Phyllis

For other uses, see Phyllis (disambiguation).

Phyllis is a feminine given name which may refer to:

People

• Phyllis Bartholomew (born 1914), English long jumper
• Phyllis Drummond Bethune (née Sharpe, 1899–1982), New Zealand artist
• Phyllis Calvert (1915–2002), British actress
• Phyllis M. Christian (born 1956), Ghanaian lawyer and consultant
• Phyllis Coates (born 1927), American actress
• Phyllis Diller (1917–2012), American actress/comedian
• Phyllis Dillon (1944–2004), Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer
• Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), Canadian writer
• Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), American jazz singer
• Phylis Lee Isley, birth name of Jennifer Jones (1919–2009), American film actress
• P. D. James (1920–2014), English crime fiction writer
• Phyllis Newman (born 1933), American actress
• Phyllis Pearsall (1906–1996), British creator of the A to Z map of London
• Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016), American writer
• Phyllis Smith (born 1951), American actress
• Phyllis Taloikwai, senior government official in the Solomon Islands
• Phyllis Thaxter (1919–2012), American actress
• Phyllis The Housewife, a female wrestler from Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008), writer

Mythological and legendary characters

• a title character of the tale of Phyllis and Aristotle in medieval legend
• Phyllis (mythology), wife of Demophon, king of Athens
• Phyllis (river god)
• Phyllis, consort of Ereuthalion
• Phyllis, mother of the Trojan Alcaeus

Fictional characters

• Phyllis Dietrichson, in James Cain's novella Double Indemnity and two film adaptations
• Phyllis Lindstrom, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis (TV series), a 1970s TV spin-off
• Phyllis Summers Newman, on The Young and the Restless
• Phyllis Vance (née Lapin), on The Office played by Phyllis Smith
• Phyllis (Passions), a minor character on Passions