Nelly (given name)

Nelly and Nellie are female given names, also used as nicknames (sometimes for men), which are derived from the names Helen, Ellen, Petronella, Danielle, Cornelia, Eleanor, Janelle, Chanelle, Penelope or Noelia.

People

Women

  • Nelly (Egyptian entertainer) (Nelly Artin Kalfayan, born 1949), Egyptian entertainer, actress and presenter
  • Nelly Arcan (1973–2009), Canadian writer born Isabelle Fortier
  • Nelly Ben-Or (born 1933), Polish concert pianist and professor
  • Nélida Nelly Beltrán (1925–2007), Argentine actress born Nélida Dodó López Valverde
  • Nelly Blair (1759–1820), later Nelly Smith, sometimes suggested as being Scottish poet Robert Burns' first love (see also Nelly Kilpatrick)
  • Nellie Bly (1864–1922), American journalist
  • Nellie Marie Burns (ca. 1850 – 1897), American actor and poet
  • Ellen Crocker (1872 – 1962) also known as 'Nellie' or 'Nelly', British suffragette
  • Nellie Farren (1848–1904), English actress and singer
  • Nelly Furtado (born 1978), Canadian singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and record producer
  • Nelly Armande Guillerm, birth name of Violette Verdy (1933–2016), French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, dance company director and writer
  • Nelly Karim (born 1974), Egyptian actress, model and ballerina
  • Nellie Kim (born 1957), Soviet gymnast
  • Nelly Kilpatrick, later Nelly Bone (1759–1820), possibly Robert Burns' first love and muse (see also Nelly Blair)
  • Nelly Landry (1916–2010), French tennis player, 1948 French Open champion
  • Nélida Nelly Láinez (1920–2008), Argentine comedic actress
  • Nellie V. Mark (1857–1935), American physician, suffragist
  • Nelly Nichol Marshall (1845–1898), American author
  • Nelly Mazloum (1929-2003), Egyptian actress, choreographer, dancer and dance teacher
  • Nellie McClung (1873–1951), Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist
  • Nellie McKay, British-born American singer-songwriter, actress and former stand-up comedian
  • Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian opera soprano
  • Nelly Olin (born 1941), Minister of Environment in France (2005–07)
  • Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876–1977), first American woman state governor
  • Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), German poet and dramatist awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, born Leonie Sachs
  • Nellie R. Santiago (born 1943), New York state senator
  • Nellie George Stearns (1855–1936), American artist and teacher of art
  • Eleanor Nellie Stewart (1858–1931), Australian actress and singer
  • Nelly Such (born 1992), Hungarian handballer
  • Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson, names used for Ellen Ternan (1839–1914), English actress, mistress of Charles Dickens
  • Nelly Thüring (1875–1972), Swedish politician and one of the first women elected to the Swedish parliament
  • Nelly Viennot (born 1962), French football referee
  • Nelly Walker, birth name of Nella Larsen (1891–1964), American modernist novelist
  • Nelly Wicky (born 1923), Swiss Labour Party politician and former member of the Swiss National Council

Men

  • Nellie King (1928–2010), American baseball player and radio announcer
  • Nelly (born 1974), American rapper and singer

Fictional characters

See also

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