Polly
"Polly" is a nickname for Mary, which was derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly. It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.
Persons
- Polly Adams, English actress
- Polly Adler, Russian born American madam and author
- Polly Bemis, Chinese American pioneer
- Polly Bergen, American singer and actress
- Polly Berry, African-American slave
- Polly Bradfield, American violinist
- Polly Brown, English singer
- Polly Draper, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
- Polly Dunbar, British author and illustrator
- Polly Durant, American cellist
- Polly James, British actress
- Polly Jean Harvey, English singer/songwriter
- Polly Holliday, American actress.
- Polly Klaas, American murder victim
- Polly Maberly, English actress
- Polly Marshall, English professional Ladies cricketer
- Polly Moran, American actress and comedian.
- Polly Paulusma, English singer-songwriter.
- Polly Platt, American film producer, production designer and screenwriter
- Polly Samson, English journalist and writer
- Polly Scattergood, English singer-songwriter
- Polly Stenham, English playwright
- Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
- Polly Stockton, British event rider
- Polly Teale, British writer and theater director
- Polly Toynbee, British journalist and writer
- Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer
- Polly Walker, English actress
- Polly Young, English soprano, composer and keyboard player
Music
- "A Song for Polly", a song by Kracker
- "Collage for Polly", a song by Joe Farrell from the album Joe Farrell Quartet
- "Polly" (song), a song by Nirvana
- "Polly" (The Kinks song), a song by The Kinks
- "Polly Wolly Doodle", a popular children's song
- "Sweet Polly Oliver", an English folksong
- Polly (musical), a 1929 Broadway musical
- "Pretty Polly" (ballad), a murder ballad
- "The Rebel Soldier", a Waylon Jennings song about a girl named Polly
- Polly (opera), an opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch, the sequel to Gay's The Beggar's Opera
Fiction
- Polly Peachum, a character in the play The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
- Polly (novel), a novel by Freya North
- Polly: A Novel, a novel by Amy Bryant
- Polly Perks, the main character in Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment
- Polly Spark, a fictional character in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart Typing educational software series
- Along Came Polly, film with character Polly Prince
- Polly (Doctor Who), a fictional character in Doctor Who
- Polly (1989 film), a television musical adaptation of the book Pollyanna, starring Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad
- Aunt Polly, a character in Tom Sawyer]]
- Polly Plummer, a main character in the novel The Magician's Nephew]] by C. S. Lewis
- Polly Sherman, the waitress in the British Sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie Booth
- Polly Garter, a character in the play for voices Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
- The History of Mr Polly, a novel by H. G. Wells
- Polly (Underdog), a character in Underdog
- Polly (John Gay opera), a play by John Gay
- Pollyanna, a 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter
- Polly Churchill, a main character in the 2010 two-part novel Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Other
- A stereotypical parrot is often called Polly
- Polly (robot), an early vision-based mobile robot
- "Polly put the kettle on", nursery rhyme with Polly as the subject
- Polly Pocket, popular children's toy, mostly played with by young girls
- Polly (peanut), a Norwegian peanut snack brand
- Polly and Molly, two genetically engineered sheep
- PollyVote, a website that forecasts political elections
- Polly (candy), a chocolate candy made by the Finnish-Swedish candy company CloettaFazer AB
- "Polly Had A Dolly", nursery rhyme about Polly and her doll
- USS Polly (SP-690), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
See also