# Big Daddy

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 Crabtree
* 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 (c. 1920–2003), 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