Bull (nickname)
Bull, The Bull and Da Bull are nicknames.
Those so named include:
- Nicknamed "Bull" unless otherwise noted.
- Bill Adams (Australian footballer) (1900-1973), Australian rules footballer
- Donnis Churchwell (born 1936), American former National Football League player
- Bull Connor (1897–1973), American politician infamous for opposing desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s
- Johnny Davis (American football) (born 1956), former National Football League player
- Ed Durham (1907-1976), American baseball pitcher
- Leon Durham (born 1957), American baseball first baseman
- William Halsey, Jr. (1882-1959), US Navy fleet admiral
- Terry Jenkins (born 1963), English darts player nicknamed "The Bull"
- Brooks Lawrence (1925-2000), American Negro National League and Major League Baseball pitcher
- Frank McCaffrey, college football player and 1917 head football coach of Fordham University
- Bull Montana (1887–1950), American professional wrestler and actor Lewis Montagna
- William "Bull" Nelson (1824–1862), US Army major-general during the American Civil War and US Navy officer prior to the war
- Greg Noll (born 1937), American surfing pioneer nicknamed "Da Bull"
- Bull Polisky (1901–1978), American football player
- Denver Randleman (1920-2003), non-commissioned officer in World War II, portrayed in the HBO series Band of Brothers
- Alan Richardson (footballer born 1940), Australian footballer
- Franz Roth (born 1946), German former footballer nicknamed "the Bull"
- Edwin Vose Sumner (1797-1863), American Civil War Union Army general
- Tsang Kin-shing (born 1957), Hong Kong politician
See also
- Raging Bull (disambiguation), includes a list of people with the nickname
- Luis Ángel Firpo (1894-1960), Argentine boxer nicknamed "The Wild Bull of The Pampas"
- Johnny Hoogerland (born 1983), Dutch cyclist nicknamed the "Bull of Beveland"
- Hakan Şükür (born 1971), Turkish retired footballer nicknamed the "Bull of the Bosphorus"
- El Toro (nickname), Spanish for "the Bull"
- David Jones (rugby) (1881-1933), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer nicknamed "Tarw" (Welsh for "Bull")
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