Popeye (disambiguation)
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Popeye is a comic and cartoon character:
Popeye may also refer to:
Based on the cartoon character
- Popeye (1980 film), starring Robin Williams
 - Popeye (arcade game), a 1982 video game
 - Popeye (Game Boy), a 1990 video game for the Game Boy
 - Popeye 2, a 1991 video game
 - Popeye: Rush for Spinach, a 2005 video game
 
Fictional characters
- Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in the films The French Connection, French Connection II and Popeye Doyle
 - Popeye, in William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary
 
As a nickname
- Hank Erickson (1907-1964), American professional baseball catcher
 - Ronald Popeye Jones (born 1970), American National Basketball Association assistant coach and former player
 - Greg Halford (born 1984), English footballer nicknamed "Popeye" for his missile-like throw-ins
 - Jean-Paul van Poppel (born 1962), Dutch former racing cyclist
 - Matthias Schlitte (born 1987), German arm wrestling champion whose right arm is shaped similar to Popeye's
 - Miloš Stojanović (footballer, born 1984), Serbian footballer
 - Robert Wynn (soldier) (1921-2000), World War II US Army soldier, portrayed in the miniseries Band of Brothers
 - Don Zimmer (1931-2014), former Major League Baseball player, coach and manager
 
Other uses
- Popeye (boat), a series of historic pleasure launches used on the Torrens River, Adelaide, Australia
 - Popeye, Japanese men's fashion magazine
 - Popeye (missile), Israeli standoff air-to-surface missile, when used by the US code named AGM-142 Have Nap
 - Popeye, software for handling chess problems
 - Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants often referred to simply as Popeyes
 - Operation Popeye, a US military operation to increase rains over Vietnam during the Vietnam War
 
See also
- "Popeye The Hitchhiker", a 1962 song by Chubby Checker
 - Pop Eyed, a 1996 New Zealand compilation album
 
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