Dolly (name)

Dolly is a diminutive for the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores

People, fictional characters, animals and storms with the name include:

People

In arts and entertainment

• Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
• Dolly Buster (born 1969), a Czech porn actress
• Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
• Dolly Dawn (1916–2002), American singer
• Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American singer and entertainer; wife of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
• Dolly Hall (born 1960), American film producer
• Dolly Jacobs (born c. 1957), American circus aerialist
• Dolly Martin (born 1944), English pinup model and actress
• Dolly Parton (born 1946), American country musician
• Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
• Dolly Shepherd (1887–1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer
• Dolly Sohi (born 1975), Indian actress
• Dolly Wells (born 1971), English actress and writer

In sport

• Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), English cricketer, nicknamed Dolly
• William Denton "Dolly" Gray (1878–1956), baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911
• William "Dolly" King (1916–1969), American basketball player; one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
• Albert D. "Dolly" Stark (1897–1968), baseball umpire from 1928–1935, 1937–1940
• Monroe Randolph "Dolly" Stark (1885–1924), baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1909 to 1912
• Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1952 to 1954

Fictional characters

• One of Bonnie's toys in the film Toy Story 3
• One of the cartoons Jimmy sees in Re-Animated and Golly’s twin sister

Other

• Doyle Brunson (born 1933), professional poker player known as "Dolly" or "Texas Dolly"
• Derek Draper (born 1967), British former lobbyist, nicknamed Dolly
• Robert 'Dolly' Dunn (1941–2009), Australian paedophile
• Dolly Peel (1782–1857), celebrity in Victorian England; fishwife, smuggler, nurse and poet
• Dolly Pentreath (died 1777), probably the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904
• Dolly Sinatra (1896–1977), mother of Frank Sinatra

Animals

• Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from differentiated cells

Fictional

• In the film Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, short for Dolichorhynchops
• One of the characters from 101 Dalmatian Street
• One of the cartoon characters Jimmy sees in Re-Animated

Tropical storms

Various cyclones, typhoons and storms were named "Dolly".

Further information: Tropical Storm Dolly

See also

• Dolley, a similarly-spelled given name
• Doily, an ornamental mat
• Dollie (disambiguation)
• Trolley (disambiguation), various vehicles