# Tubby

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This article is about the name. For the American restaurant chain, see [Tubby's](/source/Tubby's). For the toy, see [Tubby (Pillow Pal)](/source/Tubby_(Pillow_Pal)).

**Tubby** is a nickname and surname and may refer to:

## People

### Nickname

- [Tubby Clayton](/source/Tubby_Clayton) (1885–1972), Anglican clergyman, founder of the Christian movement Toc H
- [Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford](/source/Michael_Lindsay_Coulton_Crawford) (1917–2017), Second World War Royal Navy officer and submariner
- [A. A. Englander](/source/A._A._Englander) (1915–2004), British television cinematographer
- [D. V. Graves](/source/D._V._Graves) (1886–1960), American college head coach in baseball, football and basketball
- [Tubby Hall](/source/Tubby_Hall) (1895–1945), American jazz drummer
- [Tubby Hayes](/source/Tubby_Hayes) (1935–1973), English jazz musician
- [Tubby Howard](/source/Tubby_Howard) (1894–1969), American National Football League player
- [Frank W. Lockwood](/source/Frank_W._Lockwood) (1890–1954), American college football player
- [Tubby Meyers](/source/Tubby_Meyers) (1887–1940), American college football player and coach
- [Tubby Raskin](/source/Tubby_Raskin) (1902–1981), American basketball player and coach
- [Tubby Raymond](/source/Tubby_Raymond) (1926–2017), American college football and baseball player and College Football Hall of Fame coach
- [George Scales](/source/George_Scales) (1900–1976), American Negro league baseball player and manager
- [Tubby Schmalz](/source/Tubby_Schmalz) (1916–1981), Canadian ice hockey administrator
- [Tubby Spencer](/source/Tubby_Spencer) (1884–1945), American Major League Baseball catcher
- [Tubby Smith](/source/Tubby_Smith) (born 1951), American college basketball coach
- [Mark Taylor (cricketer)](/source/Mark_Taylor_(cricketer)) (born 1965), Australian batsman and captain

### Surname

- [Fred Tubby](/source/Fred_Tubby) (born 1947), Australian politician
- [Reg Tubby](/source/Reg_Tubby) (1924–2015), Australian politician
- [Roger Tubby](/source/Roger_Tubby) (1910–1991), American government official, reporter and editor, White House Press Secretary from 1952 to 1953
- [William Tubby](/source/William_Tubby) (1858–1944), American architect

### Other

- [King Tubby](/source/King_Tubby), Jamaican electronics and sound engineer Osbourne Ruddock (1941–1989)

## Fictional characters

- Tubby, a dog in the *[Pup Parade](/source/Pup_Parade)* comic strip
- [Thomas "Tubby" Tompkins](/source/Tubby_Tompkins), a boy in the *[Little Lulu](/source/Little_Lulu)* comic strip who had a series of his own from 1952 to 1961
- the title character of: - ["Tubby the Tuba" (song)](/source/Tubby_the_Tuba_(song)) (1945) - [*Tubby the Tuba* (1947 film)](/source/Tubby_the_Tuba_(1947_film)), a movie short based on the song - [*Tubby the Tuba* (1975 film)](/source/Tubby_the_Tuba_(1975_film)), an animated movie based on the song

## Animals

- Tubby, a dog, the only fatality of the [Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster](/source/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)#Collapse)

## See also

- [Tubby protein](/source/Tubby_protein), implicated in obesity
- [Teletubbies](/source/Teletubbies), a children's television program

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