Primary Names | |
Person | |
Father of the Nation | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
Joe the Plumber | Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an American plumbing contractor. |
Genghis Khan | Temüjin |
The General | Irish Criminal Martin Cahill |
El Cauclillo | Francisco Franco |
Chacha | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Loknayak | Jayaprakash Narayan |
Maid of Orleans | Joan of Arc |
Man of Peace | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Desert Fox | Erwin Rommel |
Punjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
The Godfather of Soul | James Brown |
Guruji | M S Gohlwalkar |
Man of Destiny | Napolean Bonaparte |
The Elephant Man | Joseph Merrick |
The Edge | David Howell Evans, guitarist in the rock band U2 |
The Duke | John Wayne |
Dubya | George W. Bush |
Man of Blood and Iron | Otto Von Bismark |
The Cincinnatus of the Americans | George Washington |
The Fab Four | The Beatles |
Grits | a media term for the Liberal Party of Canada |
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 |
Father of his country | George Washington |
Honest Abe | Abraham Lincoln |
His Airness | Michael Jordan |
The Hick from French Lick | Larry Bird |
Haryana Hurricane | Kapil Dev |
Hanoi Jane | Jane Fonda |
The Glimmer Twins | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones originals members, they co-write most of the hits. |
The Gray Lady | The New York Times |
Panditji | Jawaharlal Nehru |
The Greatest | Muhammad Ali boxer[1] |
The Great One | Wayne Gretzky, WHA/NHL hockey player |
The Great Emancipator | Abraham Lincoln, The 16th President of the United States of America |
The Great Communicator | Ronald Reagan, The 40th President of the United States of America |
The Governator | Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California |
King Maker | Earl of Warwick |
GOP (Grand Old Party) | Republican Party (United States) |
The Golden Bear | Jack Nicklaus |
The Great Commoner | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder") or William Jennings Bryan |
Bonnie Prince Charlie | Charles Edward Stuart |
Canuck | Canadian, from Johnny Canuck |
Caligula | Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus |
The Bambino | George Herman Ruth, Jr., American baseball Player |
Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama |
Broadway Joe | Joe Namath, AFL/NFL American Football player |
The Bard | William Shakespeare |
Brangelina | Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie |
Boom Boom Afridi | Shahid Afridi |
Saint of the Gutters | mother Teresa |
Bono | Paul Hewson |
The Young Pretender | Charles Edward Stuart |
Body Beautiful Beale | Edith Bouvier Beale |
Bloody Mary | Mary I of England |
Birdman | Chris Andersen |
Bird | Charlie Parker |
The Boston Strangler | Albert DeSalvo |
The Boss | Bruce Springsteen |
The Bird | Mark Fidrych, Baseball pitcher |
Biggie Smalls | Christopher Wallace, American Hip-Hop and rap singer |
Bonzo | John Bonham |
Dr. Death | Jack Kevorkian proponent of assisted suicide |
Iceman | George Gervin, Jerry Butler, ABA/NBA Basketball player; Kimi Räikkönen, Formula One racing driver, Chuck Liddell, UFC former light heavy weight champion |
Kaviguru | Rabindranath Tagore |
Ike Dwight | David Eisenhower |
Deshbandhu | C. R. Das |
Bard of Twickenham | Alexander Pope |
Bard of Avon | William Shakespeare |
Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
Adi Kavi | Valmeeki |
Chemical Ali | Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister during the 2003 US invasion; also known as Baghdad Bob |
Nightingale of India | Sarojini Naidu |
Angel of Death | Josef Mengele |
The Doctor | Valentino Rossi |
Digger | Australian soldier |
Diamond Dave | David Lee Roth, Singer |
DeathStar | DeskStar, a model of disk drives by IBM which had a remarkably high failure rate |
Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
Wizard of the North | Walter Scott |
Grand Old Man of Britain | Willian Ewart Glandstone |
der Alte (the old man) | Konrad Adenauer |
Qaid-e-Azam | Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
Prince of Kolkata | Saurav Ganguly |
Sandman | Howard Sims, dancer |
Saint Jimmy | Billie Joe Armstrong |
The Rock Chameleon | David Bowie |
The Rock (person) | Dwayne Johnson |
The Rat Pack | A group of American singers and entertainers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s |
The Red Baron | Manfred von Richthofen, World War I, German flying ace |
Old Rough and Ready | Zachary Taylor |
Ike | Dwight David |
Slash | Saul Hudson, guitarist. |
Joltin' Joe | Joe Dimaggio, Baseball player; former husband of Marilyn Monroe |
Fuhrer | Adolf Hitler |
Pearl of the Orient | Philippines |
Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Pelé | Edson Arantes do Nascimento |
The Paris of the South | São Paulo and Buenos Aires |
Deenabandhu | C F Andrews |
The Rawalpindi Express | Shoaib Akhtar |
The Teflon Don | mobster John Gotti |
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") |
X-22 | backgammon champion Paul Magriel. |
Uncle Sam | the U.S.A. or sometimes the government |
Turd Blossom | name given by George W. Bush to Karl Rove |
Tricky Dick | Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States |
Trane | John Coltrane |
Satchmo | Louis Armstrong |
The Thin White Duke | David Bowie, Actor, Entertainer |
The Say Hey Kid | Willie Mays, American, Major League baseball player and Hall of Famer |
Super Star | Tamil Actor(Indian) Rajinikanth |
The Sultan of Swat | Babe Ruth, Major league Baseball player and Hall of Famer |
Sting | Gordon Sumner, British rock musician |
Soapy Sam | Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford |
Slowhand | Eric Clapton |
Slick Willy | U.S. President Bill Clinton |
Prince of the Humanists | Desiderius Erasmus |
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 |
Knick Killer | Reggie Miller |
Larry Legend | Larry Bird |
The Little Sparrow | Sezen Aksu |
The King (of all Media) | Howard Stern |
Little Richard | Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman, a prominent figure in rock n' roll. |
The Lion of the Round Top | Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine Regiment, American Civil War |
The Killer | Jerry Lee Lewis |
The Old Pretender | James Francis Edward Stuart |
Madiba | Nelson Mandela |
Frontier Gandhi | Abdul Gaffar Khan |
Madge | Madonna |
The King of Spin | Shane Warne |
The King of Spain | Ashley Giles |
The King of Pop | Michael Jackson |
King James | LeBron James |
The King (of Rock and Roll) | Elvis Presley |
The King (of NASCAR) | Richard Petty |
The King (of golf) | Arnold Palmer |
The King (of baseball) | Felix Hernandez |
Grand Old Man of India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
Old Kinderhook (OK) | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States |
Old Hickory | Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States |
Old Blue Eyes | Frank Sinatra, entertainer |
Anna | C N Annadurai |
Old St. Nick | Santa |
Old Nick | Santa |
Rajaji | C Rajagopalachari |
The Man from Tennessee | Andrew Jackson |
Mr. Hockey | Gordie Howe |
Mr. October- Reggie Jackson | Major League Baseball Player and Hall of Famer |
Iron Duke | Duke of Wellington |
The Mick | Mickey Mantle |
Mahatma Gandhi | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
Kaká | Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite |
The Myth | Bodybuilding great Sergio Oliva |
The Material Girl | Madonna |
Manitas de Plata | Flamenco guitarist Ricardo Baliardo |
Places | |
Queen of Arabian Sea | Kochi, India |
Queen of Adriatic | Venice, Italy |
Land of the Kangaroo | Australia |
Land of the Golden Fleece | Australia |
Roof of World | Pamirs, Central Asia |
Yellow River | Huang Ho (China) |
Garden City of India | Bangalore |
Quaker City | Philadelphia, USA |
World's Loneliest Island | Tristan De Gunha (Mid-Atlantic) |
Sick Man of Europe | Turkey |
Sorrow of China | River Hwang Ho |
World's Bread Basket | Praires of N.America |
Windy City | Chicago, USA |
Sugar bowl of the World | Cuba |
White Man's Grave | Guinea Coast |
White City | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
Venice of North | Stockholm, Sweden |
Venice of East | Alleppey, India |
Spice Garden of India | Kerala |
Dark Continent | Africa |
Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
Great White Way | Broadway, New York, USA |
Granite City | Aberdeen, Scotland |
Gift of Nile | Egypt |
Gateway of India | Mumbai |
Gate of Tears | Bab-el-mandab, Jerusalem |
Garden of India | Bangalore, India |
Garden of England | Kent, England |
Forbidden City | Lhasa, Tibet |
Eternal City | Rome, Italy |
Herring Pond | Atlantic Ocean |
Emerald Island | Ireland |
The City or The City by the Bay | San Francisco, California |
Cockpit of Europe | Belgium |
City of Sky-scrapers | New York, USA |
City of Seven Hills | Rome, Italy |
City of Palaces | Kolkata, India |
City of Magnificent Distances | Washington D.C., USA |
City of Golden Temple | Amristar, India |
City of Golden Gate | San Francisco, USA |
City of Dreaming Spires | Oxford, England |
Britain of South | New Zealand |
Blue Mountain | Niligiri Hills, India |
Empire City | New York, USA |
Land of Lilies | Canada |
Playground of Europe | Switzerland |
Pink City | Jaipur, India |
Pillars of Hercules | Strait of Gibraltar |
Pearl of Antilles | Cuba |
Never Never Land | Prairies of N.Australia |
Manchester of Japan | Osaka |
Land of White Elephants | Thailand |
Land of Thunderbolt | Bhutan |
Land of Thousand Lakes | Finland |
Land of Rising Sun | Japan |
Hermit Kingdom | Korea |
Land of Midnight Sun | Norway |
Powder Keg of Europe | Balkans |
Land of Kangaroo | Australia |
Land of Golden Pagoda | Myanmar (Burma) |
Land of Five Rivers | Punjab, India |
Land of Cakes | Scotland |
Lady with the Lamp | Florence Nightingale |
Key of Mediterranean | Gibraltar |
Island of Pearls | Bahrain |
Island of Cloves | Madagascar |
Land of Maple | Canada |
Holy Land | Palestine |
Land of Morning Calm | Korea |
The Eternal City | Rome |
The Mother-in-law of Europe | Denmark |
Hogtown | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Gotham | New York |
God's Own Country | Kerala, New Zealand, Rhodesia or Yorkshire |
Garrincha | Manoel Francisco dos Santos |
Frisco | San Francisco, California |
Columbia | The United States or The Americas |
The Federal City | Washington D.C. |
The Old Bailey | The Central Criminal Court in England |
The Enchanted Isle | (from 'la isla del encanto') Puerto Rico |
The Emerald City | Seattle, Washington, USA |
The Emerald Isle | Ireland or Puerto Rico |
The Dragon | China (as an economy) |
Roof of the World | Pamirs |
Chosin Few | US Marine survivors of Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir |
The Fourth Estate | the press |
Sin City | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
The Windy City | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
White House | the executive branch of the government of the United States |
Whitehall | the British government including Parliament but excluding the monarchy |
Westminster | the British Parliament |
Tinseltown | Hollywood, California, USA |
Taiwan | Republic of China |
The New Sinatra | Jay-Z |
The Smoke | London |
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street | the Bank of England |
The Rock (prison) | Alcatraz Prison |
The Red Devils | Manchester United Football Club |
The Queen of the Arabian Sea | Cochin |
Perfidious Albion | Great Britain |
Pensioneers | Chelsea football club |
The Paris of the West | San Francisco, USA |
The City of Palaces | Kolkata, India |
The Steel City | Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. |
City of the Golden Gate | San Francisco |
The Battlefield of Europe | Belgium |
Auntie | Australian Broadcasting Corporation / British Broadcasting Corporation |
the Antipodes | Australia and New Zealand |
Diamond City in India | Surat, Gujarat |
Humming Bird | Trinidad |
Land of the Canals | Netherlands |
World's Breadbasket | Prairies of N. America |
City of Brotherly Love | Philadelphia |
The Beeb | The British Broadcasting Corporation |
Venice of the North | Stockholm |
Queen of the Adriatic | Venice |
Land of White Elephant | Thailand |
Land of Canals | Netherlands |
Port of five Seas | Moscow |
Land of the Golden Pagoda | Burma (Myanmar) |
Land of Windmills | Netherlands |
Brass Fountain | PPSh-41 |
The City of Brotherly Love | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
The City of Joy | Kolkata, India |
The City of Light | Paris |
Bengal's Sorrow | Damodar River, India |
Chocolate City | Washington, D.C., so named because of its majority African-American population |
C-3 | the Collins Crystal Cave expedition |
The Bayou City | Houston, Texas, USA |
Brew City | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Beantown | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Blighty | Great Britain (used by British servicemen abroad and expatriates) |
The Big Stick | Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy |
The Big Smoke | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
The Big Easy | New Orleans, Louisiana |
The Big D | Dallas, Texas, USA |
The Big Apple | New York City, New York, USA |
Pearl of the Antilles | Cuba |
Brisvegas | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Friday, 2 December 2011
Sobriquet bits
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