Curly

Surname

• August Curley, American football player
• Carlo Curley, American concert organist
• Edward W. Curley, U.S. Representative from New York
• James Curley , Irish-American astronomer
• James Curley
• James Michael Curley, Governor and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and mayor of Boston
• Michael Joseph Curley, Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington
• Michael Curley , English footballer
• Patricia S. Curley, American jurist
• Robert M. Curley, American jurist and legislator
• Thomas Curley, several people

  First name, nickname or stage name

• Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly"
• Curly , one of General Custer's Crow Indian scouts at the Battle of Little Big Horn
• Curly Armstrong, American basketball player
• William Brocius, American Old West gunman, rustler and outlaw better known as "Curly Bill" Brocius
• Curly Brown, American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Curley Byrd, American sports coach and university administrator
• Curly Chalker, American country and jazz musician
• Curly Ray Cline, American bluegrass fiddler
• George Andrew Davis, Jr., American World War II and Korean War flying ace
• Curly Fox, American county music singer and musician
• Curly Hammond, English rugby union
• Curly Howard, stage name of comic actor Jerome Lester Horwitz, one of the Three Stooges
• Curly Howard , on-air name of American disc jockey Howard Sisk
• Curley Johnson, American Football League and National Football League punter
• Curly Lambeau, founder, player and first coach of the Green Bay Packers National Football League team
• Gordon 'Curly' Mack, Irish badminton player of the 1920s and '30s
• Fred "Curly" Morrison, American National Football League player
• Curly Neal, American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
• Curly Oden, American National Football League player
• Curly Ogden, American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Curly Page, New Zealand cricketer
• Curly Putman, American songwriter
• Curley Russell, American jazz double-bassist
• Curly Seckler, American bluegrass musician
• Curly Thirlwell, American sound engineer nominated for two Academy Awards
• "Curly M.C.", a pseudonym of musician Michael Cretu

  Fictional characters

• Curly McLain, in the musical Oklahoma!
• Curly Washburn, in the movies City Slickers and
• "Curley", a character in the Bluey and Curley comic strip drawn by Alex Gurney
• Norman Curly Watts, in the British TV drama Coronation Street
• Marshal Curly Wilcox, in the movie Stagecoach
• Curley, in John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men
• Curly, in the British comic strip Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
• Curly, a Lost Boy in Peter Pan
• Curly, a rabbit from Abby Hatcher

  Animals

• "Curly" or "Little Curly", a nickname of Laika, the first dog in space
• Curly Horse, a curly-coated breed of horse
• Curly, the name of the first LaPerm cat