Polly
Polly is a given name, most often feminine, which originated as a variant of Molly. Polly may also be a short form of names such as Polina, Polona, Pauline, Paula or Paulina.
People
Female
Given name
- PJ Harvey, English singer/songwriter
- Polly Apfelbaum, American contemporary visual artist
- Polly Arnold, British academic
- Polly Baca, American politician
- Polly Bartlett, American serial killer, perhaps fictitious
- Polly Barton, American textile artist
- Polly Bemis, Chinese-American pioneer
- Polly Bennett, American artist
- Polly Berry, also known as Polly Crockett and Polly Wash, African-American slave who successfully sued for her freedom and that of her daughter
- Polly Borland, Australian photographer
- Polly Bradfield, American violinist
- Polly Brown, English singer
- Polly Campion, American politician
- Polly Draper, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
- Polly Dunbar, British author and illustrator
- Polly Emery, British actress
- Polly Gage, namesake of Aunt Polly's Wash Tub
- Polly Granzow, American politician
- Polly Guerin, American writer
- Polly Harrar, British women's rights activist
- Polly Hill (economist), British economic historian
- Polly Holliday, American actress
- Polly Horvath, Canadian author
- Polly Irungu, Kenyan-American photographer and journalist
- Polly James (broadcaster), Welsh radio and television presenter
- Polly James (screenwriter), American screen writer
- Polly Klaas, American teen murder victim
- Polly Maberly, English actress
- Polly Matzinger, French immunologist
- Polly Allen Mellen, American stylist and fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue
- Polly Nelson, American attorney and author
- Polly Pattullo, British author, journalist, editor and publisher
- Polly Paulusma, English singer-songwriter
- Polly Renton, British documentary film maker
- Polly Riley, American amateur golfer
- Polly Samson, English journalist and writer
- Polly Scattergood, English singer-songwriter
- Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
- Pollie Hirst Simpson, English sportswoman, charity organiser and the first agricultural adviser to the National Federation of Women's Institutes
- Polly Smith (inventor),, American costume designer, inventor of the sports bra
- Polly Stenham, English playwright
- Polly Stockton, British event rider
- Polly Swann, British rower and world champion in the women's coxless pairs
- Polly Sy, Filipino mathematician
- Polly Teale, British writer and theater director
- Polly Walker, English actress
- Polly Ann Young, American actress, sister of Loretta Young
- Polly Young, English soprano, composer and keyboard player
Nickname
- Caresse Crosby, American art patron, poet, publisher, peace activist and inventor of the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
- Mary Jefferson Eppes, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson, known as Polly during her childhood
- Mary Ann Nichols, a victim of the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper
- Polly Adams, English actress
- Polly Adler, Russian-born American madam and author
- Polly Bergen, American actress and singer
- Polly Craus, American fencer
- Polly Elwes, British television presenter and actress
- Polly Hill (horticulturist), American horticulturist
- Polly Knipp Hill, American artist
- Polly James, British actress
- Polly Lada-Mocarski, American bookbinder, inventor and rare book scholar
- Lam Po Kuen, also known as Polly Lam, Hong Kong former tennis player
- Polly Marshall, English cricketer
- Polly Moran, American actress and comedian
- Polly Platt, American film producer, production designer and screenwriter
- Polly Powrie, New Zealand sailor
- Polly Rosenbaum, American politician and teacher
- Polly Rowles, American actress
- Polly Shackleton, American politician
- Polly Smith (photographer), American photographer
- Polly Toynbee, British journalist and writer
- Polly Lauder Tunney, American philanthropist and socialite, wife of boxer Gene Tunney
- Mary Woffington, Irish actress and socialite
- Polly Palfrey Woodrow, American tennis player
Male
- Bill Perkins (Australian rules footballer), also known as Polly
- Graham Farmer, Australian rules football player and coach, nicknamed Polly
- Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer
- Polly Wolfe, American Major League Baseball player
Fictional characters
- Alfred Polly, title character of The History of Mr Polly, a novel by H. G. Wells
- Aunt Polly, in the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Aunt Polly, in the novel Pollyanna
- Aunt Polly, in the TV series Something Special
- Cactus Polly, in the American-British children's TV series Oswald
- Polly, a character in the Jaws movie franchise
- Polly, a minor Peanuts character from the special Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown
- Polly Becker, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Polly Chuck, in the anime television series Fables of the Green Forest
- Polly Churchill, a main character in Connie Willis' two-part novel Blackout/All Clear
- Polly Cooper, in the American TV series Riverdale
- Polly Cronin, from 1991 black comedy movie Drop Dead Fred
- Polly Dawson, in the American TV sitcom Soap
- Polly Duncan, Jim Qwilleran's girlfriend in The Cat Who... mystery book series by Lillian Jackson Braun
- Polly Emmerson, in British medical drama Casualty
- Polly Geist, in the simulation role-playing visual novel game Monster Prom
- Polly Gray, née Elizabeth Shelby, a senior member of the principal gangster family featured in the BBC TV series Peaky Blinders
- Polly Maxwell, a character in the American TV miniseries V (1983) and V The Final Battle
- Polly O'Keefe, protagonist or major character in four Madeleine L'Engle novels
- Polly Page, a police constable in British TV series The Bill
- Polly Peachum, in Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera
- Polly Perkins, title character of the 19th-century music hall song "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green"
- Polly Plantar, a main character in the animated series Amphibia
- Polly Plummer, a main character in C. S. Lewis' novel The Magician's Nephew
- Polly Pocket, a main character in the Polly Pocket series
- Polly Prince, title character in the film Along Came Polly, played by Jennifer Aniston
- Polly Reed, a character in the 1981 American satirical black comedy movie S.O.B.
- Polly Urquhart, character in the television show Howards' Way
- Polly (Underdog), full name Sweet Polly Purebread, in the American animated TV series Underdog
- Polly Sherman, waitress in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie Booth
- Polly Wright, in the 1997 French-American fantasy drama movie FairyTale: A True Story
- Polly, in the 1935 American drama film Orchids to You
- Polly the parrot, a character in the 2001 American supernatural parody movie Scary Movie 2
- Polly, the pet parrot of G.I. Joe member Shipwreck from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon series
- Polly (Doctor Who), in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, a companion of the First and Second Doctors
- Polly the Party Fun Fairy, from the book series ''Rainbow Magic''