Ziggy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (

hypocorism A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...

) of Zigmunt and other names. It is also a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

Nickname or hypocorism

Ezekiel Ansah Ezekiel Nana "Ziggy" Ansah (born May 29, 1989) is a Ghanaian professional American football defensive end who is a free agent. Born in Accra, Ghana, he moved to the United States to attend Brigham Young University, where he played college footbal ...

(born 1989), National Football League player *

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński ( , ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter' ...

(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 Evander "Ziggy" Hood (born February 16, 1987) is a former American football defensive tackle. He played college football at Missouri, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round (32nd overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft. Hood has als ...

(born 1987), National Football League player * Zachary

Ziggy Lichman Zachary Sami P. Lichman, commonly known as Ziggy and also Zac or Zach (born 5 January 1981 in Camden, London) is a former member of the boy band Northern Line (1998–2000) and reality TV contestant, having appeared in the 8th series of the U ...

(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 David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley (born 17 October 1968) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician, actor and philanthropist. He is the son of reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley. He led the family band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers until 20 ...

(born 1968), Grammy-winning Jamaican musician; oldest son of Bob Marley *

Ziggy Modeliste Joseph "Ziggy" Modeliste (born December 28, 1948), also known as Zigaboo, is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk band the Meters. He is widely considered an innovator in the funk genre and New Orleans style drumming. ...

(born 1948), American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk group The Meters *

Ziggy Niszczot Zbigniew "Ziggy" Niszczot (born 1 September 1955) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. He was a powerful, ...

(born 1955), Australian former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...

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 Econoline Crush is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 1992. They have released five studio albums and are known for their charting singles such as "You Don't Know What It's Like", "Home", "Surefire (Never Enough)", ...

George Snider George "Ziggy" Snider (born December 8, 1940 in Fresno, California) is a retired American race car driver. A longtime driver in the United States Automobile Club Silver Crown series, Snider is also a 22-time starter of the Indianapolis 500, the ...

, American retired race car driver * Zigmunt

Ziggy Switkowski Zygmunt Edward "Ziggy" Switkowski, (born 1948), is a Polish Australian business executive and nuclear physicist. His most public role was as the chief executive officer of Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra from 1999 to 2004. ...

(born 1948), Australian businessman and nuclear physicist * Zigmunt

Zygi Wilf Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf (born April 22, 1950) is an American billionaire businessman and real estate developer. He is the chairman and co-owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the majority owner of MLS's Orlando City. Early life Wilf was bor ...

(born 1950), owner of the Minnesota Vikings National Football League team *

Ziggy the bagman Zbygnew Wilczek, or Zbigniew Marian Wilczek, also known as Ziggy the Bag Man, is a man who lives in a park in the inner Brisbane suburb of Taringa. Ziggy objects to being labelled as "homeless" as he chose his situation and does not ask for food ...

(born c. 1950), Zbygnew Marian Willzek, a homeless man who lives in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia *

Brad Ziegler Brad Gregory Ziegler (born October 10, 1979) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, and Miami Marlins. Ziegler was one of th ...

(born 1979), relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics

Technology

* Ziggy, as a wake word and alternate name for

Amazon Alexa Amazon Alexa, also known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesiser named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Echo Dot, Echo Studio ...

, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon

Stage name

Ziggy Alberts Ziggy Alberts (born July 1994) is an Australian singer-songwriter. He is best known for his studio album '' Laps Around the Sun'', which peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts for Australian Artist Albums in November 2018. Early life Ziggy Alber ...

(born 1994), an Australian folk singer and songwriter *

Ziggy Elman Harry Aaron Finkelman (May 26, 1914 – June 26, 1968), known professionally as Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his group Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra. Early years Elman was born i ...

, stage name of American jazz trumpeter Harry Aaron Finkelman (1914–1968) * Ziggy Stardust, a 1970s persona of

David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the ...

(1947–2016), English musician, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and arranger *

Ziggy Ramo Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna, known professionally as Ziggy Ramo, is an Australian singer. Early life Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna was born to an Aboriginal and Solomon Islander father and a mother of Scottish heritage in Bellingen, New S ...

(born Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna), an Indigenous Australian singer, songwriter and activist

Fictional characters

* Ziggy, a character in

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* The title character of ''Ziggy'' (comic strip) * 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, from ''

Power Rangers RPM ''Power Rangers RPM'' is the seventeenth season of the television series ''Power Rangers'' and is an adaptation of ''Engine Sentai Go-onger'', the thirty-second Japanese ''Super Sentai'' series. The season was the eighth and final to air on AB ...

'' * 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 ''Edens Zero'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since June 2018, with its chapters collected into twent ...

'' *

Ziggy Stardust (character) Ziggy Stardust is a fictional character created by English musician David Bowie, and was Bowie's stage persona during 1972 and 1973. The eponymous character of the song " Ziggy Stardust" and its parent album '' The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardus ...

, fictional alter ego of

* Ziggy Chapman from the HBO series Big Little Lies. *

Ziggy Roscoe ''Hollyoaks'' is a British television soap opera that was first broadcast on 23 October 1995. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the serial in 2013, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by the sho ...

, character in British soap opera ''

Hollyoaks ''Hollyoaks'' is a British soap opera which began airing on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was created by Phil Redmond, who had previously conceived the soap opera '' Brookside''. Since 2005, episodes have been aired on sister channel E4 a ...

As a female nickname

* Christine 'Ziggy' Berman from Fear Street: Part Two - 1978

Animals