Bull (nickname)

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Bull, The Bull, and Da Bull are used as nicknames and ring names.

Those so named include:

  • Bill Adams (1900–1973), Australian rules footballer
  • Donnis Churchwell (1936–2010), American former National Football League player
  • Bull Buchanan, ring name of Barry Buchanan (born 1968), American wrestler
  • Bull Connor (1897–1973), American politician infamous for opposing desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s
  • Bull Curry, ring name of Fred Thomas Koury, Sr. (1913–1985), American professional wrestler
  • Johnny Davis (born 1956), American former National Football League player
  • Ed Durham (1907–1976), American baseball pitcher
  • Leon Durham (born 1957), American baseball first baseman
  • Luis Ángel Firpo (1894–1960), Argentine boxer nicknamed "The Wild Bull of The Pampas"
  • Sammy Gravano (born 1945), former underboss of the Gambino crime family
  • David Gurfein, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, and CEO of nonprofit organization United American Patriots
  • William Halsey Jr. (1882–1959), United States Navy fleet admiral
  • Johnny Hoogerland (born 1983), Dutch cyclist nicknamed the "Bull of Beveland"
  • Terry Jenkins (born 1963), English darts player
  • Brooks Lawrence (1925–2000), American Negro National League and Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Greg Luzinski (born 1950), American Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter
  • Frank McCaffrey (1888–1952), American college football player and 1917 head football coach of Fordham University
  • Harshad Mehta (1954–2001), Indian stockbroker and fraudster, nicknamed the "The Big Bull" and "Raging Bull"
  • Bull Montana (1887–1950), American professional wrestler and actor
  • Bull Nakano (born 1968), ring name of Japanese women's professional wrestler Keiko Nakano
  • William "Bull" Nelson (1824–1862), United States Army major-general during the American Civil War, and United States Navy officer prior to the war
  • Greg Noll (1937–2021), American surfing pioneer
  • Bull Pain, American professional wrestler
  • Bull Polisky (1901–1978), American football player
  • Alan Richardson (1940–2015), Australian footballer
  • Franz Roth (born 1946), German former footballer
  • Hakan Şükür (born 1971), Turkish retired footballer nicknamed the "Bull of the Bosphorus"
  • Edwin Vose Sumner (1797–1863), American Civil War Union Army general
  • Tsang Kin-shing (born 1957), Hong Kong politician

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