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
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