Betty Collette

Betty Elaine Collette (December 5, 1930 – 6 March 1986) was a veterinary pathologist from Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Stephens-Lee High School, earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Morgan State University, and her Ph.D. in bacteriology from Catholic University of America.

Collette was the only African-American pathology researcher at Georgetown University School of Medicine in the 1950s.

Her research focused on hypertension in animals. Later in her career, she was a professor at Howard University.