Jenny (given name)
Jenny is a female first name and a Swiss family name.
Originally, it was at Jenny for an English diminutive of Jane ( Johanna ); Today, this name is particularly associated with but Jennifer.
Variants
- Jen
- Jenni
- Jennie
- Jenna
Pronunciation
There are several possible pronunciations of the name Jenny:
- Dt [ jɛni ] as Jenny von Westphalen
- Engl. [ D͡ʒɛni ] or [ d͡ʒɪni ] as with Jenny McCarthy
- French [ ʒɛni ]
- Dän. [ Jɛny ] or [ jɛni ]
Name-day
- January 31st ( John)
Well-known bearers of the name
First name
- Jenny Agutter ( b. 1952 ), British actress
- Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913), first American architect
- Jenny de la Torre Castro (born 1954 ), German -Peruvian doctor
- Jenny von Droste zu Hulshoff (1795-1859), sister of Annette von Droste-
- Jenny Elvers- Elbertzhagen (* 1972), German actress
- Jenny Gröllmann (1947-2006), German actress
- Jenny Holzer ( b. 1950 ), American conceptual artist
- Jenny Lind (1820-1887), Swedish opera singer
- Jenny Longuet (1844-1883), eldest daughter of Karl Marx
- Jenny Marx, nee von Westphalen (1814-1881), wife of Karl Marx
- Jenny McCarthy (born 1972 ), American actress
- Jenny Schily ( * 1967 ), German actress
- Jenny Schweminski (1859 -ca. 1930), the Berlin painter
Family name
- Bruno Jenny ( born 1959 ), Swiss project manager and author
- Daniel Jenny ( Entrepreneur, 1751 ) ( 1751-1834 ), Swiss entrepreneur
- Daniel Jenny ( business, 1789) ( 1789-1860 ), Swiss entrepreneur
- Egmont Jenny (1924-2010), South Tyrol doctor, politician and publicist
- Jenny Francis (1895-1977), Swiss legal scholars
- Hans Jenny ( drawing teacher ) ( 1866-1944 ), Swiss painter and teacher of drawing
- Hans Jenny ( art historian ) ( 1894-1942 ), Swiss art historian
- Hans Jenny ( geologist ) ( 1899-1992 ), American geologist Swiss origin
- Hans Jenny (physician) ( 1904-1972 ), Swiss physician and naturalist
- Hans Jenny A. ( born 1931 ), Swiss journalist and nonfiction author
- Robert Hans Jenny (1912-1996), Swiss business journalist and real estate entrepreneur
- Hitsch Jenny (* 1927), Swiss Swiss accordion player
- Jean -François Jenny -Clark (1944-1998), French double bass player
- Johann Jenny (1857-1937), Swiss politician
- Markus Jenny (1924-2001), Swiss theologian and church musician
- Mathias Jenny (1865-1939), Austrian politician (CS) and farmer
- Matthyas Jenny ( born 1945 ), Swiss publishers and literary activists
- Pascal Jenny ( born 1974 ), Swiss Handball Player, spa director of Arosa
- Samuel Jenny (1837-1901), an Austrian businessman and archaeologist
- This Jenny ( born 1952 ), Swiss politician (SVP )
- Urs Jenny ( born 1938 ), Swiss journalist and playwright
- William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907), American architect of the first skyscrapers
- Zoë Jenny ( born 1974 ), Swiss writer
Others
- Jenny Treibel title of a novel by Theodor Fontane
- Jenny Cavalleri, the main female character in Love Story
- Jenny Fields, Garp's mother in Garp and how he saw the world
- The murder victim Jenny Fortuyn in the black birds
- Pirate Jenny, a song from the Threepenny Opera