Penny (disambiguation)
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Penny
A penny is a coin or a type of currency used in several English-speaking countries. It is often the smallest denomination within a currency system.-Etymology:...

is a coin used in several English-speaking countries.

Penny may also refer to:

Coins

  • Penny (English coin)
  • Penny (British decimal coin)
  • Penny (British pre-decimal coin)
    Penny (British pre-decimal coin)
    The penny of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, was in circulation from the early 18th century until February 1971, Decimal Day....

  • Penny (Canadian coin)
    Penny (Canadian coin)
    In Canada, a penny is a coin worth one cent or of a dollar. According to the Royal Canadian Mint, the official national term of the coin is the "one-cent piece", but in practice the term penny or cent is universal. Originally, "penny" referred to a two-cent coin. When the two-cent coin was...

  • Penny (United States coin)

People

  • Penny (surname)
  • Penny Chenery
    Penny Chenery
    Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy is an American sportswoman who bred and raced Secretariat, the 1973 winner of the Triple Crown...

    , an American racehorse owner and breeder
  • Penny Fuller
    Penny Fuller
    Penny Fuller is an American actress.Born in Durham, North Carolina, Fuller attended Northwestern University in Illinois. She then went to New York City to make a name for herself on Broadway...

    , an American actress
  • Penny Hardaway
    Penny Hardaway
    Anfernee Deon "Penny" Hardaway is a former American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association , specializing as a small forward, shooting guard, and point guard. His most productive years came in his days as a member of the Orlando Magic as well as the early...

    , an American basketball player
  • Penny Johnson Jerald
    Penny Johnson Jerald
    Penny Johnson Jerald is an American actress.  She played Beverly Barnes on the HBO comedy series The Larry Sanders Show, Kasidy Yates on the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Sherry Palmer on the Fox action/drama series 24.-Career:Trained at the Juilliard School,...

    , an American actress
  • Penny Jordan
    Penny Jordan
    Penny Halsall, née Penelope Jones better known by her pen name of Penny Jordan, is a best-selling and prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels...

    , pen-name of a best-selling English author
  • Penny Marshall
    Penny Marshall
    Penny Marshall is an American actress, producer and director.After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley...

    , an American actress, producer and director.
  • Penny Pritzker
    Penny Pritzker
    Penny Sue Pritzker is an American business executive, and a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, one of America's wealthiest business families...

    , an American business executive
  • Penny Rimbaud
    Penny Rimbaud
    Jeremy John Ratter , better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977.-Biography:Rimbaud Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943,...

    , pseudonym of an English musician
  • Penny Singleton
    Penny Singleton
    Penny Singleton was an American film actress. Born Marianna Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania she was the daughter of an Irish-American newspaperman Benny McNulty — from whom she received the nickname "Penny" because she was "as bright as a penny".During her sixty...

    , an American film actress
  • Penny Smith
    Penny Smith
    Penelope Jane Smith is an English television presenter and newsreader. She has worked on the breakfast TV show GMTV, for Sky News and for Classic FM.-Early life:...

    , an English television presenter and newsreader
  • Penny Taylor, an Australian basketball player
  • Penny Valentine
    Penny Valentine
    Penelope Ann Valentine was a British music journalist, rock critic, and occasional television personality....

    , a British music journalist
  • Penny Wong
    Penny Wong
    Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong , is an Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia and the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Wong was the first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. Her appointment was amended on 26 February 2010, by the Prime Minister, to the...

    , an Australian Labor Party senator

Fictional characters

  • Penny (comic strip)
    Penny (comic strip)
    Penny was a comic strip about a teenage girl by Harry Haenigsen which maintained its popularity for almost three decades. It was distributed by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate from 1943 to 1970....

    , a comic strip by Harry Haenigsen about a teenage girl named Penny
  • Penny (The Big Bang Theory character), a fictional character on the CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

     sitcom The Big Bang Theory
  • Penny Hartz, a fictional character on the ABC
    American Broadcasting Company
    The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

     sitcom Happy Endings
    Happy Endings (TV series)
    Happy Endings is an American television series for the ABC network. The single-camera ensemble comedy premiered on April 13, 2011, as a midseason replacement, with a one-hour premiere of two back-to-back episodes starting at 9:30 pm ET/PT...

  • Penny (The Rescuers), a character in the animated Disney film The Rescuers
  • Penny, a character in the animated Nickelodeon show The Mighty B!
    The Mighty B!
    The Mighty B! is an American animated television series co-created by Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girlscout that believes she will become a superhero called the Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge...

  • Penny, a character in the animated Disney film Bolt
  • Penny, a character in the animated television series Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted cyborg detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr...

  • Penny Sanchez, a character in the animated television series ChalkZone
    ChalkZone
    ChalkZone is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon. It was created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber, and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon TV channel...

  • Penny Pingleton, a character in the 1988 film Hairspray and subsequent adaptations
  • Penny Proud, a character from The Proud Family
    The Proud Family
    The Proud Family is an American animated television series that premiered on Disney Channel from September 15, 2001 to August 19, 2005.-Production:...

    .
  • Penny, a character from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
    Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
    Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical tragicomedy miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr...

  • Penny, a corrector from the cartoon of the same name that appeared as a segment of the show Pee-wee's Playhouse
    Pee-wee's Playhouse
    Pee-wee's Playhouse is an American children's television program starring Paul Reubens as the child-like Pee-wee Herman. The show was developed from Reubens' popular stage show and the one-off TV special The Pee-wee Herman Show, produced for HBO, which was similar in style but featured much more...

  • Penny, the female counterpart to Tux the Penguin in Linux computer games
  • Penny Halliwell
    Penny Halliwell
    Penelope Halliwell is a recurring, supporting fictional character from the WB television series Charmed that acts in our world from beyond death....

     from the WB television series Charmed
  • Penny Rourke in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
  • Penny Valentine (Holby City)
    Penny Valentine (Holby City)
    Persephone "Penny" Valentine is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama television series Holby City, portrayed by actress Emma Catherwood. She appeared from 2009-11, in the programme's eleventh to thirteenth series. Penny was introduced alongside her younger brother, Oliver , as a...

  • Penny Widmore
    Penny Widmore
    Penelope "Penny" Widmore is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Sonya Walger. Penny is introduced in the last episode of the second season of Lost as the long-lost lover of Desmond Hume as well as the daughter of British tycoon and antagonist Charles Widmore...

     on the ABC television series Lost

Songs

  • "Penny", a song by Night Ranger from Dawn Patrol
    Dawn Patrol
    Dawn Patrol is the debut album by Night Ranger released in 1982. The band was named Ranger during the recording of the album. The first issues of the album were printed and ready to be shipped when it was discovered that there was a country band from California with the same name...

  • "Pennies", a song on the Smashing Pumpkins' Zero
    Zero (song)
    "Zero" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the third single from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and was a return to the familiar angsty rock of the first single, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". This style of their music was called...

     EP
  • "Pennies", a song by The Cool Kids
    The Cool Kids
    The Cool Kids is an American hip hop group. Consisting of rappers Antoine "Sir Michael Rocks" Reed and Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll , the group is based in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan...


Other

  • The Penny
    The Penny
    The Penny was a planned free alternative newspaper for London, based on the model of New York’s Village Voice and other North American alt-weeklies....

    , a short-lived London newspaper
  • Penny, British Columbia
    Penny, British Columbia
    Penny is a community located between Longworth and Dome Creek on the north bank of the Fraser River in central British Columbia, Canada. It was established as a station on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914. Penny Post Office opened 1 February 1916 with Nels Pederson as postmaster...

    , a community in Canada
  • Penny, a unit of measurement for nails in the United States
  • Penny Black
    Penny Black
    The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was issued in Britain on 1 May 1840, for official use from 6 May of that year....

    , the world's first adhesive postage stamp
  • Penny dreadful
    Penny Dreadful
    A penny dreadful was a type of British fiction publication in the 19th century that usually featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing an penny...

    , cheap sensational fiction publication

See also

  • Pennie (soccer), a type of jersey
  • Pennying
    Pennying
    Pennying is a drinking game popular amongst students attending various universities throughout the United Kingdom. It is one of the International Drinking Rules, or Pub Rules...

    , a drinking game popular in United Kingdom universities
  • Penney
    Penney
    Penney is a common surname of British origin.The name Penney dates from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It was derived from the Old English "Penig," denoting a coin...

    , surname
  • Penney (disambiguation)
    Penney (disambiguation)
    Penney is a common English surname.Penney may also refer to:* J.C. Penney, American department store chain* Penneys, Irish clothing store* Penney Farms, Florida, U.S.* Penney's game, a two-player coin tossing game...

  • Penni (disambiguation)
  • Pence (disambiguation)
    Pence (disambiguation)
    Pence is a plural of penny, a coin or unit of currency.Pence is also the name of several places in the United States:* Pentz, California - also called Pence* Pence, Indiana* Pence, Kansas* Pence, Wisconsin...

  • Penelope (disambiguation)
    Penelope (disambiguation)
    Penelope is a character in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey.Penelope may also refer to:* Penelope , a disambiguation page-In literature and mythology:*Penelope , mother of the god Pan in Greek mythology...

  • Penny dreadful (disambiguation)
    Penny Dreadful (disambiguation)
    A penny dreadful is a 19th century British fiction publication that cost a penny.Penny Dreadful may also refer to:* Penny Dreadful , 2006 independent horror film* Penny Dreadful , second novel by Will Christopher Baer...

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