Penny (given name)

Penny is the given name of:

• Penny Cook (born 1957-2018), Australian actress, writer and presenter
• Penny Coomes (born 1989), English ice dancer
• Penny Fuller (born 1940), American actress
• Penny Hamilton (born 1948), American pilot
• Penny Hammel (born 1962), American golfer
• Penny Hart (born 1996), American football player
• Penny Herscher, American executive
• Penny Johnson Jerald (born 1961), American actress
• Penny Lancaster (born 1971), English model and photographer, wife of Rod Stewart
• Penny LaRocque (born c. 1943), Canadian retired curler
• Penny Marshall (1943–2018), American actress/director
• Penny McCoy (born 1949), American alpine skier
• Penny Priddy (born 1944), Canadian politician
• Penny Pritzker (born 1959), American businesswoman, civic leader and philanthropist
• Penny Pulz (born 1953), Australian golfer
• Penny Tai (born 1978), Malaysian-Chinese singer
• Penny Vincenzi (1939-2018), British novelist
• Penny Wolin (born 1953), American portrait photographer and visual anthropologist
• Penny Woolcock (born 1950), British filmmaker, opera director and screenwriter

Penny as a nickname

Those with the first name Penelope who commonly go by Penny include:

• Penelope Heyns (born 1974), South African retired swimmer
• Penny Jamieson (born 1942), Bishop of Dunedin in the Anglican Church of New Zealand (1989-2004)
• Penny Jordan (1946–2011), English best-selling and prolific writer
• Penny Mordaunt (born 1973), British Member of Parliament
• Penny Pitou (born 1938), American retired alpine skier
• Penny Singleton (1908–2003), American film actress
• Penny Smith (born 1958), English television presenter and newsreader
• Penny Taylor (born 1981), Australian basketball player
• Penny Tranter (born 1961), Scottish meteorologist
• Penny Valentine (1943–2003), British music journalist
• Penny Wong (born 1968), Australian Labor Party senator
• Penny Wright (born 1961), Australian Greens senator

Others using this as a nickname include:

• Penny Chenery (1922–2017), American racehorse owner and breeder
• Penny Thompson (1917–1975), American aviator
• Penny Hardaway (born 1971), American retired National Basketball Association player

Fictional characters

• The title character of Penny (comic strip)
• Penny (The Big Bang Theory), a sitcom character
• Penny (The Rescuers), an animated Disney film character
• Penny, in the animated Disney film Bolt
• Penny, from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, an Internet mini-series
• Penny, in the animated television series Inspector Gadget
• Penny, from the cartoon of the same name that appeared as a segment of the show Pee-wee's Playhouse
• Penny, in the animated Nickelodeon show The Mighty B!
• Penny, the female counterpart to Tux the Penguin in Linux computer games
• Penny Crygor, a WarioWare character
• Penny Fitzgerald, an antlered peanut from the animated TV series The Amazing World of Gumball
• Penny Halliwell, from the series Charmed
• Penny Hartz, on the sitcom Happy Endings
• Penny Haywood, from the mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Penny Lane, a fictional character from the film Almost Famous
• Penny Ling, a panda in the children's cartoon Littlest Pet Shop
• Penny Morris, the female firefighter from the children's animated TV series Fireman Sam
• Penny Peterson, a character in the 2014 film Mr. Peabody & Sherman
• Penny Pingleton, in the 1988 film Hairspray and subsequent adaptations.
• Penny Pingwing, a character from Pingwings.
• Penny Polendina, from the 2013 Rooster Teeth series RWBY
• Penny the Pony Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
• Penny Proud, from the American animated TV series The Proud Family
• Penny Robinson (Lost in Space), a TV and movie character
• Penny Rourke, in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
• Penny Sanchez, in the animated TV series ChalkZone
• Penny Scavo, in the TV series Desperate Housewives
• Penny Valentine (Holby City), a TV medical drama series character
• Penny Widmore, on the TV series Lost