Hickey (disambiguation)

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Hickey may refer to the following:

• Hickey (surname)

Arts and entertainment

• Cheryl Hickey, born 1976, entertainment reporter for the Global Television Network
• Dale Hickey born 1937, Australian artist
• Dave Hickey, American art critic, author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (1998)
• Earl Hickey, fictional character in the NBC show My Name Is Earl
• Randy Hickey, fictional character in the NBC show My Name Is Earl
• Eddie Hickey, US sportsman
• Ersel Hickey, rockabilly singer
• James Harden-Hickey, 19th century American writer
• Jeffrey Hickey, Author of 'The Coach's Son'
• Kenny Hickey
• Magee Hickey
• Michael Hickey, US screenwriter
• Tom Hickey, Irish actor, famous for his role in The Riordans
• Thomas Hickey, 1741-1842, Irish painter
• William Hickey (actor)
• William Hickey (memoirist)
• Hickey was also the name of a melodic punk rock band from San Francisco in the mid 1990s.

Sport

• Colin Hickey, Australian speed skater
• Denis Hickie, Irish international Rugby Union
• Jarrad Hickey, born 1985, Australian Rugby League player
• Jim Hickey (American football)
• Jim Hickey (baseball coach)
• Miriam Hickey, US Soccer player
• Noah Hickey, New Zealand football (soccer) player
• Noel Hickey, Irish sports man
• Pat Hickey, born 1953, Canadian Ice Hockey player
• Red Hickey, 1917 - 2006, athlete, played American Football.
• Reg Hickey, player and coach for Geelong in Australian rules football

Politics and law

• Bonnie Hickey, Canadian politician
• James Hickey (Irish politician)
• John J. Hickey, American politician

History and current affairs

• Colonel James Hickey (soldier), in charge of the US Special forces team which captured Saddam Hussein
• Jim Hickey (weather presenter)
• Mary Augusta Hickey, Kennedy family matriarch
• Thomas Hickey (soldier), executed for mutiny during the American Revolutionary War
• Hickey's Bengal Gazette was the first printed newspaper to be published in the Indian sub-continent.

Slang meanings of Hickey

In North American slang, Hickey has more than one meaning:

• Love-bite or other bruise
• Hickey is also a placeholder name used in the northeastern United States, a shortened form of the placeholder name doo-hickey.
• A hickey is also a spot or discoloration on a press sheet due to specks of dust on a plate.
• To "look like a right Mary Hickey" was traditional Dublin, Ireland slang for somebody, male or female, who was dressed inappropriately. This term has fallen into disuse.
• A threaded electrical fitting used to connect a fixture to an outlet box.
• A pipe-bending apparatus.

Other uses

• James Cardinal Hickey Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in the USA
• Marilyn Hickey, American televangelist
• Timothy J. Hickey, US Computer Scientist