Lenny (given name)

Lenny or Lennie is a given name (often a nickname for Leonard), and may refer to:

In sports:

• Lenny Dykstra, American former baseball player
• Lenny Fernandes Coelho, Brazilian footballer
• Lennie Friedman, American football player (Cleveland Browns)
• Lenny Hayes, Australian rules footballer
• Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born American Olympic 4x champion swimmer
• Lennie Louw, South African-born Namibian cricketer
• Lenny Montana, wrestler turned film actor
• Lenny Permana, female badminton player from Australia
• Lennie Rosenbluth, American NBA basketball forward
• Lenny Wilkens, former basketball player

In music:

• John Lennon (1940-1980), English musician and singer-songwriter of The Beatles
• Lennie Hayton (1908-1971), American composer and conductor
• Lenny Kaye, American musician, guitarist of Patti Smith Group
• Lenny Kravitz, American rock/hard rock singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist
• Lenny Waronker, American record label executive and producer

In television and film:

• Lenny Clarke, actor, writer, and producer
• Lennie James, British actor
• Lennie Mayne, Australian television director

In other fields:

• Lenny Bruce, comedian and satirist
• Lenny Henry, comedian
• Lenny Murphy, psychopathic killer

In fiction:

• Lennie Small, principal character in the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men
• Lenny Kosnowski, character in Laverne and Shirley
• Lenny and Carl, minor characters in The Simpsons
• Lenny Parker, a character from the television series Mona the Vampire

Also see:

• Lenny the Lion (disambiguation)