Popeye (disambiguation)
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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
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