Nelly (given name)

Nelly (given name)

Nelly, Nela, Nell, and Nellie are female given names, also used as nicknames, which are derived from the names Helen, Ellen, Petronella and Cornelia.

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People

  • Nelly Arcan (1973-2009), Canadian writer
  • Nelly (born 1949), Egyptian entertainer, actress, presenter (Nelly Artin Kalfayan)
  • Nellie Bly (1864-1922), noted American journalist
  • Nell Carter (1948-2003), American singer and actress
  • Nelly Coneway, Bulgarian journalist and author
  • Nellie Farren (1848-1904), English actress and singer
  • Nelly Furtado (born 1978), Canadian pop/folk/R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and record producer
  • Nelly Gaierová, Czech actress
  • Nellie Kim (born 1957), Soviet gymnast
  • Nelly Landry (born 1916), French tennis player
  • Nellie McClung (1873-1951), Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist
  • Nellie McKay, British-born American singer-songwriter, actress and former stand-up comedian
  • Nellie Melba (1861-1931), Australian opera soprano
  • Nelly Olin (born 1941), Minister of Environment in France (2005-07)
  • Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977), first American woman state governor
  • Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), German poet and dramatist awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Nellie Stewart (1858-1931), Australian actress and singer
  • Ellen Lawless Ternan, also known as Nelly Ternan
  • Nelly Viennot, French football referee
  • Nelly Wicky (born 1923), Swiss Labour Party politician and former member of the Swiss National Council

Fictional characters

  • Nelly Dean, in Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights
  • Nellie Oleson, from the Little House on the Prairie children's books and TV series
  • Nellie Brie, from the film An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
  • Nell Trent or Little Nell, heroine of Charles Dickens' novel The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Nellie Forbush, heroine of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific
  • Nellie, subject of the 1956 song "Nellie the Elephant" and Nellie the Elephant (TV series)
  • Nellie Boswell, from the 1980s TV show Bread
  • Nelly, the legal guardian and 'aunt' to Vladimir Tod in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod written by Heather Brewer

Other

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