Penny (given name)
Penny is the given name of:
- Penny Cook, Australian actress, writer and presenter
- Penny Coomes, English ice dancer
- Penny Fuller, American actress
- Penny Hamilton, American pilot
- Penny Hammel, American golfer
- Penny Hart, American football player
- Penny Herscher, American executive
- Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
- Penny Lancaster, English model and photographer, wife of Rod Stewart
- Penny LaRocque, Canadian retired curler
- Penny Marshall, American actress/director
- Penny McCoy, American alpine skier
- Penny Priddy, Canadian politician
- Penny Pritzker, American businesswoman, civic leader and philanthropist
- Penny Pulz, Australian golfer
- Penny Tai, Malaysian-Chinese singer
- Penny Vincenzi, British novelist
- Penny Wolin, American portrait photographer and visual anthropologist
- Penny Woolcock, British filmmaker, opera director and screenwriter
Penny as a nickname
Those with the first name Penelope who commonly go by Penny include:
- Penelope Heyns, South African retired swimmer
- Penny Jamieson, Bishop of Dunedin in the Anglican Church of New Zealand
- Penny Jordan, English best-selling and prolific writer
- Penny Mordaunt, British Member of Parliament
- Penny Pitou, American retired alpine skier
- Penny Singleton, American film actress
- Penny Smith, English television presenter and newsreader
- Penny Taylor, Australian basketball player
- Penny Tranter, Scottish meteorologist
- Penny Valentine, British music journalist
- Penny Wong, Australian Labor Party senator
- Penny Wright, Australian Greens senator
Others using this as a nickname include:
- Penny Chenery, American racehorse owner and breeder
- Penny Thompson, American aviator
- Penny Hardaway, American retired National Basketball Association player
Fictional characters
- The title character of Penny
- Penny, a sitcom character
- Penny, 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 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, 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, a TV medical drama series character
- Penny Widmore, on the TV series Lost
