# 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 the video game 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 RPM Green Ranger, 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
* Eric Ziggy Greaves A Character from the British children's television drama series Grange Hill

## 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