Benny


Benny or Bennie is a given name or a shortened version of the given name Benjamin or, less commonly, Benedict, Bennett, Benito, Benson, Bernice, Ebenezer, Benansio/Benancio or Bernard.

People

Bennie

Given name

  • Bennie M. Bunn, American Marine officer, Navy Cross recipient
  • Bennie Cunningham, American retired National Football League player
  • Bennie Daniels, American former Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Bennie L. Davis, United States Air Force general and commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command
  • Bennie Ellender, American college football player and head coach
  • Bennie Goods, American retired Canadian Football League player
  • Bennie Green, American jazz trombonist and bandleader
  • Bennie Logan, American National Football League player
  • Bennie Maupin, American jazz musician
  • Bennie Muller, Dutch former footballer
  • Bennie Purcell, American college basketball and Washington Generals player and college tennis coach
  • Bennie Thompson, American politician
  • Bennie Thompson , American retired National Football League player
  • Bennie Wallace, American post bop, swing music and jazz tenor saxophonist and composer

    Surname

  • Bob Bennie , Scottish footballer with St Mirren and Newcastle
  • Peter Bennie, Scottish footballer with Albion Rovers, Burnley, Bradford City
  • Bob Bennie, Scottish footballer with Third Lanark, Airdrieonians, Hearts

    Benny

  • Göran Bror Benny Andersson, Swedish musician and member of the pop group ABBA
  • Benny Chan , Hong Kong actor and singer
  • Benny Davis, American vaudeville performer
  • Benny Dayal, UAE-Indian playback singer for films
  • Benny Feilhaber, Brazilian-American soccer player
  • Benny Friedman , American Hasidic Jewish singer
  • Benny Gantz, Israeli Chief of the General Staff and politician
  • Benny Giay, Indonesian Christian theologian, social anthropologist and human rights activist
  • Benny Goldberg, Polish-American boxer
  • Benny Havens, American tavernkeeper
  • Benny Hill, stage name of British comedian and actor Alfred Hawthorne Hill
  • Benny Jamz, Danish rapper
  • Benny Johnson , American National Football League player
  • Benny Krueger, American jazz saxophonist
  • Benny Lindelauf, Dutch writer
  • Benny Moré, Cuban singer and musician
  • Benny Nielsen , Danish butterfly swimmer
  • Benny Rubinstein, Israeli footballer
  • Benny Cederfeld de Simonsen, Danish peace activist
  • Benny Sapp III, American football player
  • Benny Snell, American football player
  • Benny Spellman, American R&B singer
  • Benny Urquidez, American kickboxer and fight choreographer
  • Benny Yau, Canadian actor and television presenter

    Benjamin

  • Bennie McRae, American National Football League player
  • Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist and bandleader
  • Bennie Oosterbaan, American college football, basketball and baseball player and head coach
  • Benny Bass, American Hall-of-Fame world champion featherweight and junior lightweight boxer
  • Benny Begin, Israeli politician
  • Benny Friedman, American football quarterback, member of the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame
  • Benny Goodman, American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
  • Benny Leonard, American world champion Hall-of-Fame lightweight boxer born Benjamin Leiner
  • Benny Parsons, American NASCAR driver and color commentator

    Other

  • Horacio Benedict Bennie Blades, American retired National Football League player
  • Bernhard Bennie Borgmann, pioneering professional basketball player and head coach
  • Henry Bennett Bennie Tate, American Major League Baseball catcher
  • Bennett Benny Carter, American jazz musician and bandleader
  • Bernard Benny Gallagher, Scottish singer-songwriter and half of the duo Gallagher and Lyle
  • Jergen Benny Nielsen , Danish footballer

    Fictional characters

  • Benny, a character in the post-apocalyptic short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • Benny Rabbit, a character in children's television series Sesame Street
  • Benny the Bull, in the children's animated television series Dora the Explorer
  • Benny the Cab, who first appeared in Who Framed 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 blue 1980s style spaceman from The Lego Movie
  • Benny, the secondary antagonist of Fallout: New Vegas
  • Benny Hawkins, character in Crossroads
  • Benny the Ball, character in the animated television series Top Cat
  • Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in ''The Sandlot''