# Denny (given name)

Denny or Dennie is a given name or nickname, primarily masculine and often a short form (hypocorism) of Dennis, Denise, Denver, Denzel, Zdenko or Zdenka which may refer to:

## People with the name
### Denny

* Denny Altes (born 1948), American politician
* Denny Antwi (born 1993), Ghanaian footballer
* Denny Ashburnham (c.1628–1697), English landowner and politician
* Denny Bautista (born 1980), Dominican baseball player
* Denny Butler (born 1970), American politician
* Denny Bixler (1940–1981), American politician
* Denny Brown (born 1956), American professional wrestler
* Denny Bruce (born 1944), American record producer and music manager
* Denny Cagur, (born 1977), Indonesian comedian and TV host
* Denny Cardin (born 1988), Italian footballer
* Denny Carmassi (born 1947), American drummer
* Denny Chin (born 1954), American federal judge
* Denny Chronopoulos (1968–2000), Canadian football player
* Denny Clare (1853–1928), American baseball player
* Denny Coffman, American politician
* Denny Cordell (1943–1995), English record producer
* Denny Crawford (1921–2005), American football player
* Denny Crum (1937–2023), American basketball coach
* Denny Doherty (1940–2007), Canadian musician; former member of the folk group The Mamas & the Papas
* Dennis Douds (born 1941), American football coach
* Denny Dillon (born 1951), American actress and comedian
* Denham Fouts (1914–1948), American male prostitute and socialite
* Denny Hamlin (born 1980), American NASCAR auto racer
* Denny Harriger (born 1969), American baseball player
* Dennis Hastert (born 1942), American politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
* Denny Hocking (born 1970), American baseball player
* Denny Hughes (1894–1953), American football player
* Denny Hulme (1938–1992), New Zealand Formula One auto racer
* Denny Kantono (born 1970), Indonesian retired badminton player
* Denny Laine (born 1944), English rock musician
* Denny Landzaat (born 1976), Dutch footballer
* Denny Lemaster (born 1939), American baseball player
* Denny Mack (1850–1888), American baseball player and manager
* Denny Matthews (born 1942), American sportscaster
* Denny Méndez (born 1978), Dominican-Italian actress and model
* Denny McCarthy (born 1993), American golfer
* Denny McKnight (1848–1900), American baseball executive
* Denny McLain (born 1944), American baseball player
* Denny McNamara (born 1952), American politician
* Denny Morrison (born 1985), Canadian world and Olympic champion speedskater
* Denny Moyer (1939–2010), American boxer; world light middleweight champion (1962–63)
* Denny Myers (1905–1957), American football player and coach
* Denny Neagle (born 1968), American baseball player
* Dennis O'Neil (1939–2020), American comic book writer and editor
* Denny R. (born 1994), Filipino author under the pen name HaveYouSeenThisGirL
* Denny Ramsden (born 1990), Canadian road bicycle racer
* Denny Rehberg (born 1955), U.S. Representative for Montana's At-large congressional district
* Denny Seiwell (born 1943), American rock musician
* Denny Siegel, American actress, comedian and writer
* Denny Shute (1904–1974), American golfer
* Denny Smith (born 1938), businessman and former congressman from Oregon
* Denny Solomona (born 1993), New Zealand rugby league player
* Denny Stark (born 1974), American baseball player
* Denny Vargas (born 1990), Dominican footballer
* Denny Walling (born 1954), American baseball player

### Dennie

* Dennie Christian (born 1956), German singer
* Dennie Gordon (born 1953), American film and television director
* Dennie L. Farr (1861–1909), American businessman and politician
* Dennie Moore (1902–1978), American film and stage actress
* Dennie Olde Kalter (born 1991), Dutch darts player
* Dennie Oxley (born 1970), American politician

## Fictional characters

* Denny Crane, in the American TV series Boston Legal
* Denny Duquette, in the American TV series Grey's Anatomy
* Dennis “Denny” Rickman Jr, in the British soap opera EastEnders
* Denny, in the film The Room
* Mr. Denny, in Pride and Prejudice.

## Others

* Denny (hybrid hominin), name given to a fossil of an archaic human