title: Jenni
text: # Jenni
  
  Jenni is a feminine given name, sometimes a modern diminutive or short form of Jennifer. The etymology is actually that of a diminutive of Jane, however.
  
  A separate name, with the same spelling, serves as a Finnish language diminutive of Johanna.
  
  ## People with the given name Jenni
  
  * Jenni Howell Asserholt (born 1988), ice hockey player
  * Jenni Baird (born 1976), Australian actress
  * Jenni Barber, American actress and singer
  * Jenni Calder (21st century), Scottish literary historian
  * Jenni Dahlman (born 1981), Finnish model
  * Jenni Dant (21st century), American basketball player
  * Jenni Falconer (born 1976), Scottish television presenter
  * Jenni Farley (born 1986), American television personality
  * Jenni Haukio (born 1977), Finnish poet, and the wife of the current (since 2012) President of Finland
  * Jenni Hucul (born 1988), Canadian bobsledder
  * Jenni Irani (1923–1982), Indian cricketer
  * Jenni Keenan Green (born 1970), Scottish actress
  * Jenni Meno (21st century), American pair skater
  * Jenni Murray (born 1950), British journalist and broadcaster
  * Jenni Ogden, New Zealand neuroscientist
  * Jenni Olson (born 1962), American film director
  * Jenni Rivera (born 1969), Mexican American musician
  * Jenni Trent Hughes (21st century), British television presenter
  * Jenni Vartiainen (born 1983), Finnish pop singer
  * Jenni Vähämaa (born 1992), Finnish figure skater
  
  ## Fictional characters with the given name Jenni
  
  * Jenni Vainio, a fictional character in the Finnish drama series Salatut elämät
  
  ## People with the surname Jenni
  
  * Clarence Marvin Jenni (1896–1973), discoverer of Jennite, a calcium silicate hydrate mineral, and director of the Geological Museum at the University of Missouri
  * Florian Jenni (born 1980), Swiss chess player
  * Marcel Jenni (born 1974), Swiss ice hockey player
  * Alexis Jenni (born 1963), French literary writer
  