Bonnie

For other uses, see Bonnie (disambiguation).

Bonnie

Pronunciation	/ˈbɒni/ BON-ee
Gender	male or female
Origin
Word/name	Scottish
Meaning	Pretty, Attractive, Beautiful, Good
Other names
Related names	Bonita

Bonnie is a Scottish given name for either girls or boys, and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That is in turn derived from the Latin word "bonus" (good). The name can also be used as a pet form of Bonita.

Cultural

The Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" was covered by The Beatles a year after their formation in 1961, peaking at #5 in a German chart.

Bonnie the orangutan was noted for her musical abilities, namely whistling.

Tropical systems and hurricanes

• Hurricane Bonnie (1986) (struck Texas and Louisiana)
• Hurricane Bonnie (1992)
• Hurricane Bonnie (1998) (struck North Carolina)
• Tropical Storm Bonnie (2004) (struck northwest Florida)

Notable people

Women

• Bonnie Bartlett (born 1929), American actress
• Bonnie Bedelia (born 1948), American actress
• Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sportscaster
• Bonnie Bianco (born 1963), American singer and actress
• Bonnie Blair (born 1964), retired American speedskater
• Bonnie Bramlett (born 1944), American singer and sometime actress
• Bonnie Cinnamon (born 1997), Vietnamese receptionist
• Bonnie Crombie (born 1960), Canadian politician, formerly Member of the Canadian Parliament
• Bonnie Curtis (born 1966), American film producer
• Bonnie Dasse (born 1959), retired American track and field athlete
• Bonnie Dobson (born 1940), Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist
• Bonnie Dunbar (born 1949), retired American astronaut
• Bonnie Franklin (1944-2013), American actress
• Bonnie Fuller (born 1956), Canadian media executive
• Bonnie Gadusek (born 1963), retired American professional tennis player
• Bonnie Garland, American murder victim
• Bonnie Gold, American mathematician
• Bonnie Greer (born 1948), American-British playwright, novelist and critic
• Bonnie Guitar (born 1923), American Country-Pop Singer
• Bonnie Hunt (born 1961), comedian, actress, director, producer, writer, host, and voice artist
• Bonnie Koloc (born 1946), American folk music singer-songwriter, actress, and artist
• Bonnie Langford (born 1964), British actress, dancer and entertainer
• Bonnie Loo (born 1994, winner of Singaporean singing competition, Campus SuperStar (season 4)
• Bonnie Lou (born 1924), American rock and roll and country music singer
• Bonnie Lythgoe, former British dancer, theatre producer and director
• Bonnie MacBird (born 1951), American actress, playwright, screenwriter and producer
• Bonnie Mathieson (1945-2018), American scientist
• Bonnie McFarlane (born 1973), Canadian stand-up comedian and writer
• Bonnie McKee (born 1984), award-winning American singer, songwriter, and actress
• Bonnie Mealing (1912-2002), Australian freestyle and backstroke swimmer
• Bonnie Owens (1929-2006), American country music singer
• Bonnie Parker (1910-1934), American gangster (Bonnie and Clyde)
• Bonnie Pink (born 1973), Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician
• Bonnie Poe (1912-1993), American actress
• Bonnie Pointer (born 1950), American R&B and disco singer (of The Pointer Sisters)
• Bonnie Raitt (born 1949), American blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player
• Bonnie Rideout (born 1962), award-winning Scottish fiddler
• Bonnie Schneider, American television meteorologist and author
• Bonnie Sherr Klein (born 1941), Canadian feminist filmmaker, author and disability rights activist
• Bonnie Somerville (born 1974), American actress and singer
• Bonnie Tyler (born 1951), Welsh singer
• Bonnie Wright (born 1991), British actress, fashion model, screenwriter, director and producer
• Bonnie Zacherle (born 1946), American designer, Creator of My Little Pony toy line.

Men

• Bonnie Stewart (died 1994), professor of mathematics
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (b. 1970), stage name for Will Oldham
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (b.1720), also known as Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• Bonaventure (b.1221), St. Bonaventure, contemporary of St. Thomas Aquinas

Fictional characters

• Bonnie Swanson, from the animated series Family Guy
• Bonnie Anderson, in Toy Story 3
• Bonnie McCullough, a character in the book series, The Vampire Diaries
• Bonnie Bennett, from the television series The Vampire Diaries
• Bonnie Malloy, the main character of the TV series Life with Bonnie
• Bonnie Rockwaller, the self-proclaimed "mean girl" on the animated series "Kim Possible"
• Bonnie Winterbottom, a character in the TV series How To Get Away With Murder
• Bonnie Butler, in Gone with the Wind
• Bonnie MacFarlane, a major character in Red Dead Redemption
• Bonnie the Rabbit, a major character in Five Nights at Freddy's
• Bonnie, one of Ash Ketchum's friends and is Clemont's younger sister in Pokémon The Series: XY
• Bonnie Plunkett, main character in CBS sitcom Mom
• Bonnie, a character from the Walking Dead video games 400 Days and Season Two
• Bonnie McMurray, a reoccuring character on the Canadian television sitcom Letterkenny