Phyllis
Phyllis is a feminine given name which may refer to:
People
- Phyllis Bartholomew (1914–2002), English long jumper
- Phyllis Drummond Bethune (née Sharpe, 1899–1982), New Zealand artist
- Phyllis Calvert (1915–2002), British actress
- Phyllis M. Christian (born 1956), Ghanaian lawyer and consultant
- Phyllis Coates (born 1927), American actress
- Phyllis Diller (1917–2012), American actress/comedian
- Phyllis Dillon (1944–2004), Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer
- Phyllis Eisenstein (1946–2020), American writer
- Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), Canadian writer
- Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), American jazz singer
- Phylis Lee Isley, birth name of Jennifer Jones (1919–2009), American film actress
- P. D. James (1920–2014), English crime fiction writer
- Phyllis Logan (born 1956), Scottish actress
- Phyllis Newman (1933–2019), American actress
- Phyllis Pearsall (1906–1996), British creator of the A to Z map of London
- Phyllis Quek (born 1973), Malaysian-based Singaporean actress
- Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016), American writer and conservative activist
- Phyllis Smith (born 1951), American actress
- Phyllis Somerville (1943–2020), American actress
- Phyllis Taloikwai, senior government official in the Solomon Islands
- Phyllis Thaxter (1919–2012), American actress
- Phyllis The Housewife, a female wrestler from Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
- Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008), American mystery writer
Mythological and legendary characters
- The title character of the tale of Phyllis and Aristotle in medieval legend
- Phyllis (mythology), wife of Demophon, king of Athens
- Phyllis (river god)
- Phyllis, consort of Ereuthalion
- Phyllis, mother of the Trojan Alcaeus
Fictional characters
- Phyllis Dietrichson, in James Cain's novella Double Indemnity and two film adaptations
- Phyllis Lindstrom, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis, a 1970s TV spin-off, played by Cloris Leachman.
- Phyllis Pearce, a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, played by Jill Summers.
- Phyllis Summers Newman, on The Young and the Restless
- Phyllis Vance (née Lapin), on The Office played by Phyllis Smith.
- Phyllis (Passions), a minor character on Passions
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