Dolly (name)
Dolly is a given name and nickname, often a diminutive of the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores. Sometimes it is given to people surnamed "Gray", owing to the music hall song "Goodbye, Dolly Gray"; this particularly commonly occurs amongst sailors.
People with the name include:
In arts and entertainment
- Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
- Dolly Allen, English comedian, singer and performer
- Dolly Buster, professional name of Czech-German former porn actress, filmmaker and author Nora Baumberger
- Dolly Collins, British musician
- Dolly Dawn, American singer Theresa Maria Stabile
- Dolly de Leon, Filipino actress
- Dolly Haas, German-American singer and entertainer; wife of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
- Dolly Hall, American film producer
- Dolly Jacobs, American circus aerialist
- Dolly Martin, English pinup model and actress
- Dolly Parton, American country musician
- Dolly Rathebe, South African musician and actress
- Dolly Shepherd, English parachutist and fairground entertainer
- Dolly Sohi, Indian actress
- Dolly Wells, English actress and writer
Fictional characters
- Dolly Gallagher Levi, fictional character and the protagonist of the 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers
- Dolly Singh, fictional character and the protagonist of the Disney sitcom ''Best of Luck Nikki''
In sports
- Basil D'Oliveira, English cricketer nicknamed Dolly
- Dolly Gray (baseball), baseball pitcher
- Willie "Dolly" Gray, baseball center fielder
- Dolly King, American basketball player, one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
- Dolly Stark, baseball shortstop
- Dolly Stark (umpire), baseball umpire
- Dolly Vanderlip, pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Other
- Doyle Brunson, American professional poker player known as "Dolly" or "Texas Dolly"
- Derek Draper, British former lobbyist, nicknamed Dolly
- Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, Australian paedophile
- Dolly Elizondo, American politician
- Dolly Gee (banker), American banker
- Dolly Henley, American politician
- Dolly Peel, celebrity in Victorian England; fishwife, smuggler, nurse and poet
- Dolly Pentreath, probably the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904
- Dolly Sinatra, mother of Frank Sinatra