Tiger (nickname)

Tiger or Tyger, as a nickname, may refer to:

Artists and entertainers

• Tiger Haynes (1914–1994), American actor and musical performer
• Tiger Onitsuka (born 1998), Japanese jazz drummer
• Tiger Prabhakar (1948–2001), Indian actor in Kannada cinema
• Tiger Shroff (born 1990), Indian actor
• Tiger Varadachariar (1876–1950), Indian musician

Athletes

• Tiger Black (1918–1983), Australian rugby league player and commentator
• Tyger Campbell (born 2000), American basketball player
• Tiger Chen (born 1975), Chinese martial artist and actor
• Brent Crosswell (born 1950), Australian rules footballer
• Tiger Flowers (1895–1927), African-American middleweight boxing champion
• Tiger Jack Fox (1907–1954), American light heavyweight boxer
• Tiger Greene (born 1962), former National Football League player
• Tiger Lance (1940–2010), South African cricketer
• Nuno Lopes (footballer, born 1998), Portuguese footballer known as Tiger
• Tiger Mangweni (born 1980), South African rugby union player
• Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), Polish-German boxer
• Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) (1905–1992), Australian cricketer
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941–2011), Indian cricketer
• Ian Ridley (1934–2008), Australian rules footballer
• Tiger Shanks (born 2002), Canadian football player
• Jock Shaw (1912–2000), Scottish footballer
• Tiger Smalls (born 1969), former featherweight boxing champion
• Tiger Smith (1886–1979), English cricketer
• Tiger Stevenson (1907–?), English motorcycle speedway racer
• Tiger Williams (born 1954), Canadian former National Hockey League player
• Tiger Woods (born 1975), American golfer

Others

• William "Tiger" Dunlop (1792–1848), army and militia officer, surgeon, Canada Company official, author and politician
• Tiger Memon (born 1960), Indian gangster
• Ralph Thomas (born 1938), activist and former amateur boxer who went by the nickname "Tiger"
• The Tiger, the nickname of a North Korean colonel who presided over the Tiger Death March during the Korean War
• Avinash Singh Rathore or Tiger, a fictional Research and Analysis Wing spy portrayed by Salman Khan in the Tiger franchise

See also

• Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), French Prime Minister, known as "Le Tigre" ("The Tiger")
• Tiger of Malaya, nickname of Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885–1946), Japanese general
• Tiger of Malaya, nickname of Gerald Templer, British general