Curly

Curly or Curley is a surname, given name, nickname or stage name. It may refer to:

Surname

• August Curley (born 1960), American football player
• Carlo Curley (1952–2012), American concert organist
• Edward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. Representative from New York
• James Curley (astronomer) (1796–1889), Irish-American astronomer
• James Curley (Australian politician) (1846–1913)
• James Michael Curley (1874–1958), Governor and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and mayor of Boston
• Mallory Curley, American author
• Michael Joseph Curley (1879–1947), Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington
• Michael Curley (footballer) (1912–1973), English footballer
• Patricia S. Curley (born 1946), American jurist
• Robert M. Curley (1922–2001), American jurist and legislator
• Thomas Curley (disambiguation), several people

First name, nickname or stage name

• Crazy Horse (1840–1877), Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly"
• Curly (scout) (c. 1856–1923), one of General Custer's Crow Indian scouts at the Battle of Little Big Horn
• Curly Armstrong (1918-1983), American basketball player
• William Brocius (c. 1845-1882), American Old West gunman, rustler and outlaw better known as "Curly Bill" Brocius
• Curly Brown (1888-1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Curley Byrd (1889–1970), American sports coach and university administrator
• Curly Chalker (1931-1998), American country and jazz musician
• Curly Ray Cline (1923-1997), American bluegrass fiddler
• George Andrew Davis, Jr. (1920-1952), American World War II and Korean War flying ace
• Curly Fox (1910-1995), American county music singer and musician
• Curly Hammond (1879–1963), English rugby union
• Curly Howard (1903–1952), stage name of comic actor Jerome Lester Horwitz, one of the Three Stooges
• Curly Howard (DJ) (c. 1930–2001), on-air name of American disc jockey Howard Sisk
• Curley Johnson (born 1935), American Football League and National Football League punter
• Curly Lambeau (1898-1965), founder, player and first coach of the Green Bay Packers National Football League team
• Gordon 'Curly' Mack, Irish badminton player of the 1920s and '30s
• Fred "Curly" Morrison (born 1926), American National Football League player
• Curly Neal (born 1942), American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
• Curly Oden (1899-1978), American National Football League player
• Curly Ogden (1901-1964), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Curly Page (1902-1987), New Zealand cricketer
• Curly Putman (born 1930), American songwriter
• Curley Russell (1917-1986), American jazz double-bassist
• Curly Seckler (born 1919), American bluegrass musician
• Curly Thirlwell (1905-1985), American sound engineer nominated for two Academy Awards
• "Curly M.C.", a pseudonym of musician Michael Cretu

Fictional characters

• Curly McLain, in the musical Oklahoma!
• Curly Washburn, in the movies City Slickers and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
• "Curley", a character in the Bluey and Curley comic strip drawn by Alex Gurney
• Norman Curly Watts, in the British TV drama Coronation Street
• Marshal Curly Wilcox, in the movie Stagecoach
• Curley, in John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men
• Curly, in the British comic strip Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
• Curly, a Lost Boy in Peter Pan

Animals

• "Curly" or "Little Curly", a nickname of Laika, the first dog in space
• Curly Horse, a curly-coated breed of horse
• Curly, the name of the first LaPerm cat

See also

• Bolesław IV the Curly (c. 1125-1173), Duke of Masovia and High Duke of Poland