Tawny Little (née Godin) is an American television personality and a former beauty pageant titleholder. She was Miss America 1976 and Miss New York 1975.
Tawny Newsome is an American musician, comedian, and actress best known for playing Chelsea Leight-Leigh on Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, co-starring in Space Force and the third season of Brockmire, and co-hosting the podcast Yo, Is This Racist?. She is also a singer in the band Four Lost Souls. She voices one of the main characters, Beckett Mariner, on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
One of the earliest examples of the use of Tawny as a given name is for the title character of Donald Henderson Clarke's novel "Tawny", first published in 1936.