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*[[Polly Bergen]], a singer and actress |
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*[[Polly Klaas]], a murder victim |
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===Music=== |
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Revision as of 06:04, 18 March 2009
"Polly" is a nickname, and often a name in its own right, for girls, which was derived from the name Molly. In 18th and 19th Century New England it was a common nickname for Mary.
Persons
- Polly Bergen, a singer and actress
- Polly Klaas, a murder victim
- Polly Marshall, worlds worst Snowboarder
Music
- "Polly" (song), a song by Nirvana
- Polly (Kinks song), a song by the Kinks
- "Polly Wolly Doodle", a popular children's song
- "Sweet Polly Oliver", an English folksong
- Polly (musical), a 1929 Broadway musical
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
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