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Knucklenuts! The Lord of Lettuce! Ms. Phlegm! Slumlord to the Stars! Yes, there's nothing like a descriptive nickname! The Happy Hipster! Gunboot! The Infectious General! Ultimate Onion! Senor Kneecaps! The Laughing Leper! Of course, unlike the preceding sobriquets, it does help if the actual nickname is actually used in reference to an actual figure. And, so.......

Nicknames

Who are these people, anyway?

  1. The Great One
  2. The Great Communicator
  3. The Godfather of Soul
  4. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business
  5. Soul Brother #1
  6. The Bambino
  7. The Donald
  8. Satchmo
  9. The Worm
  10. The Muscles from Brussels
  11. The Iron Lady
  12. The Big Tuna
  13. Teflon Don
  14. The Happy Hooker
  15. The Sun King
  16. The Chairman of the Board
  17. The Fridge
  18. The Big Hurt
  19. Old Possum
  20. Tailgunner Joe
  21. Pineapple Head
  22. Hands of Stone
  23. Old Hickory
  24. Velvet Fog
  25. Rex the Wonder Dog
  26. Senator Pothole
  27. The Great Stone Face
  28. Baby Doc
  29. Squidgie
  30. Mr. Warmth
  31. Old Blood & Guts
  32. Al Gore
  33. Captain Outrageous
  34. Lady Day
  35. Slowhand
  36. The Franchise
  37. Mr. Television
  38. Railsplitter
  39. The Lone Eagle
  40. The Maestro of Love
  41. The King of All Media
  42. The Profile
  43. America's Oldest Teenager
  44. Eppy & Popo (2 people)
  45. The Singing Brakeman
  46. Prime Time
  47. The Big Unit
  48. The Dean of Science Fiction
  49. Der Bingle

    And what monikers did these people acquire?

  50. Thomas Edison
  51. Al Capone
  52. Benny Goodman
  53. Albert Broccoli
  54. Erwin Rommel
  55. Roger Clemens
  56. Raghib Ismael
  57. Maurice Richard
  58. Rod Laver
  59. Lynette Fromme
  60. Manfred von Richthofen
  61. William Shakespeare
  62. Thomas P. O'Neil
  63. William Cody
  64. George Steele
  65. Richard Nixon
  66. John Wayne
  67. Rudolf Wanderone
  68. Irving Lazar
  69. Leona Helmsley
  70. Lon Chaney Jr
  71. Jane Fonda
  72. Max Patkin
  73. Ernest Hemingway
  74. Huey Long
  75. Charlie Chaplin
  76. Murray the K
  77. Idi Amin
  78. Evander Holyfield
  79. Mary Mallon
  80. William Marcy Tweed
  81. James Carville
  82. Charlie Parker
  83. Joe Louis
  84. Jenny Lind
  85. Thomas Jackson
  86. Lex Luger
  87. Richard Marin
  88. Dennis Boyd
  89. David Berkowitz
  90. Clara Bow
  91. George Gipp
  92. Amy Fisher
  93. Greg Norman
  94. Albert DeSalvo
  95. Eldrick Woods
    94a. Ted Benson

    For that matter, you don't even need to be real to acquire a nickname. These fictional people did it. Tell us what they got called.

  96. Sam Malone
  97. Gilligan (by the Skipper)
  98. Fox Muldur
  99. Dana Scully
  100. Enrico Rizzo
  101. Rupert Pupkin
  102. Harry Organs
  103. Senator John Blutarsky
  104. Hannibal Lecter
  105. Rocky Balboa
  106. Elizabeth Paterson ("Better or Worse")
  107. Howard Beale
  108. Leroy Brown
  109. Mike Stivic (by Archie)
  110. Frank Furillo (by Joyce)
  111. Laura Ingalls (by Pa)
  112. Frank Burns
  113. Margaret Houlihan
  114. Freddie Washington
  115. Captain Marvel (by Dr. Sivana)
  116. Joanie Cunningham (by Arthur)
  117. Alvy Singer (by his friend Rob)