Ziggy

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