Folly (disambiguation)

A folly is a decorative building. The term was also once used for a circular plantation or tree ring.

Folly most often also refers to:
 * Foolishness, the lack of wisdom
 * Folly fort, a military fort built on water near a shore

Folly may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Folly (allegory), a common allegorical figure in medieval morality plays and in allegorical artwork through the Renaissance
 * Folly (band), a band from Sussex, New Jersey
 * Folly, an 1886 statue by Edward Onslow Ford
 * Folly, a 1994 novel by Susan Minot

New Zealand

 * Folly Island, New Zealand, in the Campbell Island group

United States

 * Folly, Virginia, an unincorporated community
 * Folly (Staunton, Virginia), a historic plantation house
 * Folly Island, a barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina

Rivers in England

 * Folly Brook, Barnet, London
 * Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Frome, Bristol
 * Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Clun, Shropshire

Other uses

 * Folly (color), a color one-fourth of the way between crimson and rose, closer to crimson than to rose
 * USS Folly (SP-1453), a sailing schooner that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during World War I
 * Yoann Folly (born 1985), French-born Togolese football player