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'''Hickey''' may refer to the following:
*[[Hickey (surname)]]
== Arts and entertainment ==
* [[Cheryl Hickey]], entertainment reporter for the [[Global Television Network]]
* [[Dale Hickey]], Australian artist
* [[Dave Hickey]], American art critic; author of ''Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy'' (1998)
* [[Earl Hickey]] fictional character in the NBC show [[My Name Is Earl]].
* [[Randy Hickey]] fictional character in the NBC show [[My Name Is Earl]].
* [[Eddie Hickey]], US sportsman
* [[Ersel Hickey]], rockabilly singer
* [[James Harden-Hickey]] 19th C American writer
* [[Kenny Hickey]]
* [[Kieran Hickey ]] Film producer
* [[Magee Hickey]]
* [[Michael Hickey]] US screenwriter
* [[Tom Hickey]], Irish actor, famous for his role in ''[[The Riordans]]''
* [[Thomas Hickey (painter)|Thomas Hickey]] (1741-1842), Irish painter
* [[William Hickey (actor)]]
* [[William Hickey (memoirist)]]
* [[Hickey (band)|Hickey]] was also the name of a melodic [[punk rock]] band from San Francisco in the mid 1990s.
==Sport ==
* [[Colin Hickey]], Australian speed skater
* [[Denis Hickie]], Irish international [[Rugby Union]]
* [[Jarrad Hickey]]
* [[Jim Hickey]]
* [[Miriam Hickey]] US Soccer player
* [[Noah Hickey]], New Zealand football (soccer) player
* [[Noel Hickey]], Irish sports man
* [[Pat Hickey]]
* [[Red Hickey]]
* [[Reg Hickey]], player and coach for [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]] in [[Australian rules football]]
* [[Leo Hickey]], Gaelic Footballer, Dublin, All Ireland Champions 1963
* [[Robert Hickey]] Former Tall-Blacks Basketball Player
==Politics and law ==
* [[Bonnie Hickey]], Canadian politician
* [[James Hickey (Irish politician)]]
* [[John J. Hickey]], American politician
* [[William Hickey (mayor)]] Superior Court Judge, Ex-Mayor of Stamford, CT
* [[Robert Hickey]] Former Tall-Blacks Basketball Player
==Science ==
*Prof. John Hickey was a 20th century Chief of Cardiology at the [[St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney|St Vincent's Hospital]], [[Sydney]], [[Australia]].
* [[Timothy J. Hickey]] US Computer Scientist
==History and current affairs ==
* Colonel [[James Hickey (soldier)]], in charge of the US Special forces team which captured Saddam Hussein
* [[James Cardinal Hickey]] [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in the USA
* [[Marilyn Hickey]], American televangelist
* [[Mary Augusta Hickey]], [[Kennedy family]] matriarch
* [[Thomas Hickey (soldier)]], executed for mutiny during the [[American Revolutionary War]]
*[[Monsignor]] R.M. Hickey [[Major]] born in Jacquet River, New Brunswick, Canada. Msgr. Hickey was six years Army Chaplain in WW II. He won the Military Cross on D-Day at St. Aubin, France, and was invested by the late King George VI at Buckingham Palace on July 5, 1945. He is the author of three books, "Scarlet Dawn', "My Hobbies Three" and "D-Day Memories".
*Brian C. Hickey, a captain in the [[FDNY]], lost his life on September 11th, 2001 due to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.
* [[Hickey's Bengal Gazette]] was the first printed newspaper to be published in the Indian sub-continent.
* William Hickey, who died in 1727, left a bequest to build houses for the poor which still stand today in Richmond, [[Surrey]], UK.
==Slang meanings of Hickey==
In North American [[slang]], ''Hickey'' has more than one meaning:
* [[Love bite]] or other bruise
* Hickey is also a [[placeholder name]] used in the northeastern [[United States]], a shortened form of the [[placeholder name]] ''doo-hickey''.
* A hickey is also a spot or discoloration on a press sheet due to specks of dust on a plate.
* To "look like a right Mary Hickey" was traditional [[Dublin, Ireland]] slang for somebody, male or female, who was dressed inappropriately. This term has fallen into disuse.
* A threaded electrical fitting used to connect a fixture to an outlet box.
* A pipe-bending apparatus.
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