Jimmy (given name)

Jimmy

Jimmy Carter's portrait
Pronunciation	/ˈdʒɪmi/
Gender	Male
Other names
Related names	Jim, Jimi, Jimster, Jimmi, Jimmie, James, Jemmy, Jack, Jimbo, Jacob

Jimmy is a male given name. It is predominately used as a diminutive form of the given name James, along with its short form, Jim.

Both can also be used as the adaptation into English of the modern Greek name Dimitris (Δημήτρης) or the older Dimitrios (Δημήτριος), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countries, due the similarity in the sound of the short name Ντίμης/Dimi and Jimmy.

People

• Jimmy Alapag (born 1977), Filipino basketball player
• Jimmy Buffett (1946—2023), American musician
• Jimmy Butler (born 1989), American basketball player
• Jimmy Barnes (born 1956), Scottish-Australian rock musician
• Jimmy Bartel (born 1983), Australian rules football player
• Jimmy Carr (born 1972), English stand-up comedian
• Jimmy Carter (born 1924), 39th president of the United States
• Jimmy Chamberlin (born 1964), American drummer
• Jimmy Chua Hwa Soon (1971–1998), Singaporean murderer
• Jimmy Chin (born 1973), American professional climber and film director
• Jimmy Connors (born 1952), American tennis player
• Jimmy Donaldson (born 1998), American YouTuber and philanthropist, commonly known by his online alias as MrBeast
• Jimmy Dean (1928–2010), American country music singer
• Jimmy Doolittle (1896–1993), American General and aviation pioneer
• Jimmy Dore (born 1965), American comedian
• Jimmy Durante (1893–1980), American actor and comedian
• Jimmy Enabu (born 1988), Ugandan basketball player
• Jimmy Fallon (born 1974), American comedian
• Jimmy Garoppolo (born 1991), American football quarterback
• Jimmy Governor (1875–1901), Indigenous Australian outlaw
• Jimmy Greaves (1940–2021), English footballer
• Jimmy Hall (born 1994), American basketball player in the Israeli National League
• Jimmy Hallinan (1849–1879), Irish-American baseball player
• Jimmy Hampson (1906–1938), English professional footballer
• Jimmy Herget (born 1993), American baseball player
• Jimmy Hoffa (1913–1982), American labor union leader
• Jimmy Johnson (disambiguation), several people
• Jimmy Kimmel (born 1967), American television host
• Jimmy Lai (born 1948), Hong Kong entrepreneur and social activist
• Jimmy Lambert (born 1994), American baseball player
• Jimmy McMillan (born 1946), American political activist
• Jimmy Monaghan, Irish musician
• Jimmy Morales (born 1969), President of Guatemala
• Jimmy Moreland (born 1996), American football player
• Jimmy Murray (offensive lineman) (born 1995), American football player
• Jimmy Nelson (disambiguation), several people
• Jimmy Page (born 1944), English musician
• Jimmy Pahun (born 1962), French politician
• Jimmy Rane (born 1947), American businessman
• Jimmy Ray (born 1970), English singer
• Jimmy Santos (singer), Afro-Uruguayan singer
• Jimmy Santos (actor) (born 1951), Filipino comedian and former basketball player
• Jimmy Savile (1926–2011), British DJ, television and radio personality, and alleged sex offender
• Jimmy Smits (born 1955), American actor
• Jimmy the Greek (1918–1996), American sports commentator and bookmaker
• Jimmy Wakely (1914–1982), American country singer, actor
• Jimmy Wong (born 1987), American musician
• Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia
• Jimmy Willis (born 1968), English footballer
• Jimmy Willis (politician), member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
• Jimmy Work (1924–2018), American singer-songwriter
• Jimmy Yacabonis (born 1992), American baseball player
• Jimmy Young, several people
• Jimmy Zoppi, stage name of American voice actor James Carter Cathcart

Fictional characters

• Jimmy, a character in the 2005 film version of King Kong
• Jimmy the Idiot Boy, a character created by John Kricfalusi
• Jimmy Crystal, a character from the animated film Sing 2
• Jimmy Falcone, a character from Fugget About It
• Jimmy Five, a character in the Brazilian comic series Monica's Gang
• James "Jimmy" Hopkins, a character from Bully
• Jimmy Hudson, a character in Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel universe
• James "Jimmy" De Santa, a character from Grand Theft Auto V
• Jimmy Lee, a character in the 1990s animated series Double Dragon
• James "Jimmy" McGill, (aka Saul Goodman) a major character in Breaking Bad and the lead character in its spin-off Better Call Saul
• Jimmy, a character from Ed, Edd n Eddy
• Jimmy Natale, a Marvel Comics supervillain known as the Vulture
• Jimmy Neutron, a character from Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Jimmy Pegorino, supportive character in the videogame GTA IV
• Jimmy Kudo, a character in the anime Case Closed
• Jimmy Olsen, a character who appears mainly in DC Comics’ Superman stories
• Jimmy the raven, a raven who appeared in over 1000 films
• Jimmy Two-Shoes, a character in the Canadian animated series of the same name
• Jimmy Valmer, a character from South Park
• Jimmy Bones, character and main antagonist from the 2001 horror film Bones
• James Sadler, aka Jimmy aka Merlin, from comic fantasy book Magic 2.0 by Scott Meyer (author)
• St. Jimmy, a character from the rock opera American Idiot
• Jimmy Thang, aka Jimmy T., a character from the WarioWare series of video games
• Jimmy the Werewolf, a character in the webcomic Fangs by Sarah Andersen
• Jimmy the Robot, a character in The Aquabats! Super Show!
• Jimmy Gourd, a character in the Christian computer-animated direct-to-video series VeggieTales
• Jimmy Osgood, a character in Static Shock
• The Jimmy, a character who has a habit of referring to himself in the third person on the 105th episode of Seinfeld.

See also

• Jimmy (disambiguation)