Lenny (given name)
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Lenny or Lennie is a given name (often a nickname for Leonard), and may refer to:
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In fiction:
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In sports:
- Lenny Fernandes CoelhoLenny Fernandes CoelhoLenny Fernandes Coelho or simply Lenny , is a Brazilian striker.-Biography:Lenny left Fluminense in January 2008, which the club made a profit of R$ 1,500 thousand...
, Brazilian footballer - Lenny DykstraLenny DykstraLeonard Kyle "Lenny" Dykstra , nicknamed "Nails" and "Dude", is a former Major League Baseball center fielder. Dykstra played for the New York Mets during the late 1980s before playing for the Philadelphia Phillies during the early 1990s....
, American former baseball player - Lennie FriedmanLennie FriedmanLeonard Lebrecht Friedman is an American football offensive lineman who is currently a free agent in the National Football League....
, American football player (Cleveland BrownsCleveland BrownsThe Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
) - Lenny HayesLenny HayesLenny Hayes is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.Hayes is a former captain of St Kilda and continues to be an onfield leader in the Saints' midfield....
, Australian rules footballer - Lenny KrayzelburgLenny KrayzelburgLenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....
, Ukrainian-born American Olympic 4x champion swimmer - Lennie LouwLennie LouwJan Leonardus Louw is a South African-born Namibian cricketer.Louw made his One Day International debut for Namibia in the World Cup in 2003 at the age of 43, having spent the previous 27 years playing first-class cricket in South Africa...
, South African-born Namibian cricketer - Lenny MontanaLenny MontanaLenny Montana was an American actor, who played the role of feared hitman Luca Brasi in The Godfather. Prior to becoming an actor, he had a successful career as a professional wrestler,...
, wrestler turned film actor - Lenny PermanaLenny PermanaLenny Permana is a female badminton player from Australia.Permana played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Kelly Morgan of Great Britain in the round of 32. She currently coaches for BAV at Kilsyth.- External links :*...
, female badminton player from Australia - Lennie RosenbluthLennie RosenbluthLeonard Robert "Lennie" Rosenbluth is an American former basketball player.-Biography:...
, American NBA basketball forward - Lenny WilkensLenny WilkensLeonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is a retired American basketball player and coach in the NBA...
, former basketball player
In music:
- Lennie HaytonLennie HaytonLeonard George "Lennie" Hayton was an American Jewish composer, conductor and arranger. His trademark was the wearing of a captain’s hat, which he always wore at a rakish angle....
(1908-1971), American composer and conductor - Lenny KayeLenny KayeLenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.- Early life :...
, American musician, guitarist of Patti Smith Group - Lenny KravitzLenny KravitzLeonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...
, American rock/hard rock singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist - Lenny WaronkerLenny WaronkerLenny Waronker is a record producer for Warner Bros. Records.-Career:He produced recording sessions for Nancy Sinatra, The Everly Brothers, Van Dyke Parks, The Beau Brummels, Harpers Bizarre, Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Arlo Guthrie, Maria Muldaur, Gordon Lightfoot, Rickie Lee Jones, James Taylor, ...
, American record label executive and producer
In television and film:
- Lenny ClarkeLenny ClarkeLenny Clarke is an American comedian and actor, famous for his thick Boston accent and role as Uncle Teddy on the series Rescue Me. During the 1970s, as related in the Comedy Central roast of Clarke's friend Denis Leary, Clarke ran for mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. When asked by Leary what...
, actor, writer, and producer - Lennie JamesLennie JamesLennie James is an English actor and playwright.-Career:James attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1988...
, British actor - Lennie MayneLennie MayneLennie Mayne was an Australian television director, who started out as a dancer before becoming a choreographer and then spent much of his career working in British television....
, Australian television director
In other fields:
- Lenny BruceLenny BruceLeonard Alfred Schneider , better known by the stage name Lenny Bruce, was a Jewish-American comedian, social critic and satirist...
, comedian and satirist - Lenny HenryLenny HenryLenworth George "Lenny" Henry, is a British actor, writer, comedian and occasional television presenter.- Early life :...
, comedian - Lenny MurphyLenny MurphyHugh Leonard Thompson Murphy, who commonly went by the name Lenny , was an Ulster loyalist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Murphy was a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force and leader of the infamous Shankill Butchers a gang which became notorious for its torture and murder of Catholic men...
, psychopathic killer
In fiction:
- Lennie Small, principal character in the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and MenOf Mice and MenOf Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, USA....
- Lenny Kosnowski, character in Laverne and Shirley
- Lenny Leonard, minor character in The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
who works at the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant
Also see:
- Lenny the Lion (disambiguation)