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| Molly |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Origin: |
English/Irish |
| Meaning: |
the perfect one diminutive form of mary |
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Molly is a female nickname, once a pet-name for Mary or Margaret, and now more commonly a name in its own right. Notables often known just by the first name of Molly include: * Molly Hart, a French actress
- Molly McGee, fictional character in the Fibber McGee and Molly radio comedy
- Molly Bloom, fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce
- Molly, the Mail Lady, character on the television show Sesame Street
- Molly, genetically engineered sheep
- Molly O'Reilly, the sometime girlfriend of magician Timothy Hunter in the Vertigo comic book series The Books of Magic.
- Molly Weasley, a character in the Harry Potter series, played by Julie Walters in the films
- Alexander Wood (merchant), nicknamed "Molly Wood" for his involvement in a gay sex scandal in 1810
- Molly Ringwald, American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her involvement in The Brat Pack in the 1980s
- Margaret Brown, a survivor of the RMS Titanic, who was nicknamed "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" but was never actually known as Molly in her lifetime
- Molly Pitcher, a woman who brought water to soldiers and took her fallen husband's post during the American Revolutionary War
- Molly Monday, fictional character in the film Dream for an Insomniac.
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