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 football), American retired National Football League player
- Bennie Wallace, American post bop, swing music and jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
Surname
- Bob Bennie (footballer, born 1873), 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 (actor), 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 (singer), 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 football), American National Football League player
- Benny Krueger, American jazz saxophonist
- Benny Lindelauf, Dutch writer
- Benny Moré, Cuban singer and musician
- Benny Nielsen (swimmer), 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 (footballer, born 17 March 1951), 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 (British TV series)
- Benny the Ball, character in the animated television series Top Cat
- Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in ''The Sandlot''