Sally (name)

Sally is an English language feminine given name. The name originated as a pet name for Sarah, but has since become used independently.^[1] The name peaked in popularity in the U.S. in 1939, when it was ranked 52nd in popularity, but has since become an uncommon name.^[2]

People

Sally Field is among the most famous people named Sally

Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut

Actress Sally Kellerman

• Sally Armstrong (journalist) (born 1943), Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist
• 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 Carmen (born 1982), British actress
• 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
• Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835), slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, believed to have had six children by him
• Sally James (presenter) (born 1950), British TV presenter
• Sally Kellerman (born 1937), 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 Liu (born 1996), Chinese singer and member of South Korean girl group Gugudan
• Sally Ann Matthews, (born 1970), British actress
• 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 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 Salminen (1906–1976), Finnish writer
• Sally Smith (disambiguation)
• Sally Struthers (born 1948), American actress and spokeswoman
• Sally Ann Triplett (born 1962), British actress and singer
• Sally Wister (1761–1804), American diarist

Fictional characters

• The title character of Sally the Witch, a Japanese manga and anime series
• Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas), in The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Princess Sally Acorn, from the American Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and comic book
• 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 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 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 Jackson, the mortal mother of demigod Percy Jackson in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus
• Sally Lockhart, in a series of books by Philip Pullman
• Sally Metzner, a character from the 1997 film Jack Frost
• Sally Simpson, from the musical Tommy
• Sally Webster, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Sally (film series), an antisemitic stereotype from the 1910s, played by Ernst Lubitsch

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