Nelly (given name)
Nelly, Nela, Nell, and Nellie are female given names, also used as nicknames, which are derived from the names Janelle, Helen, Ellen, Petronella, Chanelle and Cornelia.
People
- Nelly (Egyptian entertainer) (Nelly Artin Kalfayan, born 1949), Egyptian entertainer, actress and presenter
- Nelly Arcan (1973–2009), Canadian writer
- Nellie Bly (1864–1922), American journalist
- Nell Carter (1948–2003), American singer and actress
- Nellie Farren (1848–1904), English actress and singer
- Nelly Furtado (born 1978), Canadian R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and record producer
- Nellie Kim (born 1957), Soviet gymnast
- Nelly Landry (born 1916), French tennis player
- Nella Larsen (1891–1964), American modernist novelist
- 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 R. Santiago (born 1943), New York state senator
- Nellie Stewart (1858–1931), Australian actress and singer
- Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson, names used for Ellen Ternan, English actress, mistress of Charles Dickens
- Nelly Thüring (1875–1972), Swedish politician and one of the first women elected to the Swedish parliament
- 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 Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights
- Nellie Oleson, from the Little House on the Prairie children's books and TV series
- Nellie Pledge, a fictional character in the Granada Television series Nearest and Dearest, played by Hylda Baker
- Nellie Brie, from the film An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
- Nellie Gray, ally of The Avenger
- 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 O'Malley, a character from the American Girl series
- 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
- Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, known as Nel Tu, a small, good-natured, character in the manga Bleach
- Nel Rawlison, in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness
- Nell the kitchen wench, in William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors
See also
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