Torchy

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Torchy can refer to:

People[edit]

Nickname[edit]

  • Torchy Atkinson (1909-1990), New Zealand horticultural scientist and scientific administrator
  • Torchy Clark, American basketball head coach for the University of Central Florida (1969-1983)
  • Roy Hasson (1921-1968), Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s
  • Judith Krantz (born 1928), American romance novelist
  • William Peden (1906-1980), Canadian Hall-of-Fame cyclist

Surname[edit]

Arts and entertainment[edit]

  • Torchy Blane, a female reporter character in late 1930s films
  • the title character of Jackie Ormes' 1938-1939 comic strip Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem
  • Torchy Todd, heroine of Torchy (comics), a comic strip and comic book begun in 1944
  • the title character of Torchy the Battery Boy, a 1958-1959 puppet television series
  • Torchy, a fire-breathing Dimetrodon from the third season of Land of the Lost
  • Torchy, a character played by Johnny Hines in a series of film shorts (1920-1922)
  • Torchy (album), a 1955 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae