Ike (given name)
Ike is a a masculine given name and nickname, often for Isaac or Dwight. It may refer to:
People
Arts and entertainment
- Isaac Ike Barinholtz (born 1977), American actor, comedian, voice actor and screenwriter
- Isaac Ike Cole (1927–2001), American jazz pianist and composer, brother of Nat King Cole
- Ike Isaacs (guitarist) (1919–1996), Burmese-British jazz guitarist
- Ike Isaacs (bassist) (1923–1981), American jazz bassist
- Ike Quebec (1918–1963), American jazz tenor saxophonist
- Izear Ike Turner (1931–2007), American musician, bandleader, talent scout and record producer
- Ike Willis (born 1955), American vocalist and guitarist
Politics and the military
- Ike Franklin Andrews (1925-2010), American politician
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and President of the United States
- Ike Ekweremadu (born 1962), Nigerian politician and lawyer
- O.H. "Ike" Harris (born 1932), American politician, attorney and lobbyist
- Isiah Leggett (born 1944), American politician
- John Isaac Moore (1856-1937), American politician
- Ike Nwachukwu (born 1940), Nigerian politician and retired army officer
- Isaac Ike Skelton (1931-2013), American politician
- Isaiah Ike Thompson (1915–1995), American politician
Sports
- Ike Armstrong (1895-1983), American football player, coach of football, basketball and track, and college athletics administrator
- Isaac Austin (born 1969), American retired National Basketball Association player
- Ike Bartle, English professional rugby league footballer of the 1890s and 1900s
- Isaiah Ike Charlton (born 1977), former National Football League and Canadian Football League player
- Isaac Ike Clarke (1915–2002), English football player and manager
- Isaac Ike Davis (born 1987), Major League Baseball player
- Ikechukwu Ike Diogu (born 1983), Nigerian-American professional basketball player
- Frederick Ike Eichrodt (1903-1965), American Major League Baseball player
- Donald Ike Forte (born 1954), American former National Football League player
- Malcolm John Ike Frankian (1905–1963), American National Football League player
- Isiah Ike Harris (born 1952), American former National Football League player
- Isaac Ike Hilliard (born 1976), American former National Football League player
- Bartholomew Ikechukwu Ike Ibenegbu (born 1986), Nigerian footballer
- Dwight Ike Kelley (born 1944), American former National Football League player
- Frank Ike Mahoney (1901–1961), American National Football League player
- Ikechukwu Ike Ofoegbu (born 1984), American-Nigerian professional basketball player
- Ikenna Ike Opara (born 1989), American Major League Soccer player
- Kenneth Ike Petersen (1909–1995), American National Football League player
- H. L. Ike Poole (1915–2002), American college basketball player
- Isaac Ike Rogers, American college football player (1916-1917, 1919)
- Isufu Ike Quartey (born 1969), Ghanaian former boxer and WBA welterweight world champion
- Issac Ike Sewell (1903–1990), American college football player and entrepreneur
- Ike Shorunmu (born 1967), Nigerian former football goalkeeper
- Ivan Ike Taylor (born 1980), retired National Football League player
- James Ike Tomlinson (1910-2000), American college baseball, basketball and football coach and athletics administrator
- Ike Williams (1923-1994), American boxer and NBA lightweight world champion
- Ike Woods (1879–1962), Australian rules footballer
Other
- Joseph Isaac Ike Clanton (1847–1887), Old West outlaw present (unarmed) at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Isaac Haxton (born 1985), American professional poker player
- Icarus Ike Pappas (1933-2008), longtime CBS News correspondent
Fictional characters
- Ike, the main character in the video games Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS
- Ike Broflovski, a recurring character in the animated tellevision series South Park
- Ike Skidmore, in the musical Oklahoma!
- Ike, a nickname for the main probe (Isaac Newton) from the mockumentary Alien Planet
- Ike, the horse in the 2006 film Charlotte's Web
See also
- Ike (disambiguation)
- Reverend Ike, African-American minister and television evangelist Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II (1935-2009)
- Cliff Edwards (1895-1971), American singer and voice actor known as "Ukulele Ike"
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