Polly

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Polly is a nickname, often for either Mary or Dorothy, derived from their respective nicknames Molly and Dolly. Polly is sometimes a name in its own right.

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People named or nicknamed Polly

Female

• Polly Adams (born 1939), English actress
• Polly Adler (1900-1962), Russian-born American madam and author
• Polly Arnold, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
• 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), 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
• Mary Jefferson Eppes (1778-1804), a daughter of Thomas Jefferson
• PJ Harvey (born 1969), English singer/songwriter
• 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 murder victim
• Polly Maberly (born 1976), English actress
• Polly Marshall, English professional cricketer
• Polly Matzinger (born 1947), French immunologist
• Polly Allen Mellen (born 1924), former longtime fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue
• Polly Moran (1883-1952), American actress and comedian
• Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, a victim of the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.
• 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 Rowles (1914-2001), American actress
• 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 (horse) rider
• Polly Swann (born 1988), British rower and world champion in the women's coxless pairs
• Polly Teale, British writer and theater director
• Polly Toynbee (born 1946), British journalist and writer
• Polly Lauder Tunney (1907-2008), American philanthropist and socialite, wife of boxer Gene Tunney
• 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

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Fictional characters

• Polly (Doctor Who), in the Doctor Who series, a companion of the First and Second Doctors
• Polly (Underdog), in the animated TV series Underdog
• Aunt Polly, in the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Aunt Polly, in the novel Pollyanna
• Polly Becker, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1997-1998)
• Polly Cooper, in the TV series Riverdale
• Polly Churchill, a main character in Connie Willis' two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010)
• Polly Dawson, a character in the TV sitcom Soap
• Polly O'Keefe, protagonist or major character in four Madeleine L'Engle novels
• Polly Peachum, in Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera
• Polly Perkins, the title character of the 19th-century music hall song Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green
• 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, the pet parrot of G.I.Joe member Shipwreck from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon series

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See also

• All pages beginning with "Polly"
• All pages with a title containing Polly
• Pollyanna (disambiguation)
• Poly (disambiguation)

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