# Curly

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

## First name, nickname or stage name

* Crazy Horse (1840–1877), Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly"
* Curly (scout), nickname of Ashishishe (c. 1856 – 1923), Crow Indian scout for General Custer
* Paul Carlyle Curly Armstrong (1918–1983), American basketball player
* Curly Bill Brocius, nickname of William Brocius (c. 1845 – 1882), American Old West gunman and outlaw
* Charles Roy Curly Brown (1888–1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Harold Lee Curly Chalker (1931–1998), American country and jazz musician
* Robert F. Curly Clement (1919–2006), American baseball umpire
* Curly Ray Cline (1923–1997), American bluegrass fiddler
* Curly, nickname of George Andrew Davis Jr. (1920–1952), American World War II and Korean War flying ace
* Curly Joe DeRita, Three Stooges persona of Joseph Wardell, whose stage name was Joe DeRita (1909–1993), American actor and comedian
* Clarence T. "Curly" Edwinson (1912–1985). American fighter pilot and flying ace of World War II, football player and skeet shooter
* Curly Evans, nickname of Neal Evans (c. 1888 – 1945), American born Canadian freight industry entrepreneur
* Arnim LeRoy Curly Fox (1910–1995), American county music singer and musician
* Curly Hammond (1879–1963), English rugby union player
* Erling George Curly Haugland, American politician and businessman
* Hubert Edward Curly Hinchman (1907–1968), American football player
* Curly Howard, stage name of comic actor Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903–1952), Three Stooges actor
* Curly Howard (DJ), stage name of Howard Sisk (c. 1930 – 2001), on-air name of American disc jockey Howard Sisk
* Greg 'Curly' Keranen, American bassist and guitarist
* Earl Louis Curly Lambeau (1898–1965), founder, player and first coach of the Green Bay Packers
* Lillian Curly Lawrence, who was born William Morris Benjamin, also known as LBSC (1883–1967), British model locomotive designer
* Curly Lino, nickname of Frank Lino (born 1938), Sicilian-American mobster
* Albert Charles Curly Linton (1895–1985), Anzac veteran and Australian rules footballer
* Gordon 'Curly' Mack, full name is Gordon Sylvester Bradshaw Mack (1898–1948), Irish badminton player
* Curly M.C., a pseudonym of Michael Cretu (born 1957), Romanian-German musician
* Curly Moe, ring name Donald Chester Zalesky (1962–2015), Canadian-American wrestler
* Fred "Curly" Morrison (1926–2020), American National Football League player
* Frederick Curly Neal, nickname of Neal (1942–2020), American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
* Olaf Gustave Hazard Curly Oden (1899–1978), American National Football League player
* Warren Harvey Curly Ogden (1901–1964), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Milford Laurenson Curly Page (1902–1987), New Zealand cricketer
* Donald "Curly" Phillips (1884–1938) Canadian guide, outfitter, entrepreneur, and explorer
* Claude Curly Putman Jr. (born 1930), American songwriter
* John Ray Curly Seckler (born 1919), American bluegrass musician
* Edward Curly Thirlwell (1905–1985), American sound engineer nominated for two Academy Awards
* Konrad the Curly (c. 1198 – 1213), Polish noble

## 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
* Norman Curly Watts, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
* Marshal "Curly" Wilcox, in the movie Stagecoach
* Curly, in the British period crime drama television series Peaky Blinders (TV series)
* Curly, in the British comic strip Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
* Curly, a Lost Boy in Peter Pan
* Curly, a rabbit in the Canadian television series Abby Hatcher
* Curly, a POV character in the indie game Mouthwashing (video game)

## 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