Dolly (name)
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Dolly is a given name and nickname, often a diminutive of the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores.
People with the name include:
In arts and entertainment[edit]
- Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
- Dolly Allen (1906–1990), English comedian, singer and performer
- Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
- Dolly de Leon (born 1969), Filipino actress
- 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 Martin (born 1944), English pinup model and actress
- Dolly Parton (born 1946), American country musician
- Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
- Dolly Shepherd (1887–1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer
- Dolly Sohi (born 1975), Indian actress
- Dolly Wells (born 1971), English actress and writer
In sports[edit]
- Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), English cricketer nicknamed Dolly
- Dolly Gray (baseball) (1878–1956), baseball pitcher
- Dolly King (1916–1969), American basketball player, one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
- Dolly Stark (1885–1924), baseball shortstop
- Dolly Stark (umpire) (1897–1968), baseball umpire
- Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Other[edit]
- Doyle Brunson (1933–2023), 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 Gee (banker) (died 1966), American banker
- Dolley Madison (1768-1849), First lady, spouse of President James Madison, who saved the Declaration of Independence in a suitcase when the capital was being invaded and set on fire.
- 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
- Dolly Sinatra (1896–1977), mother of Frank Sinatra
Surname[edit]
- Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Trinidad and Tobago politician
See also[edit]
- Dolley, a similarly-spelled given name
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