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 Grice-Whittaker (born 1964), British golfer
- 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 and director, who is best known for playing a character in Laverne & Shirley
- 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 3D computer-animated Disney film Bolt (2008), voiced by Miley Cyrus
- Penny, from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, an online miniseries
- Penny, the niece of the titular character in the 1980s animated television series Inspector Gadget
- Penny, from the claymation cartoon of the same name that appeared as a segment of the show Pee-wee's Playhouse
- Penny, in the Nickelodeon animated television series 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 Cartoon Network animated television series The Amazing World of Gumball
- Penny Halliwell, from The WB 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 2000 film Almost Famous
- Penny Ling, a anthropomorphic panda in the children's animated television series Littlest Pet Shop
- Penny Morris, the female firefighter from the Welsh children's animated television 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 anime RWBY
- Penny the Pony Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Penny Proud, a female black protagonist in the animated television series The Proud Family
- Penny Robinson (Lost in Space), a TV and film character
- Penny Rourke, in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Penny Sanchez, a supporting character in the animated television series ChalkZone
- Penny Scavo, in the television series Desperate Housewives
- Penny Tompkins, in the animated television comedy The Critic
- Penny Valentine (Holby City), a character in the television medical drama
- Penny Widmore, on the ABC television drama Lost
- Penny Baker Williams, a character in the television sitcom Step by Step
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