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

• All pages beginning with "Polly"
• All pages with titles containing "Polly"
• Poly (disambiguation)

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