Big Daddy

Big Daddy may refer to:

People

Politicians

• Idi Amin (c. 1920–2003), President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
• Robert Byrd (1917–2010), American senator (self-given epithet in 2006)
• Jesse Unruh (1922–1987), American Speaker of the California State Assembly

Sportsmen

• Riddick Bowe (born 1967), American boxer
• Matt Cain (born 1984), American professional baseball player
• Shirley Crabtree (1930–1997), British professional wrestler
• Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American former baseball player
• Nelson Frazier, Jr. (1971-2014), American professional wrestler
• Don Garlits (born 1932), American drag racer
• Gary Goodridge (born 1966), Canadian kickboxer and mixed martial artist
• Vladimir Guerrero (born 1975), American professional baseball player
• Matt Holliday (born 1980), American professional baseball player
• Eugene Lipscomb (1931–1963), American football defensive lineman (1953–62)
• Shaquille O'Neal (born 1972), American basketball player
• Rick Reuschel (born 1949), American former baseball player
• Eric Rupe (born 1963), American BMX racing rider
• Dan Wilkinson (born 1973), American professional football player

In music

• Richard "Big Daddy Ritch" Anderson, lead vocalist for American red dirt metal ensemble Texas Hippie Coalition
• Glenn Hughes (born 1951), British bassist and singer
• Big Daddy Kane (born 1968), American rapper
• Big Daddy Kinsey (1927-2001), American Chicago blues singer and musician

Other

• Ed Roth (1932–2001), American illustrator and Kustom Kulture

• Nicholas Blaine Glover (1991- ), The King Ding-a-ling, Big Mambo

Characters

• A character in the Tennessee Williams 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Big Daddy (BioShock), a heavily armored adversary in the video game BioShock
• Big Daddy (Transformers), characters from Transformers
• A comic character in the comic Buster based on Crabtree
• A character in the syndicated comic strip Raising Duncan by Chris Browne
• A character in The Simpsons episode "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
• Wanda's Dad in The Fairly OddParents
• A zombified main character from the movie Land of the Dead
• The name of the former leader of Millennium in Gungrave
• Blanche Devereaux's father on The Golden Girls
• A bazooka wielding fighter in a convertible car in Age of Empires
• Vincent Price's cameo role in the 1963 movie Beach Party
• A character from the comic book series Kick-Ass
• A character in the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog
• A character in the 2012 film Django Unchained

Music

• Big Daddy (band), a novelty band who covered 80's & 90's songs in 50's & 60's style
• Big Daddy (album), a 1989 album by John Cougar Mellencamp
• "Big Daddy" (song), the lead single from Heavy D's sixth album, Waterbed Hev
• "(I Hate You) Big Daddy", a song from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (soundtrack)

Films

• Big Daddy (1969 film), a horror film
• Big Daddy (1999 film), a comedy film starring Adam Sandler

Other uses

• Big Daddy 103.9, a former on-air brand of a Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada radio station CHNO-FM from January 1, 2006 - May 21, 2010.
• Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce, a food company based in Oklahoma
• Big Daddy, a very large sand dune at Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert