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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 - Wayne Gretzky, Jackie Gleason
  2. The Great Communicator - Ronald Reagan
  3. The Godfather of Soul - James Brown
  4. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business - James Brown
  5. Soul Brother #1 - James Brown
  6. The Bambino - Babe Ruth
  7. The Donald - Donald Trump
  8. Satchmo - Louis Armstrong
  9. The Worm - Dennis Rodman
  10. The Muscles from Brussels - Jean-Claude Van Damme
  11. The Iron Lady - Margaret Thatcher
  12. The Big Tuna - Bill Parcells
  13. Teflon Don - John Gotti
  14. The Happy Hooker - Xavier Hollander
  15. The Sun King - Louis XIV
  16. The Chairman of the Board - Frank Sinatra
  17. The Fridge - William Perry
  18. The Big Hurt - Frank Thomas
  19. Old Possum - T.S. Eliot
  20. Tailgunner Joe - Sen. Joseph McCarthy
  21. Pineapple Head - Manuel Noriega
  22. Hands of Stone - Roberto Duran
  23. Old Hickory - Andrew Jackson
  24. Velvet Fog - Mel Torme
  25. Rex the Wonder Dog - Rex Hudler
  26. Senator Pothole - Al D'Amato
  27. The Great Stone Face - Buster Keaton
  28. Baby Doc - -?- Duvalier
  29. Squidgie - Princess Di
  30. Mr. Warmth - Don Rickles
  31. Old Blood & Guts - George Patton
  32. Al Gore - Al Gore
  33. Captain Outrageous - Ted Turner
  34. Lady Day - Billie Holiday
  35. Slowhand - Eric Clapton
  36. The Franchise - Tom Seaver
  37. Mr. Television - Milton Berle
  38. Railsplitter - Abraham Lincoln
  39. The Lone Eagle - Charles Lindbergh
  40. The Maestro of Love - Barry White
  41. The King of All Media - Howard Stern
  42. The Profile - John Barrymore
  43. America's Oldest Teenager - Dick Clark
  44. Eppy & Popo (2 people) - Ann Landers & Dear Abby
  45. The Singing Brakeman - Jimmie Rodgers
  46. Prime Time - Deion Sanders
  47. The Big Unit - Randy Johnson
  48. The Dean of Science Fiction - Dean Ing
  49. Der Bingle - Bing Crosby

    And what monikers did these people acquire?

  50. Thomas Edison - The Wizard of Menlo Park
  51. Al Capone - Scarface
  52. Benny Goodman - The King of Swing
  53. Albert Broccoli - Cubby
  54. Erwin Rommel - The Desert Fox
  55. Roger Clemens - The Rocket
  56. Raghib Ismael - The Rocket
  57. Maurice Richard - The Rocket
  58. Rod Laver - The Rocket
  59. Lynette Fromme - Squeaky
  60. Manfred von Richthofen - The Red Baron
  61. William Shakespeare - The Bard of Avon
  62. Thomas P. O'Neil - Tip
  63. William Cody - Buffalo Bill
  64. George Steele - The Animal
  65. Richard Nixon - Tricky Dick
  66. John Wayne - (the) Duke
  67. Rudolf Wanderone - Minnesota Fats
  68. Irving Lazar - Swifty
  69. Leona Helmsley - The Queen of Mean
  70. Lon Chaney Jr - The Man of 1,Faces
  71. Jane Fonda - Hanoi Jane
  72. Max Patkin - The Clown Prince of Baseball
  73. Ernest Hemingway - Papa
  74. Huey Long - Kingfish
  75. Charlie Chaplin - The Little Tramp
  76. Murray the K - The Fifth Beatle
  77. Idi Amin - Daddy
  78. Evander Holyfield - The Real Deal
  79. Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary
  80. William Marcy Tweed - Boss
  81. James Carville - Snakehead
  82. Charlie Parker - Bird
  83. Joe Louis - The Brown Bomber
  84. Jenny Lind - The Swedish Nightingale
  85. Thomas Jackson - Stonewall
  86. Lex Luger - The Total Package
  87. Richard Marin - Cheech
  88. Dennis Boyd - Oil Can
  89. David Berkowitz - Son of Sam
  90. Clara Bow - The "It" Girl
  91. George Gipp - The Gipper
  92. Amy Fisher - The Long Island Lolita
  93. Greg Norman - Shark
  94. Albert DeSalvo - The Boston Strangler
  95. Eldrick Woods - Tiger
    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 - Mayday
  97. Gilligan (by the Skipper) - Little Buddy
  98. Fox Muldur - Spooky
  99. Dana Scully - Starbuck
  100. Enrico Rizzo - Ratso
  101. Rupert Pupkin - The King of Comedy
  102. Harry Organs - Snapper
  103. Senator John Blutarsky - Bluto
  104. Hannibal Lecter - Hannibal the Cannibal
  105. Rocky Balboa - The Italian Stallion
  106. Elizabeth Paterson ("Better or Worse") - Lizardbreath
  107. Howard Beale - The Madman of the Airwaves
  108. Leroy Brown - Encyclopedia
  109. Mike Stivic (by Archie) - Meathead
  110. Frank Furillo (by Joyce) - Pizzaman
  111. Laura Ingalls (by Pa) - Half-Pint
  112. Frank Burns - Ferret Face
  113. Margaret Houlihan - Hot Lips
  114. Freddie Washington - Boom Boom
  115. Captain Marvel (by Dr. Sivana) - The Big Red Cheese
  116. Joanie Cunningham (by Arthur) - Shortcake
  117. Alvy Singer (by his friend Rob) - Max