# 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.

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### Bennie
#### Given name

* Bennie M. Bunn (1907–1943), American Marine officer, Navy Cross recipient
* Bennie Cunningham (1954–2018), 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 1938), Dutch former footballer
* Bennie Purcell (1929–2016), 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

#### Surname

* Bob Bennie (footballer, born 1873) (1873–1945), Scottish footballer with St Mirren and Newcastle (uncle of two following)
* Peter Bennie (1899–1981), Scottish footballer with Albion Rovers, Burnley, Bradford City
* Bob Bennie (1900–1972), Scottish footballer with Third Lanark, Airdrieonians, Hearts
   * Bennie Railplane, invented by George Bennie

### Benny

* Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born 1946), Swedish musician and member of the pop group ABBA
* Benny Chan (actor) (born 1969), Hong Kong actor and singer
* Benny Davis (1895–1979), vaudeville performer
* Benny Dayal (born 1984), a UAE- Indian playback singer for films
* Benny Feilhaber (born 1985), Brazilian/American soccer player
* Benny Friedman (singer) (born 1985), American Hasidic Jewish singer
* Benny Gantz, Israeli Chief of the General Staff and politician
* 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 Jamz (born 1993), Danish rapper
* Benny Johnson (American football) (1948–1988), American National Football League player
* Benny Krueger (1899–1967), American jazz saxophonist
* Benny Lindelauf (born 1964), Dutch writer
* Benny Moré (1919–1963), Cuban singer and musician
* Benny Nielsen (swimmer) (born 1966), Danish butterfly swimmer
* Benny Rubinstein, Israeli footballer
* Benny Cederfeld de Simonsen (1865–1952), Danish peace activist
* Benny Sapp III (born 2000), American football player
* Benny Snell (born 1998), American football player
* Benny Spellman (1931–2011), American R&B singer
* Benny Urquidez (born 1952), American kickboxer and fight choreographer
* Benny Yau (born 1980), Canadian actor and television presenter

### Benjamin

* Bennie McRae (1939–2012), American National Football League player
* Bennie Moten (1894–1935), American jazz pianist and bandleader
* 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 Begin (born 1943), Israeli politician
* Benny Friedman (1905–1982), American football quarterback, member of the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame
* Benny Goodman (1909–1986), American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
* 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
* Bennett Benny Carter (1907–2003), American jazz musician and bandleader
* Bernard Benny Gallagher (born 1945), Scottish singer-songwriter and half of the duo Gallagher and Lyle
* Jergen Benny Nielsen (footballer, born 17 March 1951) (born 1951), Danish footballer

## Fictional characters

* Benny, a character in the post-apocalyptic short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
* Benny, a squirrel in 2007 Disney animated film The Wild
* 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) (played by Paul Henry)
* Benny the Ball, character in the animated television series Top Cat
* Benny also loved french fries.
* Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez in The Sandlot