Ziggy

For other uses, see Ziggy (disambiguation).

Ziggy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Zigmunt and other names. It is also a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

Nickname or hypocorism

• Ezekiel Ansah (born 1989), National Football League player
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981
• Zygmont Czarobski (1922–1984), American College Football Hall-of-Fame and National Football League player
• Ziggy Gordon (born 1993), Scottish footballer
• Evander Ziggy Hood (born 1987), National Football League player
• Zachary Ziggy Lichman (born 1981), a contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother UK, Season 8
• Ziggy Lorenc (born 1958), Canadian television and radio personality
• David Nesta Ziggy Marley (born 1968), Grammy-winning Jamaican musician; oldest son of Bob Marley
• Ziggy Modeliste (born 1948), American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk group The Meters
• Ziggy Niszczot (born 1955), Australian former professional rugby league footballer
• Žigmund Pálffy (born 1972), retired National Hockey League player from Slovakia
• Sigurd Rosnes, Norwegian songwriter and producer
• Ilari Sahamies (born 1983), Finnish professional poker player
• David "Ziggy" Sigmond, guitarist for Canadian rock group Econoline Crush
• George Snider, American retired race car driver
• Zigmunt Ziggy Switkowski (born 1948), Australian businessman and nuclear physicist
• Zigmunt Zygi Wilf (born 1950), owner of the Minnesota Vikings National Football League team
• Ziggy the bagman (born c. 1950), Zbygnew Marian Willzek, a homeless man who lives in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia
• Brad Ziegler (born 1979), relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics

Technology

• Ziggy, as a wake word and alternate name for Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon

Stage name

• Ziggy Alberts (born 1994), an Australian folk singer and songwriter
• Ziggy Elman, stage name of American jazz trumpeter Harry Aaron Finkelman (1914–1968)
• Ziggy Stardust, a 1970s persona of David Bowie (1947–2016), English musician, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and arranger
• Ziggy Ramo (born Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna), an Indigenous Australian singer, songwriter and activist

Fictional characters

• Ziggy, a character in Laura Bow 2
• The title character of Ziggy (comic strip)
• Ziggy Astoni, character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
• Ziggy (EastEnders), from the British soap opera EastEnders
• Ziggy Sobotka, on the HBO drama The Wire
• Ziggy, from the Icelandic children's television program LazyTown
• Ziggy (Quantum Leap), from the American TV series Quantum Leap
• Ziggy Grover, from Power Rangers RPM
• Ziggy (Xenosaga), from the science fiction video game series Xenosaga
• Ziggy from the Millimages cartoon Trust Me, I'm a Genie!
• Demon King Ziggy from the Japanese manga Edens Zero
• Ziggy Stardust (character), fictional alter ego of David Bowie
• Ziggy Chapman from the HBO series Big Little Lies.
• Ziggy Pascal, character in British soap opera Family Affairs
• Ziggy Roscoe, character in British soap opera Hollyoaks

As a female nickname

• Christine 'Ziggy' Berman from Fear Street: Part Two - 1978

Animals

• Ziggy (elephant) (1917–1975), an Indian elephant who lived at the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago

See also

• Zigi, Ghanaian singer
• Ziggi Recado, reggae singer
• Siggy (disambiguation)
• Zig (disambiguation)
• Zygi, village in Cyprus
• Zygi (given name)