The Iceman or Iceman is a
nickname
A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character. As a concept, it is ...
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Arts and entertainment
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Magni Ásgeirsson
Guðmundur Magni Ásgeirsson (born 1 December 1978 in Egilsstaðir, Iceland), known professionally as Magni Ásgeirsson, is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also currently the frontman for the Icelandic pop band Á Móti Sól. Outside ...
(born 1978), Icelandic singer, songwriter, and musician
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Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler Jr. (born December 8, 1939) is an American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and retired politician. He was the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group the Impressions, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i ...
(born 1939), American soul singer
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Albert Collins
Albert Gene Drewery, known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993),Skeely, Richard. "Albert Collins: Biography" Allmusic.com. was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. ...
(1932–1993), American electric blues guitarist and singer
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Steve November
Steve November (born Steven Frost) is a British television producer and executive. Originally known as Steve Frost during his early career, he became a writer for the Sky One drama ''Dream Team''. He also took roles as an assistant director until ...
(born 1972), British television producer
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Vanilla Ice
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, ''Hooked'', ...
, American rapper Rob Van Winkle (born 1967)
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Etika
Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – June 19, 2019), better known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and online streamer. He was best known for his highly energetic reactions to '' Super Smash Bros.'' character reveals and Nintendo Direct ...
, online alias of American rapper and model Desmond Amofah (1990–2019)
Sports
Auto racing
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Scott Dixon
Scott Ronald Dixon (born 22 July 1980) is a professional racing driver from New Zealand, who competes in the NTT IndyCar Series for Chip Ganassi Racing. Dixon has won the IndyCar championship six times: in 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 202 ...
(born 1980), New Zealand 6x IndyCar Champion
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Terry Labonte
Terrance Lee Labonte (born November 16, 1956), nicknamed Texas Terry or The Iceman, is an American former stock car driver who raced from 1978 to 2014 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup and Sprint Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series). A tw ...
(born 1956), American NASCAR driver
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Scott Moninger
Scott Moninger is an American professional road racing cyclist. He was born October 20, 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and moved to Boulder, Colorado, in the mid 1980s to further his career in cycling. Moninger turned profess ...
(born 1966), American retired road racing cyclist
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Kimi Räikkönen (born 1979), Finnish Formula 1 World Champion
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Marcus Grönholm
Marcus Ulf Johan Grönholm (born February 5, 1968) is a Finnish former rally and rallycross driver, being part of a family of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland lineage. His son, Niclas Grönholm, is an upcoming FIA World Rallycross Cha ...
(Born 1968) Finnish 2x WRC Champion
Basketball
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Wendell Alexis
Wendell Paul Alexis (born July 31, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player who played for several European clubs, between 1986 and 2004, most notably for ALBA Berlin, where he was voted MVP of the German Bundesliga four times, ...
(born 1964), American basketball player
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George Gervin
George Gervin ( ; born April 27, 1952), nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Virginia Squires, ...
(born 1952), American retired National Basketball Association player
Billiards
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Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport.
Career
A six ...
(born 1976), Belgian retired snooker player
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Stephen Hendry
Stephen Gordon Hendry (born 13 January 1969) is a Scottish professional snooker player who dominated the sport during the 1990s, becoming one of the most successful players in its history. After turning professional in 1985 at age 16, Hendry ...
(born 1969), Scottish professional snooker player
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Mika Immonen
Mika Immonen (born 17 December 1972) is a Finnish professional Hall of Fame pool player, nicknamed "The Iceman."
Career
Immonen won the 2001 WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales. That same year, he was the runner-up to Corey Deu ...
(born 1972), Finnish professional pool player
Darts
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Alan Warriner-Little
Alan Warriner-Little (born Warriner; 24 March 1962) is an English former professional darts player. Nicknamed The Iceman, he is a former World Grand Prix champion and a former runner-up at the World Professional Darts Championship.
Darts car ...
(born 1962), English retired darts player
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Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Stephen Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is cu ...
(born 1985), Welsh darts player
American football
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Ike Charlton (born 1977), American football player
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Carlos Huerta
Carlos Antonio Huerta (born June 29, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in three different professional leagues. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, and was recognized as an All-Amer ...
(born 1969), American former National Football League placekicker
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Adam Vinatieri
Adam Matthew Vinatieri (born December 28, 1972) is an American former football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 24 seasons with the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts. Considered one of the greatest ...
(born 1972), American former National Football League placekicker
Association football
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Dennis Bergkamp (born 1969), Dutch footballer
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Sam Isemonger (born 1978), Australian former rugby league footballer
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Victor Lindelöf (born 1994), Swedish footballer
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John Ruddy (born 1986), English football goalkeeper
Boxing and mixed martial arts
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Chuck Liddell (born 1969), American MMA fighter and UFC Hall of Famer
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Milton McCrory
Milton McCrory (born February 7, 1962 in Detroit, MI) is a former professional boxer who was a world champion in the welterweight (147 lb) division.
Amateur
Milton had a reported amateur record of 105-15. He lost in the 1979 National AAU fin ...
(born 1962), American WBC world welterweight boxing champion
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Vernon Paris (born 1988), American boxer
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Viktor Postol (born 1984), Ukrainian WBC world light-welterweight boxing champion
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Iceman John Scully (born 1967), American boxer
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Jean-Yves Thériault
Jean-Yves "Blacky" Thériault (, born 15 December 1962) is the former bassist for Canadian thrash/progressive metal band Voivod. He co-founded the band and appeared on the first six albums – ''War and Pain'', ''Rrröööaaarrr'', ''Killing ...
(born 1955), Canadian kickboxer
Other sports
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Björn Borg (born 1956), Swedish tennis player
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Ryan Bukvich (born 1978), American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher
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Bernard Foley (born 1989), Australian rugby player
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Retief Goosen
Retief Goosen (born 3 February 1969) is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He has won two U.S. Opens, in 2001 and 2004, headed the European Tour Order of Merit in 2001 and 2002, and was in the top ten of th ...
(born 1969), South African golfer
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Al Hackner
Allan A. Hackner (born July 18, 1954), nicknamed "the Iceman", is a retired Canadians, Canadian Hall of Fame curling, curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was born in Nipigon, Ontario. He is a two-time the Brier, Brier and World Curling Champion ...
(born 1954), Canadian Hall-of-Fame curler
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Michael Jones (rugby union)
Sir Michael Niko Jones (born 8 April 1965) is a New Zealand former rugby union player and coach.
Jones was a member of the Auckland team which dominated New Zealand rugby in the late 1980s and 1990s, and the Auckland Blues team which won the f ...
(born 1965), New Zealand former rugby union player and coach
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Damien Thomlinson, former Australian Army commando, swimmer, para-snowboarder, and author
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Steve Waugh
Stephen Rodger Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian former international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a medium-pace bowler. As Australian captain from 1997 to 2004, he led Austral ...
(born 1965), Australian former cricketer
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George Woolf
George Monroe Woolf (May 31, 1910 – January 4, 1946), nicknamed "The Iceman", was a Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey. An annual jockey's award given by the United States Jockeys' Guild is named in his honor. He became known for riding ...
(1910–1946), Canadian jockey
Other fields
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Brad Colbert (born 1974), American Marine featured in the 2004 book ''Generation Kill'' by Evan Wright
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Wim Hof
Wim Hof (; born 20 April 1959), also known as The Iceman, is a Dutch motivational speaker and extreme athlete noted for his ability to withstand low temperatures. He previously held a Guinness World Record for swimming under ice and prolonged f ...
(born 1959), Dutch adventurer, the world-record holder for the longest ice bath
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Manadel al-Jamadi
Manadel al-Jamadi ( ar, مناضل الجمادي) was an Iraqi national who was killed in United States custody during a CIA interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison on 4 November 2003. His name became known in 2004 when the Abu Ghraib scandal made he ...
(died 2003), Iraqi prisoner tortured to death at Abu Ghraib
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Richard Kuklinski
Richard Leonard Kuklinski (; April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006), also known as The Iceman, was an American criminal and convicted murderer.
Kuklinski was engaged in criminal activities for most of his adult life; he ran a burglary ring and dist ...
(1935–2006), American serial killer
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Jeff Lisandro
Jeffrey Lisandro (born in Perth) is an Italo-Australian professional poker player, now residing in Salerno, Italy.
Lisandro is known as a cash game specialist, but he also plays often in the poker tournament circuit and is regarded as one of ...
, Australian poker player
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Ötzi
Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived some time between 3350 and 3105 BC, discovered in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi") on the border between Austria and Italy.
Ötzi is believed to ...
, a well-known and well-preserved
Chalcolithic
The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin '' aeneus'' "of copper"), is an archaeological period characterized by regular ...
natural mummy
See also
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Red Grange
Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees ...
(1903–1991), American college football and National Football League player nicknamed "The Wheaton Iceman"
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Ben Hogan
William Ben Hogan (August 13, 1912 – July 25, 1997) was an American professional golfer who is generally considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He is notable for his profound influence on golf swing theory an ...
(1912–1997), American golfer nicknamed "The Wee Iceman"
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Henrik Nielsen (footballer, born 1971), Danish retired footballer nicknamed ''Ismand'' (Iceman)
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