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Tubby Clayton Philip Thomas Byard Clayton (12 December 1885 – 16 December 1972), known as "Tubby" Clayton, was an Anglican clergyman and the founder of Toc H. Life and career Philip Clayton was born in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, to English pa ...
(1885–1972), Anglican clergyman, founder of the Christian movement Toc H *
Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford Captain Michael Lindsay Coulton "Tubby" Crawford DSC & Bar (27 June 1917 – 28 June 2017) was an officer in the Royal Navy and submariner. Early life and family Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford was born near Cuckfield, Sussex, England, to Wal ...
(1917–2017), Second World War Royal Navy officer and submariner * A. A. Englander (1915–2004), British television cinematographer * D. V. Graves (1886–1960), American college head coach in baseball, football and basketball * Tubby Hall (1895–1945), American jazz drummer *
Tubby Hayes Edward Brian "Tubby" Hayes (30 January 1935 – 8 June 1973) was a British jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known for his virtuosic musicianship on tenor saxophone and for performing in jazz groups with fellow sax player Ronnie Scott and trump ...
(1935–1973), English jazz musician *
Tubby Howard Lynn "Tubby" Howard (June 10, 1894 – May 30, 1969) was a player in the National Football League. Howard was born and lived in Mondovi, Wisconsin. He played with the Green Bay Packers for two seasons. He played at the collegiate level at In ...
(1894–1969), American National Football League player *
Frank W. Lockwood Frank Wayne "Tubby" Lockwood (July 14, 1890 – June 7, 1954) was an All-Southern college football guard for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University. Early years Frank Wayne Lockwood was born on July 14, 1890, in Anniston, Alabama ...
(1890–1954), American college football player *
Tubby Meyers Melvin J. "Tubby" Meyers (September 5, 1887 – May 2, 1940), sometimes spelled "Myers," was an American college football player and coach. He was the first head coach and first captain of the Western State Normal football program, holding both ...
(1887–1940), American college football player and coach *
Tubby Raskin Morris "Tubby" Raskin (Hebrew: מוריס "טאבי" רסקין; January 8, 1902 – September 9, 1981) was an American basketball player and coach. He played for the Brooklyn Arcadians in the American Basketball League (ABL). He later coach ...
(1902–1981), American basketball player and coach *
Tubby Raymond Harold R. "Tubby" Raymond (November 14, 1926 – December 8, 2017) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Delaware from 1966 to 2001, compiling a record of 300–119– ...
(1926–2017), American college football and baseball player and College Football Hall of Fame coach *
George Scales George Louis Scales (August 16, 1900 - April 15, 1976), nicknamed "Tubby", was an American second baseman and manager in Negro league baseball, most notably with the New York Lincoln Giants and Baltimore Elite Giants. Born in Talladega, Alabam ...
(1900–1976), American Negro league baseball player and manager *
Tubby Schmalz Clarence Vincent "Tubby" Schmalz (December 19, 1916 – December 7, 1981) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He served as vice-president of the Western Ontario Athletic Association from 1940 to 1950, and coached and managed the senior ice ...
(1916–1981), Canadian ice hockey administrator *
Tubby Spencer Edward Russell "Tubby" Spencer (January 26, 1884 – February 1, 1945) was an American catcher for the St. Louis Browns (1905–08), Boston Red Sox (1909), Philadelphia Phillies (1911), and Detroit Tigers (1916–18). He led the American League ...
(1884–1945), American Major League Baseball catcher *
Tubby Smith Orlando Henry "Tubby" Smith (born June 30, 1951) is an American college basketball coach who last coached the men's basketball team at High Point University, his alma mater. Smith previously served in the same role at the University of Tulsa, t ...
(born 1951), American college basketball coach *
Mark Taylor (cricketer) Mark Anthony Taylor (born 27 October 1964) is a former Australian cricketer and current Nine Network commentator. He was the captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1996 Cricket World Cup. He was Test opening bats ...
(born 1965), Australian batsman and captain


Surname

* Fred Tubby (born 1947), Australian politician *
Reg Tubby Reginald John Tubby (1924 – 14 October 2015) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1975 to 1989, representing the seat of Greenough. Tubby was born in Geraldton, We ...
(1924–2015), Australian politician *
Roger Tubby Roger Wellington Tubby (December 30, 1910 – January 14, 1991) was the seventh White House Press Secretary from 1952 to 1953 and served under President Harry Truman. From 1945 to 1948, he served as the spokesperson of the United States Departmen ...
(1910–1991), American government official, reporter and editor, White House Press Secretary from 1952 to 1953 *
William Tubby William Bunker Tubby (21 August 1858 – 1944) was an American architect who was particularly notable for his work in New York City. Tubby was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1875.Christopher ...
(1858–1944), American architect


Other

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King Tubby Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who influenced the development of dub music in the 1960s and 1970s. Tubby's studio work, in which as a mixing engineer he achiev ...
, Jamaican electronics and sound engineer Osbourne Ruddock (1941–1989)


Fictional characters

* Tubby, a dog in the ''
Pup Parade ''Pup Parade'' is a British comic strip that features in the comic magazine ''The Beano''. It is a spin-off to ''The Bash Street Kids'', following the lives of their dogs, and appeared in several issues for over two decades. The comic strip ha ...
'' comic strip * Thomas "Tubby" Tompkins, a boy in the ''
Little Lulu ''Little Lulu'' is a comic strip created in 1935 by American author Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding ...
'' comic strip who had a series of his own from 1952 to 1961 * the title character of: ** "Tubby the Tuba" (song) (1945) ** ''Tubby the Tuba'' (1947 film), a movie short based on the song ** ''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


See also

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Tubby protein The tubby protein is encoded by the ''TUB'' gene. It is an upstream cell signaling protein common to multicellular eukaryotes. The first ''tubby'' gene was identified in mice, and proteins that are homologous to tubby are known as "tubby-like p ...
, implicated in obesity *
Teletubbies ''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on t ...
, a children's television program {{surname Nicknames