Papa (nickname)

Papa is a nickname which may refer to:


 * Cool Papa Bell (1903–1991), African-American Negro league baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
 * Papa Bue (1930–2011), Danish jazz trombonist and bandleader
 * Papa Joe Chevalier (1948–2011), American sports radio personality
 * Papa John Creach (1917–1994), American violinist
 * Papa Dee (born 1966), Swedish raga musician
 * Papa Bouba Diop (1978−2020), Senegalese footballer
 * Louis Faury (1874–1947), French general
 * Michele Greco (1924–2008), Sicilian Mafia member nicknamed "il Papa" ("the Pope")
 * Paul Hausser (1880–1972), German World War II Waffen SS officer
 * Papa Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian composer Joseph Haydn
 * Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American author and journalist
 * Walter Hörnlein (1893–1961), German World War II general
 * Papa Jackson (born 1982), Filipino disc jockey
 * Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), French World War I general
 * Papa Jack Laine (1873–1966), American jazz drummer and bandleader
 * Papa Charlie McCoy (1909–1950), African-American delta blues musician and songwriter
 * Sokratis Papastathopoulos (born 1988), Greek footballer
 * John Phillips (musician) (1935–2001), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * Papa Don Schroeder (1940–2019), American music executive
 * Scott Steiner (born 1962), American professional wrestler nicknamed "Big Poppa Pump"
 * Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Army field marshal