Dolly

Dolly is often used as the diminutive name of a doll.

Dolly may also refer to:

Tools

• Dolly (tool), a portable anvil
• A variety of wheeled tools, including:
  • Dolly (trailer), for towing behind a vehicle
  • Boat dolly or launching dolly, a device for launching small boats into the water
  • Camera dolly, platform that enables a movie or video camera to move during shots
  • Hand truck, sometimes called a dolly
  • Flatbed trolley, sometimes called a dolly

People

Dolly is often used as the diminutive for the English personal name Dorothy

In arts and entertainment

• Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
• Dolly Buster (born 1969), porn actress
• Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
• 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 Parton (born 1946), American entertainer
• Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
• Dolly Shepherd (1887–1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer

In sport

• Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), 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

In other fields

• 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

In arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Dolly shot, a type of film sequence
• Dolly!, a 1976 television show starring Dolly Parton
• Dolly (TV series), 1987 television show starring Dolly Parton
• In the film Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, short for Dolichorhynchops
• One of Bonnie's toys in the film Toy Story 3

Music

• Dolly (French band)
• Dolly (Japanese band)
• Dolly (Fauré), a collection of duet pieces for piano by Gabriel Fauré
• "Little Dolly Daydream", a song written by English composer Leslie Stuart
• Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Print

• Dolly (magazine), an Australian publication

Other uses

• Doll, in child speech
• Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from differentiated cells
• Tropical Storm Dolly (disambiguation), various cyclones, typhoons and storms
• Dolly's Cay, or Dolly's Rock, Bahamas
• Mephedrone, drug referred to in slang as "dolly" or "dollies"
• Dolly, fanclub of the Korean musical group F-ve Dolls
• Dolly bag, round pouchlike bag, usually made of satin, carried by a bride or bridesmaid in place of a posy

See also

• Dolley (disambiguation)
• Dollie (disambiguation)
• Doily