Draper latched on to his nickname, PHD, and figured that Pan must be smart.
Thorpe featured widely in Japanese advertisements, including promoting a sports drink called "Thorpedo" after his nickname.
His nickname was "stone bean" because he was tiny but tough, classmates said.
But the obsession with the stars dates back even further, to the schoolyard where his nickname was Spaceship Clarke.
Cardinal Thomas Winning, Scotland's most senior Roman Catholic, was, as his nickname suggests, not unaccustomed to becoming involved in heated public debate.
Known to friends by his nickname "Tai, " Ottavio Missoni founded the company in 1953, along with his wife, Rosita Jelmini, who survives him.
John Brzenk, perhaps the greatest arm wrestler of all time, is famous for pinning opponents twice his size his nickname is the Giant Crusher.
They said his nickname was "Big Reach", because he once befriended a gangster on the streets of New York who used that name.
His nickname sprung from his time cycling the seven-mile journey to Westminster, followed by his family's appearance on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bikes by train.
Mr. Watson said he got his nickname at an early radio performance during which the announcer asked the audience for a replacement for his given name, Arthel.
Such feats were not enough for Dai-majin, who got his nickname from an old Japanese film in which a "great genie" protects a village from its enemies.
His nickname, by the way, is 'Cowboy', he wears a proper Stetson and he talks like all British people imagine Americans do, in a kind of honeyed drawl that's utterly charming.
He is the first Russian leader to have regularly taken holidays outside the former Soviet Union or to have close foreign friends who call him by his nickname, Vova.
Also on Twitter, shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint said she was happy for her former cabinet colleague and his family and made a joke about his nickname, saying "Thunderbirds are go".
"The head-hunters got me in as they thought I would be someone they would be interested in, " said the man who insists he can still be addressed by his nickname, Smudger.
BBC: Gordon Smith is on the ball as he arrives at Hampden Park
Pistorius, whose legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old due to a bone defect, runs on special carbon fiber blades from which his nickname "The Blade Runner" derives.
He made his first trip to Chicago in 1955, starting off as the bass player for a friend and mentor known as Magic Sam, who allowed the younger musician to take his nickname.
He was short and stocky, his nickname was The Little Steam Engine and yet, thanks to his blazing fastball and a mean pick-off move, he managed to win 364 games in his pro career.
DeLay's fund-raising tactics for the groups -- his nickname is "The Hammer" -- have prompted a racketeering suit filed by the Democrats' House campaign committee alleging that DeLay's m.o crossed the line into illegality.
Oreiller was its resident snow showman in the 1940s -- a fearless adrenalin junkie who lived up to his nickname, and claimed skiing's first Olympic gold medals when the sport was introduced at the 1948 Winter Games.
Suddenly, I saw our battalion commander, Colonel Timothy Halloran (Happy was his nickname), take a seat on a nearby bench, and the mere reality of his presence soothed me a bit, as often happened when he hove into sight.
Goodwin, in contrast, deliberately belied his Shredder nickname, earning customer loyalty at NatWest by keeping almost all of its 1, 500 branches open and eliminating charges for ATM use and overdrafts.
Supposedly, that is how Kaepernick has been spelling the shortened nickname his whole life, which his college (Nevada) adopted, as well.
His high school nickname was Skin, and even now at age thirty-one he weighed hardly a hundred pounds, with a jockey's height of five foot four.
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