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Ike

IKE or Ike can refer to:

People, places, and organizations (non-fictional)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) the 34th US president, popularly known as "Ike".
Ike: Countdown to D-Day, a 2004 American television film
Ike Taylor (born 1980), American Football player
Ike Turner (1931-2007), American musician and record producer
The IKE Group, a research group at the Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark and is central part of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID).
Chicago's Eisenhower Expressway, the main east-west expressway through the city, also known as the Ike.
Any Tropical Storm Ike, such as the 2008 Hurricane Ike.
An Indie Rock Band from Philadelphia, fronted by John Faye (formerly from The Caulfields).

Information science

Internet Key Exchange, a cryptographic protocol.

Fictional characters

Alibi Ike, a character in Ring Lardner's short stories
Ike Broflovski, a fictional character in the cartoon series South Park.
Ike (Fire Emblem), the main character in the video games Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Ike (pronounced "ee-keh") Hayato, Yuji Sakai's best friend in Shakugan no Shana.
Ike Anwhistle from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Ike, fictional playwright in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
A nickname for the main probe (Issac Newton) from Alien Planet

Other uses

Ike, a shortened form of the name Isaac, Isaak, Isaq, Yiṣḥāq, (Hebrew, literally translated as "he will laugh"), Ikechi/Ikechukwu or Ikenna (meaning "God's Strength/Power"and "The Father's(God's) Power" respectively, in Igbo).
Ike, a television miniseries about the life of Dwight Eisenhower.
The term Ike (pronounced "ee-keh" as well) which means 'Attack' in the CCG Duel Masters.
Hurricane Ike- strong hurricane that devastated the Caribbean and Texas.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) the second Nimitz-class supercarrier also known as the Ike.

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Ike" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, French.

Translation(s) in other languages: Esperanto: IKE, Italian: IKE, Japanese: アイク, Polish: IKE.


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