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Nelly (given name)

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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.

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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

    • Fictional characters

  • 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)
  • Nellie Boswell, from the 1980s TV show Bread
  • 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

    • References

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