Ziggy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Zigmunt and other names. It is also a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
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Nickname or hypocorism
Ziggy Gordon (born 1993), Scottish footballer
Ziggy Hood (born 1987), National Football League player
Ziggy Lichman (born 1981), a contestant on the reality TV show Big Brother UK, Season 8
Ziggy Lorenc (born 1958), Canadian television and radio personality
Ziggy Marley (born 1968), Grammy-winning Jamaican musician; oldest son of Bob Marley
Ziggy Modeliste (born 1948), American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk group The Meters
Ziggy Niszczot (born 1955), Australian former professional rugby league footballer
Ziggy Switkowski (born 1948), Australian businessman and nuclear physicist
Ziggy the Bag Man (born c. 1950), Zbygnew Marian Willzek, a homeless man who lives in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia
Stage name
Ziggy Alberts (born 1994), an Australian folk singer and songwriter
Ziggy Elman, stage name of American jazz trumpeter Harry Aaron Finkelman (1914–1968)
Ziggy Stardust, a 1970s persona of David Bowie (1947–2016), English musician, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and arranger
Ziggy Ramo (born Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna), an Indigenous Australian singer, songwriter and activist
Fictional characters
Ziggy, a character in the video game Laura Bow 2
The title character of Ziggy (comic strip)
Ziggy Astoni, character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
Ziggy (EastEnders), from the British soap opera EastEnders
Ziggy Sobotka, a major character in the second season of The Wire
Ziggy, from the Icelandic children's television program LazyTown
Ziggy (Quantum Leap), from the American TV series Quantum Leap
Ziggy (Xenosaga), from the science fiction video game series Xenosaga
Demon King Ziggy from the Japanese manga Edens Zero
Ziggy Stardust (character), fictional alter ego of David Bowie
Ziggy Chapman from the HBO series Big Little Lies
Ziggy Pascal, character in British soap opera Family Affairs
Ziggy Roscoe, character in British soap opera Hollyoaks
Eric Ziggy Greaves A Character from the British children's television drama series Grange Hill
Ziggy, a character in the video game Fortnite
Ziggy, a character in the video game Brawl Stars
As a female nickname
Christine "Ziggy" Berman from Fear Street Part Two: 1978
Ziggy Karst, a Marvel Comics character and member of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning
Animals
Ziggy (elephant) (1917–1975), an Indian elephant who lived at the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago