Shorty (nickname)

Shorty is a nickname which may refer to:


 * Joseph Armone (1917–1992), New York City gangster
 * Shorty Baker (1914–1966), American jazz trumpeter
 * Shorty Barr (1897–1957), American National Football League player and player-coach
 * Shorty Cantlon (1904–1947), American race car driver
 * Gordon Carpenter (1919–1988), American basketball player
 * Shorty Castro (1928–2018), Puerto Rican comedian, actor, and musician
 * George V. Chalmers (1907–1984), American college football, basketball and baseball player
 * Allen Daniels (born 1959), former Australian rules footballer
 * Shorty Dee (1889–1971), Canadian baseball shortstop
 * Paul Des Jardien (1893–1956), American football, baseball and basketball player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
 * Shorty Ellsworth (1881–1963), American football player and coach
 * Shorty Elness (1906–1965), American football player
 * Shorty Fuller (1867–1904), American Major League Baseball player
 * Shorty Gallagher (1872–1924), baseball player
 * Shorty Green (1896–1960), Canadian National Hockey League player
 * Shorty Hamilton (1879–1925), American silent film actor and comedian
 * Shorty Hogue, middleweight boxer in the 1940s
 * George Horne (ice hockey) (1904–1929), Canadian National Hockey League player
 * Shorty Howe, a baseball player
 * Shorty Hughes (1922–2003), American football coach
 * Shorty Jenkins (1935–2013), ice technician in the sport of curling
 * Vernon Keogh (1911–1941), American World War II fighter pilot
 * Shorty Long (1940–1969), American soul singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
 * Frank Longman (1882–1928), American college football player and coach
 * Shorty Mack (born 1981), producer, rapper, and actor
 * Shorty McMillan (1890–1964), American football quarterback for the University of Michigan
 * Shorty McWilliams (1926–1997), American football player
 * Shorty Medlocke (1912–1982), American delta blues and hard rock musician and composer
 * Shorty Miller (1890–1966), American football quarterback for Penn State, member of the College Hall of Fame
 * Frank Moniz (1911–2004), American soccer player
 * Shorty Price (1921–1980), American attorney and perennial political candidate
 * Clyde Propst (1898–1959), American college football coach
 * Shorty Ransom (1898–1959), American football coach and college athletics administrator
 * Hugh "Shorty" Ray (1884–1956), longtime Supervisor of Officials for the National Football League, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
 * George Redding (1900–1974), Canadian National Hockey League player
 * Shorty Rogers (1924–1994), American musician and arranger, one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz
 * Shorty Rollins (1929–1998), American race car driver
 * Shorty Rossi (born 1969), American actor and star of the reality TV series Pit Boss
 * Shorty Sherock (1915–1980), American swing jazz trumpeter
 * Rob Short (born 1972), field hockey player for Canada
 * Jimmy Slagle (1873–1956), American Major League Baseball player
 * Shorty Templeman (1919–1962), American racecar driver
 * Shorty Lungkata Tjungurayyi (1920–1987), artist
 * George Williams (basketball) (1899–1961), American basketball player in the 1920s
 * Irvin Yeaworth (1926–2004), German-born American film director, producer, screenwriter and theme park builder