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Polly is a nickname for Mary, and is derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly. It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.

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Female

  • Polly Adams (born 1939), English actress
  • Polly Adler (1900-1962), Russian-born American madam and author
  • Polly Baca (born 1941), American politician
  • Polly Bemis (1853-1933), Chinese-American pioneer
  • Polly Bergen (born 1930), American actress and singer
  • Polly Berry (c. 1818–c. 1870–1880), African-American slave who successfully sued for her freedom and that of her daughter
  • Polly Borland (born 1959), Australian photographer
  • Polly Bradfield, American violinist
  • Polly Brown (born 1947), English singer
  • Caresse Crosby (1891-1970), nicknamed Polly, American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, peace activist and inventor of the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
  • Polly Dixon (1949-present), English Ukulele performer.
  • Polly Draper (born 1955), American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
  • Polly Dunbar, British author and illustrator
  • Polly Emery (1875-1958), British actress
  • Polly Jean Harvey (born 1969), English singer/songwriter, usually known as PJ Harvey
  • Polly Hill (economist) (1914–2005), British economic historian
  • Polly Hill (horticulturist) (1907–2007), American horticulturist
  • Polly Holliday (born 1937), American actress
  • Polly Horvath (born 1957), Canadian author
  • Polly James (born 1941), British actress
  • Polly Klaas (1981-1993), American homicide victim
  • Polly Maberly (born 1976), English actress
  • Polly Marshall, English professional cricketer
  • Polly Matzinger (born 1947), French immunologist
  • Polly Moran (1883-1952), American actress and comedian
  • Polly Paulusma, English singer-songwriter
  • Polly Perkins (born 1943), British actress, singer and writer
  • Polly Platt (1939-2011), American film producer, production designer and screenwriter
  • Polly Riley (1926-2002), American amateur golfer
  • Polly Rosenbaum (1899-2003), American politician and teacher
  • Polly Samson (born 1962), English journalist and writer
  • Polly Scattergood (born 1986), English singer-songwriter
  • Polly Shackleton (c. 1910–1997), American politician
  • Polly Shannon (born 1973), Canadian actress
  • Polly Smith (1908-1980), American photographer
  • Polly Stenham (born 1986), English playwright
  • Polly Stockton (born 1973), British event rider
  • Polly Swann (born 1988), British rower and world champion in the women's coxless pairs
  • Polly Styrene (1957-2011), Punk musician and lead singer of X-Ray Spex (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said)
  • Polly Teale, British writer and theater director
  • Polly Toynbee (born 1946), British journalist and writer
  • Polly Ward (1912–1987), British singer and actress
  • Polly Walker (born 1966), English actress
  • Polly Young (1749-1799), English soprano, composer and keyboard player
  • Polly Ann Young (1908-1997), American actress, sister of Loretta Young

    • Male

  • Graham Farmer (born 1935), retired Australian rules football player and coach
  • Bill Perkins (Australian rules footballer) (1920-2009)
  • Polly Umrigar (1926-2006), Indian cricketer
  • Polly Wolfe (1888-1939), American Major League Baseball player
  • Polly Ramoshaba (born 1983), currently living south africa

    • Fictional characters

  • Polly (Doctor Who), in the Doctor Who series, a companion of the First and Second Doctors
  • Polly (Underdog), a character in Underdog
  • Aunt Polly, in the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Polly Becker, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1997-1998)
  • Polly Churchill, a main character in Connie Willis' two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010)
  • Polly O'Keefe, protagonist or major character in four Madeleine L'Engle novels
  • Polly Peachum, in Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera
  • Polly Plummer, a main character in C. S. Lewis' novel The Magician's Nephew
  • Polly Prince, the title character in the film Along Came Polly, played by Jennifer Aniston
  • Polly Shelby, a senior member of the principal gangster family featured in the BBC TV series Peaky Blinders
  • Polly Sherman, the waitress in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie Booth
  • Polly Perkins, the title character of the 19th century music hall song Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green

    • Polly Cooper, a character in the CW TV series "Riverdale"

    Other uses

  • Polly (robot), an early vision-based mobile robot
  • Polly and Molly, genetically engineered sheep
  • Polly, a song from the grunge band Nirvana

    • References

    Polly Wikipedia
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