Bunny (nickname)

Bunny is a unisex hypocorism for various names derived from the colloquial term for a rabbit sometimes used as a term of endearment. It has also been used an independent given name and stage name. It came to be regarded as a stereotypical preppy nickname during the 1980s. ^[1] It is the nickname of:

Male

• Bunny Ahearne (1900–1985), British ice hockey promoter
• Bunny Adair (1905–1994), Queensland politician and roustabout
• Bunny Allen (1906–2002), English hunter and safari guide
• Allu Arjun (born 1983), Indian actor
• Bunny Austin (1906–2000), British tennis player
• Bunny Berigan (1908–1942), American jazz trumpeter
• Bunny Breckinridge (1903–1996), American actor and drag queen best known for playing "The Ruler" in the film Plan 9 from Outer Space
• Bunny Brief (1892–1963), American baseball player
• Bunny Brunel (born 1950), French-born American jazz bassist
• Bunny Carr (1927–2018), Irish businessman and former television presenter
• Harold E. Comstock (1920–2009), American World War II fighter ace
• Bunny Currant (1911–2006), British Second World War fighter ace
• Napoleon Dame (1913–2006), Canadian ice hockey player
• Andrew Ramsay Don-Wauchope (1861–1948), Scottish rugby union player
• Bunny Downs (1894–1973), American baseball player
• Alec Eason (1889–1956), Australian rules footballer
• Bunny Fabrique (1887–1960), American baseball player
• Shirley Bunnie Foy (1936–2016), American jazz singer and songwriter
• David Garnett (1892–1981), British writer and publisher
• Bunny Gibbons, American funfair proprietor
• John Godwin (baseball) (1877–1956), American baseball player
• Bunny Grant (1940–2018), Jamaican retired boxer
• James Bernard Harkin (1875–1955), Canadian government bureaucrat, environmentalist and journalist
• E. Roland Harriman (1895–1978), American financier and philanthropist
• Bunny Hearn (1891–1959), American baseball pitcher
• Hugh High (1887–1962), American baseball player
• Andrew Huang (hacker) (born 1975), American hacker
• Bunny Jacob, Indian businessman and conductor
• Bunny Johnson (born 1947), British retired boxer
• Stanley Albert Joseph (1928–2001), Canadian lacrosse goaltender
• Bunny Larkin (born 1936), English retired footballer
• Michel Larocque (1952–1992), Canadian ice hockey player
• Bunny Lee (1941–2020), Jamaican record producer
• Bunny Lewis (1918–2001), English music manager, record producer, and composer
• Bunny Mack (1945–2015), Sierra Leonean musician
• Bunny Madden (1882–1954), American baseball player
• Bunny Matthews (1951–2021), American cartoonist
• Bunny Nunn (1927–2008), Australian soccer player
• Graham Onions (born 1982), English cricketer
• Bunny Pearce (1885–1933), American baseball player
• Bunny Phyoe (born 1992), Burmese R&B singer, songwriter, and actor
• Bunny Reid (1910–1976), South African rugby union player
• Bunny Roger (1911–1997), English couturier, inventor of Capri pants
• Bunny Roser (1901–1979), American baseball player
• Bunny Rugs (1948–2014), Jamaican reggae musician and singer
• Bunny Sigler (1941–2017), American pop and R&B songwriter and record producer
• Bunny Sterling (1948–2018), Jamaican-born British boxer
• Awdry Vaucour (1890–1918), English First World War flying ace
• Bernard Wadsworth, Canadian football player
• Bunny Wailer (1947–2021), Jamaican musician
• Bunny Walters (1953–2016), New Zealand singer and actor
• C. E. Webber (1909–1969), British television writer and playwright
• Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and critic
• Bernard Youens (1918–1984), English character actor best known for playing Stan Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street

Female

• Bunny Campione, British antiques expert and television personality
• Bunny DeBarge (born 1955), American singer, part of the R&B musical group Debarge
• Bunny Gibson (born 1946), American actress
• Bunny Greenhouse, American U.S. Army engineer and whistleblower
• Bunny Guinness (born 1955), British landscape architect, journalist and radio personality
• Bunny Hoest (born 1932), American comic strip writer
• Marian Koshland (1921–1997), American microbiologist and immunologist
• Bunny McBride, American ethnohistorian and poet
• Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910–2014), American horticulturalist, philanthropist, and art collector
• Bunny Meyer (born 1985), American YouTube personality
• L. R. Wright (1939–2001), Canadian mystery writer
• Bunny Yeager (1930–2014), American pin-up photographer and model
• Khadija Shaw (born 1997), Jamaican footballer

References

1. Birnbach, Lisa (1980). The Official Preppy Handbook. Workman Publishing. p. 19. ISBN   0894801406.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Bunny
• All pages with titles containing Bunny
• Rabbit (nickname)