People
- Dolly Parton (born 1946), American entertainer
- Dolly Ahluwalia, Indian costume designer and 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 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 Rathebe (1928–2004), South African musician and actress
- Dolly Shepherd (1887-1983), English parachutist and fairground entertainer
- Dolly Vanderlip (born 1937), a pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1952 to 1954
- Doyle Brunson (born 1933), professional poker player known as "Dolly" or "Texas Dolly"
- Dolly Buster (born 1969), porn actress
- nickname of Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), cricketer
- nickname of Derek Draper (born 1967), British former lobbyist
- Robert 'Dolly' Dunn (1941–2009), Australian paedophile
- 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
- Monroe Randolph Dolly Stark (1885-1924), baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Naps and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1909 to 1912
Read more about this topic: Dolly
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegated power of course conduces to a better understanding between them. Moreover, I ought not to omit to mention as a useful result of my journeying that I am to visit a great many expositions and fairs, and that the curiosity to see the President will certainly increase the box receipts and tend to rescue many commendable enterprises from financial disaster.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)