Ginny or Ginnie is an English feminine given name or diminutive, frequently of Virginia.
People
Virginia
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Ginny Arnell (born 1942), American singer and songwriter born Virginia Mazarro
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Ginny Blackmore
Virginia Blackmore (born 6 March 1986) is a singer and songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand. Blackmore's song, ''Bones'', has received regular airplay throughout the United States and she has also performed the song on Weekend Mixtape and the ...
(born 1986), New Zealand singer and songwriter
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Ginny Brown-Waite
Virginia Brown-Waite (born Virginia Frances Kniffen; October 5, 1943) is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party and a founder of Maggie's List.
The district stretched along sev ...
(born 1943), American politician
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Ginny Burdick
Virginia Burdick (born December 3, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oregon, who served seven terms in the Oregon State Senate. She represented Tigard and Southwest Portland in Senate District 18.[Ginnie Crawford
Virginia Crawford (née Powell; born September 7, 1983) is a retired American track and field athlete who specialises in the sprint hurdles. She now is a 4th grade teacher after retiring track and field.
She began her international track career ...]
(born 1983), American sprinter
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Ginny Duenkel
Virginia Ruth Fuldner (née Duenkel; born March 7, 1947), also known as Ginny Fuldner, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Duenkel medaled in ...
(born 1947), American former swimmer and 1964 Olympic champion
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Ginny Fiennes
Virginia Frances, Lady Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( Pepper; 9 July 1947 – 20 February 2004), known as Ginny Fiennes, was an English explorer. She was the first woman to be awarded the Polar Medal, and the first woman to be voted in to join the ...
(1947-2004), British explorer and wife of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes
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Virginia Gilder
Virginia Anne Gilder (born June 4, 1958), also known as Ginny Gilder, is a former American rower and Olympic silver medalist. Gilder is a co-owner of the Seattle Storm, a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA.
Early life
Gilder is ...
(born 1958), American former rower
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Virginia Grayson (born 1967), New Zealand-born Australian artist
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Virginia Leng
Virginia Helen Antoinette Elliott MBE (née Holgate, formerly Leng; born 1 February 1955), sometimes known as Ginny Leng, is a British equestrian competitor who competed in eventing. She is the 1986 World Champion and ...
(born 1955), British equestrienne
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Virginia "Ginny" Montes (1943–1994), civil rights activist and feminist
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Ginny Owens
Virginia Leigh Owens (born April 22, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, author, and blogger. She is known for performing Contemporary Christian music, but has more recently had her songs featured on ''WB'', ''ABC'' TV shows, and independent ...
(born 1975), contemporary Christian music singer
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Ginny Simms
Virginia Ellen SimmsSleeve notes from ''Ginny Simms – I'd Like To Set You To Music'', Jasmine JASCD 118, 2001. (May 25, 1913 – April 4, 1994) was an American popular singer and film actress.
Simms sang with big bands and with Dinah Shore, ...
(1913-1994), American singer and actress
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Ginny Stikeman, Canadian filmmaker, director, producer and editor
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Ginny Tyler
Merrie Virginia Eggers (née Erlandson; August 8, 1925 – July 13, 2012), known professionally as Ginny Tyler, was an American voice actress who performed on dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1993. In 2006, she was named a Disne ...
(1925-2012), American voice actress
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Ginnie Wade (1843-1863), only direct civilian fatality of the Battle of Gettysburg
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Ginny Wood
Virginia Hill Wood (October 24, 1917 – March 8, 2013) was an American environmental activist and a pioneer in the Alaskan conservation movement. Ginny Wood co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society in 1960 with her then husband, Morton "Woody" ...
(1917–2013), American environmental activist
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Ginny Wright
Ginny Wright was an American country music singer. She was born in Twin City, Georgia during the 1930s, first sang in glee clubs, and studied opera. She began performing country music in the early 1950s. Her first single was on the Triple A lab ...
(born in the 1930s), American country music singer
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Ginny Buckley
Virginia Louise Buckley (born 1 April 1968 in Rochdale) is a British journalist, radio and television presenter.
Early life
Buckley was born and brought up in Rochdale, England, before moving to Australia at the age of 18.
She started her ca ...
, British television presenter
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Ginny Capicchioni
Ginny Capicchioni is a lacrosse goaltender. She played women's lacrosse at Sacred Heart University. After college she played men's box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League, senior Canadian Lacrosse Association, and for Team USA at the 2011 Wor ...
, American lacrosse goaltender and coach, first woman to play in a men's professional lacrosse game
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Ginny Fields
Virginia Fields (born November 30, 1945) represented the 5th District in the New York State Assembly, which includes parts of the Long Island towns of Brookhaven and Islip, including Centereach, Farmingville, Fire Island, Holbrook, Holtsvil ...
(born 1945), American politician
Fictional characters
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Ginny Gordon
Ginny Gordon is the main character in a series of five mystery books for adolescent girls published by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin from 1948 to 1956. The books were written by Julie Campbell Tatham, writing as Julie Campb ...
, protagonist of a series of mystery novels for adolescent girls
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Ginny Sacramoni
This is a list of fictional characters from the HBO series ''The Sopranos'', its video game '' The Sopranos: Road to Respect'' and its prequel film ''The Many Saints of Newark.''
Main characters Cast table
Main character biographies Tony Sopran ...
, wife of mob boss John "Johnny Sack" Sacramoni in the television series ''The Sopranos''
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Ginny Weasley
Ginevra Molly Weasley is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' novel series. Ginny is introduced in the first book ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', as the youngest sibling and only girl in the Weasley family. Sh ...
, sister of
Ron Weasley
Ronald Bilius Weasley is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' fantasy novel series. His first appearance was in the first book of the series, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', as the best friend of Harry Potter ...
, girlfriend then wife of
Harry Potter
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...
in the ''Harry Potter'' books by
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling ( "rolling"; born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and Philanthropy, philanthropist. She wrote ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to ...
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Hurricane Ginny
Hurricane Ginny was the strongest recorded tropical cyclone to List of Canada hurricanes, make landfall in Canada, as well as the latest hurricane on a calendar year to affect the U.S. state of Maine. The eighth tropical storm, as well as the sev ...
, in the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season
*"Ginnie", a generator used to power a secret radio by British prisoners of war in the
Batu Lintang camp
Batu Lintang camp (also known as Lintang Barracks and Kuching POW camp) at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. It was unusual in that it housed both Allied prisoners of war (POWs) ...
during the Second World War
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Ingenuity'', a NASA helicopter nicknamed Ginny
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Ginny, Ginny
"Ginny, Ginny" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1979 as the lead single from the band's eighth studio album ''Return to Base''. It was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and was produced by Slade. The ...
", a 1979 single by the rock band Slade
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1983 Ginny Championships
The 1983 Ginny Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii in the United States. It was the final of the Ginny Tournament Circuit that was part of the 1983 Virg ...
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1984 Ginny Championships, Virginia Slims indoor tennis tournaments
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Jinny
Jinny is a feminine given name which may refer to:
* Jinny Beyer (born 1941), American quilt designer and quilter
* Jinny Jacinto (born 1976), Canadian contortionist
* Jinny or Jinny Lee, a stage name of South Korean pop singer Chae Yeon (born ...
, a list of people with the given name
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Jinny (band)
Jinny were an Italy, Italian 1990s Musical ensemble, band consisting of Alessandro Gilardi, Claudio Varola, Federico Di Bonaventura and Walter Cremonini and featured various singers including Sandra Chambers, Sandy Chambers and Carryl Varley as a ...
, an Italian band
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Ginny & Georgia
''Ginny & Georgia'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Sarah Lampert that was released on Netflix on February 24, 2021. In April 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 5, 2023. In May ...
'', television series (2021)
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