Benny
| Benny | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɛni/ |
| Gender |
Male (Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Bernard, Ebenezer, etc.) Female (Bernice or Bernadette) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Benjamin, Bernice, Bernadette, Bernard |
For other uses, see Benny (disambiguation).
Benny or Bennie is a given name or a shortened version of the given name Benjamin, or less commonly, Benedict, Bennett, Bernice, Ebenezer or Bernard.
People
Bennie
- Bennie Cunningham (born 1954), American retired National Football League player
- Bennie Daniels (born 1932), American former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Bennie L. Davis (1928–2012), United States Air Force general and commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command
- Bennie Ellender (1925–2011), American college football player and head coach
- Bennie Goods (born 1968), American retired Canadian Football League player
- Bennie Green (1923–1977), American jazz trombonist and bandleader
- Bennie Logan (born 1989), American National Football League player
- Bennie Maupin (born 1940), American jazz musician
- Bennie Muller (born 1948), Dutch former footballer
- Bennie Purcell (born 1929), American college basketball and Washington Generals (Harlem Globetrotters) player and college tennis coach
- Bennie Thompson (born 1948), American politician
- Bennie Thompson (American football) (born 1963), American retired National Football League player
- Bennie Wallace (born 1946), American post bop, swing music and jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
Benny
- Benny Andersson Göran Bror Andersson (born 1946), Swedish musician and member of the pop group ABBA
- Benny Gay Christian (1925-1982), American politician
- Benny Davis (1895–1979), vaudeville performer
- Benny Davis, member of the musical comedy trio The Axis of Awesome
- Benny Dayal (born 1984), playback singer for films in India
- Benny Feilhaber (born 1985), Brazilian/American soccer player
- Benny Friedman (singer) (born 1985), Hasidic Jewish American singer
- Benny Giay (born 1955), Indonesian Christian theologian, social anthropologist and human rights activist
- Benny Goldberg (1918-2001), Polish-American boxer
- Benny Hill (1924–1992), stage name of British comedian and actor Alfred Hawthorne Hill
- Benny Johnson (1948-1988), American National Football League player
- Benny Nielsen (born 1966), Danish butterfly swimmer
- Benny Urquidez (born 1952), American kickboxer and fight choreographer
- Benny Yau (born 1980), Canadian actor and television presenter
Benjamin
- Bennie McRae (1939-2012), American National Football League player
- Bennie Oosterbaan (1906-1990), American college football, basketball and baseball player and head coach
- Benny Bass (1904-1975), American Hall-of-Fame world champion featherweight and junior lightweight boxer
- Benny Friedman (1905-1982), American football quarterback, member of the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame
- Benny Goodman (1909-1986), American big band leader and clarinet player
- Benny Leonard (1896-1947), American world champion Hall-of-Fame lightweight boxer born Benjamin Leiner
- Benny Parsons (1941-2007), American NASCAR driver and color commentator
Other
- Horacio Benedict Bennie Blades (born 1966), American retired National Football League player
- Bernhard Bennie Borgmann (1900–1978), pioneering professional basketball player and head coach
- Henry Bennett Bennie Tate (1901-1973), American Major League Baseball catcher
- Marco Benny Benassi (born 1967), Italian DJ and producer of electro house music
- Bernard Benny Gallagher (born 1945), Scottish singer-songwriter and half of the duo Gallagher and Lyle
- Jergen Benny Nielsen (footballer) (born 1951), Danish footballer
Fictional characters
- Benny the Bull, in the children's animated television series Dora the Explorer
- Benny the Cab, who first appeared in Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
- Benny Shaw, protagonist in two children's novels by Irish author Eoin Colfer
- Bernice Summerfield, companion of the Seventh Doctor in the expanded Doctor Who universe
- Benny, a character in The Lego Movie
- Benny the Bat, in Bear in the Big Blue House
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