Papa is a nickname which may refer to:
Cool Papa Bell (1903–1991), African-American Negro league baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Papa Bue (1930–2011), Danish jazz trombonist and bandleader Papa Joe Chevalier (1948–2011), American sports radio personality Papa John Creach (1917–1994), American violinist Papa Dee (born 1966), Swedish raga musician Papa Bouba Diop (1978−2020), Senegalese footballer Louis Faury (1874–1947), French general Michele Greco (1924–2008), Sicilian Mafia member nicknamed "il Papa" ("the Pope") Paul Hausser (1880–1972), German World War II Waffen SS officer Papa Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian composer Joseph Haydn Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American author and journalist Walter Hörnlein (1893–1961), German World War II general Papa Jackson (born 1982), Filipino disc jockey Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), French World War I general Papa Jack Laine (1873–1966), American jazz drummer and bandleader Papa Charlie McCoy (1909–1950), African-American delta blues musician and songwriter Sokratis Papastathopoulos (born 1988), Greek footballer John Phillips (musician) (1935–2001), American singer-songwriter and guitarist Papa Don Schroeder (1940–2019), American music executive Scott Steiner (born 1962), American professional wrestler nicknamed "Big Poppa Pump" Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Army field marshal
See also Dad (nickname) Daddy (nickname) Pappy Pop (nickname) Poppa (disambiguation) Pops (nickname)