Dolly (name)

Dolly is a given name and nickname, often a diminutive of the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores.

People with the name include:

In arts and entertainment

 * Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
 * Dolly Allen (1906–1990), English comedian, singer and performer
 * Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
 * Dolly de Leon (born 1969), Filipino actress
 * 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 sports

 * Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), English cricketer nicknamed Dolly
 * Dolly Gray (baseball) (1878–1956), baseball pitcher
 * Dolly King (1916–1969), American basketball player, one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
 * Dolly Stark (1885–1924), baseball shortstop
 * Dolly Stark (umpire) (1897–1968), baseball umpire
 * Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Other

 * Doyle Brunson (1933–2023), American 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 Gee (banker) (died 1966), American banker
 * 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