Ike
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Ike may refer to:
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In weather:
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
(1890–1969), a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, popularly known as "Ike"- , the second Nimitz-class supercarrier, also known as the Ike
- Ike: Countdown to D-DayIke: Countdown to D-DayIke: Countdown to D-Day is a 2004 American television film originally aired on the American television channel A&E and was directed by Robert Harmon and written by Lionel Chetwynd....
, a 2004 American television film - Interstate 290 (Illinois)Interstate 290 (Illinois)Interstate 290 is a main Interstate freeway that runs westwards from the Chicago Loop. A portion of I-290 is officially called the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway. In short form, it is known as "the Ike" or the Eisenhower...
, a portion of which is officially named the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, or "the Ike" - I like Ike, a popular slogan around the 1950s
- Ike (TV miniseries)Ike (TV miniseries)Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the...
, 1979 television miniseries about Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Ike DavisIke DavisIsaac Benjamin "Ike" Davis is a Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Mets. He and his father Ron Davis, who pitched in the majors for 11 years, are the 197th father-son combination to have both played in the major leagues.He led his high school team to three straight Arizona state...
(born 1987), a first baseman for the New York Mets in Major League Baseball - Ike TaylorIke TaylorIvan "Ike" Taylor is an American football defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League...
(born 1980), a defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL - Ike TurnerIke TurnerIsaac Wister Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk...
(1931–2007), an American musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer - a shortened form of the name IsaacIsaac (name)Isaac or Isaak, transliterated from as Itzhak or Yitzhak, or Yitzchok, was one of the three patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is told in the book of Genesis....
In fiction:
- Alibi IkeAlibi IkeAlibi Ike is a short story written by Ring Lardner and first published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 31, 1915. The story is about Frank X. Farrell, a baseball player who continually makes excuses for everything that goes wrong or right...
, a series of short stories written by Ring Lardner - Ike, the main character in the video games Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Ike Anwhistle, a character from A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Ike Broflovski, a recurring fictional character in the cartoon series South Park
- Ike, a nickname for the main probe (Isaac Newton) from the mockumentary Alien PlanetAlien PlanetAlien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also...
In weather:
- Tropical Storm Ike (disambiguation), six storms
- Hurricane IkeHurricane IkeHurricane Ike was the second-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States, the costliest hurricane ever to impact Cuba and the second most active hurricane to reach the Canadian mainland in the Great Lakes Region after Hurricane Hazel in 1954...
, the third-costliest hurricane to ever make landfall in the United States - 1981's Typhoon Ike, a category 1 typhoon that formed in the South China Sea
- 1984's Typhoon IkeTyphoon IkeTyphoon Ike was the deadliest typhoon of the 1984 Pacific typhoon season and crossed the Philippines in September. This tropical cyclone formed on August 27 in the Philippine Sea, and strengthened as it moved westward into the southern Philippines, becoming a typhoon on August 31...
, the deadliest typhoon of the 1984 Pacific typhoon season
- Hurricane Ike