sherrill (1901–1990), American writer •
Dorothy Short (1915–1963), American actress •
Dorothy Silk (1883–1942), English soprano •
Dorothy Vernell Simmons, American singer •
Dorothy Evelyn Smith (1893–1969), English novelist •
Dorothy Simpson (1933–2020), United Kingdom mystery novelist •
Dorothy Sloop (1913–1998), American jazz musician •
Dorothy Smoller, American actress •
Dorothy Carleton Smyth (1880–1933), Scottish artist •
Dorothy Spencer (1909–2002), American film editor •
Dorothy Gladys Spicer (1893–1975), American folklorist •
Dorothy Sproule (1867-1963), Canadian poet •
Dorothy Squires (1915–1998), Welsh singer •
Dorothy Sterling (1913–2008), American writer •
Dorothy Stevens (1888–1966), Canadian etcher, portrait painter, printmaker, illustrator and teacher •
D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973), Scottish author •
Dorothy Stickney (1896–1998), American actress •
Dorothy Stoner (1904–1992), Australian artist •
Dorothy Straight (born 1958), American author •
Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980), Canadian
Playboy Playmate, model and actress •
Dorothy Strutt (1941–2019), English singer and musician •
Dorothy Margaret Stuart (1889–1963), British poet and writer •
Dorothy Sturm (1910–1988), American artist •
Dorothy Howard Talbot (1886–1965), English actor and director •
Dorothy Taubman (1917–2013), American music teacher •
Dorothy Tenham (1931–2008), English actor and stage manager •
Dorothy Tennant (1855–1926), English painter •
Dorothy Tennant (actress) (1865–1942), American actress •
Dorothy Tree (1906–1992), American actress •
Dorothy Tristan (1934–2023), American actress and screenwriter •
Dorothy Tse, Hong Kong author, editor and assistant professor •
Dorothy Tutin (1930–2001), British actress •
Dorothy Uhnak (1930–2006), American writer •
Dorothy Van (1928–2002), American actress •
Dorothy Van Doren (1896–1993), American novelist •
Dorothy Van Engle (1910–2004), American actress and model •
Dorothy Varian (1895–1985), American painter •
Dorothy Venning (1885–c. 1942), British artist •
Dorothy Vernon (1875–1970), American actress •
Dorothy Elaine Vicaji (1880–1945), English portrait painter •
Dorothy Vicary (1932–2009), English novelist •
Dorothy Wall (1894–1942), New Zealand-born author •
Dorothy Walters (1877–1934), American actress •
Dorothy Wanderman, American composer and pianist •
Dorothy Wang (born 1988), American television personality •
Dorothy Ward (1890–1987), English actress •
Dorothy Warenskjold (1921–2010), American opera singer •
Dorothy Wellman (1913–2009), American actress •
Dorothy M. Wheeler, English illustrator •
Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English novelist and children’s writer •
Dorothy Wilding (1893–1976), English professional portrait photographer •
Dorothy Stanton Wise (1879–1918), British sculptor •
Dorothy Woolfolk (1913–2000), American comic book editor •
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English author, poet and sister of
William Wordsworth •
Dorothy Yost (1899–1967), American screenwriter •
Dorothy Weir Young (1890–1947), American painter •
Dorothy Young (1907–2011), American entertainer and actress •
Dorothy Ziegler (1922–1972), American musician
Nobility and royalty •
Dorothy Bentinck (1750–1794), British noblewoman and Duchess of Portland •
Dorothy Boyle (1699–1758), English noblewoman and Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork •
Dorothy Bulstrode, lady-in-waiting to Anne in Denmark •
Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1538–1604), princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and by marriage burgravine of Meissen •
Dorothy Farrar (1899–1987), British Methodist deaconess and preacher •
Dorothy Garai, Queen consort of Bosnia •
Dorothy Edna Genders (1892–1978), Australian Anglican deaconess •
Dorothy Hastings, English courtier •
Dorothy Hazzard, English Baptist leader •
Dorothy of Kashin (1549–1629), Eastern Orthodox Saint and noblewoman •
Dorothy Kerin (1889–1963), English Christian visionary •
Dorothy Lawson, English noblewoman and recusant •
Dorothy Montagu (c. 1716/17–1797), British noblewoman and Countess of Sandwich •
Dorothy Percy (1564–1619), English noblewoman and Countess of Northumberland •
Dorothy Ripley (1767–1831), British/American evangelist •
Dorothy Robinson, Canadian missionary teacher and Girl Guide leader •
Dorothy Savile (1640–1670), English noblewoman and Viscountess Halifax •
Dorothy Sidney (1598–1659), English noblewoman and Countess of Leicester •
Dorothy Silking, Danish courtier •
Dorothy Spencer (1617–1684), English noblewoman and Countess of Sunderland •
Dorothy Stafford (1526–1604), English noblewoman •
Dorothy Townshend, Viscountess Townshend (1686–1726), English aristocrat •
Dorothy Wadham (1534–1618), founder of Wadham College, Oxford •
Dorothy Wellesley (1889–1956), British noblewoman and Duchess of Wellington •
Dorothy Sanders Wells, Episcopalian bishop •
Dorothy Wood (1885–1976), British noblewoman and Countess of Halifax
Politics and activism •
Dorothy Archibald (1895–1960), British politician •
Dorothy F. Bailey, American politician •
Dorothy Bain, Scottish advocate •
Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca (1894–1946), American labor activist •
Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall (born 1942), American politician •
Dorothy Blomfield (1893–1987), New Zealand welfare worker and local politician •
Dorothy Lee Bolden (1924–2005), American trade unionist •
Dorothy Bradley (born 1947), American politician •
Dorothy Hamilton Brush (1894–1968), American birth control advocate, women's rights advocate and author •
Dorothy Buckland-Fuller (1922–2019), Australian sociologist, peace and human rights activist, migrant community advocate and humanist •
Dorothy R. Burnley (1927–2016), American politician •
Dorothy Buxton (1881–1963), British activist •
Dorothy Carpenter (1933–2011), American politician •
Dorothy Buffum Chandler (1901–1997), American cultural leader •
Dorothy Conaghan Chiles (born 1930), american politician •
Dorothy Corrigan (1914–2010), Canadian politician •
Dorothy Cotton (1930–2018), American civil rights activist •
Dorothy Counts (born 1942), American activist •
Dorothy Davids (1923–2014), American educator, educational services administrator, and a Native American and women's rights activist •
Dorothy Day (1897–1980), American journalist and social activist •
Dorothy L. Devereux (1911–1994), American politician •
Dorothy Detzer (1893–1981), American activist •
Dorothy Dixer, Australian political term •
Dorothy Dobbie (born 1945), Canadian politician •
Dorothy N. Dolbey (1908–1991), American politician •
Dorothy Donohue (1911–1960), California state legislator •
Dorothy Dunlop (1929–2021), Northern Irish politician •
Dorothy Eck (1924–2017), American politician •
Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis, American politician •
Dorothy Evans (1888–1944), British feminist activist and suffragette •
Dorothy Evans (trade unionist) (c. 1893–1943), British trade union leader •
Dorothy Felton (1929–2008), American politician and member of the Georgia House of Representatives •
Dorothy Fraser (1926–2015), New Zealand community activist and local politician •
Dorothy Geeben (1908–2010), American mayor •
Dorothy Glisson (1912–2001), American politician •
Dorothy Goble (1910–1990), Australian politician •
Dorothy Gonzaga, Filipina politician •
Dorothy Granada (born 1930), American nurse and peace activist •
Dorothy Smith Gruening, American pacifist •
Dorothy Gwajima, Tanzanian politician •
Dorothy Haener (1917–2001), American women union activist •
Dorothy Hale (1905–1938), American socialite •
Dorothy Hamm (1919–2004), American civil rights activist •
Dorothy Heneker (1886–1968), Canadian lawyer and feminist •
Dorothy Hardisty (1881–1973), English civil servant and humanitarian •
Dorothy Height (1912–2010), African-American civil rights and women's rights activist •
Dorothy Hendee (died 2003), Colorado state legislator •
Dorothy D. Houghton (1890–1972), American activist •
Dorothy Hukill (1946–2018), American politician •
Dorothy H. Hutchinson (1905–1984), American activist, lecturer and author •
Dorothy Hyuha (born 1962), Ugandan politician •
Dorothy Inglis (1926–2013), Canadian feminist and author •
Dorothy Isaksen (1930–2023), Australian politician •
Dorothy Jelicich (1928–2015), New Zealand politician •
Dorothy Jinarajadasa (1881–1963), English feminist, suffragette and writer •
Dorothy Azairwe Nshaija Kabaraitsya (born 1974), Ugandan politician •
Dorothy Keeling (1881–1967), British social worker •
Dorothy M. Kellogg (1920–2018), American politician •
Dorothy Kelly Gay, Irish-born American politician •
Dorothy Kenyon (1888–1972), American lawyer, judge and political activist •
Dorothy Kostrzewa (1928–2013), Canadian politician •
Dorothy Kotz (born 1944), Australian politician •
Dorothy Kuya (1932–2013), British communist and anti-racist activist •
Dorothy Bell Lawrence (1911–1973), New York assemblywoman •
Dorothy Lawson (1580–1632), English recusant and Catholic priest harbourer •
Dorothy Layton (1887–1959), English suffragist and politician •
Dorothy Lightbourne, Jamaican politician •
Dorothy Mabiletsa, South African politician •
Dorothy McAulay Martin (born 1937), First Lady of North Carolina •
Dorothy McAuliffe (born 1963), American attorney and First Lady of the Commonwealth of Virginia •
Dorothy McCabe Canadian politician •
Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid (1906–1994), American politician •
Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Australian retired Uniting Church minister and activist •
Dorothy Lonewolf Miller (1920–2003), Blackfoot activist •
Dorothy Moon (born 1958), American politician and businesswoman •
Dorothy Motubatse-Hounkpatin (born 1957), South African politician •
Dorothy Nditi, Kenyan politician •
Dorothy Nichols (1923–2004), American politician •
Dorothy Nyakato, Ugandan politician •
Dorothy Nyembe (1931–1998), South African activist and politician •
Dorothy Kuhn Oko (1896–1971), librarian and labor unionist •
Dorothy Pelanda (born 1956), American politician •
Dorothy Barnes Pelote (1929–2015), American politician •
Dorothy A. Perkins (1926–2010), American politician •
Dorothy Pethick (1881–1970), British suffragette •
Dorothy Pizer (1906–1964), British working-class anti-racist activist, secretary and publishing worker •
Dorothy Pratt (born 1955), Australian politician •
Dorothy Rahman, Bangladeshi politician •
Dorothy Ramodibe (born 1942), South African politician •
Dorothy Robins-Mowry (1921–2021), American diplomat •
Dorothy H. Rose (1920–2005), New York assemblywoman •
Dorothy Rupert (born 1926), American teacher, counselor and politician •
Dorothy M. Sampas, American diplomat •
Dorothy Sample (1911–2002), American politician •
Dorothy Shea, American diplomat •
Dorothy Shephard, Canadian politician •
Dorothy Stafford (1905–1997), American public service administrator and women’s rights activist •
Dorothy Steeves (1891–1978), Canadian politician •
Dorothy C. Stratton (1899–2006), American first director of SPARS •
Dorothy Tangney (1907–1985), Australian politician •
Dorothy Mae Taylor (1928–2000), African-American politician and civil rights activist •
Dorothy Thornhill, Baroness Thornhill (born 1955), British
Liberal Democrats politician and the first directly elected mayor of Watford, Hertfordshire •
Dorothy Thurtle (1890–1973), British women’s rights activist and politician •
Dorothy Tillman (born 1947), American politician and civil rights activist •
Dorothy von Beroldingen (1915–1999), American lawyer, judge, and political figure •
Dorothy Grace Waring (1891–1977), English fascist campaigner and novelist •
Dorothy Wilde (1895–1941), English socialite •
Dorothy Wilken (born 1936), American politician •
Dorothy Woodman (1902–1970), British social activist and journalist •
Dorothy Wyatt (1925–2001), Canadian politician •
Dorothy Zellner (born 1938), American human rights activist and feminist
Science •
Dorothy Adkins (1912–1975), American psychologist •
Dorothy Carolin Bacon (1902–1998), American economist •
Dorothy Bainton, American pathologist •
Dorothy Bannon (1885–1940), English nurse •
Dorothy Jessie Bartlett (1887–1941), British chemist •
Dorothy W. Baruch (1899–1962), American psychologist •
Dorothy Beckett, American scientist •
Dorothy V. M. Bishop (born 1952), British psychologist •
Dorothy Blum (1924–1980), American computer scientist and cryptanalyst •
Dorothy Brady (1903–1977), American mathematician and economist •
Dorothy Burlingham (1891–1979), American psychoanalyst •
Dorothy Adlington Cadbury (1892–1987), British botanist and director of confectionery company
Cadbury's •
Dorothy Carroll (1907–1970), Australian geologist •
Dorothy Cayley, British mycologist •
Dorothy Cheney (1958–2018), American primatologist •
Dorothy H. Crawford, Scottish microbiologist •
Dorothy Cridland (1903–1987), English mechanical engineer •
Dorothy G. Downie (1894–1960), Scottish botanist and forester •
Dorothy Jung Echols (1916–1997), American geologist •
Dorothy Espelage, American psychologist •
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1898–1980), American obstetrician and civil rights activist •
Dorothy Gradden, nuclear engineer from the United Kingdom •
Dorothy Hahn (1876–1950), American organic chemist •
Dorothy Hatfield (1940–2024), British aeronautical engineer •
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British biochemist and winner of
Nobel Prize in Chemistry •
Dorothy Hoffman (1915–1996), American engineer •
Dorothy F. Hollingsworth (1916–1994), British nutritionist and scientist •
Dorothy Evans Holmes (born 1943), American psychoanalytic thinker, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist •
Dorothy M. Horstmann (1911–2001), American medical researcher •
Dorothy Houston Jacobson (1907–1985), American political scientist and educator •
Dorothy Jordan Lloyd (1890–1946), British scientist •
Dorothy Marshall (chemist) (1868–?), British chemist •
Dorothy McClendon (1924–2013), American microbiologist •
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (1975–present), American astronaut •
Dorothy J. Merritts, American geologist •
Dorothy Monekosso, British computer scientist •
Dorothy Klenke Nash (1898–1976), American neurosurgeon •
Dorothy M. Needham (1896–1987), English biochemist •
Dorothy Nelkin (1933–2003), American sociologist of science •
Dorothy Nickerson (1900–1985), American color scientist •
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale (1902–2000), American organic chemist •
Dorothy Norris, English biochemist •
Dorothy Wanja Nyingi, Kenyan ichthyologist •
Dorothy Okello, Ugandan electrical engineer •
Dorothy Olsen (1916–2019), American aircraft pilot and member of the
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II •
Dorothy Parkinson (c. 1855–1925), British amateur chemist •
Dorothy J. Phillips (born 1945), American chemist •
Dorothy Pile (1902–1993), British metallurgist •
Dorothy Riggs Pitelka (1920–1994), American zoologist, protistologist and cancer researcher •
Dorothy Powelson (1916–1988), American microbiologist •
Dorothy Helen Rayner (1912–2003), British geologist •
Dorothy Riddle (born 1944), American psychologist •
Dorothy Robson (1919–1943), English physicist and engineer •
Dorothy Rungeling (1911–2018), Canadian pilot •
Dorothy Ruíz Martínez, Mexican-American engineer •
Dorothy Stuart Russell (1895–1983), British pathologist •
Dorothy P. Schafer, American neuroscientist •
Dorothy Semenow, American chemist and first woman graduate student at Caltech •
Dorothy Shaw (1920–2007), American plant pathologist •
Dorothy Martin Simon (1919–2016), American physical chemist •
Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), aviator and aeronautical engineer •
Dorothy Stein (1931–2019), American psychologist and computer scientist •
Dorothy Stimson (1890–1988), American historian of science •
Dorothy Stowe (1920–2010), American-Canadian environmentalist •
Dorothy Amaury Talbot (1871–1916), British plant collector and ethnographer •
Dorothy Tembo (born 1961), Zambian economist •
Dorothy Tennov (1928–2007), American psychologist •
Dorothy Thursby-Pelham, British scientist and scientific illustrator •
Dorothy Wallace, American mathematician and theorist •
Dorothy Walcott Weeks (1893–1990), American mathematician •
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), mathematician and biochemical theorist •
Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, British microbiologist
Sport •
Dorothy Andrus (1908–1989), American tennis player •
Dorothy Bacon, American lawn and indoor bowls player •
Dorothy Barr, Scottish international lawn bowler •
Dorothy Becker (1900–1989), American surfer and competitive swimmer •
Dorothy Boadle (1885–c. 1942), Argentine tennis player •
Dorothy Brookshaw (1912–1962), Canadian sprinter •
Dorothy Butterfield (1909–1991), British athlete •
Dorothy Cadman-Cadman (1889–1971), British archer •
Dorothy Caley (1920–2012), Canadian figure skater •
Dorothy Cheney (1916–2014), American tennis player •
Dorothy Christ (1925–2020), American baseball player •
Dorothy Colpoys (1894–1980), English-born Irish badminton player •
Dorothy Cook, Canadian baseball player •
Dorothy Cundall (1882–1954), English badminton player •
Dorothy Dalton (1922–1973), American gymnast •
Dorothy Damaschke (1917–2000), American baseball and badminton player •
Dorothy Delasin (born 1980), Filipino-American professional golfer •
Dorothy Dermody (1909–2012), Irish fencer •
Dorothy Dodson (1919–2003), American track and field athlete •
Dorothy Doolittle (born 1946), American marathon runner and athletics coach •
Dorothy Drew (1934–2001), British diver •
Dorothy Ferguson (1923–2003), Canadian baseball player •
Dorothy Franey (1913–2011), American speed skater •
Dorothy Weisel Hack (1910–1963), American tennis player •
Dorothy Hamill (born 1956), American figure skater •
Dorothy Harrell (1924–2011), baseball player •
Dorothy Harrison (born 1950), English swimmer •
Dorothy Hey (1931–2015), British gymnast •
Dorothy Hobson (born 1946), Jamaican cricketer •
Dorothy Holman (1883–1968), British tennis player •
Dorothy Hyman (born 1941), English sprinter •
Dorothy Kamenshek (1925–2010), American baseball player •
Dorothy Kane, Northern Irish lawn bowler •
Dorothy Kirby (1920–2000), American golfer and sportscaster •
Dorothy Head Knode (1925–2015), American tennis player •
Dorothy Kohl, American tennis player •
Dorothy Kovalchick (1925–2020), American baseball player •
Dorothy Kozak (1932–2009), Canadian sprinter •
Dorothy Levitt (1882–1922), British racing driver •
Dorothy Lidstone (born 1938), Canadian archer •
Dorothy Locke (1912–2005), American fencer •
Dorothy Ludwig (born 1979), Canadian sport shooter •
Dorothy Macfarlane (1931–2002), English cricketer •
Dorothy Maguire (1918–1981), baseball player •
Dorothy Manley (1927–2021), British sprinter •
Dorothy McMahan (born 1976), American long distance runner •
Dorothy Montgomery (1924–2009), American baseball player •
Dorothy Morkis (born 1942), American equestrian •
Dorothy Mueller (1925–1985), American baseball player •
Dorothy Naum (1928–2008), American baseball player •
Dorothy O'Neil, American badminton player •
Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915–1995), American diver •
Dorothy Prior (1911–1997), Canadian swimmer •
Dorothy Razzell, British long jumper •
Dorothy Roche (1928–2021), Australian international lawn bowls player •
Dorothy Round (1909–1982), British tennis player •
Dorothy Saunders (1915–2013), English sprinter •
Dorothy Schiller (1916–1992), American swimmer •
Dorothy Schroeder (1928–1996), American baseball player •
Dorothy Scott (born 1957), Jamaican long jumper •
Dorothy Scouler (1910–1972), British athlete and world record holder •
Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897–1953), English tennis player •
Dorothy Shirley (born 1939), British higher jumper •
Dorothy Stanley-Turner (1916–1995), British racing driver •
Dorothy Stevenson, Australian tennis player •
Dorothy Stolze (1923–2003), American baseball player •
Dorothy Surgenor (born 1931), American alpine skier •
Dorothy Swinyard (born 1951), British discus thrower and shot putter •
Dorothy Hayden Truscott (1925–2006), American bridge player •
Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920–2014), British high jumper •
Dorothy Vest (1919–2013), American tennis player •
Dorothy Wall (born 2000), Irish rugby union player •
Dorothy Walton (1909–1981), Canadian badminton player •
Dorothy Weston (1900–1998), Australian tennis player •
Dorothy Wind, baseball player •
Dorothy Wise, American pool player •
Dorothy Workman (1912–1981), American tennis player •
Dorothy Wright (1889–1960), British yacht racer •
Dorothy Yeats (born 1993), Canadian freestyle wrestler
Other •
Dorothy Inez Adams (1904–1967), American anthropologist •
Dorothy Adlow (1901–1964), American art critic and lecturer •
Dorothy Sears Ainsworth (1894–1976), American physical educator •
Dorothy Akerele, British Nigerian musician and hostess •
Dorothy Allison (1924–1999), American psychic •
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963), American physician •
Dorothy Angola (–1689), Black landowner in colonial New York •
Dorothy Anstett (born 1947), American pageant titleholder •
Dorothy Arnold (1885–1910), American socialite who disappeared mysteriously •
Dorothy Atkinson (1929–2016), American historian •
Dorothy Banks (1876–1937), British conchologist, gardener and naturalist •
Dorothy Pelham Beckley (1897–1959), American educator •
Dorothy Benham (born 1955), American beauty pageant winner •
Dorothy A. Bennett (1909–1999), American anthropologist, astronomer, curator, publisher, and author •
Dorothy Benson, Canadian photographer •
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914–1988), American mathematician •
Dorothy V. M. Bishop (born 1952), British psychologist •
Dorothy Blair (1913–1998), English scholar and translator •
Dorothy B. Blaney (1921–1998), American philatelist •
Dorothy Bliss (1916–1987), American invertebrate zoologist •
Dorothy Cameron Bloore (1924–2000), Canadian art dealer and artist •
Dorothy Blount Lamar, American historian and activist •
Dorothy Bohm (1924–2023), German-born British photographer •
Dorothy Borg (1902–1993), American historian •
Dorothy Bradshaigh (1854–1937), British social reformer and writer •
Dorothy Chin Brandt (1946–2025), American judge •
Dorothy Braxton (1927–2014), the first female journalist from New Zealand to visit Antarctica •
Dorothy Brock (1886–1969), British academic and educator •
Dorothy M. Broderick (1929–2011), American librarian •
Dorothy Brooke (1883–1955), British philanthropist •
Dorothy Brunson (1939–2011), African-American broadcaster •
Dorothy Richardson Buell, American educator and nature preservationist •
Dorothy Bullitt (1892–1989), American businesswoman and philanthropist •
Dorothy K. Burnham (1911–2004), Canadian textile scholar, author and museum curator •
Dorothy Byrne, Scottish television producer and college president •
Dorothy Calthorpe, English writer and philanthropist •
Dorothy Cantor, American psychologist •
Dorothy Walworth Carman, American novelist, writer and lecturer •
Dorothy Casterline (1928–2023), American linguist •
Dorothy M. Catts (1896–1961), Australian writer, editor and businesswoman •
Dorothy Cawood (1884–1962), Australian civilian and World War I military nurse •
Dorothy Chacko (1904–1992), American social worker, humanitarian and medical doctor •
Dorothy Kinney Chambers (1901–2001), baptist missionary physician •
Dorothy Charlesworth, archaeologist •
Dorothy Clutterbuck (1880–1951), British occultist •
Dorothy Sue Cobble (born 1949), American historian •
Dorothy Danforth Compton (1895-1974), American philanthropist •
Dorothy Davis Cook (1912–2005), American missionary registered nurse •
Dorothy Cornelius (1918–1992), American registered nurse •
Dorothy Cornish (1870–1945), English educator, suffragist, writer and editor •
Dorothy Crawford (1911–1988), Australian broadcaster •
Dorothy Crisp (1906–1987), British political figure and writer •
Dorothy M. Crosland (1903–1983), American librarian •
Dorothy Custer (1911–2015), American comedian and harmonicist •
Dorothy Daniels (1916–1981), New Zealand ballet teacher and director •
Dorothy Still Danner (1914–2001), American navy nurse and prisoner of war during World War II •
Dorothy Davids (1923–2014), Native American educator and activist •
Dorothy May De Lany (1908–1970), New Zealand hotel worker and trade unionist •
Dorothy DeLay (1917–2002), American violin instructor •
Dorothy Deming, nurse and writer •
Dorothy E. Denning (born 1945), American information security researcher •
Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923–1992), American feminist activist and author •
Dorothy Dodd (1902–1994), first State Archivist and second State Librarian of Florida •
Dorothy Catherine Draper (1807–1901), artist, educator and feminist •
Dorothy Drummond (1928–2018), geography educator •
Dorothy Du Boisson (1919–2013), British codebreaker •
Dorothy Dunn (1902–1993), American art instructor •
Dorothy Dworkin (1889–1976), Canadian nurse and activist •
Dorothy van Dyke Leake (1893–1990), American botanist, artist and educator •
Dorothy Eady (1904–1981), British Egyptologist •
Dorothy Harley Eber (1925–2022), Canadian historian •
Dorothy Nneka Ede, Nigerian entrepreneur and sports enthusiast •
Dorothy Edgington (born 1941), British philosopher •
Dorothy Way Eggan (1901–1965), American anthropologist •
Dorothy Ellicott, Gibraltarian historian and politician •
Dorothy Emmet (1904–2000), British philosopher •
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Mexican academic •
Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon (1891–1991), British socialite, coal industry heiress and singer •
Dorothy Fink, American endocrinologist •
Dorothy Finkelhor (1902–1988), American academic •
Dorothy Fischer (c. 1931–1981), South African heart transplant patient •
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958), American author and social activist •
Dorothy Fletcher (1927–2017), New Zealand historian •
Dorothy Fosdick (1913–1997), American foreign policy expert •
Dorothy L. Freeman, American lawyer •
Dorothy Fuldheim (1893–1989), American journalist and anchor •
Dorothy Galton (1901–1992), British university administrator •
Dorothy Gardiner (1873–1957), British non-fiction writer and historian •
Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford (1892–1967), mother of U. S. President Gerald Ford •
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968), British archaeologist •
Dorothy Geddes (1936–1998), first woman dentist in the United Kingdom •
Dorothy Edna Genders (1892–1978), Australian Anglican deaconess •
Dorothy Ghettuba, Kenyan film and TV entrepreneur •
Dorothy M. Gilford (1919–2014), American statistician •
Dorothy Butler Gilliam (born 1936), American journalist •
Dorothy Goebel (1898–1976), American historian •
Dorothy Goodman (1926–2023), American educator •
Dorothy Goodwin (1914–2007), American educator and politician •
Dorothy Grafly (1896–1980), American journalist and curator •
Dorothy Griffiths (born 1947), British academic and sociologist •
Dorothy Awes Haaland (1918–1996), American lawyer and politician •
Dorothy Habel (born 1950), American historian of Ancient Roman art •
Dorothy Jean Hailes (1926–1988), Australian medical practitioner •
Dorothy Cann Hamilton (1949–2016), American chef •
Dorothy Hammerstein (1899–1987), Australian-born American interior designer and decorator •
D. Antoinette Handy, American flautist and professor •
Dorothy Christian Hare (1876–1967), English physician •
Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886–1946), American dog breeder •
Dorothy Hartley (1893–1985), English social historian, illustrator and author •
Dorothy M. Healy (1914–1990), American English professor and historian •
Dorothy Heathcote (1926–2011), British drama teacher and academic •
Dorothy Henriques-Wells (1926–2018), Jamaican painter and educator •
Dorothy Hill (1907–1997), Australian geologist and paleontologist •
Dorothy Hindman (born 1966), American composer and music educator •
Dorothy A. Hogg (born 1959), twenty-third Surgeon General of the United States Air Force •
Dorothy Hokr (1923–1998), American homemaker and politician •
Dorothy Hollingsworth (1920–2022), American educator •
Dorothy Horrell (born 1951), American educator, university administrator and philanthropy administrator •
Dorothy Hosmer (1911–2008), American photojournalist •
Dorothy Jeakins (1914–1995), American costume designer •
Dorothy Cross Jensen (1906–1972), American archaeologist •
Dorothy Jewson (1884–1964), British teacher, trade union organizer and Labour Party politician •
Dorothy Johansen (1904–1999), American historian •
Dorothy Misener Jurney (1909–2002), American journalist •
Dorothy Kamanga (born 1970), Malawian Supreme Court judge •
Dorothy Kazel (1939–1980), American Ursuline religious sister and missionary to El Salvador •
Dorothy Keur (1904–1989), American cultural anthropologist •
Dorothy J. Killam (c. 1900–1965), American-born Canadian philanthropist •
Dorothy King, American archaeologist and historian •
Dorothy Kisaka (born 1964), Ugandan lawyer and corporate executive •
Dorothy Kitson, London wealthy merchant and the builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk •
Dorothy Knox (1902–1983), Australian headmistress •
Dorothy Y. Ko, American historian •
Dorothy Korber, American journalist •
Dorothy Kosinski (born 1933), American art historian •
Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967), British archaeologist •
Dorothy Larcher, English designer of textiles •
Dorothy Lawrence (1896–1964), English reporter, secretly posed as a man to become a British soldier during World War I •
Dorothy Layne McIntyre (1917–2015), African-American aviator and educator •
Dorothy Leavey (1897–1998), American philanthropist •
Dorothy Leland, American academic administrator •
Dorothy A. Leonard, American professor of business administration •
Dorothy Lichtenstein (1939–2024), American philanthropist •
Dorothy Liddell, British archaeologist •
Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972), American textile designer and weaver •
Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino (1909–2005), Native American teacher •
Dorothy Lowry-Corry (1885–1967), Irish historian and archaeologist •
Dorothy Lyndall (1891–1979), American dancer and dance educator •
Dorothy Macardle (1889–1958), Irish writer and historian •
Dorothy Mackay (1881–1953), British archaeologist •
Dorothy Maijor, wife of Richard Cromwell •
Dorothy Marshall (archaeologist), Scottish archaeologist •
Dorothy Marshall (historian) (1900–1994), English social historian •
Dorothy May Marshall (1902–1961), Australian schoolteacher, war-time welfare worker and public servant •
Dorothy May Meads (1891–1958), British historian •
Dorothy McCoy (1903–2001), American mathematician •
Dorothy McEwen Kildall (1943–2005), American microcomputer industry pioneer •
Dorothy McKibbin (1897–1985), Manhattan Project during World War II •
Dorothy McKnight, American female sports coach and administrator •
Dorothy McMillan (1943–2021), British literary scholar •
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874–1964), American pediatrician •
Dorothy Mengering (1921–2017), mother of David Letterman •
Dorothy Meredith (1906–1986), American artist and educator •
Dorothy Middleton (1909–1999), British geographer and writer •
Dorothy Miell, professor of social psychology •
Dorothy Miles (1931–1993), British poet and activist •
Dorothy Molter (1907–1986), American hermit •
Dorothy Morland, British arts administrator •
Dorothy Moulton Mayer, English soprano, philanthropist, peace activist and biographer •
Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper (1930–2009), Liberian educator and politician •
Dorothy Klenke Nash (1898–1976), American neurosurgeon •
Dorothy Wright Nelson (born 1928), American judge •
Dorothy L. Njeuma (born 1943), Cameroonian academic and politician •
Dorothy Nolte (1924–2005), American writer and family counselor •
Dorothy Norman (1905–1997), American writer, editor, arts patron and social activist •
Dorothy Noyes, American folklorist and ethnologist •
Dorothy Nyswander (1894–1998), American psychologist •
Dorothy O'Grady (897–1985), the first British woman found guilty of treachery in World War II •
Dorothy Ooko, Kenyan activist and technology professional •
Dorothy Owen (1920–2002), English archivist and historian •
Dorothy Paget (1905–1960), British racehorse owner •
Dorothy Binney Palmer (1888–1982), American socialite and world traveler •
Dorothy Pantin (1896–1985), doctor and surgeon •
Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887–1968), American-born social activist, philanthropist and publisher •
Dorothy Pelham (died 1613), English benefactor •
Dorothy Peters (1930–2019), Australian indigenous community leader and artist •
Dorothy Peto (1886–1974), first female police superintendent in the UK •
Dorothy Pickles (1903–1994), British historian and political scientist •
Dorothy Ruth Pirone (1921–1989), American biographer, daughter of Babe Ruth •
Dorothy Pocklington (1934–2024), American Army general •
Dorothy Popenoe (1899–1932), English botanist, archaeologist and scientific illustrator •
Dorothy Price (physician) (1890–1954), Irish doctor •
Dorothy Price (art historian), professor of art history •
Dorothy Price (endocrinologist) (1899–1980), American endocrinologist •
Dorothy Proctor, Canadian author and activist •
Dorothy Purdew (1932–2023), British businesswoman •
Dorothy Quincy (1747–1830), wife of John Hancock •
Dorothy Rabinowitz, American journalist •
Dorothy MacBride Radwanski (1928–2012), British nurse •
Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (1887–1967), British poet and Lady Mayoress of Leeds •
Dorothy Jean Ray (1919–2007), American art historian •
Dorothy M. Reeder, American librarian •
Dorothy E. Reilly (1920–1996), American nurse •
Dorothy Reitman, Canadian philanthropist and activist •
Dorothy Renton (1898–1966), Scottish gardener •
Dorothy Comstock Riley (1924–2004), American judge •
Dorothy Roberts (born 1956), American sociologist •
Dorothy Douglas Robinson Kidder (1917–1995), American philanthropist •
Dorothy Rodgers (1909–1992), American writer, inventor, businesswoman and philanthropist •
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, Canadian educator and film consultant •
Dorothy Rosenman (1900–1991), American advocate for low-cost housing and author •
Dorothy Rowe (1930–2019), Australian psychologist and author •
Dorothy Scharf (1942–2004), British philanthropist •
Dorothy Sciff (1903–1989), American businesswoman who was the owner and publisher of the
New York Post •
Dorothy Schwieder (1933–2014), American historian, biographer and academic •
Dorothy Seymour Mills (1928–2019), American baseball researcher •
Dorothy Shaver (1893–1959), American businesswoman and president of Lord & Taylor •
Dorothy Shea (1941–2024), Australian librarian •
Dorothy Shepard, American designer •
Dorothy G. Shepherd (1916–1992), museum curator and historian •
Dorothy Sheridan (born 1948), British archivist •
Dorothy Sherwood (1908–?), American burlesque performer •
Dorothy Shineberg (1927–2004), Australian historian •
Dorothy M. Skinner (1930–2005), American carcinologist •
Dorothy Allred Solomon, American author and educator •
Dorothy Spiers (1897–1977), English actuary •
Dorothy Stang (1931–2005), Catholic nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur •
Dorothy Stanley (1924–1990), American educator and activist •
Dorothy Hester Stenzel (1910–1991), American aviator and stunt pilot •
Dorothy Sterling (1913–2008), American journalist •
Dorothy Stroud (1910–1997), English museum curator and biographer •
Dorothy Sucher (1933–2010), American journalist •
Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973), British classical scholar •
Dorothy Theomin (1888–1966), New Zealand philanthropist and mountaineer •
Dorothy Ann Thrupp (1779–1847), English psalmist, hymnwriter, translator •
Dorothy Todd, British magazine editor •
Dorothy Trump (1964–2013), English physician •
Dorothy Tuttle (1918–1998), American dancer •
Dorothy Tyner, American judge •
Dorothy Ufot, Nigerian lawyer •
Dorothy Vellenga (1937–1984), American educator •
Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), American numismatist •
Dorothy Warburton (1936–2016), Canadian geneticist •
Dorothy Grace Waring (1891–1977), English fascist campaigner and author •
Dorothy Warren (1905–2008), American writer, photographer and officer in the United States Army •
Dorothy Wedderburn (1925–2012), English sociologist and college head •
Dorothy Neal White (1915–1995), New Zealand librarian, writer and collector •
Dorothy Whitehead (1908–1976), Australian headmistress •
Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1984), English historian •
Dorothy Wiggins (born 1925), American social media influencer •
Dorothy Wills (1911–2007), New Zealand architect •
Dorothy Cowser Yancy (born 1944), American academic •
Dorothy Cavalier Yanik (1928–2015), American artist and educator •
Dorothy Zinberg (1928–2020), American scholar == Disambiguation ==