Nelly (given name)

Nelly, Nela, Nell, and Nellie are female given names, also used as nicknames, which are derived from the names Janelle, Helen, Ellen, Petronella, Chanelle, Cornelia and Eleanor.

People

Nelly (Egyptian entertainer) (Nelly Artin Kalfayan, born 1949), Egyptian entertainer, actress and presenter
Nelly Arcan (1973–2009), Canadian writer
Nellie Bly (1864–1922), American journalist
Nell Carter (1948–2003), American singer and actress
Nellie Farren (1848–1904), English actress and singer
Nelly Furtado (born 1978), Canadian R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and record producer
Nellie Kim (born 1957), Soviet gymnast
Nelly Landry (born 1916), French tennis player
Nella Larsen (1891–1964), American modernist novelist
Nellie McClung (1873–1951), Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist
Nellie McKay, British-born American singer-songwriter, actress and former stand-up comedian
Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian opera soprano
Nelly Olin (born 1941), Minister of Environment in France (2005–07)
Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876–1977), first American woman state governor
Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), German poet and dramatist awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature
Nellie R. Santiago (born 1943), New York state senator
Nellie Stewart (1858–1931), Australian actress and singer
Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson, names used for Ellen Ternan, English actress, mistress of Charles Dickens
Nelly Thüring (1875–1972), Swedish politician and one of the first women elected to the Swedish parliament
Nelly Viennot, French football referee
Nelly Wicky (born 1923), Swiss Labour Party politician and former member of the Swiss National Council

Nelly Dean, in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights
Nellie Oleson, from the Little House on the Prairie children's books and TV series
Nellie Pledge, a fictional character in the Granada Television series Nearest and Dearest, played by Hylda Baker
Nellie Brie, from the film An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
Nellie Gray, ally of The Avenger
Nell Trent or Little Nell, heroine of Charles Dickens' novel The Old Curiosity Shop
Nellie Forbush, heroine of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific
Nellie O'Malley, a character from the American Girl series
Nellie, subject of the 1956 song "Nellie the Elephant" and Nellie the Elephant (TV series)
Nelly, the legal guardian and 'aunt' to Vladimir Tod in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod written by Heather Brewer
Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, known as Nel Tu, a small, good-natured, character in the manga Bleach
Nel Rawlison, in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness
Nell the kitchen wench, in William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors