Popeye (disambiguation)

Popeye is a comic and cartoon character:

Popeye may also refer to:

Based on the cartoon character

• Popeye (1980 film), starring Robin Williams
• Popeye (arcade game), a 1982 video game
• Popeye (Game Boy), a 1990 video game for the Game Boy
• Popeye 2, a 1991 video game
• Popeye: Rush for Spinach, a 2005 video game

Fictional characters

• Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, in the films The French Connection, French Connection II and Popeye Doyle
• Popeye, in William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary

As a nickname

• Hank Erickson (1907-1964), American professional baseball catcher
• Ronald Popeye Jones (born 1970), American National Basketball Association assistant coach and former player
• Greg Halford (born 1984), English footballer nicknamed "Popeye" for his missile-like throw-ins
• Jean-Paul van Poppel (born 1962), Dutch former racing cyclist
• Matthias Schlitte (born 1987), German arm wrestling champion whose right arm is shaped similar to Popeye's
• Miloš Stojanović (footballer, born 1984), Serbian footballer
• John Jairo Velásquez (born 1962), former hitman for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín drugs cartel
• Robert Wynn (soldier) (1921-2000), World War II US Army soldier, portrayed in the miniseries Band of Brothers
• Don Zimmer (1931-2014), former Major League Baseball player, coach and manager

Other uses

• Popeye (boat), a series of historic pleasure launches used on the Torrens River, Adelaide, Australia
• Popeye (magazine), Japanese men's fashion magazine
• Popeye (missile), Israeli standoff air-to-surface missile, when used by the US code named AGM-142 Have Nap
• Popeye, software for handling chess problems
• Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants often referred to simply as Popeyes
• Operation Popeye, a US military operation to increase rains over Vietnam during the Vietnam War

See also

• "Popeye The Hitchhiker", a 1962 song by Chubby Checker
• Pop Eyed, a 1996 New Zealand compilation album