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Curly

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Curly is a surname, given name, nickname or stage name. It may refer to:

First name, nickname or stage name

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  • Crazy Horse (1840–1877), Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly"
  • Curly (scout), nickname of Ashishishe (c. 1856 – 1923), Crow Indian scout for General Custer
  • Paul Carlyle Curly Armstrong (1918–1983), American basketball player
  • Curly Bill Brocius, nickname of William Brocius (c. 1845 – 1882), American Old West gunman and outlaw
  • Charles Roy Curly Brown (1888–1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Harold Lee Curly Chalker (1931–1998), American country and jazz musician
  • Robert F. Curly Clement (1919–2006), American baseball umpire
  • Curly Ray Cline (1923–1997), American bluegrass fiddler
  • Curly, nickname of George Andrew Davis Jr. (1920–1952), American World War II and Korean War flying ace
  • Curly Joe DeRita, Three Stooges persona of Joseph Wardell, whose stage name was Joe DeRita (1909–1993), American actor and comedian
  • Clarence T. "Curly" Edwinson (1912–1985). American fighter pilot and flying ace of World War II, football player and skeet shooter
  • Curly Evans, nickname of Neal Evans (c. 1888 – 1945), American born Canadian freight industry entrepreneur
  • Arnim LeRoy Curly Fox (1910–1995), American county music singer and musician
  • Curly Hammond (1879–1963), English rugby union player
  • Erling George Curly Haugland, American politician and businessman
  • Hubert Edward Curly Hinchman (1907–1968), American football player
  • Curly Howard, stage name of comic actor Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903–1952), Three Stooges actor
  • Curly Howard (DJ), stage name of Howard Sisk (c. 1930 – 2001), on-air name of American disc jockey Howard Sisk
  • Greg 'Curly' Keranen, American bassist and guitarist
  • Earl Louis Curly Lambeau (1898–1965), founder, player and first coach of the Green Bay Packers
  • Lillian Curly Lawrence, who was born William Morris Benjamin, also known as LBSC (1883–1967), British model locomotive designer
  • Curly Lino, nickname of Frank Lino (born 1938), Sicilian-American mobster
  • Albert Charles Curly Linton (1895–1985), Anzac veteran and Australian rules footballer
  • Gordon 'Curly' Mack, whose full name is Gordon Sylvester Bradshaw Mack (1898–1948), Irish badminton player of the 1920s and '30s
  • Curly M.C., a pseudonym of Michael Cretu (born 1957), Romanian-German musician
  • Curly Moe, ring name Donald Chester Zalesky (1962–2015), Canadian-American wrestler
  • Fred "Curly" Morrison (1926–2020), American National Football League player
  • Frederick Curly Neal, nickname of Neal (1942–2020), American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
  • Olaf Gustave Hazard Curly Oden (1899–1978), American National Football League player
  • Warren Harvey Curly Ogden (1901–1964), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Milford Laurenson Curly Page (1902–1987), New Zealand cricketer
  • Donald "Curly" Phillips (1884–1938) Canadian guide, outfitter, entrepreneur, and explorer
  • Claude Curly Putman Jr. (born 1930), American songwriter
  • John Ray Curly Seckler (born 1919), American bluegrass musician
  • Edward Curly Thirlwell (1905–1985), American sound engineer nominated for two Academy Awards
  • Konrad the Curly (c. 1198 – 1213), Polish noble

Fictional characters

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Animals

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  • "Curly" or "Little Curly", a nickname of Laika, the first dog in space
  • Curly Horse, a curly-coated breed of horse
  • Curly, the name of the first LaPerm cat

See also

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