Curly

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For other uses, see Curly (disambiguation).

Curly is a surname, given name, nickname or stage name. It may refer to:

First name, nickname or stage name[]

  • Crazy Horse (1840–1877), Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly"
  • Curly (scout), nickname of Ashishishe (c. 1856–1923), Crow Indian scout for General Custer
  • Curly Armstrong, nickname of Paul Carlyle Armstrong (1918-1983), American basketball player
  • Curly Bill Brocius, nickname of William Brocius (c. 1845-1882), American Old West gunman and outlaw
  • Curly Brown, nickname of Charles Roy Brown (1888-1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Curly Chalker, stage name of Harold Lee Chalker (1931-1998), American country and jazz musician
  • Curly Clement, nickname of Robert F. Clement (1919 – 2006), American baseball umpire
  • Curly Ray Cline (1923-1997), American bluegrass fiddler
  • Curly, nickname of George Andrew Davis, Jr. (1920-1952), American World War II and Korean War flying ace
  • Curly Joe DeRita, Three Stooges persona of Joseph Wardell, whose stage name was Joe DeRita (1909 – 1993), American actor and comedian
  • Clarence T. "Curly" Edwinson (1912 – 1985). American fighter pilot and flying ace of World War II, football player and skeet shooter
  • Curly Evans, nickname of Neal Evans (c. 1888–1945), American born Canadian freight industry entrepreneur
  • Curly Fox, nickname of Arnim LeRoy Fox (1910-1995), American county music singer and musician
  • Curly Hammond (1879–1963), English rugby union player
  • Curly Haugland, nickname of Erling George Haugland, American politician and businessman
  • Curly Hinchman, nickname of Hubert Edward Hinchman (1907 – 1968), American football player
  • Curly Howard, stage name of comic actor Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903–1952), Three Stooges actor
  • Curly Howard (DJ), stage name of Howard Sisk (c. 1930–2001), on-air name of American disc jockey Howard Sisk
  • Greg 'Curly' Keranen, American bassist and guitarist
  • Curly Lambeau, nickname of Earl Louis Lambeau (1898-1965), founder, player and first coach of the Green Bay Packers
  • Curly Lawrence, nickname of Lillian Lawrence who was born William Morris Benjamin, also known as LBSC (1883 – 1967), British model locomotive designer
  • Curly Lino, nickname of Frank Lino (born 1938), Sicilian-American mobster
  • Curly Linton, nickname of Albert Charles Linton (5 September 1895 – 25 July 1985) was an Anzac veteran and Australian rules footballer
  • Gordon 'Curly' Mack, whose full name is Gordon Sylvester Bradshaw Mack, Irish badminton player of the 1920s and '30s
  • "Curly M.C.", a pseudonym of Michael Cretu (born 1957), Romanian-German musician
  • Curly Moe, ring name Donald Chester Zalesky (1962 – 2015), Canadian-American wrestler
  • Fred "Curly" Morrison, whose full name is Fred Lew Morrison (born 1926), American National Football League player
  • Curly Neal, nickname of Frederick Neal (1942–2020), American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
  • Curly Oden, nickname of Olaf Gustave Hazard Oden (1899-1978), American National Football League player
  • Curly Ogden, nickname of Warren Harvey Ogden (1901-1964), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Curly Page, nickname of Milford Laurenson Page (1902-1987), New Zealand cricketer
  • Donald "Curly" Phillips (1884-1938) Canadian guide, outfitter, entrepreneur, and explorer
  • Curly Putman, nickname of Claude Putman Jr. (born 1930), American songwriter
  • Curly Seckler, nickname of John Ray Sechler (born 1919), American bluegrass musician
  • Curly Thirlwell, nickname of Edward Thirlwell (1905-1985), American sound engineer nominated for two Academy Awards
  • Konrad the Curly (c. 1198 – 1213), Polish noble

Fictional characters[]

Animals[]

  • "Curly" or "Little Curly", a nickname of Laika, the first dog in space
  • Curly Horse, a curly-coated breed of horse
  • Curly, the name of the first LaPerm cat

See also[]

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