Ziggy

Masculine given name
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Ziggy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Zigmunt and other names. It is also a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

Nickname or hypocorism

  • Ezekiel Ansah (born 1989), National Football League player
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981[citation needed]
  • Zygmont Czarobski (1922–1984), American College Football Hall-of-Fame and National Football League player
  • Ziggy Gordon (born 1993), Scottish footballer
  • Evander Ziggy Hood (born 1987), National Football League player
  • Zachary Ziggy Lichman (born 1981), a contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother UK, Season 8
  • Ziggy Lorenc (born 1958), Canadian television and radio personality
  • David Nesta Ziggy Marley (born 1968), Grammy-winning Jamaican musician; oldest son of Bob Marley
  • Ziggy Modeliste (born 1948), American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk group The Meters
  • Ziggy Niszczot (born 1955), Australian former professional rugby league footballer
  • Žigmund Pálffy (born 1972), retired National Hockey League player from Slovakia
  • Sigurd Rosnes, Norwegian songwriter and producer
  • Ilari Sahamies (born 1983), Finnish professional poker player
  • David "Ziggy" Sigmond, guitarist for Canadian rock group Econoline Crush
  • George Snider, American retired race car driver
  • Zigmunt Ziggy Switkowski (born 1948), Australian businessman and nuclear physicist
  • Zigmunt Zygi Wilf (born 1950), owner of the Minnesota Vikings National Football League team
  • Ziggy the bagman (born c. 1950), Zbygnew Marian Willzek, a homeless man who lives in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia
  • Brad Ziegler (born 1979), relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics

Technology

  • Ziggy, as a wake word and alternate name for Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon

Stage name

  • Ziggy Alberts (born 1994), an Australian folk singer and songwriter
  • Ziggy Elman, stage name of American jazz trumpeter Harry Aaron Finkelman (1914–1968)
  • Ziggy Stardust, a 1970s persona of David Bowie (1947–2016), English musician, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and arranger
  • Ziggy Ramo (born Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna), an Indigenous Australian singer, songwriter and activist

Fictional characters

  • Ziggy, a character in Laura Bow 2
  • The title character of Ziggy (comic strip)
  • Ziggy Astoni, character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
  • Ziggy (EastEnders), from the British soap opera EastEnders
  • Ziggy Sobotka, on the HBO drama The Wire
  • Ziggy, from the Icelandic children's television program LazyTown
  • Ziggy (Quantum Leap), from the American TV series Quantum Leap
  • Ziggy Grover, from Power Rangers RPM
  • Ziggy (Xenosaga), from the science fiction video game series Xenosaga
  • Ziggy from the Millimages cartoon Trust Me, I'm a Genie!
  • Demon King Ziggy from the Japanese manga Edens Zero
  • Ziggy Stardust (character), fictional alter ego of David Bowie
  • Ziggy Chapman from the HBO series Big Little Lies.
  • Ziggy Pascal, character in British soap opera Family Affairs
  • Ziggy Roscoe, character in British soap opera Hollyoaks

As a female nickname

  • Christine 'Ziggy' Berman from Fear Street: Part Two - 1978

Animals

  • Ziggy (elephant) (1917–1975), an Indian elephant who lived at the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago

See also

  • Zigi, Ghanaian singer
  • Ziggi Recado, reggae singer
  • Siggy (disambiguation)
  • Zig (disambiguation)
  • Zygi, village in Cyprus
  • Zygi (given name)
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