"Daddy" is a nickname for: * Evgenii Dadonov (born 1989), Russian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League * Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842), general and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army * Frederick Charles Victor Laws (1887–1975), Royal Air Force group captain, aerial surveyor and the founder and most prominent pioneer of British aerial reconnaissance * Jim Neal (1930–2011), American National Basketball Association player * Robert Daddy Potts (1898–1981), a football player in the 1926 National Football League season * Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860), American blackface minstrel show entertainer * Joe Stevenson (born 1982), semi-retired mixed martial artist * Moses Wilkinson (1746/47–?), African-American runaway slave and Methodist preacher * Oliver "Daddy" War