Ronnie is a given name. It can be a pet form of the masculine name Ronald and the feminine name Veronica.
The masculine Ronald is derived from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr, which is composed of the elements regin ("advice", "decision") and valdr ("ruler").[1] The feminine Veronica is derived from a form of Berenice,[2] which is derived from the Greek Berenikē, which is in turn derived from the Greek Pherenīkē. The latter Greek name is composed of elements to mean "victory bringer".[3]
People
editFemale
edit- Ronni Reis (born 1966), American tennis player
- Ronnie Edwards (politician) (1952–2016), American politician
- Ronnie Spector (1943–2022), American rock and pop singer, lead vocalist of the Ronettes; former wife of Phil Spector
Male
edit- Ronnie Barker (1929–2005), English actor, comedian and writer
- Ronnie Baxter (born 1961), English darts player
- Ronnie Bell (American football) (born 2000), American football player
- Ronnie Biggs (1929–2013), English thief
- Ronnie Bryan (1898–1970), English cricketer and soldier
- Ronnie Bucknum (1936–1992), American race car driver
- Ronnie Bunting (1947/1948–1980), Protestant Irish republican and socialist activist
- Ronnie Burgess (1963–2021), American football player
- Ronnie Burns (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
- Ronnie Corbett (1930–2016), Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer and broadcaster
- Ronnie de Mel (1925–2024), Sri Lanka Minister of Finance from 1977 to 1988
- Ronnie DeVoe (born 1967), American singer
- Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010), American singer-songwriter and composer
- Ronnie Dove (born 1935), American pop and country singer
- Ronnie Dunn (born 1953), American singer-songwriter, record executive and member of the country music duo Brooks & Dunn
- Ronnie Eckstine (born 1943), American actor
- Ronnie Harrell (born 1996), American basketball player for Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Ronnie Harrison (born 1997), American football player
- Ronnie Hawkins (1935–2022), American rockabilly musician
- Ronnie Henry (born 1984), English footballer
- Ronnie Hickman (born 2001), American football player
- Ronnie Lane (1946–1997), English musician, songwriter and producer
- Ronnie Laws (born 1950), American jazz, rhythm and blues and funk saxophonist
- Ronnie Leitch (1953–2018), Sri Lankan Burgher actor, vocalist, and comedian
- Ronnie Lott (born 1959), American football player
- Ronnie McCoury (born 1967), American mandolin player, singer and songwriter
- Ronnie McKinnon (1940–2023), Scottish footballer
- Ronnie McNutt (1987–2020), American Iraq War veteran, known for his suicide on Facebook Live
- Ronnie Milsap (born 1943), American country music singer and pianist
- Ronnie Moore (born 1953), English former football player and manager
- Ronnie Morris (footballer) (born 1970), English former professional footballer
- Ronnie Morris (rugby union) (1913–1983), Welsh rugby union player
- Ronnie O'Sullivan (born 1975), English snooker player
- Ronnie Ortiz-Magro (born 1985), American actor, part of the cast of the reality TV series Jersey Shore
- Ronnie Perkins (born 1999), American football player
- Ronnie Peterson (1944–1978), Swedish race car driver
- Ronnie Price (born 1983), American basketball player
- Ronnie Quintarelli (born 1979), Italian racing driver
- Ronnie Radke (born 1983), American musician, songwriter, producer and rapper
- Ronnie Ray (born 1954), American sprinter
- Ronnie Robinson (roller derby) (1939–2001), American roller derby skater and coach and member of the Roller Derby Hall of Fame
- Ronnie Scott (1927–1996), English jazz saxophonist and jazz club owner
- Ronnie Schell (born 1931), American actor and comedian
- Ronnie Scribner (born 1966), American actor
- Ronnie Simpson (1930–2004), Scottish football goalkeeper
- Ronnie Stern (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
- Ronnie Thomas (born 1955), American race car driver
- Ronnie Turner (1911–unknown), Rhodesian international lawn bowler
- Ronnie Van Zant (1948–1977), American vocalist, lyricist and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Ronnie Williams (1939–1997), Welsh actor and comedian
- Ronnie Wood (born 1947), English rock musician, songwriter and singer best known as a member of the Rolling Stones
Fictional characters
editFemale
edit- Ronnie Clayton, from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street
- Veronica Lodge, a main character from the Archie Comics
- Ronnie Mitchell, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Veronica "Ronny" Robinson, the yellow ranger in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
- Ronnie Anne Santiago, from the Nickelodeon show The Loud House
Male
edit- Ronnie Bailey, from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street
- Ronnie Dobbs, lead character of the film Run Ronnie Run also featured in various sketches on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr Show
- Ronnie Pilgrim, protagonist of the Jethro Tull album A Passion Play
- Ronnie Woodson, from the BBC soap opera Doctors
- Ronnie, a semi-recurring character in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 234, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 270, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 32, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
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