Tilly (name)
Tilly is a feminine given name or nickname, and a surname. As a female given name or nickname, is generally a variant/diminutive for the Germanic name Matilda.
This name may refer to:
Persons
Given name or nickname
- Tilly Armstrong, British romance novelist
- Tilly Aston, blind Australian writer and teacher, promoter of the rights of the vision-impaired
- Tilly Bagshawe, British writer
- Tilly Bébé, Austrian circus performer
- Tilly Decker, Luxembourgish sprinter
- Tilly Devine, English-born Australian organised crime boss
- Tilly Edinger, German-American paleontologist and the founder of paleoneurology
- Tilly Greene, American romantic fiction author
- Tilly Hirst, New Zealand netball player
- Tilly Keeper, British actress
- Tilly Key, R&B/pop singer from the island of Corsica
- Tilly Losch, Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress, and painter
- Tilly O'Neill-Gordon, Canadian politician
- Tilly Smith, credited with saving about 100 beachgoers by recognising the signs of an approaching tsunami
- Tilly Spiegel, Austrian political activist
- Tilly van der Zwaard, Dutch middle distance runner
- Tilly Walnes, English fashion designer, author and educator
Surname
;Tilly- Charles Tilly, American sociologist
- Friedrich Georg Tilly, mayor of Warsaw from 1799 to 1806
- Jacques Tilly, German sculptor and illustrator
- Jennifer Tilly, American actress and poker player, sister of Meg Tilly
- Louise A. Tilly, American historian
- Meg Tilly, American actress and author, sister of Jennifer Tilly
- Alberto Octavio Tserclaes de Tilly, Spanish general in the War of the Spanish Succession
- Carolus de Tilly, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Monopoli and Bishop of Acerra
- Jacques Louis François Delaistre de Tilly, French general in the Napoleonic Wars
Characters
Given named or nicknamed
- Tilly Evans, on the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Tilly Green, a main character from the TV series Big City Greens
- Tilly Hill, mother of Hank Hill in the animated sitcom King of the Hill
- Tilly Jackson, a Red Dead Redemption 2 character
- Tilly Wellwyn, title character of the play Tilly of Bloomsbury and its film adaptations
- Tilly, a French-speaking puppet from the British children's TV series Tots TV
- Tilly, in the James Bond film Goldfinger
- Tilly, the main character in Raymond Briggs' book and TV film ''The Bear''
Surnamed
- Sylvia Tilly, in ''Star Trek: Discovery''
Other figures
- Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated artificial person used as a virtual actress, and having social media accounts
- Tilikum (orca), sometimes referred to as Tilly, an orca at Sea World Orlando