Huey, used as a
given name
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, is a variant of
Hughie. It may refer to:
People
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Huey (rapper)
Lawrence Franks Jr. (September 12, 1987 – June 26, 2020), better known by his stage name Huey, was an American rapper from St. Louis, Missouri. Originally signed to Jive Records, Huey was best known for his 2006 single, "Pop, Lock & Drop It". ...
(1987–2020), American rapper
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Huey Dunbar
Huey Dunbar is a singer and the former singer of Dark Latin Groove. His hits with the band included " La quiero a morir", "Juliana", " No Morirá", "Volveré", "Todo mi corazón", and a remake of Ricardo Montaner's original classic "Me va a extra� ...
, Puerto Rican salsa singer
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Huey Johnson
Huey Johnson (January 6, 1933 – July 12, 2020) was an American environmentalist, noted as a prolific organizer of NGOs. Among other organizations, he founded the Trust for Public Land and the Resource Renewal Institute (RRI), a non-pro ...
(1933–2020), American environmentalist and politician
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Huey Lewis
Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American actor and former singer-songwriter.
Lewis sang lead and played harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, until being forced into retirement due ...
, rock musician, of the band Huey Lewis & the News
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Huey Long
Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination i ...
(1893–1935), American politician, governor and U.S. Senator from Louisiana, known as "The Kingfish"
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Huey Long (singer) (1904–2009), American musician
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Huey P. Newton
Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with ...
(1942–1989), co-founder of the Black Panther Party
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Huey Pierce "Piano" Smith (January 26, 1934 – February 13, 2023) was an American R&B pianist and session musician whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll.
His piano playing incorporated the boogie-woogie styles of P ...
(1934–2023), American R&B pianist
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Hugh Morgan of the Fun Lovin' Criminals, known as Huey
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Iain Hewitson
Iain "Huey" Hewitson (born 4 October 1948), is a New Zealand-born Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television personality who moved to Australia in 1972. He is best known for his television involvement with Network Ten. He was also the ...
, New Zealand-born chef, nicknamed "Huey"
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Laurence Markham Huey
Laurence Markham Huey (1892–1963) was an American zoologist and the Curator of Birds and Mammals at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1923 to 1961. His main research field was the study of mammals and birds of California and Baja Califo ...
(1892–1963), American zoologist
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Michael Huey (disambiguation), multiple people
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Raymond B. Huey (born 1944), American biologist
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Treat Huey
Treat Conrad Huey (; born August 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American former tennis player who represented the Philippines in international competitions. Huey specialized in doubles and reached eighteen finals, winning 8 titles on the ATP World ...
, Filipino tennis player
Places
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Huey, Illinois
Huey is a village in Clinton County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 160.
Geography
Huey is located in eastern Clinton County and U.S. Route 50 passes north of the village, leading west to Carl ...
, a village in the United States
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Huey Creek, a glacial meltwater stream in Antarctica
Military
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Bell UH-1 Iroquois
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. It is the first member of the prolific Huey family, as well as the first turbine-powered hel ...
, U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps utility helicopter nicknamed the "Huey"
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Bell Huey family
The Bell Huey family of helicopters includes a wide range of civil and military aircraft produced since 1956 by Bell Helicopter. This H-1 family of aircraft includes the utility UH-1 Iroquois and the derivative AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter seri ...
, helicopters related to the UH-1
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AH-1 Cobra
The Bell AH-1 Cobra is a single-engined attack helicopter developed and manufactured by the American rotorcraft manufacturer Bell Helicopter. A member of the prolific Huey family, the AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The A ...
("HueyCobra"), attack helicopter derived from the UH-1
In fiction
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Huey, Dewey and Louie
Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Multiple birth, triplet cartoon characters created by storyboard artist and screenwriter Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company from an idea proposed by cartoonist Al Taliaferro. They are the nephews of Donald Duck an ...
, Walt Disney characters
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Baby Huey
Baby Huey is a gigantic and naïve duckling cartoon character. He was created by Martin Taras for Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios, and became a Paramount cartoon star during the 1950s. Huey first appeared in ''Quack-a-Doodle-Doo'', a Paramount ...
, cartoon character
* ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie'', an apocryphal children's book in the comic strip ''
Calvin and Hobbes
''Calvin and Hobbes'' is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was Print syndication, syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly described as "the last great newspaper comic", ''Calvin a ...
''
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Huey Freeman
Huey R. Freeman is the main protagonist and narrator of ''The Boondocks'' syndicated comic strip written by Aaron McGruder, as well as the animated TV sitcom of the same name. Politically sapient and borderline militant, Huey, being a self-desc ...
, the main character in the TV show/comic strip ''The Boondocks''
* Huey Emmerich, a character in the ''
Metal Gear
is a Media franchise, franchise of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed and published by Konami, the first game, ''Metal Gear (video game), Metal Gear'', was released in 1987 for MSX, MSX home computers. The player often takes con ...
'' series
* Huey Laforet, a character in the ''
Baccano!
is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Katsumi Enami. The series, told from multiple Narrative mode, points of view, is mostly set within a fictional United States across time most notably the Prohib ...
'' series
* Huey, a character in ''
Paper Mario: Color Splash''
Other uses
* Huey, a
color calibration
The aim of color calibration is to measure and/or adjust the color response of a device (input or output) to a known state. In International Color Consortium (ICC) terms, this is the basis for an additional color characterization of the device ...
device from Pantone
See also
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Hughey (disambiguation)
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