Jenny was originally the diminutive form of Jane, ^[1] but it is now associated with Jennifer. ^[2]

It may also be spelt Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century. ^[3]

• Jenny Agutter (born 1952), British actress
• Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (c. 1922–1946), German concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
• Jenny Beavan (born 1950), English costume designer
• Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer
• Jenny Berrigan (born 1983), American snowboarder
• Jenny Berthelius (1923–2019), Swedish crime novelist and children's writer
• Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player
• Jennie M. Bingham (1859–1933), American author and littérateur
• Jenny Blanco (born 1985), Dominican model
• Jenny Body, British aerospace engineer
• Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist
• Jenny Buckley (born 1979), Irish actress and television presenter
• Jenny Campbell (artist) (1895–1970), Scottish artist
• Jennie Carignan, Canadian lieutenant-general
• Jennie Casseday (1840–1893), American philanthropist
• Jennie Chen (1906–1971), second wife of Chiang Kai-shek
• Jennie Churchill (1854–1921), American-born British socialite
• Jennie Thornley Clarke (1860–1924), American educator, writer, and anthologist
• Jennie Collins (1828–1887), American labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist
• Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin (1841–1900), American author and social activist
• Jenny Craig (entrepreneur) (born 1932), American weight-loss guru
• Jenny Crain (born 1968), American long-distance runner
• Jenny Danielsson (born 1994), Finnish footballer
• Jenny Diver (c.1700–1741), Irish pickpocket
• Jenny af Forselles (1869–1938), Finnish teacher and politician
• Jenny Frost (born 1978), English singer and television presenter
• Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka
• Jennie Garth (born 1972), American actress
• Jenny Gusyk (1897–1944), Turkish-Jewish woman enrolled as the first female and foreign student at the University of Cologne
• Jenny Han (born 1980), Korean-American author of young adult fiction and children's fiction
• Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek DJ, book author and former brothel madam
• Jennie Florella Holmes (1842-1892), American suffragist and temperance activist
• Jenny Howell (died 1984), American murder victim
• Jenny Hval (born 1980), Norwegian singer-songwriter, record producer, and novelist
• Jennie Joseph, midwife and activist
• Jenny Karezi (1932–1992), Greek film and stage actress
• Jennie Murray Kemp (1858–1928), American temperance activist
• Jenny Kenney (1884–1961), British suffragette and Montessori teacher
• Jenny Kim (born 1994), South Korean model and beauty pageant titleholder
• Jennie Kim (born 1996), South Korean singer, member of girl group Blackpink
• Jenny Lewis (born 1976), American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
• Jenny Lind (1820–1887), Swedish opera singer
• Jennifer Lopez (born 1969), American singer, dancer and actress
• Jenny Marcroft (born 1963), New Zealand politician
• Jenny Markelin-Svensson (1882–1929), Finnish professional inspector and Finland's first female engineer
• Jenny Mastoraki (born 1949), Greek poet and translator
• Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American actress, model, and television personality
• Jenny McCudden, Irish journalist, newspaper editor, author and television producer
• Jenny B. Merrill (1854–1934), American early childhood educator and author
• Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier (1841–1915), American physician
• Jenny Nimmo (born 1944), British fantasy author
• Jenny Nyström (1854–1946), Swedish painter and illustrator
• Jenny Nyström (badminton) (born 1994), Finnish badminton player
• Jenny Ohlsson (born 1975), Swedish diplomat
• Jenny Pat (1981–2014), Hong Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian international art dealer, visual artist, and television personality
• Jenny Pavley (born 1976), American beach volleyball player
• Jenny Pike (1922–2004), Canadian photographer and servicewoman
• Jennie O'Neill Potter (1867–1900), American actor and dramatic reader
• Jenny Powell (born 1968), English television and radio presenter
• Jenny Ramp (born 2003), Filipino-American model and beauty pageant titleholder
• Jenny Rautionaho (born 1996), Finnish ski jumper
• Jenny Shepherd (born 1972), New Zealand field hockey player
• Jennie Hart Sibley (1846–1917), American temperance leader
• Jenny Sjödin (born 1985), Swedish professional wrestler and submission grappler
• Jenny Slate (born 1982), American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer
• Jennie Somogyi, American ballet dancer
• Jennie O. Starkey (c. 1856–1918), American journalist and newspaper editor
• Jenny Tan (born 1981), Indonesian television presenter
• Jennie Lasby Tessmann (1882–1959), American spectroscopist and college educator
• Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge (born 1941), British politician
• Jenny Upari (1882–1948), Finnish politician
• Jenny Vanou (1939–2014), Greek singer
• Jenny von Westphalen (1814–1881), German theatre critic and political activist
• Jenny Whittle (born 1973), Australian basketball player
• Jenny Wolf (born 1979), German speed skater
• Jenny Yokobori (born 1997), American voice actress

• Jenny, a character in the 1984 American musical comedy movie The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Jenny, a character in the 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie Little Secrets
• Jenny, in the 2008 Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter"
• Jenny, a character from the hybrid live-action/animated series Wild Kratts
• Jenny Flint, part of a trio who occasionally helps the Doctor in Doctor Who
• Jenny in the Wayside School books and cartoon
• Jenny, the main female character in Larry Clark's 1995 film Kids
• Jenny Ballinger, a character in the TV sitcom The Ropers
• Jenny Bradley, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Jenny Cavalleri, female protagonist in Love Story
• Jenny Curran, a character in the 1994 film Forrest Gump
• Jenny Everywhere, open-source comic character
• Jenny Foxworth, a child character in the 1988 Disney film Oliver & Company
• Jenny Hayden, a character in the 1984 American science fiction romance movie Starman
• Jenny Helmandollar, a character from Louds
• Jenny Humphrey, a character in Gossip Girl and It Girl
• Jenny, a character in the 2005 South Korean romance film Jenny, Juno
• Jenny Kelly, a character in the 1996 series Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)
• Jenny Lerner, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie Deep Impact
• Jenny McBride, a mouse from The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
• Jenny Pizza, a character in the animated series Steven Universe
• Jenny Reilly, a character in the series The Black Donnellys
• Jenny Romano, a character from The Darkness
• Jenny Schecter, a main character from The L Word
• Jenny Scott in the 1991 thriller Shattered
• Jenny Shepard in the television series NCIS
• Jenny Skoutari, the protagonist in the film Jenny Jenny
• Jenny Sparks and Jenny Quantum in The Authority comic books
• Jenny Szalinski in the 1997 American film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
• Jenny Wakeman in the Nickelodeon cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot
• Jenny Wolek in the soap opera One Life to Live
• Jenny The Witch in the film Big Fish (2003) and the novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998)
• Jenny Woodentop, a character from the 1950s children TV series The Woodentops
• First Mate Jenny, character in the 1980s comic series Bucky O'Hare
• Low-Dive Jenny/Ginny Jenny, in The Threepenny Opera
• Officer Jenny, the name of the many police officers in Pokémon

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