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

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  • Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
  • Dolly Allen (1906–1990), English comedian, singer and performer
  • Dolly Buster (born 1969), professional name of Czech-German former porn actress, filmmaker and author Nora Baumberger
  • Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
  • Dolly Dawn (1916–2002), American singer Theresa Maria Stabile
  • 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

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Other

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  • 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

See also

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