Jenny (given name)

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Jenny was originally the diminutive form of Jane^[1] but is now associated with Jennifer^[2] and Genevieve.

It may also be spelled Jenni or Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century.^[3]

Famous people

• Jenny Agutter (born 1952), English actress
• Jennifer Aniston (born 1969), American actress
• Jenni Asserholt (born 1988), Swedish ice hockey player
• Jenni Baird (born 1976), Australian actress
• Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer
• Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player
• Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist and BBC royal correspondent
• Jenny Buckley, Irish television presenter
• Jennie Breeden, American comic book artist
• Jenni Calder, Scottish literary historian
• Jennie Churchill (born 1854), American-born English wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
• Jenny Craig (born 1932), American weight loss guru, founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.
• Jenni Dahlman (born 1981), Finnish model
• Jenni Dant (born 1982), American basketball player
• Jenni Engebretsen, American spokesperson
• Jenni Falconer (born 1976), Scottish television presenter
• Jenny Frost (born 1978), British singer and television presenter
• Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka
• Jennie Garth (born 1972), American actress
• Jenni Keenan Green (born 1970), Scottish actress
• Jennifer Grey (born 1960), American actress
• Jenni Trent Hughes, British relationships expert and television presenter
• Jenni Hucul (born 1988), Canadian bobsledder
• Jenni Irani (1923–1982), Indian cricketer
• Jenny Karezi (1932–1992), Greek film and stage actress
• Jenny Lewis, (born 1976), American singer, lead singer of indie rock band Rilo Kiley
• Jenny Likens Wade (1950 - 2004), American; younger sister and witness of child abuse and murder victim Sylvia Likens
• Jenny Lind, (1820–1887), Swedish soprano
• Jennifer Lopez (born 1969), American singer and actress
• Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American model and comedian
• Jenny McCudden, Irish journalist
• Jenni Meno (born 1970), American skater
• Jenni Murray (born 1950), British journalist and broadcaster
• Jenny Nimmo (born 1944), British fantasy author
• Jenni Olson (born 1962), American film director
• Jenny Pavley (born 1976), American beach volleyball player
• Jenny Powell (born 1968), British television presenter
• Jenni Rivera (born 1969), Mexican-American musician
• Jennifer Serrano, Spanish singer better known as Jenny
• Jenny Shepherd (born 1972), New Zealand field hockey player
• Jenny Sjödin, Swedish professional wrestler and submission grappler
• Jenny von Westphalen (1814–1881), German woman, wife of Karl Marx
• Jenny Whittle (born 1973), Australian basketball player
• Jenny Wolf (born 1979), German ice speed skater
• Jenni Vähämaa (born 1992), Finnish figure skater

Fictional characters

• Jenny (Doctor Who) in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter"
• Jenny Curran, love interest of the protagonist in the film Forrest Gump
• Jenny Everywhere, open-source comic character
• Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl and It Girl
• Jenny Kelly, best friend of Sabrina the Teenage Witch during season 1
• Jenny Shepard in television series NCIS
• Jenni Vainio in the Finnish drama series Salatut elämät
• Jenny Wolek in One Life to Live
• Jenny Wakeman, a.k.a. XJ9, in the Nickelodeon cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot
• First Mate Jenny, Aldebaran pilot of the Righteous Indignation in the 1980s comic (and later cartoon) series Bucky O'Hare
• Jenny, main female character in Larry Clark's film Kids
• Jenny Szalinski, a character from Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
• Officer Jenny, the names of the many police officers in Pokemon.
• Jenny Reilly, in The Black Donnellys.
• Jenny Healy, a character from Double Trouble novel series.
• Jenny, a character from the short story Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!

See also

• Jenny (disambiguation), other meanings

References