Lenny (given name)

Lenny or Lennie is a given name, often a nickname for Leonard, and may refer to:

People

In sports

  • Leonard Lenny Dykstra (born 1963), American former Major League Baseball player
  • Lenny Fernandes Coelho (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
  • Leonard Lennie Friedman (born 1976), American former National Football League player
  • Lenny Hayes (born 1980), former Australian rules footballer
  • Leonid Lenny Krayzelburg (born 1975), Ukrainian-born American swimmer, four-time Olympic gold medalist
  • Jan Leonardus Lennie Louw (born 1959), South African-born Namibian cricketer
  • Lenny Permana (born 1975), female badminton player from Australia
  • Lennie Rosenbluth (born 1933), American former college basketball and National Basketball Association player
  • Lenny Wilkens (born 1937), American former National Basketball Association player and coach, member of several Halls of Fame as player and coach
  • Lennie Waite (born 1986), British female track and field athlete

In music

  • Lenny Fontana (active from 1985), American house music DJ
  • Lennie Hayton (1908-1971), American composer and conductor
  • Lenny Kaye (born 1946), American musician, composer and writer, guitarist of Patti Smith Group
  • Leonard Lenny Kravitz (born 1964), American rock/hard rock singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist
  • Lenny Waronker (born 1941), American record label executive and producer

In film and television

  • Lenny Clarke (born 1953), actor, writer, and producer
  • Lenny Henry (born 1958), British stand-up comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
  • Lennie James (born 1965), British actor
  • Leonard Alfred Schneider Lenny Bruce (1925-1966),an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist

Other

  • Leonard DiMaria (born 1941), New York mobster
  • Hugh Leonard Lenny Murphy (1952-1982), psychopathic killer from Northern Ireland, member of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force

Fictional characters

gollark: You can save time by just pledging your allegiance to me.
gollark: The Internet is kind of terrible because of historical inertia (we're still on IPv4 everywhere for some reason? NAT everywhere, overzealous middleboxes, etc are very wasteful), but it generally works.
gollark: Yes, arbitrarily smart people can just derive all information via Solomonoff induction (good).
gollark: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apioform
gollark: Maybe you should check the abstract concept of bees.

See also

  • Lenny the Lion (disambiguation)
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