Jenny
Jenny is a female given name and a Swiss family name .
Originally Jenny is an English nickname of Jane (von Johanna ); today this name is mainly associated with Jennifer .
variants
- Jen
- Jenni
- Jennie
- Jenna
- Janne
pronunciation
There are several possible pronunciations of the name Jenny:
- German [ ˈjɛni ] like Jenny von Westphalen
- engl. [ ˈD͡ʒɛni ] or [ ˈd͡ʒɪni ] as with Jenny McCarthy
- French [ ʒɛˈni ]
- dan. [ ˈJɛny ] or [ ˈjɛni ]
name day
- May 31st (Johannes)
Name bearer
First name
- Jenny Agutter (born 1952), British actress
- Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), first American architect
- Jenny Byrne (* 1967), Australian tennis player
- Jenny De la Torre Castro (* 1954), Peruvian-German doctor and founder of the "Jenny De la Torre Foundation"
- Jenny von Droste zu Hülshoff (1795–1859), sister of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- Jenny Frost (* 1978), British pop singer
- Jenny Duncalf (* 1982), British squash player
- Jenny Elvers (* 1972), German actress
- Jenny Enodd (* 1996), Norwegian biathlete
- Jenny Erpenbeck (* 1967), German director and writer
- Jenny Evans (* 1954), British jazz singer
- Jenny Gröllmann (1947-2006), German actress
- Jenny Holzer (* 1950), American conceptual artist
- Jenny Jugo (1904–2001), Austrian actress
- Jenny Klinge (* 1975), Norwegian politician
- Jenny Lind (1820–1887), Swedish opera singer
- Jenny Longuet (1844–1883), eldest daughter of Karl Marx
- Jenny Marx (1814–1881), German socialist and wife of Karl Marx
- Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American actress
- Jennie McCormick , New Zealand amateur astronomer
- Jenny Ohlsson , Swedish diplomat
- Jennie Nilsson (* 1972), Swedish politician
- Jenny Rissveds (* 1994), Swedish cyclist
- Jenny Schily (* 1967), German actress
- Auguste Viktoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1858–1921), last German Empress
- Jenny Schweminski (1859 – approx. 1930), German painter
- Jenny Wallwork (* 1987), British badminton player
- Jenny Wolf (* 1979), German speed skater
family name
- Albert Jenny (1912–1992), Swiss composer and church musician
- Beat Rudolf Jenny (* 1926), Swiss historian and teacher
- Bruno Jenny (* 1959), Swiss project manager and specialist author
- Caspar Jenny (1812–1860), Swiss politician
- Caspar Jenny (poet) (* 1971), Swiss poet and painter
- Charles Jenny (1897–?), Swiss bobsledder
- Christian Jott Jenny (* 1978), Swiss singer, entertainer and producer
- Daniel Jenny (entrepreneur, 1751) (1751–1834), Swiss entrepreneur
- Daniel Jenny (entrepreneur, 1789) (1789–1860), Swiss entrepreneur
- Elmar Jenny (1926–2008), Austrian air rescue pioneer and altitude doctor
- Egmont Jenny (1924–2010), South Tyrolean doctor, politician and publicist
- Franz Jenny (1895–1977), Swiss legal scholar
- Gabriel Jenny (politician) (1810–1891), German politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Gabriel Jenny , real name of Gee-Jay (* 1974), Swiss moderator
- Grete Jenny (1930–2015), Austrian sprinter and hurdler
- Hans Jenny (drawing teacher) (1866–1944), Swiss painter and drawing teacher
- Hans Jenny (art historian) (1894–1942), Swiss art historian
- Hans Jenny (soil scientist) (1899–1992), American soil scientist of Swiss origin
- Hans Jenny (physician) (1904–1972), Swiss physician and natural scientist
- Hans A. Jenny (* 1931), Swiss journalist and non-fiction author
- Hans Robert Jenny (1912–1996), Swiss business journalist and real estate entrepreneur
- Heinrich Jenny (1824–1891), Swiss draftsman and portrait painter
- Heinrich Jenny (National Councilor) (1861–1937), Swiss National Councilor
- Heinrich Jenny (author) (1884–1962), Swiss author and founder of Glarner Lichtspiele AG
- Henri-Martin Félix Jenny (1904–1982), French bishop
- Hitsch Jenny (* 1927), Swiss Swiss orchestra player
- Jean-François Jenny-Clark (1944–1998), French double bass player
- Johann Jenny (1857–1937), Swiss politician
- Josias Jenny (1920–1989), Swiss country musician and composer
- Karl Jenny (1819–1893), Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor
- Ladina Jenny (* 1993), Swiss snowboarder
- Markus Jenny (1924–2001), Swiss theologian and church musician
- Mathias Jenny (1865–1939), Austrian politician (CS) and farmer
- Matthyas Jenny (* 1945), Swiss publisher and literary activist
- Pascal Jenny (* 1974), Swiss handball player, spa director of Arosa
- Peter Jenny (politician, 1800) (1800–1874), Swiss politician and industrialist
- Peter Jenny (politician, 1824) (1824–1879), Swiss politician
- Peter Jenny (mountaineer) , mountaineer (see sport year 1866 )
- Peter Jenny (architect) (* 1942), Swiss university professor for design and author
- Samuel Jenny (1837–1901), Austrian entrepreneur and archaeologist
- This Jenny (1952–2014), Swiss politician (SVP)
- Tina Keller Jenny (1887–1985), Swiss doctor and psychotherapist
- Urs Jenny (* 1938), Swiss journalist and dramaturge
- Wilhelm Albert von Jenny (1896–1960), Austrian art historian, prehistorian and museum director
- William Le Baron Jenney (1832–1907), American architect of the first high-rise buildings
- Zoë Jenny (* 1974), Swiss writer
Others
- Mrs. Jenny Treibel , title of a novel by Theodor Fontane
- Jenny Cavalleri , the main female character in Love Story
- Jenny Fields , the mother of Garp's in , he saw the world and how Garp
- the murder victim Jenny Fortuyn in The Black Birds
- Seeräuber-Jenny , a song from The Threepenny Opera
- Jenny Castle , late classicist building in Thalwil, Switzerland