Nanette

Nanette is a feminine given name. By 2013, the name was considered to be on the verge of extinction in the United States; it had been among the top 1000 baby names until 1977, and had reached a peak in usage in 1956.

Notable people with the name include:

• Nanette Barragán (born 1976), American attorney and politician
• Nanette le Besnerais (1896–1981), French tennis player
• Nanette Bordeaux (1911–1956), Canadian-born American actress
• Nanette Burstein (born 1970), American film and television director
• Nanette Carter (born 1954), American artist
• Nanette Salomons Cohen (1764–1833), grandmother of Karl Marx
• Nanette Cameron (1927–2023), New Zealand interior designer and educator
• Nanette Comstock (1866–1942), American actress
• Nanette M. DeRenzi, United States Navy admiral
• Nanette "Nan" Doak-Davis (born 1962), American runner
• Nanette Duncan (born 1947), Australian swimmer
• Nanette Fabray (1920–2018), American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and activist
• Nanette Gartrell, American psychiatrist and writer
• Nanette Guilford (1903–1990), American opera singer
• Nanette Hansen, American journalist
• Nanette Hanson (1941–1967), British teacher and Albert Medal recipient
• Nanette Hassall (born 1947), Australian dancer
• Nanette Inventor (born 1954), Filipino comedian, actress, singer, composer and writer
• Nannette Johnston (1782–18??), British actress
• Nanette Kay Laughrey (born 1946), American judge
• Nanette Kaulla (1812–1872)
• Nanette Blitz Konig (born 1929), Holocaust survivor
• Nanette L. Laitman (1924–2020), American art collector and philanthropist
• Nanette Lepore (born 1964), American fashion designer
• Nanette Maxine, American singer
• Nanette McGuinness, American soprano and literary translator
• Nanette Milne (born 1942), Scottish politician
• Nanette Newman (born 1934), English actress and writer
• Nanette Rainone (1942–2016), American reporter and radio programmer
• Nanette Schechner (1804–1860), German operatic soprano
• Nanette Schutte (born 1962), Dutch tennis player
• Nanette Thomas (born 1956), Sierra Leonean politician
• Nanette "Nan" Stacy Waddy (1915–2015), Australian psychiatrist
• Nanette Wenger (born 1930), American clinical cardiologist
• Nanette Workman (born 1945), American singer-songwriter, actress and writer

Other uses

• List of storms named Nanette
• Nanette (show), stand-up act by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby
• "Nanette: An Aside", a short story by Willa Cather
• No, No, Nanette, 1924 musical comedy
  • No, No, Nanette (1930 film)
  • No, No, Nanette (1940 film)

See also

• 5852 Nanette, main-belt asteroid
• Nanetti
• Hilda Nanette Blanche Praeger Killby, British geneticist