Sally (name)

Sally is an English language feminine given name. The name originated as a pet name for Sarah, but has since become used independently. The name peaked in popularity in the U.S. in 1939, when it was ranked 52nd in popularity, but has since become an uncommon name.

People

Sally Field is among the most famous people named Sally

Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut

Actress Sally Kellerman

• Sally Armstrong (journalist) (born 1943), Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist
• Sally Anne Bowman (1987–2005), British murder victim
• Sally Boyden (cyclist) (born 1967), British track and road racing cyclist
• Sally Boyden (singer) (born 1966), Australian singer and actor
• Sally Carmen (born 1982), British actress
• Sally Davies (artist) (born 1956), Canadian painter and photographer, based in New York City
• Sally Davies (doctor) (born 1949), British doctor and government health advisor
• Sally Deweese (born 1824), American girl who became a mother at 10 years of age
• Sally Douglas (1941–2001), British actress
• Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (1827-1896), American socialite
• Sally Dynevor (born 1963), British actress
• Sally Field (born 1946), American actress
• Sally Gunnell (born 1966), British hurdler
• Sally Hawkins (born 1976), British actress
• Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835), slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, believed to have had six children by him
• Sally James (presenter) (born 1950), British TV presenter
• Sally Kellerman (born 1937), American actress and singer
• Sally Chepyego Kaptich (born 1985), Kenyan distance runner
• Sally Kirkland (born 1941), American actress
• Sally Kohn (born 1977), American political commentator
• Sally Liu (born 1996), Chinese singer and member of South Korean girl group Gugudan
• Sally Ann Matthews, (born 1970), British actress
• Sally Morgan (artist) (born 1951), Australian Aboriginal author, scriptwriter and artist
• Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born 1959), British politician
• Sally Morgan (psychic), British celebrity psychic
• Sally Newmarch (born 1975), Australian Olympic rower
• Sally Jessy Raphael (born 1935), host of the American talk show Sally
• Sally Pearson (born 1986), Australian track and field athlete
• Sally Priesand (born 1946), America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary
• Sally Rand (1904-1979), American burlesque performer
• Sally Ride (1951–2012), American physicist and astronaut
• Sally Salminen (1906–1976), Finnish writer
• Sally Smith (disambiguation)
• Sally Struthers (born 1948), American actress and spokeswoman
• Sally Ann Triplett (born 1962), British actress and singer
• Sally Wister (1761–1804), American diarist

Fictional characters

• The title character of Sally the Witch, a Japanese manga and anime series
• Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas), in The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Princess Sally Acorn, from the American Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and comic book
• Sally Albright, a title character from When Harry Met Sally..., a 1989 American romantic comedy film
• The title character of Sally Bollywood: Super Detective, a 2009 cartoon series
• Sally Bowles, a cabaret singer in Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and the musical Cabaret
• Sally Brown, Charlie Brown's little sister
• Sally Carrera, a Porsche 911 Carrera in the Pixar film Cars
• Sally Day, a character from the 1986 film Demons 2
• Sally Fletcher, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
• The title character of Sally Forth (syndicated strip), a comic strip
• The title character of Sally Forth (Wally Wood) (1968–1974), a comic strip created by Wally Wood
• Sally Jackson, the mortal mother of demigod Percy Jackson in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus
• Sally Lockhart, in a series of books by Philip Pullman
• Sally Metzner, a character from the 1997 film Jack Frost
• Sally Simpson, from the musical Tommy
• Sally Webster, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Sally (film series), an antisemitic stereotype from the 1910s, played by Ernst Lubitsch