Introduction
Sobriquet pronounced as SOH-bri-kay, is defined as a nickname of the particular entity which is commonly a place or a person. Primarily, Sobriquet denotes the characteristic feature of that particular entity. Sobriquet highlights the identity and at times also replaces the real name, for instance, Mahatma Gandhi - Mahatma is the Sobriquet used in place of Mohandas Karamchand. The word highlights the importance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ji’s work per se. Sobriquets should not be confused with Pseudonyms. A pseudonym is an alias name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose.
World Sobriquets lists the nicknames of famous places and personalities across the globe. The list is inspiring as it denotes the distinguished and characteristic feature of the entity being referred to. Primarily Sobriquets of Famous Personalities is an appreciation to the extensive work and the contribution of the individuals.
Sobriquets
The below list of World Sobriquets belongs to cities and personalities.
| Places | Sobriquets |
|---|---|
| Australia | Land of the Kangaroo |
| Land of the Golden Fleece | |
| Island Continent | |
| Australia and New Zealand | The Antipodes |
| Alleppey, India | Venice of East |
| Africa | Dark Continent |
| Aberdeen, Scotland | Granite City |
| Atlantic Ocean | Herring Pond |
| Alcatraz Prison | The Rock (prison) |
| Albania | Land of Eagles |
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Auntie |
| Barbados | Land of Flying Fish |
| Belgrade, Yugoslavia | White City |
| Broadway, New York, USA | Great White Way |
| Bab-el-mandeb, Jerusalem | Gate of Tears |
| Belgium | Cockpit of Europe |
| The Battlefield of Europe | |
| Bhutan | Land of Thunderbolt |
| Balkans | Powder Keg of Europe |
| Bahrain | Island of Pearls |
| Pearl of Arabia | |
| Burma (Myanmar) | Land of the Golden Pagoda |
| Boston, Massachusetts, USA | Beantown |
| Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Brisvegas |
| Beijing | City of Cycles |
| Britain | Land of Setting Sun |
| Chicago, USA | Windy City |
| Cuba | Sugar bowl of the World |
| Pearl of Antilles | |
| Canada | Land of Lilies |
| Land of Maple | |
| China (as an economy) | The Dragon |
| Chicago, Illinois, USA | The Windy City |
| Cochin | The Queen of the Arabian Sea |
| Chelsea football club | Pensioneers |
| Denmark | The Mother-in-law of Europe |
| Diary of Northern Europe | |
| Dallas, Texas, USA | The Big D |
| Egypt | Gift of Nile |
| Finland | Land of Thousand Lakes |
| Florence Nightingale | Lady with the Lamp |
| Fujiyama, Japan | Holy Mountain |
| Guinea Coast | White Man’s Grave |
| Gibraltar | Key of Mediterranean |
| Great Britain | Perfidious Albion |
| Blighty | |
| Gibraltar Strait | Pillars of Hercules |
| Greece | Spice Island of the West |
| Huang Ho (China) | Yellow River |
| Houston, Texas, USA | The Bayou City |
| Hong Kong | Pearl of Orient |
| Hollywood, California, US | Tinseltown |
| Ireland | Emerald Island |
| Ireland or Puerto Rico | The Emerald Isle |
| Iceland | Island of Fire |
| Italy | Land of Marble |
| Japan | Land of Rising Sun |
| Jay-Z | The New Sinatra |
| Jamaica | Island of Springs |
| Kent, England | Garden of England |
| Korea | Hermit Kingdom |
| Land of Morning Calm | |
| Lhasa, Tibet | Forbidden City |
| Las Vegas, Nevada, USA | Sin City |
| London | The Smoke |
| Laos | Land of Thousand Elephants |
| Madagascar | Island of Cloves |
| Manchester United Football Club | The Red Devils |
| Moscow | Port of five Seas |
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Brew City |
| Malta | George Cross Island |
| New York, USA | City of Sky-scrapers |
| Empire City | |
| Gotham | |
| New Zealand | Britain of South |
| Norway | Land of Midnight Sun |
| Netherlands | Land of the Canals |
| Land of Windmills | |
| New Orleans, Louisiana | The Big Easy |
| New York City, New York, USA | The Big Apple |
| Natal | Land of Perpetual Greenery |
| Oxford, England | City of Dreaming Spires |
| Osaka | Manchester of Japan |
| Pamirs, Central Asia | Roof of World |
| Philadelphia, USA | Quaker City |
| City of Brotherly Love | |
| Prairies of North America | World’s Bread Basket |
| Prairies of North Australia | Never Never Land |
| Palestine | Holy Land |
| Pamir | Roof of the World |
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | The Steel City |
| PPSh-41 | Brass Fountain |
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The City of Brotherly Love |
| Paris | The City of Light |
| Quito, South America | City of Eternal Springs |
| River Hwang Ho | Sorrow of China |
| Rome, Italy | Eternal City |
| City of Seven Hills | |
| Rome | The Eternal City |
| Republic of China | Taiwan |
| Riga, Latvia | The Paris of Baltics |
| Stockholm, Sweden | Venice of North |
| San Francisco, California | The City by the Bay |
| City of Golden Gate | |
| Frisco | |
| The Paris of the West | |
| Switzerland | Playground of Europe |
| Strait of Gibraltar | Pillars of Hercules |
| Scotland | Land of Cakes |
| Seattle, Washington, USA | The Emerald City |
| Stockholm | Venice of the North |
| Sa'o Paulo, Buenos Aries | The Paris of South |
| Tristan De Gunha (Mid-Atlantic) | World’s Loneliest Island |
| Turkey | Sick Man of Europe |
| Thailand | Land of White Elephants |
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Hogtown |
| The Big Smoke | |
| The United States or The Americas | Columbia |
| The Central Criminal Court in England | The Old Bailey |
| The executive branch of the government of the United States | White House |
| The British government including Parliament but excluding the monarchy | Whitehall |
| The British Parliament | Westminster |
| The Bank of England | The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street |
| Trinidad | Humming Bird |
| The British Broadcasting Corporation | The Beeb |
| The Collins Crystal Cave expedition | C-3 |
| Theodore Roosevelt’s diplomatic policy | The Big Stick |
| US Marine survivors of Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir | Chosin Few |
| Venice, Italy | Queen of Adriatic |
| Washington D.C., USA | City of Magnificent Distances |
| The Federal City | |
| Chocolate City |
| Persons | Popular Names |
|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | Honest Abe |
| The Great Emancipator | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California | The Governator |
| Albert DeSalvo | The Boston Strangler |
| Alexander Pope | Bard of Twickenham |
| Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi |
| Australian soldier | Digger |
| A group of American singers and entertainers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s | The Rat Pack |
| Adolf Hitler | Fuhrer |
| Aerosmith members Steven Tyler and Joe Perry | The Toxic Twins |
| Ashley Giles | The King of Spain |
| Arnold Palmer | The King (of golf) |
| Andrew Jackson | Old Hickory |
| The Man from Tennessee | |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Master of Suspense |
| Benitto Mussolini | Second Duke |
| Benazir Bhutto | The Daughter of East |
| Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie | Brangelina |
| Bruce Springsteen | The Boss |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | Saint Jimmy |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Lokmanya |
| Backgammon champion Paul Magriel | X-22 |
| Babe Ruth, Major league Baseball player and Hall of Famer | The Sultan of Swat |
| Bodybuilding great Sergio Oliva | The Myth |
| Charles Edward Stuart | Bonnie Prince Charlie |
| The Young Pretender | |
| Canadian, from Johnny Canuck | Canuck |
| Chris Andersen | Birdman |
| Charlie Parker | Bird |
| Christopher Wallace, American Hip-Hop and rap singer | Biggie Smalls |
| Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain | The Lion of the Round Top |
| David Howell Evans | The Edge |
| David Eisenhower | Ike Dwight |
| David Lee Roth | Diamond Dave |
| DeskStar | DeathStar |
| David Bowie | The Rock Chameleon |
| The Thin White Duke | |
| Dwayne Johnson | The Rock (person) |
| Dwight David | Ike |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Prince of the Humanists |
| Duke of Wellington | Iron Duke |
| Dr. Kenneth Kaunda | African Gandhi |
| Edison | The Wizard of Menlopark |
| Erwin Rommel | Desert Fox |
| Earl of Warwick | King Maker |
| Edith Bouvier Beale | Body Beautiful Beale |
| Edson Arantes do Nascimento | Pelé |
| Eric Clapton | Slowhand |
| Elvis Presley | The King (of Rock and Roll) |
| Florence Nightingale | Lady with the Lamp |
| Francisco Franco | El Cauclillo |
| Felix Hernandez | The King (of baseball) |
| Frank Sinatra | Old Blue Eyes |
| Flamenco guitarist Ricardo Baliardo | Manitas de Plata |
| George W. Bush | Dubya |
| George Washington | The Cincinnatus of the Americans |
| Father of his country | |
| Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus | Caligula |
| George Herman Ruth | The Bambino |
| George Gervin | Iceman |
| Gordon Sumner | Sting |
| Gordie Howe | Mr. Hockey |
| Huien Tsang | Prince of Pilgrimage |
| Howard Sims | Sandman |
| Howard Stern | The King (of all Media) |
| Jesus Christ | Good Shepherd |
| Light of the World | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Chacha |
| Joan of Arc | Maid of Orleans |
| James Brown | The Godfather of Soul |
| Joseph Merrick | The Elephant Man |
| John Wayne | The Duke |
| Jesse Ventura | Jesse “The Mind” Ventura |
| Jesse “The Body” Ventura | |
| Jane Fonda | Hanoi Jane |
| Jack Nicklaus | The Golden Bear |
| Joe Namath | Broadway Joe |
| John Bonham | Bonzo |
| Jack Kevorkian proponent of assisted suicide | Dr. Death |
| Josef Mengele | Angel of Death |
| Joe Dimaggio | Joltin’ Joe |
| Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker | Yardbird |
| John Coltrane | Trane |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | The Killer |
| James Francis Edward Stuart | The Old Pretender |
| Konrad Adenauer | der Alte (the old man) |
| Larry Bird | The Hick from French Lick |
| Larry Legend | |
| Louis Armstrong | Satchmo |
| LeBron James | King James |
| Martin Luther King | American Gandhi |
| Margaret Thatcher | Iron Butterfly |
| Iron Lady | |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Father of the Nation |
| Michael Jordan | His Airness |
| Mick Jagger and Keith Richards | The Glimmer Twins |
| Muhammad Ali boxer | The Greatest |
| Mother Teresa | Saint of the Gutters |
| Mary I of England | Bloody Mary |
| Mark Fidrych | The Bird |
| Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf | Chemical Ali |
| Mohammad Ali Jinnah | Qaid-e-Azam |
| Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Baron |
| Mobster John Gotti | The Teflon Don |
| Madonna | Madge |
| The Material Girl | |
| Michael Jackson | The King of Pop |
| Martin Van Buren | Old Kinderhook (OK) |
| Major League Baseball Player and Hall of Famer | Mr. October- Reggie Jackson |
| Mickey Mantle | The Mick |
| Neil Armstrong | Columbus of Space |
| Napolean Bonaparte | Man of Destiny |
| Little Corporal | |
| Nelson Mandela | Madiba |
| Otto Von Bismark | Man of Blood and Iron |
| originally used derogatorily by Southerners but now only heard outside the USA | Yank (a short form of “Yankee”) |
| Paul Hewson | Bono |
| Queen Elizabeth I | Maiden Queen |
| Rasputin | Rascal Monk |
| Richard Cobden | Apostle of Free Trade |
| Ronald Reagan | The Great Communicator |
| Republican Party (United States) | GOP (Grand Old Party) |
| Richard Nixon | Tricky Dick |
| Reggie Miller | Knick Killer |
| Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman | Little Richard |
| Richard Petty | The King (of NASCAR) |
| Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite | Kaká |
| Santa | Old Nick |
| Shane Warne | The King of Spin |
| Sezen Aksu | The Little Sparrow |
| Samuel Wilberforce | Soapy Sam |
| Shoaib Akhtar | The Rawalpindi Express |
| São Paulo and Buenos Aires | The Paris of the South |
| Saul Hudson | Slash |
| Shahid Afridi | Boom Boom Afridi |
| Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher | Joe the Plumber |
| Temüjin | Genghis Khan |
| The Beatles | The Fab Four |
| The New York Times | The Gray Lady |
| The U.S.A. or sometimes the government | Uncle Sam |
| U.S. President Bill Clinton | Slick Willy |
| Valentino Rossi | The Doctor |
| Wayne Gretzky | The Great One |
| William Pitt | The Great Commoner |
| William Shakespeare | The Bard |
| Bard of Avon | |
| Walter Scott | Wizard of the North |
| Willian Ewart Glandstone | Grand Old Man of Britain |
| Willie Mays | The Say Hey Kid |
| Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready |