# Shorty (nickname)

Shorty is a nickname which may refer to:
* Joseph Armone (1917–1992), New York City gangster
* Shorty Baker (1914–1966), American jazz trumpeter
* Shorty Barr (1897–1957), American National Football League player and player-coach
* Shorty Cantlon (1904–1947), American race car driver
* Gordon Carpenter (1919–1988), American basketball player
* Shorty Castro (1928–2018), Puerto Rican comedian, actor, and musician
* George V. Chalmers (1907–1984), American college football, basketball and baseball player
* Allen Daniels (born 1959), former Australian rules footballer
* Shorty Dee (1889–1971), Canadian baseball shortstop
* Paul Des Jardien (1893–1956), American football, baseball and basketball player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
* Shorty Ellsworth (1881–1963), American football player and coach
* Shorty Elness (1906–1965), American football player
* Shorty Fuller (1867–1904), American Major League Baseball player
* Shorty Gallagher (1872–1924), baseball player
* Shorty Green (1896–1960), Canadian National Hockey League player
* Shorty Hamilton (1879–1925), American silent film actor and comedian
* Shorty Hogue, middleweight boxer in the 1940s
* George Horne (ice hockey) (1904–1929), Canadian National Hockey League player
* Shorty Howe, a baseball player
* Shorty Hughes (1922–2003), American football coach
* Shorty Jenkins (1935–2013), ice technician in the sport of curling
* Vernon Keogh (1911–1941), American World War II fighter pilot
* Shorty Long (1940–1969), American soul singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
* Frank Longman (1882–1928), American college football player and coach
* Shorty Mack (born 1981), producer, rapper, and actor
* Shorty McMillan (1890–1964), American football quarterback for the University of Michigan
* Shorty McWilliams (1926–1997), American football player
* Shorty Medlocke (1912–1982), American delta blues and hard rock musician and composer
* Shorty Miller (1890–1966), American football quarterback for Penn State, member of the College Hall of Fame
* Frank Moniz (1911–2004), American soccer player
* Shorty Price (1921–1980), American attorney and perennial political candidate
* Clyde Propst (1898–1959), American college football coach
* Shorty Ransom (1898–1959), American football coach and college athletics administrator
* Hugh "Shorty" Ray (1884–1956), longtime Supervisor of Officials for the National Football League, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
* George Redding (1900–1974), Canadian National Hockey League player
* Shorty Rogers (1924–1994), American musician and arranger, one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz
* Shorty Rollins (1929–1998), American race car driver
* Shorty Rossi (born 1969), American actor and star of the reality TV series Pit Boss
* Shorty Sherock (1915–1980), American swing jazz trumpeter
* Rob Short (born 1972), field hockey player for Canada
* Jimmy Slagle (1873–1956), American Major League Baseball player
* Shorty Templeman (1919–1962), American racecar driver
* Shorty Lungkata Tjungurayyi (1920–1987), artist
* George Williams (basketball) (1899–1961), American basketball player in the 1920s
* Irvin Yeaworth (1926–2004), German-born American film director, producer, screenwriter and theme park builder