Sally is an

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to t ...

feminine given name. The name originated as a pet name for the Hebrew name

Sarah Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pio ...

, but has since become used independently. It is also a nickname for

Salome Salome (; he, שְלוֹמִית, Shlomit, related to , "peace"; el, Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II, son of Herod the Great, and princess Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great, a ...

and Salimeh, which are especially popular in the Eurasian country

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to t ...

.Teresa Norman, ''A World of Baby Names'' (2003), page 309. The name peaked in popularity in the U.S. in 1939, when it was ranked 52nd in popularity.

People

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Sally Amaki is an American singer and voice actress based in Tokyo, Japan. She is a member of the voice acting idol group 22/7 which debuted in 2017 and is the group's "overseas representative." Within the group, she appears both as herself and as the anim ...

, American singer based in Japan *

Sally Armstrong (journalist) Sally Wishart Armstrong (born 1943) is a Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Career Armstrong was born in Montreal, Quebec. She received a Bachelor of Education degree from McGill University in 1966 and a Ma ...

(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) Middle of the Road are a Scottish pop group who have enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America since the 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early europop with their distinctive ...

Sally Clark (disambiguation) Sally Clark (1964–2007) was an English victim of a miscarriage of justice who was falsely convicted and imprisoned for the murder of her two infant sons. Sally Clark may also refer to: *Sally Clark (playwright) (born 1953), Canadian playwright an ...

Sally Cockburn Sally Patricia Cockburn (born 1947) is a mathematician whose research ranges from algebraic topology and set theory to geometric graph theory and combinatorial optimization. A Canadian immigrant to the US, she is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor ...

, Canadian-American mathematician * Sally Davies (artist) (born 1956), Canadian painter and photographer, based in New York City *Dame Sally Claire Davies (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 Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She has received many awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film F ...

(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), British-American singer and actress * Sally James (presenter) (born 1950), British TV presenter * Sally Jenkins (born 1960), American author and sports journalist *

Sally-Anne Jones Sally-Anne Frances Jones (17 November 1968 – June 2017) was a British terrorist, Islamist, and UN-designated recruiter and propagandist for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), known variously as Umm Hussain al-Britani, Sakina ...

(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 Sally Chepyego Kaptich ( ja, シェリー・チェピエゴ; born 3 October 1985) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes mainly in track and road running events. She established herself at the World Youth Championships in Athletics in 2001 ...

(born 1985), Kenyan distance runner *

Sally Kirkland Sally Kirkland (born October 31, 1941) is an American film, television and stage actress and producer. A former member of Andy Warhol's The Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, she has appeared in more than 250 fi ...

(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 Sally Mann Royal Photographic Society#Distinctions and qualifications, HonFRPS (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs—at first of her young children, then later ...

(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 In the early morning hours of 20 April 1998, in Marina South, Central Region, Singapore, Central, Singapore, a 23-year-old Malaysians, Malaysian named Jonaris Badlishah, who was the nephew of the Sultan of Kedah, brutally murdered 42-year-old beau ...

(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 Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was an American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck ...

(1904–1979), American burlesque performer * Sally Reid, Scottish actress *

Sally Ride Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts ...

(1951–2012), American physicist and astronaut *

Sally Ronk Sally Stewart Ronk (August 28, 1912 – December 28, 1986) was an American economist who headed the office of debt analysis of the United States Department of the Treasury. Life Ronk was born on August 28, 1912, in Newtonville, Massachusetts, the ...

(1912–1986), American economist *

Sally Rooney Sally Rooney (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published three novels: '' Conversations with Friends'' (2017), '' Normal People'' (2018), and '' Beautiful World, Where Are You'' (2021). ''Normal People'' was ad ...

(born 1991), Irish author *

Sally Salminen Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen (25 April 1906 – 18 July 1976), from 1940 Salminen-Dührkop, was an internationally renowned author from Vargata, the Åland, Åland Islands, Finland. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. ...

(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 Sally Hoyt Spofford ( Sarah Elizabeth Foresman; April 11, 1914 – October 26, 2002) was an American ornithologist who was long associated with the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. In retirement, she was involved in conservation and birding in ...

(1914–2002), American ornithologist * Sally Struthers (born 1947), American actress and spokeswoman *Sally The Farmer's Daughter, stage name of Beckie Mullen, professional wrestler from the

Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W.) is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December 1985) and has continued in various forms after it left television. ...

* Sally Ann Triplett (born 1962), British actress and singer *

Sally Wister Sally may refer to: People * Sally (name), a list of notable people with the name Military * Sally (military), an attack by the defenders of a town or fortress under siege against a besieging force; see sally port *Sally, the Allied reporting ...

(1761–1804), American diarist * Sally Yates (born 1960), American lawyer and former acting U.S. Attorney General

Fictional characters

* Mustang Sally (song), R&B song about a Sally who rides * Princess Sally Acorn, from the American ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' cartoon and comic book * Sally Solomon, a character in (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 Brown, Charlie Brown's little sister *Sally Brooks, a character on '' This Is Us'' * 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 ''Mad Men'' is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. It ran on the cable network AMC from July 19, 2007, to May 17, 2015, lasting for seven seasons and 92 episodes. Its ...

'' * 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 Hardesty, fictional character in ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' franchise *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 Metzner, a character from the 1997 film '' Jack Frost'' *

Sally Simpson ''Tommy'' is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Who, a double album first released on 17 May 1969. The album was mostly composed by guitarist Pete Townshend, and is a rock opera that tells the story of Tommy Walker. Tommy ...

, from the musical ''Tommy'' *Sally Syrup, Flapjack’s girlfriend from '' The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'' * Sally Tomato, a Mobster in Sing Sing from Breakfast at Tiffany's *

Sally (film series) Sally, Sally Meyer or just Meyer was a silent movie slapstick character played by Ernst Lubitsch, before he moved to Hollywood. The character was an antisemitic satire of a Jewish businessman. Meyer was portrayed as a stereotypical Jew who canno ...

, an antisemitic stereotype from the 1910s, played by Ernst Lubitsch * Sally Webster, from the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Sally, the subject and partial narrator in some versions of the English folk song

Hares on the Mountain "Hares on the Mountain" (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud 329) (otherwise titled "Blackbirds and Thrushes", "If All the Young Women", "Nancy Lay Sleeping", "The Knife in the Window", "Shepherd So Bold", "Sally My Dear", "Lightning and Thunder", "Crawling ...

References

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