Polly
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"Polly" is a nickname for Mary
, which was derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly
. It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.
Mary (given name)
Mary is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם or Miryam.The usual meaning given by various...
, which was derived from another nickname for Mary, Molly
Molly (name)
Molly or Mollie is a pet-name for Mary . It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.-People:*Molly Burnett, American actress and singer...
. It is sometimes used as a name in its own right.
Persons
- Polly AdamsPolly AdamsPolly Adams is an English actress best known for her work on the stage both in England and in the United States, and for her portrayal of Mrs. Brown on the television series Just William. She made her Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed 1975 revival of London Assurance as Grace Harkaway...
, English actress - Polly AdlerPolly AdlerPearl "Polly" Adler was an American madam and author of Russian-Jewish origin.The oldest of nine children of Gertrude Koval and Morris Adler, Polly Adler emigrated to America from Yanow, Russia, near the Polish border at the age of 14 just before World War I. The war stopped her family from...
, Russian born American madam and author - Polly BemisPolly BemisPolly Bemis was a famous Chinese American pioneer woman who lived in Idaho in the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her story became a biographical novel, and was fictionalized in the 1991 film A Thousand Pieces of Gold.-Life:Polly Bemis was born in China...
, Chinese American pioneer - Polly BergenPolly BergenPolly Bergen is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur.-Career:Bergen appeared in many film roles, most notably in the original Cape Fear opposite Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum...
, American singer and actress - Polly BerryPolly BerryPolly Berry, also known as Polly Crockett and Polly Wash , was an enslaved African American woman who on October 3, 1839 filed a freedom suit in St. Louis, Missouri, which she won in 1843 based on having been held illegally as a slave for an extended period of time in the free state of Illinois...
, African-American slave - Polly BradfieldPolly BradfieldPolly Bradfield is a violinist from the New York City free improvisation scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her closest musical associates were Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn. She also played on records by William Parker and Frank Lowe. Her music career ended when she moved to California...
, American violinist - Polly BrownPolly BrownPolly Brown is an English singer. A member of Pickettywitch and Sweet Dreams - and with each group lead singer on a Top Ten hit, respectively "That Same Old Feeling" and "Honey Honey" - Brown had an international solo hit in 1975 with "Up in a Puff of Smoke".-Biography:Brown recorded with...
, English singer - Polly DraperPolly DraperPolly Carey Draper is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. She is renowned for her ensemble role in ABC's hit series Thirtysomething. In 1998, Draper starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code, featuring Gregory Hines which was inspired by her husband Michael...
, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director - Polly DunbarPolly DunbarPolly Dunbar is an author-illustrator. Dunbar is known for her self-illustrated books Dog Blue, Flyaway Katie and Penguin. She is the daughter of children's book writer Joyce Dunbar, whom she worked with to publish the picture book Shoe Baby...
, British author and illustrator - Polly Durant, American cellist
- Polly JamesPolly JamesPolly James is an award winning British actresswith a varied career in theatre, film, television and radio spanning nearly 40 years...
, British actress - Polly Jean Harvey, English singer/songwriter
- Polly Holliday, American actress.
- Polly KlaasPolly KlaasPolly Hannah Klaas was an American murder victim whose case gained national attention. At the age of twelve, she was kidnapped at knife point from her mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California, on October 1, 1993. She was later strangled...
, American murder victim - Polly MaberlyPolly MaberlyPolly Lucinda Maberly is an English actress who graduated from RADA in 1998. She is the older sister of the film and television actress Kate Maberly; she also has a two younger brothers, Jack and Thomas and one older brother Guy.Maberly is best known for her portrayal of the role of Kitty Bennet...
, English actress - Polly MarshallPolly MarshallPolly Marshall played 13 Test matches for the English women's cricket team between 1954 and 1966 ....
, English professional Ladies cricketer - Polly MoranPolly MoranPolly Moran was an American actress and comedian.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moran started out in vaudeville, and widely toured North America, as well as various other locations that included Europe and South Africa...
, American actress and comedian. - Polly PaulusmaPolly PaulusmaPolly Paulusma is an English singer-songwriter. Her first album, Scissors in my Pocket, was largely recorded and produced by herself at her home...
, English singer-songwriter. - Polly PlattPolly PlattMary Marr "Polly" Platt was an American film producer, production designer and screenwriter.-Early life:Platt was born Mary Marr Platt in Fort Sheridan, Illinois on January 29, 1939, later using the name Polly. Her father John was a colonel in the army while her mother Vivian worked in...
, American film producer, production designer and screenwriter - Polly SamsonPolly SamsonPolly Samson is a journalist and writer.-Biography:Samson was born to a diplomatic correspondent father and a writer mother of Chinese descent, Esther Cheo Ying, who wrote a memoir, Black Country Girl in Red China, about her time serving as a Major in Mao Zedong's Red Army...
, English journalist and writer - Polly ScattergoodPolly ScattergoodPolly Scattergood is a British singer-songwriter from Colchester, Essex, England, UK. She has been described as ethereal, dark, intense and quirky, while her musical style has been described as "early 21st century electro-dance-pop of London proper". Scattergood's debut album, self-titled, was...
, English singer-songwriter - Polly StenhamPolly StenhamPolly Stenham is an award-winning English playwright best known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was only 19 years old.-Background:...
, English playwright - Polly ShannonPolly ShannonPolly Shannon is a Canadian actress.She is best known for her portrayal of Margaret Trudeau in the 2002 miniseries Trudeau, a film about the late Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau.Brioux, Bill . , Canadian Online ExplorerShannon was born in Kingston, Ontario, and raised in Aylmer, Quebec...
, Canadian actress - Polly StocktonPolly StocktonPolly Stockton is a British event rider. Polly is a member of the British World Class Performance squad.Polly Stockton has enjoyed a successful career as a Young Rider, she won the team gold at the 1994 European...
, British event rider - Polly TealePolly TealePolly Teale is a British writer and theatre director best known for her work with the Shared Experience theatre company, where she is joint artistic director alongside Nancy Meckler. Teale won the prize for best director at the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her staging of After Mrs...
, British writer and theater director - Polly ToynbeePolly ToynbeePolly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer, and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She is a social democrat and broadly supports the Labour Party, while urging it in many areas to be more left-wing...
, British journalist and writer - Polly UmrigarPolly UmrigarPahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bombay, and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowling occasional medium pace and off spin. He captained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to...
, Indian cricketer - Polly WalkerPolly WalkerPolly Walker is an English actress.- Early life :Walker was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Her first school was Silverdale Preparatory West Acton, London. At 16, Walker graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but had to abandon dancing after a leg...
, English actress - Polly YoungPolly YoungPolly Young was an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. She was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the 17th and 18th centuries...
, English soprano, composer and keyboard player
Music
- "A Song for Polly", a song by KrackerKrackerKracker were an American rock band active in the 1970s.-Biography:The band was originally formed in South Florida in 1970, but moved to Chicago in April 1971, where they were introduced to producer Jimmy Miller. With Miller, they recorded their first album, La Familia, which was released on ABC...
- "Collage for Polly", a song by Joe Farrell from the album Joe Farrell QuartetJoe Farrell QuartetJoe Farrell Quartet is a jazz album by Joe Farrell on the CTI Records label. It was recorded at the Van Gelder Studio on 1 and 2 July 1970. This album was re-released as Song of the Wind in 1974 with different cover art.-Side one:...
- "Polly" (song)Polly (song)"Polly" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. It is the sixth song on its 1991 album, Nevermind.-History:Dating back to at least 1988, "Polly" stands alongside "About a Girl" as one of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain's earliest forays into unfiltered pop songwriting. It was originally titled...
, a song by NirvanaNirvana (band)Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987... - "Polly" (The Kinks song)Polly (The Kinks song)Polly, sometimes mislabeled as Pretty Polly, is a song by British rock group The Kinks. It was released as the B-side of their 1968 single "Wonderboy". "Wonderboy" peaked at number 36 on the UK Singles Charts, becoming the first major Kinks single since 1964 to be a relative commercial failure...
, a song by The KinksThe KinksThe Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a... - "Polly Wolly DoodlePolly Wolly Doodle"Polly Wolly Doodle" is a song first published in a Harvard student songbook in 1880."Polly Wolly Doodle" appears in the existing manuscript for Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years exactly as it is used in the published version. It was not mentioned in any of the Pioneer Girl...
", a popular children's song - "Sweet Polly OliverSweet Polly OliverSweet Polly Oliver is an English folk song , dating from at least 1840. It is also known as "Pretty Polly Oliver".It is one of the best known of a number of folk songs describing woman disguising themselves as men to join the army....
", an English folksong - Polly (musical), a 1929 Broadway musical
- "Pretty Polly" (ballad)Pretty Polly (ballad)"Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places....
, a murder ballad - "The Rebel Soldier", a Waylon Jennings song about a girl named Polly
- Polly (opera), an opera with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch, the sequel to Gay's The Beggar's Opera
Fiction
- Polly Peachum, a character in the play The Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
by Bertolt Brecht - Polly (novel)Polly (novel)Polly is a chick lit novel by Freya North about a young Englishwoman - the eponymous Polly - who, as a teacher, takes part in an exchange scheme that brings her to Vermont for a year. There, she fits in quite nicely and starts an affair with one of her male colleagues although she has left a...
, a novel by Freya North - Polly: A NovelPolly: A NovelPolly: A Novel is a first novel by Amy Bryant, published in 2006 by Harper Perennial .It is about a young girl in the 1980s hard core punk scene in Washington DC. Polly tries to sort out her life with her dysfunctional family and her complicated relationships....
, a novel by Amy Bryant - Polly Perks, the main character in Terry Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment
- Polly Spark, a fictional character in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart TypingJumpStart TypingJumpStart Typing is a personal computer game intended to teach typing skills to kids aged seven to ten. The game seems to be set in the same "universe" as JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain....
educational software series - Along Came PollyAlong Came PollyAlong Came Polly is a 2004 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg, starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston in the lead roles.-Plot:...
, film with character Polly Prince - Polly (Doctor Who)Polly (Doctor Who)Polly is a fictional character played by Anneke Wills in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman from the year 1966, she was a companion of the First and Second Doctors and a regular in the programme from 1966 to 1967.-Character history:Polly first...
, a fictional character in Doctor Who - Polly (1989 film), a television musical adaptation of the book Pollyanna, starring Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad
- Aunt Polly, a character in Tom Sawyer]]
- Polly PlummerPolly PlummerPolly Plummer is a major fictional character from C. S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. She appears in two of the seven books: The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle.-The Magician's Nephew:...
, a main character in the novel The Magician's Nephew]] by C. S. Lewis - Polly Sherman, the waitress in the British Sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by Connie BoothConnie BoothConstance "Connie" Booth is an American-born writer and actress, known for appearances on British television and particularly for her portrayal of Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s television show Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese.-Biography:Booth's father was a...
- Polly Garter, a character in the play for voices Under Milk WoodUnder Milk WoodUnder Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, adapted later as a stage play. A movie version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released during 1972....
by Dylan Thomas - The History of Mr Polly, a novel by H. G. Wells
- Polly (Underdog), a character in Underdog
- Polly (John Gay opera)Polly (John Gay opera)Polly is an opera by with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is a sequel to Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Due to censorship, the opera was not performed in Gay's lifetime. It had its world premiere on June 19, 1777 at the Haymarket Theatre in London...
, a play by John Gay - PollyannaPollyannaPollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same optimistic outlook. The book was such a success, that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna...
, a 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter - Polly Churchill, a main character in the 2010 two-part novel Blackout/All ClearBlackout/All ClearBlackout and All Clear are the two volumes that comprise a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. Blackout was published February 2, 2010 by Spectra. The second part, the conclusion All Clear, was released as a separate book on October 19, 2010...
by Connie Willis
Other
- A stereotypical parrotParrotParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...
is often called Polly - Polly (robot)Polly (robot)Polly was a robot created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Ian Horswill for his PhD and published in 1993 as a technical report....
, an early vision-based mobile robot - "Polly put the kettle onPolly Put the Kettle On"Polly Put the Kettle On" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7899.-Lyrics:Common modern versions include:In middle-class families in the mid-eighteenth century "Sukey" was equivalent to "Susan" and Polly was a pet-form of Mary.The nursery rhyme is...
", nursery rhyme with Polly as the subject - Polly PocketPolly PocketPolly Pocket is a toy line of dolls and accessories. The name comes from the fact that many of the original Polly Pocket dolls came in pocket-size cases. The current Fashion Polly dolls sold by Mattel differ significantly from those originally sold by Bluebird Toys. The original Bluebird dolls...
, popular children's toy, mostly played with by young girls - Polly (peanut)Polly (peanut)Polly is a series of peanut based snacks made by KiMs Norge, a subsidiary of the Orkla Group, sold throughout Norway. In addition to the traditional peanut products, other producs include cashewnuts, chilinuts in addition to a number of mixed producs including various nuts and raisins.Originally...
, a Norwegian peanut snack brand - Polly and MollyPolly and MollyPolly and Molly , two ewes, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time. This is not to be confused with Dolly the Sheep which was the first animal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell where there...
, two genetically engineered sheep - PollyVotePollyVotePollyVote is the name of a website and its private prediction model operated by several professors of political science and other academics which, during fall 2008, provided a daily prediction related to the 2008 United States Presidential Election. The specific outcome it predicts is the...
, a website that forecasts political elections - Polly (candy), a chocolate candy made by the Finnish-Swedish candy company CloettaFazer ABCloettaFazer ABCloetta Fazer was a Finnish-Swedish company created in 2000 after the Swedish candy company Cloetta was merged with the Finnish Fazer corporation's candy manufacturing division. Cloetta Fazer was Scandinavia's leading candy company and had production facilities in both Finland and Sweden...
- "Polly Had A Dolly", nursery rhyme about Polly and her doll, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919