Papa (nickname)

Papa is a nickname which may refer to:

• Cool Papa Bell (1903–1991), African-American Negro league baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Papa Bue (1930–2011), Danish jazz trombonist and bandleader
• Papa Joe Chevalier (1948–2011), American sports radio personality
• Papa John Creach (1917–1994), American violinist
• Papa Dee (born 1966), Swedish raga musician
• Papa Bouba Diop (1978−2020), Senegalese footballer
• Louis Faury (1874–1947), French general
• Michele Greco (1924–2008), Sicilian Mafia member nicknamed "il Papa" ("the Pope")
• Paul Hausser (1880–1972), German World War II Waffen SS officer
• Papa Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian composer Joseph Haydn
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American author and journalist
• Walter Hörnlein (1893–1961), German World War II general
• Papa Jackson (born 1982), Filipino disc jockey
• Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), French World War I general
• Papa Jack Laine (1873–1966), American jazz drummer and bandleader
• Papa Charlie McCoy (1909–1950), African-American delta blues musician and songwriter
• Sokratis Papastathopoulos (born 1988), Greek footballer
• John Phillips (musician) (1935–2001), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Papa Don Schroeder (1940–2019), American music executive
• Scott Steiner (born 1962), American professional wrestler nicknamed "Big Poppa Pump"
• Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Army field marshal

See also

• Dad (nickname)
• Daddy (nickname)
• Pappy
• Pop (nickname)
• Poppa (disambiguation)
• Pops (nickname)