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Benny

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Pronunciation
  
/ˈbɛni/

Gender
  
Male (Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Bernard, Ebenezer, etc.) Female (Bernice or Bernadette)

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.

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Bennie

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

    • Other

  • 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

    • Fictional characters

  • 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

    • References

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