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===Persons=== * "El [[Caudillo]]" for [[Francisco Franco]] * "El Jefe" for [[Rafael Trujillo]] * "Il [[Duce]]" for [[Benito Mussolini]] * "La Divina" for [[Maria Callas]] * "La Stupenda" for [[Joan Sutherland]] * "Man of Steel" or simply "Steel" for [[Joseph Stalin]] * "Mr. Soul" for [[Sam Cooke]] * "Old Blue Eyes" or "The Chairman of the Board" for [[Frank Sinatra]] * "Pelides" or "the son of Peleus" for [[Achilles]]<ref name=eb1911/> * "Son of Laertes" or "Man of Pain" for [[Odysseus]] * "The (Great) Bambino" for [[Babe Ruth]] * "The Bard" for [[William Shakespeare]] * "The Big Bopper" for [[The Big Bopper|Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr]] * "The Boss" for [[Bruce Springsteen]] * "The Commentator" for [[Averroes]] (so named for his commentaries on "The Philosopher" Aristotle's works) * "The Don" for [[Donald Bradman|Sir Donald Bradman]] * "The Fab Four" for [[The Beatles]] * "The First Lady of Song" for [[Ella Fitzgerald]] * "The [[Führer]]" for [[Adolf Hitler]] * "The Genius of the Carpathians" for [[Nicolae Ceausescu]] * "The Gipper" or "The Great Communicator" for [[Ronald Reagan]] * "The Great Commoner" for [[Winston Churchill]] * "The Great Emancipator" or "Honest Abe" for [[Abraham Lincoln]] * "The Great Silent One" for [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]] * "The Greatest" for [[Muhammad Ali]] * "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" or "Soul Brother Number 1" or “The Godfather of Soul” for [[James Brown]] * "The High Priestess of Soul" for [[Nina Simone]] * "The Iron Chancellor" for [[Otto von Bismarck]] * "The Iron Lady" or "The Leaderene" for [[Margaret Thatcher]] * "Radical Jack" for [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham]] * "The King of Pop" for [[Michael Jackson]] * "The King of Rock 'n Roll" for [[Chuck Berry]], [[Elvis Presley]], or [[Little Richard]] * "The Little Corporal" or "Corsican Ogre" for [[Napoleon]]<ref name=eb1911/> * "The Little Master" for [[Sachin Tendulkar]] * "Mahatma" for [[Mohandas Gandhi]] * "The Master of Suspense" for [[Alfred Hitchcock]] * "The Prince of Darkness" for [[William Francis Galvin]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/business/a-job-transformed-paper-pusher-to-junkyard-dog.html|title = A Job Transformed: Paper-Pusher to Junkyard Dog|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 27 November 2003|last1 = Zezima|first1 = Katie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/05/major-fight-looms-for-beacon-hill-prince-darkness/Py2fcNeaogfUarJvs4zw5O/story.html|title = A major fight looms for Beacon Hill's 'Prince of Darkness' - the Boston Globe|website = [[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref> * "The Queen of Pop" or "The Material Girl" for [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] * "The Little Bohemian Private" for [[Adolf Hitler]] before the [[Machtergreifung]] * "The Queen of Soul" for [[Aretha Franklin]] * "The Red Baron" for [[Manfred von Richthofen]] * "The Shah" for [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] * "The Stagirite" or "The Philosopher" for [[Aristotle]]<ref name=eb1911/> * "The Steel Butterfly" for [[Imelda Marcos]] * "The Tiger of Mysore" for [[Tipu Sultan]] * “[[Libertadores|El Libertador]]” for [[Simón Bolívar]]
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