Babe

Babe is a slang term of endearment. Merriam-Webster states that the word is of Middle English origin, and the first recorded use was in the 14th century. The term may also refer to:

People

• Babe Adams (1882–1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Babe Barna (1917–1972), American Major League Baseball left fielder
• Babe Borton (1888–1954), Major League Baseball first baseman
• John Brown (American football, born 1891) (1891-1963), American College Hall-of-Fame football player and US Navy vice admiral
• Babe Clark, player in the American Professional Football Association in 1920
• Babe Dahlgren (1912–1996), American Major League Baseball infielder who replaced Lou Gehrig
• Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911–1956), American multi-sport female athlete, most noted as a golfer
• Babe Dye (1898–1962), Canadian professional ice hockey forward
• Babe Ellison (1895–1955), Major League Baseball player
• Babe Frump (1901–1979), American offensive guard in the National Football League
• Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), American comic actor sometimes billed as Babe Hardy early in his career
• Babe Herman (1903–1987), American Major League Baseball right fielder
• Jacquelyn Kelley (1926–1988), member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Babe Laufenberg (born 1959), American retired National Football League quarterback
• Babe London (1901–1980), American actress and comedian
• Babe Martin (born 1920), American Major League Baseball outfielder
• Babe McCarthy (1923–1975), American professional and collegiate basketball coach
• Babe Paley (1915–1978), American socialite and style icon
• Babe Parilli (born 1929), American quarterback in the National, American, and Canadian Football Leagues
• Babe Parnell (1901–1982), American football player
• Babe Pinelli (1895–1984), American third baseman and umpire in Major League Baseball
• Babe Pratt (1916–1988), Canadian ice hockey defenseman
• Babe Russin (1911–1984), American jazz saxophonist
• Babe Ruth (1895–1948), American Major League baseball player
• Babe Scheuer (1913–1997), American football player
• Babe Siebert (1904–1939), Canadian National Hockey League player

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Babe (band), a Serbian rock band
• Babe (Dutch band), a Dutch girl-pop band
• BaBe, a Japanese pop duo
• "Babe" (Styx song), on Styx's 1979 album Cornerstone
• "Babe" (Take That song), a number one hit single by the UK boy band Take That

Other

• Babe the Blue Ox, companion of the mythical lumberjack Paul Bunyan
• Babe, the title character of the Dick King-Smith book The Sheep-Pig
  • Babe (film), a 1995 Australian film based on the book
  • Babe: Pig in the City, the 1998 sequel
• The Babe (film), a 1992 film about famed baseball player Babe Ruth starring John Goodman
• Babe Carey, a character in the American soap opera All My Children
• Babe (comics), a comic book by artist/writer John Byrne

Places

• Babe (Bragança), a civil parish in the municipality of Bragança, Portugal
• Babe (Sopot), a village in Serbia

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Babe (disambiguation), one Atlantic Ocean and six Pacific Ocean cyclones
• Bristol Babe, a single-seat biplane produced after the First World War
• Babe, a fragrance sold by Fabergé (cosmetics)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Babe
• All pages with titles containing Babe
• Bab (disambiguation)
• Bebe (disambiguation)