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Persons
A list of Sobriquets (Persons) starting alphabetically from A to Z
A
Adi Kavi: Valmeeki
Anna: C.N. Annadurai
B
Babe, The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The Titan of Terror, The Colossus of Clout, The King of Clash: George Herman Ruth, Jr., American baseball player
Badshah Khan/Frontier Gandhi: Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Bard of Avon: William Shakespeare
Bard of Twickenham: Alexander Pope
Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengal): Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st President of Bangladesh
Banker to the Poor: Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Managing Director of Grameen Bank.
BasedGod: Lil B
Becks: David Beckham English Footballer
Biggie Smalls: Christopher Wallace, American Hip-Hop and rap singer
Bird or Yardbird: Charlie Parker
Birdman: Chris Andersen, US basketball player known for his trademark "bird" celebration.
Bloody Mary: Queen Mary I of England
Body Beautiful Beale: Edith Bouvier Beale
Boney: Napoléon Bonaparte, a derogatory nickname used in Britain.
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart
Bono or Bono vox: Paul Hewson, singer with U2
Bonzo: John Bonham
Boom Boom Afridi: Shahid Afridi
Brangelina: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Brat Pack: group of young actors and actresses who starred in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s
Broadway Joe: Joe Namath, AFL/NFL American Football player
Buddha: Siddhartha Gautama
Buffalo Bill: American frontier showman William Frederick Cody
Buffalo Jones: Kansas frontiersman Charles "Buffalo" Jones
C
Caligula: Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Canuck Canadian: From Johnny Canuck
Chemical Ali: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister during the 2003 US invasion; also known as Baghdad Bob
Comical Ali: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister during the 2003 US invasion; also known as Baghdad Bob. Became a minor celebrity in the west for his unflagging optimism and increasingly grandiose announcements.
Chosin Few: Survivors of Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir
D
DeathStar: DeskStar, a model of disk drives by IBM which had a remarkably high failure rate
Deenabandhu: C.F. Andrews
der Alte (the old man): Konrad Adenauer
Deshabandhu: C.R. Das
Desert Fox: Gen. Erwin Rommel
Diamond Dave: David Lee Roth, Singer
Digger: Australian soldier
Donnie Baseball: Don Mattingly
Dr. Death: Jack Kevorkian proponent of assisted suicide
Dr. J: Julius Erving, Hall of Fame NBA player
Dubya: George W. Bush
E
El Cauclillo:Francisco Franco
F
Father of his country: George Washington
Father of the Nation: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Freddie Mercury: Farrokh Bulsara
Fuhrer: Adolf Hitler
G
Genghis Khan: Temüjin
Good Queen Bess: Queen Elizabeth I of England
GOP (Grand Old Party): Republican Party (United States)
Grand Old Man of Britain: Willian Ewart Glandstone
Grand Old Man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji
Grits: A media term for the Liberal Party of Canada
Gurudev: Rabindranath Tagore
Guruji: M S Gohlwalkar
H
Hanoi Jane: Jane Fonda
Haryana Hurricane: Kapil Dev
Hef: Hugh Hefner
His Airness: Michael Jordan
Honest Abe: Abraham Lincoln
I
Iceman: George Gervin, Jerry Butler, ABA/NBA Basketball player; Kimi Räikkönen, Formula One racing driver, Chuck Liddell, UFC former light heavy weight champion
II Duce: Benito Mussolini
Ike Dwight: David Eisenhower
Ike: Dwight David
Iron Duke: Duke of Wellington
Iz the Wiz: Michael Martin, Graffiti Writer
J
Jesse "The Mind" Ventura: Jesse Ventura, Professional Wrestler and Former Governor of Minnesota
Jesse "The Body" Ventura: Jesse Ventura, Professional Wrestler and Former Governor of Minnesota
Jock: a Scot, especially a Scottish soldier
Joe the Plumber: Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an American plumbing contractor
Joltin' Joe: Joe Dimaggio, Baseball player; former husband of Marilyn Monroe
J.P. or Loknayak: Jayaprakash Narayan
K
K of P: King of Prussia, PA, USA
Kaká: Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
Kaviguru: Rabindranath Tagore
King James: LeBron James
King Maker: Earl of Warwick
Knick Killer: Reggie Miller
L
Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale
Larry Legend: Larry Bird
Little Richard: Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman, a prominent figure in rock n' roll.
Lokamanya: Bala Gangadhara Thilak
M
Madge: Madonna
Madiba: Nelson Mandela
Mahamana: Madan Mohan Malaviya
Mahatma: Gandhi
Maid of Orleans: Joan of Arc
Manitas de Plata: Flamenco guitarist Ricardo Baliardo
Man of Blood and Iron: Otto Von Bismarck
Man of Destiny: Napolean Bonaparte
Man of Peace: Lal Bahadur Shastri
Maynard: James Keenan
Meat Loaf: Marvin Aday
Megastar: Chiranjeevi (Indian Movie Actor)(Telugu)
Ming (the Merciless): Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia
Mother Monster: Lady Gaga
Mr. Hockey: Gordie Howe
Mr. MojoRisin: Jim Morrison
Mr. October: Reggie Jackson Major League Baseball Player and Hall of Famer
Muggsy: Tyrone Bogues, NBA Player
N
Netaji: Subhash Chandra Bose
Nightingale of India: Sarojini Naidu
O
Old Blue Eyes: Frank Sinatra, entertainer
Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
Old Kinderhook (OK): Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States
Old Nick: in Christianity, the Devil
Old Rough and Ready: Zachary Taylor
Old St. Nick: Santa Claus
P
Panditji or Chacha: Jawaharlal Nehru
Para (Para's): British soldier in The Parachute Regiment or Paras - The Parachute Regiment
Pelé: Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Pensioneers: Chelsea football club
Pink (stylized P!nk: Alecia Moore
Pommy (or Pom): Australian name for an English person
Prince of Kolkata: Saurav Ganguly
Prince of the Humanists: Desiderius Erasmus
Punjab Kesari: Lala Lajpat Rai
Q
Quaid-e-Azam: Mohammed Ali Jinnah
R
Rajaji or 'CR': C. Rajagopalachari
S
Saint Jimmy: Billie Joe Armstrong
Saint of the Gutters: Mother Teresa
Sandman: Howard Sims, dancer
Sassenach: Scottish and Irish term for an English person
Satchmo: Louis Armstrong
Sher-e-Bangla (Tiger of Bengal): A. K. Fazlul Huq, 20th century Bengali political leader and statesman
Slash: Saul Hudson, guitarist.
Slick Willie: Bill Clinton, Willie Sutton, Willie Brown, W.W. Herenton
Slowhand: Eric Clapton
Soapy Sam: Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford
Sting: Gordon Sumner, British rock musician
Super Star: Tamil Actor (Indian) Rajinikanth
T
The Angel of Death/Der Todesengel: Josef Mengele
The Angelic Doctor: Thomas Aquinas
The Bambino: George Herman Ruth, Jr., American baseball Player
The Beeb: The British Broadcasting Corporation
The Bengal Tiger: Saurav Ganguli
The Big Piece: Ryan Howard, Phillies First Baseman.
The Big Stick: Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy
The Big Yin: Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian.
The Bill: The William Webb Ellis Cup - trophy awarded to winners of the Rugby Union World Cup
The Black Mamba: Kobe Bryant, American basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers
The Body: Elle Macpherson
The Bird: Mark Fidrych, Baseball pitcher
The Boss: Bruce Springsteen
The Boston Strangler: Albert DeSalvo
The Cincinnatus of Americans: George Washington
The Doctor: Valentino Rossi
The Don: Sir Donald Bradman
The Duke: John Wayne
The Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick
The Edge: David Howell Evans, guitarist in the rock band U2
The Fab Five: 1991 University of Michigan men's basketball team.
The Fab Four: The Beatles
The General: Irish Criminal Martin Cahill
The Glimmer Twins: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones originals members, they co-write most of the hits.
The Godfather of Soul: James Brown
The Golden Bear: Jack Nicklaus
The Governator: Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California
The Gray Lady: The New York Times
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali boxer
The Great Commoner: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder") or William Jennings Bryan
The Great Communicator: Ronald Reagan, The 40th President of the United States of America
The Great Compromiser: Henry Clay, 19th century Kentucky statesman
The Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln, The 16th President of the United States of America
The Great One: Wayne Gretzky, WHA/NHL hockey player
The Great Orator: Daniel Webster
The Great Triumvirate - Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali boxer
The Gray Lady: The New York Times
The Grauniad: The Guardian newspaper, England
The Hick from French Lick: Larry Bird
(The) Hoff: David Hasselhoff
The Iron Duke: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher
The Killer: Jerry Lee Lewis
The King (of all Media): Howard Stern
The King (of baseball): Felix Hernandez
The King (of golf): Arnold Palmer
The King (of NASCAR): Richard Petty
The King of Pop: Michael Jackson
The King (of Rock and Roll): Elvis Presley
The King of Reggae: Bob Marley
The King (of Rugby League (particularly in Australia)): Wally Lewis
The King of Spain: Ashley Giles
The King of Spin: Shane Warne
The Lion of the Round Top: Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine Regiment, American Civil War
The Little Fellow: Charlie Chaplin
The Little Master: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Indian Cricketer
The Little Sparrow: Sezen Aksu
The Man from Tennessee: Andrew Jackson
The Man in Black: Johnny Cash
The Material Girl: Madonna
The Mick: Mickey Mantle
The Myth: Bodybuilding great Sergio Oliva
The New Sinatra: Jay-Z
The Old Pretender: James Francis Edward Stuart
The Paris of the South: São Paulo and Buenos Aires
The Peoples champ: Kevin 'Pigsy' McCann
The Philosopher: Aristotle
The Rat Pack: A group of American singers and entertainers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s
The Rawalpindi Express: Shoaib Akhtar
The Red Arrows: (British) Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team
The Red Baron: Manfred von Richthofen, World War I, German flying ace
The Red Devils: (British) Parachute Regiment, Manchester United Football Club
The Red Planet: Mars
The Rock Chameleon: David Bowie
The Rock (person): Dwayne Johnson
The Say Hey Kid: Willie Mays, American, Major League baseball player and Hall of Famer
The Scottish Play: Macbeth
The Spaceman: Major League Baseball player Bill Lee
The Splendid Splinter: Baseball player Ted Williams
The Subtle Doctor: John Duns Scotus
The Sultan of Swat: Babe Ruth, Major league Baseball player and Hall of Famer
The Teflon Don: mobster John Gotti
The Teflon Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach of Ireland
The Thin White Duke: David Bowie, Actor, Entertainer
The Thunderer: The Times newspaper, London
The Toxic Twins: Aerosmith members Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, referred to as such because of their massive drug intake during the 70's and 80's
Trane: John Coltrane
Tricky Dick: Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
Turd Blossom: name given by George W. Bush to Karl Rove
The Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I of England
The Wall: Rahul Dravid
The Young Pretender: Charles Edward Stuart
U
Uncle Sam: the U.S.A. or sometimes the government
W
Wizard of the North: Walter Scott
X
X-22: backgammon champion Paul Magriel.
Y
Yank (a short form of "Yankee"): originally used derogatorily by Southerners but now only heard outside the USA
Yardbird: jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker (Also shortened simply to "Bird")
Places
A list of Sobriquets (Places) starting alphabetically from A to Z
A
Auld Reekie: Edinburgh, "Old Smokey" in the Scots Language
Auntie/Aunty: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation / the British Broadcasting Corporation
B
Beantown: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bengal's Sorrow: Damodar River
Biggest Little City: Reno, NV, USA, a small casino city.
Blighty: Great Britain (used by British servicemen abroad and expatriates)
Blue Mountain: Niligiri Hills, India
Brass Fountain: PPSh-41
Brew City: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, famous for its beer production
Brisvegas: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Britain of South: New Zealand
C
C-3: the Collins Crystal Cave expedition
Chocolate City: Washington, D.C., so named because of its majority African-American population
Cockpit of Europe: Belgium
Columbia: The United States or The Americas, poetic name
Cowtown: The City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
D
DC, The District: Washington, DC
DF: Mexico City, (Distrito Federal)
Diamond City in India: Surat, Gujarat
Dixie, Dixieland: (from the Mason-Dixon Line of latitude, the northern limit of legal slavery). The eleven Southern states that seceded and fought against the USA in the American Civil War: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia Dullsville: Perth, Western Australia
F
Foggy Bottom: the United States State Department, named for the Washington, DC, neighborhood in which it is headquartered
Forbidden City: Lhasa, Tibet
Frisco: San Francisco, California
G
Garden City of India: Bangalore
Garden of England: Kent, England
Garrincha: Manoel Francisco dos Santos
Gate of Tears: Bab-el-mandab, Jerusalem
Gateway of India: Mumbai
Gift of Nile: Egypt
GOC or Gods' Own County: Yorkshire, Kerala
GOP (Grand Old Party): Republican Party (United States)
Gotham: New York
Granite City: Aberdeen, Scotland
Great White Way: Broadway, New York, USA
H
Hermit Kingdom: Korea
Herring Pond: Atlantic Ocean
Hogtown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
K
Key of Mediterranean: Gibraltar
L
Land of the Kangaroo: Australia
Land of the Golden Fleece: Australia
M
Manchester of Japan: Osaka
Motown: Detroit, MI, from its musical heritage
N
New York's Finest: New York City Police Department
New York's Best: NYC*EMS, originally ran by the Health and Hospitals Corporation, taken over by FDNY in 1996 and is now FDNY EMS
New York's Bravest: New York City Fire Department
New York's Boldest: New York City Department of Correction (who work in the City's jails.)
O
Obamacare: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, generally derogatory
Oxford of the East: University of Dhaka in the early 20th century
P
Pearl of the Antilles: Cuba
Pearl of the Danube: Budapest, Hungary
Pearl of the Orient/Pearl of the Orient Seas: the Philippines
Perfidious Albion: Great Britain
Pillars of Hercules: Strait of Gibraltar
Pink City: Jaipur, India
Playground of Europe: Switzerland
Powder Keg of Europe: Balkans
Port of five Seas: Moscow
Q
Quaker City: Philadelphia, USA
Queen of the Suburbs: The residential area called Ealing in England.
Queen of Adriatic: Venice, Italy
R
Republic of China: Taiwan
S
Sick Man of Europe:: Turkey
Sin City: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Sorrow of China: River Hwang Ho
Spice Garden of India: Kerala
Sugar bowl of the World: Cuba
T
The Antipodes: Australia and New Zealand, close to the Antipodes of Great Britain
The Athens of the North: Edinburgh
The Battleground/Battlefield/Cock-pit of Europe: Belgium, or the whole area of the former United Netherlands
The Bayou City: Houston, Texas, USA
The Big Apple: New York City, New York, USA
The Big D: Dallas, Texas, USA
The Big Easy: New Orleans, Louisiana
The Big Smoke: London, UK and by extension other large industrial cities including Toronto, Canada.
The Big Piece: Ryan Howard, Phillies First Baseman.
The Big Stick: Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy
The City: the City of London, as central business district of London and by extension the UK financial industry in general.
The City (or The City by the Bay): San Francisco, California
The City Beautiful: Coral Gables, Florida
The City Care Forgot: New Orleans, Louisiana
The City of Angels/L.A.: Los Angeles, California
The City of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The City of Dreaming Spires: Oxford, England
The City of Golden Gate: San Francisco, USA
The City of Golden Temple: Amristar, India
The City of Joy: Kolkata, India
The City of Light: Paris (La Ville-Lumière in French)
The City of Magnificent Distances: Washington D.C., USA
The City of Medicine: Durham, North Carolina
The City of Palaces: Kolkata, India
The City of Seven Hills: Rome, Italy
The City of Sky-scrapers: New York, USA
The City so Nice They Named It Twice: New York City
The Coat Hanger: Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Continent: Continental Europe, generally used by British people
The Dark Continent: Africa
The Dragon: China (as an economy)
The Emerald Isle/ The Emerald Island: Ireland or Puerto Rico
The Emerald City: Seattle, Washington, USA
The Enchanted Isle: (from 'la isla del encanto') Puerto Rico
The Empire City: New York, USA
The Eternal City: Rome
The Federal City: Washington D.C.
The Fourth Estate: the press
The Great White North: Canada
The Holy Land: Israel / Palestine
The Home of Cricket: Lord's Cricket Ground
The Hub: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The Island of Cloves: Madagascar, Zanzibar
The Island of Pearls: Bahrain
The Land of a Thousand Lakes: Finland
The Land of Cakes: Scotland
The Land of Canals: Netherlands
The Land of Five Rivers: Punjab, India
The Land of Golden Pagoda: Myanmar (Burma)
The Land of Humming Bird: Trinidad
The Land of Lilies: Canada
The Land of Morning Calm: Korea
The Land of Rising Sun: Japan
The Land of the Long White Cloud: New Zealand
The Land of Thousand Lakes: Finland
The Land of Thunderbolt: Bhutan
The Land of Maple: Canada
The Land of Midnight Sun: Norway
The Land of Snow - Canada
The Land of White Elephants: Thailand
The Land of Windmills: Netherlands
The Little Apple: Manhattan, Kansas, USA After The Big Apple – New York City, New York, USA
The Magic City: Miami, Florida
The Mother-in-law of Europe: Denmark
The Motor City: Detroit, MI, from its automotive heritage
The Old Bailey: The Central Criminal Court in England
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street: the Bank of England
The Paris of the West: San Francisco, USA
The Paris of the South: São Paulo and Buenos Aires
The Queen of the Arabian Sea: Cochin
The Red Devils: Manchester United Football Club
The Rock (prison): Alcatraz Prison
The Roof of World: Pamirs, Central Asia
The Smoke: London
The Steel City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Twin Cities: Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Tinseltown: Hollywood, California, USA
The Windy City: Chicago, Illinois, USA and Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
V
Venice of East: Alleppey, India
Venice of the North: Stockholm, Sweden and Cork (city), Ireland
W
Westminster: the British Parliament
Whitehall: the British government including Parliament but excluding the monarchy
White City: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
White House: the executive branch of the government of the United States
White Man's Grave: Guinea Coast
Windy City: Chicago, USA
World's Bread Basket: Praires of N.America
World's Loneliest Island: Tristan De Gunha (Mid-Atlantic)
Y
Yellow River: Huang Ho (China)