Dolly is a given name and nickname, often a diminutive of the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores. Sometimes it is given to people surnamed "Gray" (including the baseball players Dolly Gray and Willie "Dolly" Gray), owing to the music hall song "Goodbye, Dolly Gray"; this particularly commonly occurs amongst sailors.
People with the name include:
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In arts and entertainment
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 (1946–2026), American country musician
Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
Dolly Shepherd (1886–1983), born Elizabeth Shepherd; English parachutist and fairground entertainer
Dolly Sohi (born 1975), Indian actress
Dolly Wells (born 1971), English actress and writer
Fictional characters
Dolly Gallagher Levi, fictional character and the protagonist of the plays The Merchant of Yonkers and Hello Dolly
Dolly (character), from The Story of Tracy Beaker
In sports
Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), English cricketer nicknamed Dolly
Dolly Gray (baseball) (1878–1956), baseball pitcher
Willie "Dolly" Gray (fl. 1920–1937), baseball center fielder
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"
Dolly Dastoor (born 1969), Canadian clinical psychologist and Zoroastrian leader
Derek Draper (born 1967), British former lobbyist, nicknamed Dolly
Robert 'Dolly' Dunn (1941–2009), Australian paedophile
Dolly Elizondo, American politician
Amy "Dolly" Everett (2003–2018), Australian cyberbullying victim who took her life
Dolly Gee (banker) (died 1966), American banker
Dolly Henley, American politician
Dolly Peel (1782–1857), celebrity in Victorian England; fishwife, smuggler, nurse and poet
Dolly Pentreath (died 1777), likely the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904
Dolly Sinatra (1896–1977), mother of Frank Sinatra