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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