Mack the Knife (disambiguation)
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Mack the Knife may refer to:
- Mack the Knife (in German Mackie Messer) is the nickname of Macheath, a character from The Threepenny Opera, and also the name of a song from that work.
- Mack the Knife is also the title of the US film adaptation of the opera.
Other uses of the term, presumably all based on the original use, may refer to:
- In music
- Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife, a 1960 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, containing her famous version of the song with improvised lyrics
- In people
- Georges Leekens (born 1949), Belgian football manager and former player whose nickname is Mack the Knife (or Long couteau in French)
- Mac the Knife, computer columnist
- John J. Mack (born 1944), former CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston
- Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), known as "Mac the Knife", former British Prime Minister
- Robert McNamara (1916–2009), also known as "Mac the Knife", former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- In other uses
- Mac Tonight, a McDonald's mascot who performs a version of Mack the Knife
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