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 as an independent given name and stage name. It came to be regarded as a stereotypical preppy nickname during the 1980s. 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 Laura Dennis (born 1987), Canadian professional wrestler known as "The Bunny" 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
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See also
Rabbit (nickname)