Dolly (name)
Dolly is a diminutive for the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores
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People, fictional characters, animals and storms with the name include:
People
In arts and entertainment
- Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
- Dolly Buster (born 1969), a Czech porn actress
- Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
- Dolly Dawn (1916–2002), American singer
- Dolly Haas (1910–1994), German-American singer and entertainer; wife of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
- Dolly Hall (born 1960), American film producer
- Dolly Jacobs (born c. 1957), American circus aerialist
- Dolly Martin (born 1944), English pinup model and actress
- Dolly Parton (born 1946), American country musician
- Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
- Dolly Shepherd (1887–1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer
- Dolly Sohi (born 1975), Indian actress
- Dolly Wells (born 1971), English actress and writer
In sport
- Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), English cricketer, nicknamed Dolly
- William Denton "Dolly" Gray (1878–1956), baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911
- William "Dolly" King (1916–1969), American basketball player; one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
- Albert D. "Dolly" Stark (1897–1968), baseball umpire from 1928–1935, 1937–1940
- Monroe Randolph "Dolly" Stark (1885–1924), baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1909 to 1912
- Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1952 to 1954
Fictional characters
- One of Bonnie's toys in the film Toy Story 3
- One of the cartoons Jimmy sees in Re-Animated and Golly’s twin sister
Other
- Doyle Brunson (born 1933), professional poker player known as "Dolly" or "Texas Dolly"
- Derek Draper (born 1967), British former lobbyist, nicknamed Dolly
- Robert 'Dolly' Dunn (1941–2009), Australian paedophile
- Dolly Peel (1782–1857), celebrity in Victorian England; fishwife, smuggler, nurse and poet
- Dolly Pentreath (died 1777), probably the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904
- Dolly Sinatra (1896–1977), mother of Frank Sinatra
Animals
- Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from differentiated cells
Fictional
- In the film Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, short for Dolichorhynchops
- One of the characters from 101 Dalmatian Street
- One of the cartoon characters Jimmy sees in Re-Animated
Tropical storms
Various cyclones, typhoons and storms were named "Dolly".
See also
- Dolley, a similarly-spelled given name
- Doily, an ornamental mat
- Dollie (disambiguation)
- Trolley (disambiguation), various vehicles
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