Polly

For other uses, see Polly (disambiguation).

Polly is a nickname for Mary, and is derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly. It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.

Women

• Polly Adams (born 1939), English actress
• Polly Adler (1900-1962), Russian-born American madam and author
• Polly Baca (born 1941), American politician
• Polly Bemis (1853-1933), Chinese-American pioneer
• Polly Bergen (born 1930), American actress and singer
• Polly Berry (c. 1818–c. 1870–1880), African-American slave who successfully sued for her freedom and that of her daughter
• Polly Borland (born 1959), Australian photographer
• Polly Bradfield, American violinist
• Polly Brown (born 1947), English singer
• Caresse Crosby (1891-1970), nicknamed Polly, American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, peace activist and inventor of the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
• Polly Draper (born 1955), American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
• Polly Dunbar, British author and illustrator
• Polly Emery (1875-1958), British actress
• Polly Jean Harvey, English singer/songwriter
• Polly Hill (economist) (1914–2005), British economic historian
• Polly Hill (horticulturist) (1907–2007), American horticulturist
• Polly Holliday (born 1937), American actress
• Polly Horvath (born 1957), Canadian author
• Polly James (born 1941), British actress
• Polly Klaas (1981-1993), American murder victim
• Polly Maberly (born 1976), English actress
• Polly Marshall, English professional cricketer
• Polly Matzinger (born 1947), French immunologist
• Polly Moran (1883-1952), American actress and comedian
• Polly Paulusma, English singer-songwriter
• Polly Perkins (born 1943), British actress, singer and writer
• Polly Platt (1939-2011), American film producer, production designer and screenwriter
• Polly Riley (1926-2002), American amateur golfer
• Polly Rosenbaum (1899-2003), American politician and teacher
• Polly Samson (born 1962), English journalist and writer
• Polly Scattergood (born 1986), English singer-songwriter
• Polly Shackleton (c. 1910–1997), American politician
• Polly Shannon (born 1973), Canadian actress
• Polly Smith (1908-1980), American photographer
• Polly Stenham (born 1986), English playwright
• Polly Stockton (born 1973), British event rider
• Polly Swann (born 1988), British rower and world champion in the women's coxless pairs
• Polly Teale, British writer and theater director
• Polly Toynbee (born 1946), British journalist and writer
• Polly Ward (1912–1987), British singer and actress
• Polly Walker (born 1966), English actress
• Polly Young (1749-1799), English soprano, composer and keyboard player
• Polly Ann Young (1908-1997), American actress, sister of Loretta Young

Men

• Polly Umrigar (1926-2006), Indian cricketer
• Graham Farmer (born 1935), retired Australian rules football player and coach nicknamed Polly
• Bill Perkins (Australian rules footballer) (1920-2009), nicknamed Polly
• Polly Wolfe (1888-1939), American Major League Baseball player

Fictional characters

• Aunt Polly, in the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Polly (Doctor Who), in the Doctor Who series, a companion of the First and Second Doctors
• Polly Becker, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1997-1998)
• Polly Churchill, a main character in the 2010 two-part novel Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
• Polly O'Keefe, protagonist or major character in four Madeleine L'Engle novels
• Polly Peachum, in the play The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
• 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 (Underdog), a character in Underdog

Other

• Polly (robot), an early vision-based mobile robot
• Polly Pocket, a doll in the children's toy line
• Polly and Molly, genetically engineered sheep

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Polly
• All pages with titles containing Polly
• Poly (disambiguation)