Polly

"Polly" is a nickname, and often a name in its own right, for girls, which was derived from the name Molly. In the 18th and 19th centuries in New England it was a common nickname for Mary.

Persons

• Polly Adams, English actress
• Polly Adler, Russian born American madam and author
• Polly Bemis, Chinese American pioneer
• Polly Bergen, American singer and actress
• Polly Berry, African-American slave
• Polly Bradfield, American violinist
• Polly Brown, English singer
• Polly Draper, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
• Polly Dunbar, British author and illustrator
• Polly James, British actress
• Polly Jean Harvey, English singer/songwriter
• Polly Holliday, American actress.
• Polly Klaas, American murder victim
• Polly Maberly, English actress
• Polly Marshall, English professional Ladies Cricket player
• Polly Moran, American actress and comedian.
• Polly Paulusma, English singer-songwriter.
• Polly Platt, American film producer, production designer and screenwriter
• Polly Samson, English journalist and writer
• Polly Scattergood, English singer-songwriter
• Polly Stenham, English playwright.
• Polly Shannon, Canadian actress.
• Polly Stockton, British event rider
• Polly Teale, British writer and theatre director
• Polly Toynbee, British journalist and writer
• Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer.
• Polly Walker,English actress.
• Polly Young, English soprano, composer and keyboard player

Music

• "A song for Polly", a song by Kracker
• "Collage for Polly", a song by Joe Farrell from the album Joe Farrell Quartet
• "Polly", a song by Nirvana
• "Polly", a song by the Kinks
• "Polly Wolly Doodle", a popular children's song
• "Sweet Polly Oliver", an English folksong
• "Polly", a 1929 Broadway musical
• "Pretty Polly", a murder ballad

Fiction

• Polly (novel), a novel by Freya North
• Polly: A Novel, a novel by Amy Bryant
• Polly Perks, the main character in Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment
• Polly Spark, a fictional character in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain
• Along Came Polly, film with character Polly Prince
• Polly (Doctor Who), a fictional character in Doctor Who
• Polly (1989 film), a television musical adaptation of the book Pollyanna, starring Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad
• Aunt Polly, a character in Tom Sawyer
• Polly Plummer, a main character in the novel, The Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis
• Polly Sherman, The waitress in the British Sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie Booth
• Polly Garter, a character in the play for voices Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Other

• A stereotypical parrot is often called Polly
• Polly (robot), an early vision-based mobile robot
• "Polly put the kettle on", nursery rhyme with Polly as the subject
• Polly Pocket, popular children's toy, mostly played with by young girls
• Polly (peanut), a Norwegian peanut snack brand
• Polly and Molly were two genetically engineered sheep
• PollyVote, a website that forecasts political elections