Popeye (disambiguation)

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Popeye is a comic and cartoon character:

Popeye may also refer to:

Based on the cartoon character

  • Popeye (comic strip), a comic strip created by E.C. Segar in 1929.
  • Popeye the Sailor (film), a 1933 animated short film
  • Popeye (film), a 1980 film starring Robin Williams
  • Popeye (video game), a 1982 video game
  • Popeye (Game Boy video game), a 1990 video game for the Game Boy

Fictional characters

  • Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in the films The French Connection, French Connection II and Popeye Doyle
  • Popeye (Faulkner character), in William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary

As a nickname

  • Hank Erickson (1907—1964), American professional baseball catcher
  • Greg Halford (born 1984), English footballer nicknamed "Popeye" for his missile-like throw-ins
  • Popeye Jones (born 1970), American National Basketball Association assistant coach and former player
  • Frederick John Lucas (1915—1993), New Zealand World War II and commercial aviator, farmer and tourist operator
  • Jean-Paul van Poppel (born 1962), Dutch former racing cyclist
  • Miloš Stojanović (footballer, born 1984), Serbian footballer
  • Jhon Jairo Velásquez (1962—2020), former hitman for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín drugs cartel
  • 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
  • Michael Vogelsang, member of the band Farside, best known for voicing Farkas and other characters in Skyrim

Other uses

  • Popeye (boat), a series of historic pleasure launches used on the Torrens River, Adelaide, Australia
  • Popeye (magazine), Japanese men's fashion magazine
  • Operation Popeye, a US military operation to increase rains over Vietnam during the Vietnam War
  • Popeye (missile), Israeli standoff air-to-surface missile, when used by the US code named AGM-142 Have Nap
  • Popeye (seal), a female harbor seal of Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington, US
  • Popeye, software for handling chess problems
  • Popeyes, a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants
  • Popeye Moto Club, a former outlaw motorcycle club in Quebec, Canada
  • "Popular Demand (Popeyes)", a 2009 song by Clipse from Til the Casket Drops

See also

  • "Popeye the Hitchhiker", a 1962 song by Chubby Checker
  • Pop-Eyes, 1983 album by Danielle Dax
  • Pop Eyed, a 1996 New Zealand compilation album
  • Popeye the Sailor (disambiguation)
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