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Penny Hardaway
Penny Hardaway (Anfernee Deon Hardaway, born 1971) is an American coach and former NBA guard, 3rd pick of 1993, 4x All-Star with Orlando, now Memphis Tigers head coach since 2018.
Penny Heyns
Penny Heyns (Penelope Heyns) is a retired South African breaststroke swimmer who, born in 1974, won gold in both the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Penny Ice Cap
Penny Ice Cap, a ~5,900 km2 remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet on Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada's southernmost major ice cap, with a firn zone, ice-core climate record, and accelerating mass loss.
Penny J. White
Penny J. White (born 1956), Tennessee Supreme Court justice 1992-1996, first woman First Judicial District Circuit Court judge; lost the 1996 Tennessee Plan retention election after the State v. Odom death penalty controversy, later a UT law professor.
Penny Johnson Jerald
Penny Johnson Jerald (born Penny Johnson, 1961, Baltimore) is an American actress: Beverly Barnes on The Larry Sanders Show, Kasidy Yates on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sherry Palmer on 24, Captain Victoria Gates on Castle, and Dr. Claire Finn on The Orville; Juilliard-trained, married to jazz musician Gralin Jerald since 1982.
Penny L. Moore
Penny L. Moore is a South African virologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and the NICD who studies HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 immune escape.
Penny Lancaster
Penny Lancaster, also known as Penny Lancaster-Stewart, is an English model and TV personality, a Loose Women panellist since 2014 and wife of Rod Stewart.
Penny Lane
Penny Lane, Beatles song written mainly by Paul McCartney, released February 1967 as a double A-side with Strawberry Fields Forever; recorded at EMI Studios with David Mason's piccolo trumpet solo, US number one, UK number two.
Penny Lane Is Dead
Penny Lane Is Dead (also Penny Lane is Dead) is a 2025 Australian Ozploitation horror film, Mia'Kate Russell's debut feature, set in 1986, about a spiked-cupcake prank at a beach house that turns bloody; premiered at Adelaide Film Festival and streams on Shudder.
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall (Carole Penny Marshall, 1943-2018), American actress and director; starred as Laverne DeFazio in Laverne & Shirley and directed Big, the first film by a woman to gross over $100 million.
Penny McNamee
Penny McNamee (born 1983) is an Australian actress, singer, screenwriter, and author, sister of Jessica McNamee. Known for Nessarose in Wicked (2009 Green Room Award), Dr Tori Morgan in Home and Away, and the Stage Stars books.
Penny Morales Shaw
Penny Morales Shaw is an American Democratic politician and attorney representing District 148 in the Texas House of Representatives in Houston, and a former NAACP legal clinic attorney.
Penny Mordaunt
Penny Mordaunt (Penelope Mary Mordaunt, born 1973), British Conservative MP for Portsmouth North 2010-2024, first female Defence Secretary, 2022 leadership contender, Lord President of the Council, Sword of State carrier at the 2023 Coronation, defeated in 2024.
Penny Oleksiak
Penny Oleksiak (Penelope Oleksiak) is a Canadian freestyle and butterfly swimmer who won seven Olympic medals, including 100 m freestyle gold as a 16-year-old at Rio 2016.
Penny Pennington
Penny Pennington is an American financial services executive who has led the brokerage firm Edward Jones as its sixth managing partner since January 1, 2019.
Penny press
Penny press: cheap one-cent American daily newspapers of the 1830s, beginning with Benjamin Day's New York Sun (1833) and Bennett's Herald (1835), sold by newsboys, funded by advertising, and covering sensational local news.
Penny Pritzker
Penny Pritzker is an American billionaire investor, Hyatt hotel heiress, and founder of PSP Partners who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2013 to 2017.
Penny Singleton
Penny Singleton (Mariana Dorothy Agnes Letitia McNulty, 1908–2003), American actress who played Blondie Bumstead in 28 films (1938–1950) and voiced Jane Jetson; later AGVA president and Rockettes strike leader.
Penny Siopis
Penny Siopis (born 1953) is a South African artist of Greek descent, based in Cape Town, whose paintings, installations, and films confront South African history, trauma, and collective memory.
Penny Smith
Penny Smith (Penelope Jane Smith), English TV presenter, newsreader, and journalist; GMTV News Hour presenter 1993-2010, original Sky News presenter (1989), now a drivetime host on Magic Classical and a novelist.
Penny stock
A penny stock is a low-priced, speculative stock, generally under $5 per share under SEC rules, trading over the counter and associated with illiquidity, minimal disclosure, and fraud.
Penny Taylor
Penny Taylor (Penelope Jane Taylor, born 1981, Melbourne) is a retired Australian basketball forward, three-time WNBA champion with the Phoenix Mercury, 2006 World Championship MVP, three-time Olympian, and 2023 FIBA Hall of Fame inductee.
Penny the Polar Bear
Penny the Polar Bear is a Peppa Pig playgroup character voiced by Mabel Green who, in the 2022 episode 'Families', revealed she has two mothers, the show's first LGBTQ+ characters; distinct from unrelated mascots and toy patterns of the same name.
Penny Wong
Penny Wong, Australian Labor senator for South Australia since 2001, born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2022, previously Climate Change and Finance minister, first Asian-born Australian cabinet member.
Penny-farthing
The penny-farthing, also called the high wheel or ordinary, is an early bicycle with a huge front wheel, popular from the 1870s to the 1880s.
Pennylane
Pennylane is a Paris-based French fintech founded in 2020 that sells accounting production and financial management software to accounting firms and their small and medium-sized business clients.
Pennymuir
Pennymuir (Towford): group of four Roman temporary marching camps on Dere Street near the head of Kale Water, Scottish Borders, about 15 miles east of Hawick; Camp A encloses 42 acres; scheduled monument SM1707.
Pennywise (band)
Pennywise is an American skate punk band formed in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1988, named after Stephen King's It villain. Known for Bro Hymn, Fuck Authority, Epitaph albums About Time and Full Circle, and founding bassist Jason Thirsk's 1996 death.
Pennyworth (TV series)
Pennyworth (2019–2022), also Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler, is a DC drama by Gotham creators Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon about young Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon) in alternate-history 1960s London, canceled in 2023 after three seasons.
Pennzoil
Pennzoil is an American brand of motor oil and automotive lubricants, first registered as a trademark in 1916 and now one of the best-known motor oil brands in North America, owned by Shell since 2002.