Mickey

Mickey is a given name and nickname, almost always masculine and often a short form (hypocorism) of Michael, and occasionally a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include:

People

Given name or nickname

Men

• Mickey Andrews (born 1942), American retired college football coach
• Mickey Appleman (born 1945), American poker player and sports bettor and handicapper
• Michael Barron (born 1974), English former football player and coach
• Mickey Cochrane (1903–1962), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player, manager and coach
• Michael Cochrane (musician) (born 1948), American jazz pianist
• Mickey Cohen (1913–1976), American gangster
• Mickey Curry (born 1956), American drummer
• Michael Devine (hunger striker) (1954–1981), a founding member of the Irish National Liberation Army
• Mickey Drexler (born 1944), chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and former CEO of Gap Inc.
• Mickey Fisher (1904/05–1963), American basketball coach
• Mickey Gilley (born 1936), American country music artist
• Mickey Gorka (born 1972), Israeli basketball player and coach
• Michael (Mickey) Gubitosi, birth name of Robert Blake (actor) (born 1933), American actor
• Mickey Guidry (born 1966), American football quarterback
• Mickey Hamill (1889–1943), Northern Irish footballer
• Mickey Hargitay (1926–2006), Hungarian-American actor and 1955 Mr. Universe, husband of Jayne Mansfield
• Mickey Hart (born 1943), American drummer with The Grateful Dead
• Mickey Harte (fl. 2003–present), Gaelic football manager
• Mickey He (born 1976), Chinese television actor and singer
• Mickey Higham (born 1980), English rugby league player
• Mickey Hole (1892–1969), National Football League player
• Mickie James (born 1979), American professional wrestler
• Mickey Jones (born 1941), American musician and actor
• Mickey Katz (1909–1985), American musician and comedian
• Mickey Kantor (born 1939), American politician and lawyer
• Mickey Kearns (born 1943), Gaelic footballer
• Mickey Kuhn (born 1932), American former child actor
• Mickey Levy (born 1951), Israeli politician
• Mickey Lolich (born 1940), American former Major League Baseball player
• Mickey Loomis (born 1956), general manager of the NFL's New Orleans Saints since 2002
• Mickey Madden (born 1979), American musician, bassist for the pop rock band Maroon 5
• Mickey Mantle (1931–1995), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
• Mickey Marvin (born 1955), American former National Football League player
• Mickey Melchiondo (born 1970), guitarist for Ween under the stage name Dean Ween
• Mickey Michaux (born 1930), American politician
• Mickey Moniak (born 1998), American baseball player
• Mickey Muennig (1935 –2021), American architect
• Mickey Newbury (1940–2002), American singer and songwriter
• Mickey Perz (born 1984), Filipino-Swiss actor and dancer
• Mickey Redmond (born 1947), Canadian former National Hockey League player
• Mickey Rivers (born 1948), American former Major League Baseball player
• Mickey Rooney (1920–2014), American film actor
• Mickey Rosenthal (born 1955), Israeli investigative journalist and politician
• Mickey Rourke (born 1952), American film actor
• Mickey Russell, American football player
• Mickey Shaughnessy (1920–1985), American actor
• Mickey Spillane (1918–2006), American detective fiction author
• Mickey Stanley (born 1942), American former Major League Baseball player
• William "Mickey" Stevenson (born c. 1940), American songwriter and record producer
• Mickey Tettleton (born 1960), American Major League Baseball player
• Mickey Vernon (1918–2008), American Major League Baseball player, manager and coach
• Mickey Walsh (born 1954), English footballer
• Mickey Washington (born 1968), American former National Football League player
• Mickey Weintraub (1907–1987), American Major League Baseball player
• Mickey Welch (1859–1941), American Major League pitcher

Women

• Emily "Mickey" Hahn (1905–1997), American writer
• Mickey Wright (born 1935), American Hall-of-Fame golfer
• Mickey Zucker Reichert (born 1962), American fantasy fiction author

Surname

• Joey Mickey (born 1970), American former football player
• John H. Mickey (1845–1910), American politician, 13th governor of Nebraska
• Jordan Mickey (born 1994), American basketball player
• Ruth Mickey (born 1954), American statistician

Fictional characters

• Mickey Mouse, a Disney animated character
• A character in Man Down
• Big Mickey, a dockside crane from the children's television series TUGS
• Mickey Abbott, a recurring side character in Seinfeld
• Mickey, a criminal and friend in the FOX animated show Bob's Burgers
• Michael "Mickey" Bunce, in the 1991 black comedy movie Drop Dead Fred
• Mickey Goldmill, in the Rocky franchise
• Mickey Horton, in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Mickey Milkovich, a recurring character in the American television series Shameless
• Margaret "Mickey" Dawson, played by Jennifer Aniston in the 2013 American black comedy crime film Life of Crime
• Mickey Miller, in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Mickey Morelli, in the 1985 American adventure comedy film Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Mickey Smith, in the British science-fiction series Doctor Who
• The killer in the 1997 American slasher movie Scream 2
• The protagonist of Mickey One, a 1965 film starring Warren Beatty in the title role
• The title character of Mickey, starring Mabel Normand
• The title character of Mickey, a coming-of-age film about a tomboy named Mickey

See also

• Micky
• Mikey
• Mick (disambiguation)
• Michael (disambiguation)
• MickeyD