Big Daddy may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Characters

  • Big Daddy (BioShock), a heavily armored adversary in the BioShock video game series
  • Big Daddy (Transformers), a character from Transformers
  • A character in the Tennessee Williams 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • A comic character in the comic Buster, based on Shirley Crabtree (see below)
  • A character in the syndicated comic strip Raising Duncan by Chris Browne
  • A character in The Simpsons, episode "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
  • A character Dad in The Fairly OddParents
  • A zombified main character from the movie Land of the Dead
  • The name of the former leader of Millennium in Gungrave
  • The father of Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls
  • "Big Daddy" (Golden Girls episode), a related episode of the series
  • Vincent Price's cameo role in the 1963 movie Beach Party
  • A character from the comic book series Kick-Ass, and its film adaptation
  • A character in the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog
  • A character in the 2012 film Django Unchained
  • Big Daddy was the main villain in the 1998 video game Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012

Films

  • Big Daddy (1969 film), a horror film
  • Big Daddy (1999 film), a comedy film starring Adam Sandler

Music

  • Big Daddy (John Mellencamp album), 1989
  • Big Daddy (Bukka White album), 1974
  • Big Daddy (band), a novelty band who covered 80's & 90's songs in 50's & 60's style
  • "Big Daddy" (Heavy D song), 1997
  • "(I Hate You) Big Daddy", a song from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
  • Big Daddy (Notorious B1 song), 1993

Other media

  • Big Daddy?, an anti-evolution religious tract by Jack Chick
  • Big Daddy 103.9, a former on-air brand of a Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada radio station CHNO-FM

People

Arts and entertainment

  • Richard "Big Daddy Ritch" Anderson, lead vocalist for American red dirt metal ensemble Texas Hippie Coalition
  • Glenn Hughes (English singer) (born 1951), British bassist and singer
  • Big Daddy Kane (born 1968), American rapper
  • Big Daddy Kinsey (1927–2001), American Chicago blues singer and musician
  • Eric "Big Daddy" Nord (1919–1989), American Beat Generation-era nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster
  • Ed Roth (1932–2001), American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder

Politics

  • Idi Amin (1928–2003), President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
  • Robert Byrd (1917–2010), American senator (self-given epithet in 2006)
  • Fred Gardiner (1895–1961), Canadian politician and namesake of the Gardiner Expressway
  • Jesse Unruh (1922–1987), American Speaker of the California State Assembly

Sport

Baseball

  • Matt Cain (born 1984), American professional baseball player
  • Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American former baseball player
  • Vladimir Guerrero (born 1975), American professional baseball player
  • Matt Holliday (born 1980), American professional baseball player
  • Rick Reuschel (born 1949), American former baseball player

Combat sports

  • Riddick Bowe (born 1967), American boxer
  • Shirley Crabtree (1930–1997), British professional wrestler
  • Viscera (wrestler) (Nelson Frazier Jr., 1971–2014), American professional wrestler
  • Gary Goodridge (born 1966), Canadian kickboxer and mixed martial artist
  • Walter (wrestler) (Walter Hahn; born 1987), Austrian professional wrestler
  • Oliver Humperdink (John Jay Sutton; 1949–2011), American professional wrestling manager
  • Junkyard Dog (Sylvester Ritter; 1952–1998), American professional wrestler

Other sports

  • Zach Banner (born 1993), American football offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL
  • Don Garlits (born 1932), American drag racer
  • Carl Hairston (born 1952), American professional football player
  • Eugene Lipscomb (1931–1963), American football defensive lineman (1953–62)
  • Shaquille O'Neal (born 1972), American basketball player
  • Eric Rupe (born 1963), American BMX racing rider
  • Dan Wilkinson (born 1973), American professional football player
  • Johan Sundstein (born 1993), better known as BigDaddy N0tail, or just n0tail, Danish Dota 2 player

Other uses

  • Big Daddy (dune), a very large sand dune at Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert, Namibia

See also

  • Big Dada, British independent record label imprint
  • Big Poppa (disambiguation)
  • Daddy (nickname)
  • Daddy (disambiguation)