Chick (nickname)

Chick is a nickname, often for Charles. Notable people with the nickname include:

• Chick Autry (first baseman) (1885–1976), National League Baseball player [1907–1909]
• Chick Autry (catcher) (1903–1950), American League Baseball player [1924–1930]
• Chick Bullock (1898–1981), American vocalist
• Chick Chandler (1905–1988), American actor
• Jimmy "Chick" Childress (1932–2015), American football coach
• Chick Churchill (born 1946), keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band Ten Years After
• Chick Corea (born 1941), American jazz pianist
• Chick Davies (1892–1973), American baseball player
• Chick Evans (1890–1979), American amateur golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
• George Evans (coach), American football, basketball, and baseball coach at Northern Illinois University from the 1920s to 1950s
• Chick Fewster (1895–1945), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Chick Fraser (1873–1940), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Chick Fullis (1904–1946), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Fulmer (1851–1940), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Gandil (1888–1970), Major League Baseball player, ringleader of the players involved in the 1919 Black Sox scandal
• Chick Galloway (1896–1969), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Hafey (1903–1973), Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
• Chick Halbert (1919–2013), American basketball player
• Chick Harbert (1915–1992), American PGA Tour golfer
• Chick Hearn (1916–2002), American sportscaster
• Chick Henderson (rugby union) (1930–2006), South African rugby union footballer and commentator
• Chick Henderson (singer) (1912–1944), English singer
• Chick Jagade (1926–1968), American National Football League player
• Chick Jenkins (c. 1882–?), Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer
• Chick King (1930-2012), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Lang (1905–1947), Canadian Hall-of-Fame jockey
• Chick Lathers (1888–1971), American baseball player
• Chick Maggioli (1922–2012), American National Football League player
• Chick Meehan (1893–1972), American collegiate football player and coach
• Chick Morrison (1878–1924), American silent film actor
• Chick Parsons (1902–1988), American World War II naval officer and businessman
• Chick Reiser (1914-1996), American National Basketball Association player and coach
• Chick Robitaille (1879–1947), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Chick Shorten (1892–1965), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Stahl (1873–1907), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Strand (1931–2009), American experimental filmmaker
• Chick Tolson (1895–1965), Major League Baseball player
• Chick Tricker, early New York gangster
• Chick Webb (1905–1939), jazz drummer and band leader
• Chick Willis (1934–2013), American blues singer and guitarist
• Chick Young (born 1951), Scottish football journalist
• Chick Zamick (1926–2007), Canadian hockey player and coach

Fictional characters include:

• the title character of the Franco-Belgian Western comic series Chick Bill
• the title character of the 1946 film serial Chick Carter, Detective, played by Lyle Talbot