Nelly (given name)
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Nelly or Nellie is a female given name and the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional.
- Nelly Arcan is a Canadian writer.
- Nellie Bly was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker; inspired by Around the World in Eighty Days to circle the world in 1889-90.
- Nelly Coneway is a Bulgarian journalist and author.
- Nelly Furtado is a Canadian pop/folk/R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.
- Nelly Landry is a former female tennis player from France.
- Nelly Olin was formerly the Minister of Environment in France (June 2, 2005 - May 15, 2007).
- Nelly Sachs was a German poet and dramatist who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Nelly Viennot is a French football referee.
- Nelly Wicky is a Swiss politician of the Swiss Labour Party and former member of the Swiss National Council.
- Nellie Kim is a former Soviet gymnast.