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Jenny is a feminine given name that originated as a diminutive form of Jane but is now also associated with Jennifer and Genevieve. It can be spelled as Jenny, Jenni, or Jennie. The name refers to both real people, such as actresses Jenny Agutter and Jennifer Aniston, and fictional characters like Jenny from Doctor Who and Jenny Curran from Forrest Gump.

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Jenny (Given Name) : Famous People

Jenny is a feminine given name that originated as a diminutive form of Jane but is now also associated with Jennifer and Genevieve. It can be spelled as Jenny, Jenni, or Jennie. The name refers to both real people, such as actresses Jenny Agutter and Jennifer Aniston, and fictional characters like Jenny from Doctor Who and Jenny Curran from Forrest Gump.

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Jenny (given name)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jenny
Pronunciation

/dni/

Gender

Female

Other names

Related names

Jane, Jennifer, Genevieve, Jen, Jenna


Look up Jenny in
Wiktionary, the free
dictionary.

Jenny was originally the diminutive form of Jane[1] but is now associated
with Jennifer[2] and Genevieve.[citation needed]
It may also be spelled Jenni or Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th
century.[3]
Contents
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1 Famous people
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1.1 Fictional characters

2 See also

3 References

Famous people[edit]

Jenny Agutter (born 1952), English actress

Jennifer Aniston (born 1969), American actress

Jenni Asserholt (born 1988), Swedish ice hockey player

Jenni Baird (born 1976), Australian actress

Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer

Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player

Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist and BBC royal correspondent

Jenny Buckley, Irish television presenter

Jennie Breeden, American comic book artist

Jenni Calder, Scottish literary historian

Jennie Churchill (born 1854), American-born English wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and
mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Jenny Craig (born 1932), American weight loss guru, founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.

Jenni Dahlman (born 1981), Finnish model

Jenni Dant (born 1982), American basketball player

Jenni Engebretsen, American spokesperson

Jenni Falconer (born 1976), Scottish television presenter

Jenny Frost (born 1978), British singer and television presenter

Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka

Jennie Garth (born 1972), American actress

Jenni Keenan Green (born 1970), Scottish actress

Jennifer Grey (born 1960), American actress

Jenni Trent Hughes, British relationships expert and television presenter

Jenni Hucul (born 1988), Canadian bobsledder

Jenni Irani (19231982), Indian cricketer

Jenny Karezi (19321992), Greek film and stage actress

Jenny Lewis, (born 1976), American singer, lead singer of indie rock band Rilo Kiley

Jenny Lind, (18201887), Swedish soprano

Jennifer Lopez (born 1969), American singer and actress

Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American model and comedian

Jenny McCudden, Irish journalist

Jenni Meno (born 1970), American skater

Jenni Murray (born 1950), British journalist and broadcaster

Jenny Nimmo (born 1944), British fantasy author

Jenni Olson (born 1962), American film director

Jenny Pavley (born 1976), American beach volleyball player

Jenny Powell (born 1968), British television presenter

Jenni Rivera (born 1969), Mexican-American musician

Jennifer Serrano, Spanish singer better known as Jenny

Jenny Shepherd (born 1972), New Zealand field hockey player

Jenny Sjdin, Swedish professional wrestler and submission grappler

Jenny von Westphalen (18141881), German woman, wife of Karl Marx

Jenny Whittle (born 1973), Australian basketball player

Jenny Wolf (born 1979), German ice speed skater

Jenni Vhmaa (born 1992), Finnish figure skater

Fictional characters[edit]

Jenny (Doctor Who) in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter"

Jenny Curran, love interest of the protagonist in the film Forrest Gump

Jenny Everywhere, open-source comic character

Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl and It Girl

Jenny Kelly, best friend of Sabrina the Teenage Witch during season 1

Jenny Shepard in television series NCIS

Jenni Vainio in the Finnish drama series Salatut elmt

Jenny Wolek in One Life to Live

Jenny Wakeman, a.k.a. XJ9, in the Nickelodeon cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot

First Mate Jenny, Aldebaran pilot of the Righteous Indignation in the 1980s comic (and later
cartoon) series Bucky O'Hare

Jenny, main female character in Larry Clark's film Kids

Jenny Szalinski, a character from Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

Officer Jenny, the names of the many police officers in Pokemon.

Jenny Reilly, in The Black Donnellys.

Jenny Healy, a character from Double Trouble novel series.

Jenny, a character from the short story Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!

See also[edit]

Jenny (disambiguation), other meanings

References[edit]
1.

Jump up^ Withycombe, E. G. (1970). The Concise Dictionary of English Christian


Names (third ed.). Omega Books.

2.

Jump up^ "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jenny". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2
December 2010.

3.

Jump up^ "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jennie". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2
December 2010.

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