Polly
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.
People named or nicknamed Polly
Female
- 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 (born 1969), English singer/songwriter, usually known as PJ Harvey
- 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 homicide 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 Styrene (1957-2011), Punk musician and lead singer of X-Ray Spex (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said)
- 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
Male
- Graham Farmer (born 1935), retired Australian rules football player and coach
- Bill Perkins (Australian rules footballer) (1920-2009)
- Polly Umrigar (1926-2006), Indian cricketer
- Polly Wolfe (1888-1939), American Major League Baseball player
Fictional characters
- Polly (Doctor Who), in the Doctor Who series, a companion of the First and Second Doctors
- Polly (Underdog), a character in Underdog
- Aunt Polly, in the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Polly Becker, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1997-1998)
- Polly Churchill, a main character in Connie Willis' two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010)
- Polly O'Keefe, protagonist or major character in four Madeleine L'Engle novels
- Polly Peachum, in Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera
- Polly Plummer, a main character in C. S. Lewis' novel The Magician's Nephew
- Polly Prince, the title character in the film Along Came Polly, played by Jennifer Aniston
- Polly Shelby, a senior member of the principal gangster family featured in the BBC TV series Peaky Blinders
- Polly Sherman, the waitress in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie Booth
- Polly Perkins, the title character of the 19th century music hall song Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green
Other uses
- Polly (robot), an early vision-based mobile robot
- Polly and Molly, genetically engineered sheep
- Polly, a song from the grunge band Nirvana
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Polly
- All pages with titles containing Polly
- Poly (disambiguation)
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