Benny

Benny
Pronunciation	/ˈbɛni/
Gender	Male (Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Bernard, Ebenezer, etc.) Female (Bernice or Bernadette)
Other names
Related names	Benjamin, Bernice, Bernadette, Bernard

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 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 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

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

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

Benny the Bull, in the children's animated television series Dora the Explorer
Benny the Cab, who first appeared in Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III, landlord in Rent (musical)
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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