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Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter. As a feminine given name, Pollyanna is derived from the name Polly combined with the name Anna.
Pollyanna may also refer to:
People
Pollyanna Chu, billionaire businesswoman from Hong Kong
Pollyana Papel (born 1987), a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actress
Pollyanna Pickering (1942–2018), British wildlife artist and environmentalist
Pollyanna Woodward (born 1982), English TV presenter
Britt Pols, vocalist who performs under the name PollyAnna on songs by Timmy Trumpet and Steve Aoki
= Fictional characters
=Pollyanna Whittier, the titular character from the 1913 Eleanor Porter novel Pollyanna
Entertainment
= Stage
=Pollyanna (play), a 1916 Broadway play adapted from the novel.
= Film
=Pollyanna (1920 film), an adaptation of the novel, starring Mary Pickford
Pollyanna (1960 film), an adaptation of the novel, starring Hayley Mills
= Music
=Pollyanna (album), the second studio album by Emo band Northstar
Pollyanna (band), an Australian band
Songs
"Pollyanna", a recurring song in Mother, a Nintendo role-playing video game series
"Pollyanna", a song by Billy Joe Royal off his 1965 album, Down in the Boondocks
"Pollyanna", a 2021 single by American punk rock band Green Day
"Pollyanna Flower", a 1998 song recorded by Canadian alt rock singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette
Other uses
Pollyanna Creep, a term implying overly optimistic presentation of economic measurements by government
Pollyanna principle, the tendency to remember pleasant events and forget unpleasant ones
USS Pollyanna, a U.S. Navy ship name
USS Pollyanna (SP-1048), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
Secret Santa, a Western holiday tradition referred to in Pennsylvania as Pollyanna
See also
All pages with titles containing polly-annas
All pages with titles containing polly-anna
All pages with titles containing pollyannas
All pages with titles containing pollyanna
Anna (disambiguation)
Polly (disambiguation)