Solly is a given name, nickname (often of
Solomon
Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...
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Solly Granatstein
Solly Granatstein is an American television producer and director, formerly with CBS ''60 Minutes'', NBC News and ABC News. He is co-creator, along with Lucian Read and Richard Rowley, of "America Divided", a documentary series about inequality, ...
, American television producer
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Solly Krieger (1909–1964), American world champion middleweight boxer
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Solly Pernick, American stage technician
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Solly Shoke
General Solly Zacharia Shoke, (born 15 August 1956) is a South African military commander. He joined uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress, in the 1970s, and served as a field commander fighting against the ...
(born 1956), South African general
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Solly Drake (born 1930), American retired Major League Baseball player
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Solly Hemus (born 1923), American retired Major League Baseball player, manager and coach
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Solly Hofman
Arthur Frederick "Solly" Hofman (October 29, 1882 – March 10, 1956) was an American Major League Baseball player from 1903 to 1916. He played the majority of his 1,194 games in the outfield.
His nickname was "Circus Solly". Some attribute this ...
(1882–1956), American Major League Baseball player
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Solomon Joel
Solomon Barnato "Solly" Joel (23 May 1865 – 22 May 1931), born in London, England, moved to South Africa in the 1880s where he made his fortune in connection with diamonds, later becoming a financier with interests in mining, brewing and railw ...
(1865–1931), English financier who made his fortune in South Africa
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Solly March
Solomon Benjamin March (born 20 July 1994) is an English professional footballer who predominantly plays as a left wing-back for club Brighton & Hove Albion. March can also operate further forward as a winger.
Early life
March was born in Ea ...
(born 1994), English footballer
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Solly Sherman
Saul S. Sherman (September 25, 1917 – October 10, 2010) was a professional American football quarterback in the National Football League. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he played two seasons for the Chicago Bears.
Career
Sherman played collegiat ...
(1917–2010), American National Football League quarterback
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Solly Smith (1871–1933), Mexican-American world featherweight boxing champion
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Solly Tyibilika
Solomzi "Solly" Tyibilika (23 June 1979 – 13 November 2011) was a South African rugby union footballer, who played as a flanker for the Lions in the international Super 14 competition in his last years. He was the first black person to score a ...
(1979–2011), South African rugby union footballer
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Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (1904–1993), British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer
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Chris Solly
Christopher James Solly (born 20 January 1991) is an English professional footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, ...
(born 1991), English footballer
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Edward Solly
Edward Solly (25 April 1776 – 2 December 1844) was an English merchant living in Berlin, who amassed an unprecedented collection of Italian Trecento and Quattrocento paintings and outstanding examples of Early Netherlandish painting, at a tim ...
(1786–1844), English merchant and art collector
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Edward Solly (chemist)
Edward Solly (1819–1886) was an English chemist and antiquary.
Life
He was born in London on 11 October 1819, the son of Edward Solly the merchant and collector. The Sollys were a nonconformist family, and the philosopher Thomas Solly was a c ...
(1819–1886), English chemist and antiquary, son of the art collector
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Edward Walter Solly
Edward Walter Solly (7 May 1882 – 12 February 1966) was an English first-class cricketer who played eight matches for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire as a professional between 1903 and 1907.
Born in Eastry, Kent, Solly mad ...
(1882–1966), English cricketer
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Elmer Edward Solly
Elmer Edward Solly (September 5, 1945 – November 30, 2007) was convicted of manslaughter in 1970 for the death of two-year-old Christopher Welsh. Solly escaped from custody in 1974 and spent the next 27 years living under numerous pseudonyms ...
(1945-2007), American convicted of manslaughter, fugitive for 27 years
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George Solly
George Edward Solly (27 March 1855 – 10 March 1930) was an English first-class cricketer and solicitor.
The son of Edward Harrison Solly, he was born in March 1855 at West Heath, Cheshire. He was educated at Winchester College, before going ...
(1855–1930), English cricketer and solicitor
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Henry Solly (1813–1903), English social reformer
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Isaac Solly
Isaac Solly (1769 – 22 February 1853) was a London merchant in the Baltic trade. During the Napoleonic Wars his company Isaac Solly and Sons were principal contractors supplying hemp and timber to government dockyards.
Early life and family
He ...
(1769–1853), London merchant, brother of the art collector Edward Solly
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Jon Solly (born 1963), English former long-distance runner
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Richard Harrison Solly
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...
(1851–1925), British mineralogist
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Robert Solly
Robert Henry (Bob) Solly (9 September 1859 – 5 June 1932) was an Australian politician.
Born in Ramsgate, Kent, to Stephen Solly and Eliza Sage, he received no formal education and worked on a farm and a rope factory. At the age of ten h ...
(1859–1932), Australian politician
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Sollie (disambiguation) Sollie, Solie or Solié is a surname and given name which may refer to:
Surname
*André Sollie (born 1947), Flemish author and illustrator of children's literature
*Gordon Solie (1929–2000), American professional wrestling play-by-play announcer ...
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