List of snooker player nicknames

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This is a list of common nicknames for notable professional snooker players. See also the List of snooker players, List of notable snooker players and List of World Snooker Champions.

• Alain Robidoux Scoobie^[1]
• Alan McManus Angles^[2]
• Alex Higgins The Hurricane^[3]
• Ali Carter The Captain^[4]
• Andy Hicks The Cream of Devon,^[5] The Toast of Tavistock^[6]
• Anthony Hamilton Sheriff of Pottingham,^[7] The Robin Hood of Snooker, Swampy^[8]
• Barry Hawkins The Hawk^[9]
• Barry Pinches The Canarian^[10]
• Bill Werbeniuk Big Bill^[11]
• Clark McConachy Mac^[12]
• Cliff Thorburn The Grinder,^[13] Rhett Butler of the green baize^[14]
• Dave Harold The Stoke Potter,^[15] Pride of the Potteries,^[16]
• David Gray Casper,^[17] The Mighty Atom^{[citation needed]}
• David Taylor The Silver Fox^[18]
• Ding Junhui The Star of the East,^[19] Pot Noodle,^[20] Enter the Dragon^[6]
• Dominic Dale Spaceman^[21]
• Eddie Charlton Steady Eddie^[22]
• Fergal O'Brien The Baby-faced Assassin,^[16] Fearless Fergal^[23]
• Graeme Dott The Pocket Dynamo,^[24] The Pocket Rocket,^[25]Dott the Pot, Pot the lot Dott^[26]
• Ian McCulloch The Preston Potter,^[27] The Pride of Preston^[28]
• James Wattana The Thai-Phoon^[29]
• Jamie Cope The Shotgun^[30]
• Jimmy White The Whirlwind^[6]
• Joe Davis The Sultan of Snooker,^[31] Emperor of Pot^[32]
• Joe Perry The Gentleman,^[33] The Fen Potter^[34]
• Joe Swail The Outlaw/The Outlaw Joey Swail (from the film The Outlaw Josey Wales)^[35]
• John Higgins Wizard of Wishaw,^[36] The Kid^[37]
• John Parrott The Entertainer, Mr JP^[38]
• John Rea King of the Baize^[6]
• Ken Doherty Darlin' of Dublin, Crafty Ken, Ken-do,^[39] Scarface,^[6] The Ranelagh Rascal,^[40] 'Dogged' Doherty^[41]
• Liang Wenbo "Should he stay or should he go", The Fearless, Wenbo selecta^[42]
• Marco Fu Full of Eastern Promise,^[43] Hong Kong Fuey,^[6] Cue-Man-Fu^[44]
• Mark Allen Eagle Eye, "All-in",^[45] Pistol from Antrim Town^[46]
• Mark King The Romford Battler,^[47] The Royal King^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Selby The Jester From Leicester,^[48] Mark the Shark^[49]
• Mark Williams The Welsh Potting Machine, Sprog,^[50] The Welsh Wonder^[51]
• Matthew Stevens The Welsh Dragon^[52]
• Michael Holt The Hitman^[53]
• Neil Robertson The Melbourne Machine,^[54] Aussie Ace,^[55] Thunder from Down Under^[56]
• Nigel Bond Basildon,^[57] 00-147^[58]
• Paul Hunter Beckham of the Baize,^[59] The Man with the Golden Cue, Snooker Spice^[60]
• Peter Ebdon The Force,^[61] Ebbo, The Ebdonator,^[62] Psycho,^[6] Mr Intensity^{[citation needed]}
• Quinten Hann The Wizard of Oz^[63]
• Ray Reardon Dracula^[6]
• Ronnie O'Sullivan The Rocket,^[64] The Essex Exocet, The Magician^[65]
• Shaun Murphy The Whiston Warrior,^[66] The Magician^[67]
• Stephen Hendry The Golden Boy, The Maestro, The Great One,^[68] The Ice Man,^[69] The Wonder Bairn^[70]
• Stephen Lee The Man with the Rolls-Royce Cue Action^{[citation needed]}
• Stephen Maguire Livewire, On-fire Maguire, Maggi,^[71] The Merlin of Milton,^[72]
• Steve Davis The Nugget, The Ginger Magician,^[73] Steve "interesting" Davis, Romford Slim^[74]
• Tony Drago The Tornado,^[75] The Maltese Falcon^[76]

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