Nelly and Nellie are female given names , also used as nicknames , which are derived from the names Helen , Ellen , Petronella , Danielle , Cornelia , Eleanor , Janelle , Chanelle, Penelope , Elizabeth, or Noelia.

People [ edit ]

Women [ edit ]

• Nelly Artin Kalfayan (born 1949), Egyptian-Armenian entertainer, actress and presenter
• Nelly Arcan (1973?2009), Canadian writer, born Isabelle Fortier
• Nellie Barsness (1873?1966), American physician
• Nelly Beltran (1925?2007), Argentine actress, born Nelida Dodo Lopez Valverde
• Nelly Ben-Or (born 1933), Polish concert pianist and professor
• Nelly Blair (1759?1820), later Nelly Smith, sometimes suggested as being Scottish poet Robert Burns' first love (see also Nelly Kilpatrick)
• Nellie Bly (1864?1922), American journalist
• Nellie Bushell (1884-1948, Irish textile artist and political activist.
• Nellie Moyer Budd (1860?1944), American music teacher
• Nellie Marie Burns (ca. 1850?1897), American actor and poet
• Nelly Carrillo Tarazona de Espinoza (1927?2017), Peruvian herpetologist
• Nelly Ciobanu (born 1974), Moldovan singer
• Ellen Crocker (1872?1962) also known as 'Nellie' or 'Nelly', British suffragette
• Nellie Farren (1848?1904), English actress and singer
• Nelly Furtado (born 1978), Canadian singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and record producer
• Nelly Armande Guillerm, birth name of Violette Verdy (1933?2016), French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, dance company director and writer
• Nelly Garzon Alarcon (1932?2019), Colombian nurse, teacher
• Nellie A. Hope (1864-1918), American violinist, music teacher, orchestra conductor
• Nelly Karim (born 1974), Egyptian actress, model and ballerina
• Nelly Kilpatrick , later Nelly Bone (1759?1820), possibly Robert Burns' first love and muse (see also Nelly Blair)
• Nellie Kim (born 1957), Soviet gymnast
• Nellie van Kol (1851-1930), Dutch feminist, educator, and children's author
• Nelly Korda (born 1998), American golfer
• Nelly Lainez (1920?2008), Argentine comedic actress
• Nelly Landry (1916?2010), French tennis player, 1948 French Open champion
• Nellie McClung (1873?1951), Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist
• Nellie McKay (born 1982), British-born American singer-songwriter and actress
• Nellie V. Mark (1857?1935), American physician and suffragist
• Nelly Nichol Marshall (1845?1898), American author
• Nelly Mazloum (1929?2003), Egyptian actress, choreographer, dancer and dance teacher
• Nellie Melba (1861?1931), Australian opera soprano
• Nellie Morrice (1881?1963), Australian army and bush nurse administrator
• Nelly Nunez (1948?2021), Bolivian politician
• Nelly Olin (1941?2017), Minister of Environment in France (2005?07)
• Nellie Roberts (1872?1959), British botanical artist
• 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, born Leonie Sachs
• Nellie R. Santiago (born 1943), New York state senator
• Nellie George Stearns (1855?1936), American artist and teacher of art
• Eleanor Nellie Stewart (1858?1931), Australian actress and singer
• Nelly Such (born 1992), Hungarian handballer
• Nelly Tagar (born 1982), Israeli actress and stand-up comedian
• Nellie Teale (1900?1993), American naturalist
• Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson, names used for Ellen Ternan (1839?1914), English actress, mistress of Charles Dickens
• Nelly Thuring (1875?1972), Swedish politician, one of the first women elected to the Swedish parliament
• Nelly Viennot (born 1962), French football referee
• Nelly Walker, birth name of Nella Larsen (1891?1964), American modernist novelist
• Nelly Wicky (1923?2020), Swiss Labour Party politician and former member of the Swiss National Council
• Nellie Yu Roung Ling (1889?1973), Chinese dancer and lady-in-waiting in Qing imperial court

Men [ edit ]

• Nellie King (1928?2010), American baseball player and radio announcer
• Nelly , stage name of American rapper Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
• Don Nelson (born 1940), American former basketball coach and player nicknamed "Nellie"

Fictional characters [ edit ]

• Nellie Bertram , a character from The Office (U.S.) , played by Catherine Tate
• 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 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 Crain, from the Netflix limited series The Haunting of Hill House (TV series) , played by Victoria Pedretti
• Nellie Gray, ally of The Avenger
• 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)
• 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

See also [ edit ]

• Nella
• Nell

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