and television presenter Marco Benny Benassi also known as Benny Benassi, Italian musician Benjamin Bennie McRae (1939–2012), American National Football League player Bennie Moten (1894–1935), American jazz pianist and bandleader Bennie Oosterbaan (1906–1990), American college football, basketball and baseball player and head coach Benny Bass (1904–1975), American Hall-of-Fame world champion featherweight and junior lightweight boxer Benny Begin (born 1943), Israeli politician Benny Friedman (1905–1982), American football quarterback, member of the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame Benny Goodman (1909–1986), American jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Leonard (1896–1947), American world champion Hall-of-Fame lightweight boxer born Benjamin Leiner Benny Parsons (1941–2007), American NASCAR driver and color commentator Other Horacio Benedict Bennie Blades (born 1966), American retired National Football League player Bernhard Bennie Borgmann (1900–1978), pioneering professional basketball player and head coach Henry Bennett Bennie Tate (1901–1973), American Major League Baseball catcher Bennett Benny Carter (1907–2003), American jazz musician and bandleader Bernard Benny Gallagher (born 1945), Scottish singer-songwriter and half of the duo Gallagher and Lyle Jergen Benny Nielsen (footballer, born 17 March 1951) (born 1951), Danish footballer Fictional characters Benny, a squirrel in 2006 Disney animated film The Wild Benny the Bull, in the children's animated television series Dora the Explorer Benny the Cab, who first appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit Benny Shaw, protagonist in two children's novels by Irish author Eoin Colfer Bernice Summerfield, companion of the Seventh Doctor in the expanded Doctor Who universe Benny, a blue 1980s style spaceman from The Lego Movie. Benny, the secondary antagonist of Fallout: New Vegas Benny Hawkins, character in Crossroads (British TV series) (played by Paul Henry) See also Beny (disambiguation) Masculine given names Hypocorisms