Lenny (given name)
Lenny or Lennie is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
People
In sports
- Leonard Lenny Dykstra, American former Major League Baseball player
- Lenny Fernandes Coelho, Brazilian footballer
- Lenny Druyts, Belgian professional racing cycling
- Leonard Lennie Friedman, American former National Football League player
- Lenny Hayes, former Australian rules footballer
- Elaine Lenny Holohan, Irish camogie player
- Leonid Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born American swimmer, four-time Olympic gold medalist
- Jan Leonardus Lennie Louw, South African-born Namibian cricketer
- Lenny Permana, female badminton player from Australia
- Lenny Randle, American baseball player
- Lenny Rodrigues, Indian footballer playing for FC Goa
- Leonard Lennie Rosenbluth, American former college basketball and National Basketball Association player
- Ilenia Lenny Sims, English-Italian cricketer
- Leonard Lenny Wilkens, American former National Basketball Association player and coach, member of several Halls of Fame as player and coach
- Lennie Waite, British female track and field athlete
In music
- Lenny (singer), Czech singer, songwriter, composer, lyricist, and pianist
- Leonard Lenny Fontana, American house music DJ
- Leonard Lennie Hayton, American composer and conductor
- Lenny Kaye, American musician, composer and writer, guitarist of Patti Smith Group
- Leonard Lenny Kravitz, American rock/hard rock singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist
- Helena Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer-songwriter
- Leonard Lenny Waronker, American record label executive and producer
- Lenny Welch, American pop singer
In film and television
- Lenny Clarke, actor, writer, and producer
- Lenworth Lenny Henry, British stand-up comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
- Lennie James, British actor
- Leonard Alfred Schneider Lenny Bruce,an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist
- Lenny Trčková, Czech radio presenter, TV presenter and model
Other
- Lennie Copeland, American mathematician and professor
- Leonard DiMaria, New York mobster
- Leuntje Lenny Geluk-Poortvliet, Dutch politician
- Lennie Goodings, Canadian-born publisher active in the United Kingdom
- Hugh Leonard Lenny Murphy, psychopathic killer from Northern Ireland, member of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force
- Lenny Montana, professional wrestler and mob enforcer turned film actor
- Lenny Ureña Valerio, Puerto Rican scholar of colonial and Polish history
Fictional characters
- Lenny (bot), a chat bot designed to disrupt telemarketer calls
- Lenny Buskers, a character in the television series Legion
- Lennie Small, principal character in the John Steinbeck novel, Of Mice and Men
- Lenny Kosnowski, in the television series, Laverne and Shirley
- Lenny Leonard, a recurring character in the television series, The Simpsons
- Lenny, in the animated film, Toy Story
- Lenny Feder, in the films Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2
- Lenny Parker, in the television series, Mona the Vampire
- Lenny, in the animated film, Shark Tale
- Lenny, a neopet
- Leni Loud, in the animated series, The Loud House
- Lennie Briscoe, on the television series, Law and Order
- Lenny Summers, in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2
- Lenny, a recurring character in Fanboy & Chum Chum
- Lenny, a gorilla from Jim Henson's Animal Show