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Dolly is often used as the diminutive name of a doll.
Dolly may also refer to:
Tools
- Dolly (tool), a portable anvil
- Dolly (trailer), for towing behind a vehicle
- Boat dolly or launching dolly, a device for launching small boats into the water
- Camera dolly, platform that enables a movie or video camera to move during shots
- Hand truck, sometimes called a dolly
People
Dolly is often used as the diminutive for the English personal name Dorothy.
In arts and entertainment
- Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and actress
- Dolly Buster (born 1969), porn actress
- Dolly Collins (1933–1995), British musician
- 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 Parton (born 1946), American entertainer
- Dolly Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
- Dolly Shepherd (1887–1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer
In sport
- Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), cricketer, nicknamed Dolly
- William Denton "Dolly" Gray (1878–1956), baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1909 to 1911
- William "Dolly" King (1916–1969), American basketball player; one of a handful of African Americans to play in the National Basketball League
- Albert D. "Dolly" Stark (1897–1968), baseball umpire from 1928–1935, 1937–1940
- Monroe Randolph "Dolly" Stark (1885–1924), baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1909 to 1912
- Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1952 to 1954
In other fields
- Doyle Brunson (born 1933), 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 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
In arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Dolly shot, a type of film sequence
- Dolly!, a 1976 television show starring Dolly Parton
- Dolly (TV series), 1987 television show starring Dolly Parton
- In the film Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, short for Dolichorhynchops
- One of Bonnie's toys in the film Toy Story 3
Music
- Dolly (French band)
- Dolly (Japanese band)
- Dolly (Fauré), a collection of duet pieces for piano by Gabriel Fauré
- Little Dolly Daydream, a song written by English composer Leslie Stuart
- Dolly (magazine), an Australian publication
Other uses
- Doll, in child speech
- Dolly (sheep), the first mammal cloned from differentiated cells
- Tropical Storm Dolly (disambiguation), various cyclones, typhoons and storms
- Dolly's Cay, or Dolly's Rock, Bahamas
- Mephedrone, drug referred to in sling as "dolly" or "dollies"
- Dolly, fanclub of the Korean musical group F-ve Dolls
See also
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