Moll

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moll can refer to:

As a name[edit]

  • Moll (surname)
  • Moll Anderson, interior designer, life stylist, author, and former national iHeart Radio host
  • Moll Anthony, aka Mary Lesson (1807–1878), Irish bean feasa (wise-woman)
  • Moll Cutpurse, an alias of Mary Frith (c. 1584–1659), notorious London pickpocket and fence
  • Moll Davis (c. 1648–1708), entertainer and courtesan, singer, and actress, mistress to King Charles II of England
  • Moll Dyer (died c. 1697?), a possibly legendary woman accused of witchcraft and driven out of her town
  • Moll King, an alias of Elizabeth Adkins (1696–1747), proprietor of a notorious London establishment, first with her husband, then alone
  • Moll O'Driscoll, Irish Gaelic footballer
  • Moll Pitcher, born Mary Diamond (c. 1736-1813), a clairvoyant and fortune-teller
  • Aethelwold Moll, King of Northumbria 759-765

Fictional characters[edit]

Slang term[edit]

  • Gun moll, gangster moll or gangster's moll, the female companion of a hoodlum or gangster
  • Moll (slang), in Australia and New Zealand, a woman with loose sexual morals

Other uses[edit]

See also[edit]