Polly
Polly is a short female name in the Anglo-Saxon language. He is a short form of Pauline , or Paula , a variant is Molly . In its area of distribution, Polly is also the stereotypical name for parrots (" Polly wants a cracker " - "Polly wants a biscuit"). Accordingly, the parrot in Monty Python's sketch “ The parrot is dead ” is also called Polly Parrot .
Name bearer
First name
- Polly Adler (1900–1962), American brothel operator
- Polly Bergen (1930–2014), American actress and singer
- Polly Bradfield , American jazz and improvisation musician
- Polly Draper (* 1955), American actress, screenwriter, director and producer
- Polly Jean Harvey (* 1969), better known as PJ Harvey , British alternative singer and songwriter
- Polly Maria Höfler (1907–1952), French bestselling author
- Polly Holliday (born 1937), American actress
- Polly Horvath (* 1957), North American writer
- Polly Koss (1880–1943), Austrian soubrette and actress
- Polly Maberly (* 1976), British theater and film actress
- Polly Moller , American composer, flautist and improvisation musician
- Polly Moran (1883–1952), American film actress
- Polly Platt (1939–2011), American film producer, costume designer, production designer and screenwriter
- Polly Samson (* 1962), British writer, songwriter and journalist
- Polly Scattergood (* 1986), British singer and composer
- Polly Shannon (* 1973), Canadian actress, screenwriter and film producer
- Polly Tieck (1893–1975), pseudonym of Ilse Ehrenfeld , German journalist
- Polly Toynbee (* 1946), British journalist and civil rights activist
- Polly Walker (born 1966), British film actress
family name
- Alois Beran-Polly (1884–1945), painter, composer and author
- Jean Armor Polly , American librarian
- Veronika Polly (* 1974), Austrian actress
Others
- Polly Pocket , children's toys (plastic dolls for girls)
- Polly and Her Pals , best known comic strip by the illustrator Cliff Sterrett
- Polly's Chapel , Texas