Sally (name)
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Sally is an English language feminine given name. The name originated as a pet name for the Hebrew name Sarah, but has since become used independently. It is also a nickname for Salome and Salimeh, which are especially popular in the Eurasian country Georgia.[1] The name peaked in popularity in the U.S. in 1939, when it was ranked 52nd in popularity.
People
- Sally Armstrong (journalist) (born 1943), Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist
- Sally Barrington, British oncologist and medical researcher
- Sally Anne Bowman (1987–2005), British murder victim
- Sally Boyden (cyclist) (born 1967), British track and road racing cyclist
- Sally Boyden (singer) (born 1966), Australian singer and actor
- Sally Bretton, British actress
- Sally Carr (born 1945), Scottish singer, lead singer of the 1970s pop group Middle of the Road (band)
- Sally Clark (disambiguation)
- Sally Cockburn, Canadian-American mathematician
- Sally Davies (artist) (born 1956), Canadian painter and photographer, based in New York City
- Sally Davies (doctor) (born 1949), British doctor and government health advisor
- Sally Deweese (born 1824), American girl who became a mother at 10 years of age
- Sally Douglas (1941–2001), British actress
- Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (1827–1896), American socialite
- Sally Dynevor (born 1963), British actress
- Sally Field (born 1946), American actress
- Sally Gunnell (born 1966), British hurdler
- Sally Hawkins (born 1976), British actress
- Sally Hemings (c. 1773–1835), slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, believed to have had six children by him
- Sally Ann Howes (1930–2021), English singer and actress
- Sally James (presenter) (born 1950), British TV presenter
- Sally-Anne Jones (1968–2017), British-born terrorist and UN-designated recruiter who is believed to have been killed
- Sally Jones, British journalist
- Sally Kellerman (1937–2022), American actress and singer
- Sally Chepyego Kaptich (born 1985), Kenyan distance runner
- Sally Kirkland (born 1941), American actress
- Sally Kohn (born 1977), American political commentator
- Sally Kosgei, Kenyan politician
- Sally Liu, Chinese singer and member of South Korean girl group Gugudan
- Sally Mann (born 1951), American photographer
- Sally Ann Matthews, (born 1970), British actress
- Sally Milgrim, (born 1898), American fashion designer
- Sally Morgan (artist) (born 1951), Australian Aboriginal author, scriptwriter and artist
- Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born 1959), British politician
- Sally Morgan (psychic), British celebrity psychic
- Sally Newmarch (born 1975), Australian Olympic rower
- Sally Jessy Raphael (born 1935), host of the American talk show Sally
- Sally Pearson (born 1986), Australian track and field athlete
- Sally Phillips (born 1969), British actress
- Sally Poh (1956–1998), Singaporean beautician and robbery-murder victim
- Sally Pressman (born 1981), American actress
- Sally Priesand (born 1946), America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary
- Sally Rand (1904–1979), American burlesque performer
- Sally Ride (1951–2012), American physicist and astronaut
- Sally Ronk (1912–1986), American economist
- Sally Rooney (born 1991), Irish author
- Sally Salminen (1906–1976), Finnish writer
- Sally Seymour (died 1824), American pastry chef and restaurateur
- Sally Shaw (born 1978), Australian cricketer
- Sally Smith (disambiguation)
- Sally Hoyt Spofford (1914–2002), American ornithologist
- Sally Struthers (born 1947), American actress and spokeswoman
- Sally Ann Triplett (born 1962), British actress and singer
- Sally Wister (1761–1804), American diarist
- Sally Walker (born 2003), American model, actress, and model
- Sally Yates (born 1960), American lawyer and former acting U.S. Attorney General
- Sally Amaki, American singer based in Japan
Fictional characters
- Mustang Sally (song), R&B song about a Sally who rides
- Sally Solomon (3rd Rock From the Sun)
- The title character of Sally the Witch, a Japanese manga and anime series
- Sally (Black Clover), a character in the manga series Black Clover
- Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Sally Albright, a title character from When Harry Met Sally..., a 1989 American romantic comedy film
- The title character of Sally Bollywood: Super Detective, a 2009 cartoon series
- Sally Bowles, a cabaret singer in Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and the musical Cabaret
- Sally Botsford, in the PBS Kids show WordGirl
- Sally Brown, Charlie Brown's little sister
- Sally Carrera, a Porsche 911 Carrera in the Pixar film Cars
- Sally Day, a character from the 1986 film Demons 2
- Sally Draper, a character from the American period drama Mad Men
- Sally Fletcher, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- The title character of Sally Forth (syndicated strip), a comic strip
- The title character of Sally Forth (Wally Wood) (1968–1974), a comic strip created by Wally Wood
- Sally Gold, a girl in Tennessee Williams's Little New Orleans Girl
- Sally Jackson, the mortal mother of demigod Percy Jackson in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus
- Sally Jones / Alison Page, a character in the 1997 American martial arts comedy movie Beverly Hills Ninja
- Sally Lockhart, in a series of books by Philip Pullman
- Sally Simpson, from the musical Tommy
- Sally Syrup, Flapjack’s girlfriend from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
- Sally Webster, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Sally (film series), an antisemitic stereotype from the 1910s, played by Ernst Lubitsch
- Sally, the subject and partial narrator in some versions of the English folk song Hares on the Mountain
References
- ↑ Teresa Norman, A World of Baby Names (2003), page 309.
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