Aggie
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Aggie may refer to:
People
Aggie may be a diminutive form of the given names Agnatha, Agamemnon, Agata/Agatha, Agnija, or Agnes. It may also be a diminutive form of a family name that begins with 'Ag-'.
People who are known as 'Aggie' include:
- J. C. Agajanian, US motor sports personality
- Aggie Herring, American actress
- Aggie MacKenzie, presenter of How Clean is Your House?, a British lifestyle television show
- Mary Aggie, a Virginian slave
Fictional characters who are known as 'Aggie' include:
- Aggie, from Nanny McPhee, a 2005 British children's film
- Aggie, from Summer of '42, a 1971 American movie that has been adapted into a book and a Broadway musical
- Aggie, from Itty Bitty Titty Committee, a 2007 comedy drama directed by Jamie Babbit
- Aunt Aggie, from Angela's Ashes, a 1996 Irish-American book and 1999 film
- Splendora Agatha 'Aggie' Cromwell, from the Halloweentown series of Disney television movies
- Big Aggie, a Nac Mac Feegle from the Discworld fantasy book series
- Aggie McDonald, from Johnny Belinda, a 1940 American play that was adapted into a 1948 film and a 1967 film
- Aggie Mack, a comic strip character created in 1946 by Hal Rasmusson
- Niagara 'Aggie' Threepwood, a character from the Blandings Castle stories of P. G. Wodehouse
- Aggie Wilcox, from the Ministry is Murder novel series by American author Emilie Richards
- Aggie James, from Nocturnal by Scott Sigler
Places
- Aggie Creek, Fairbanks, Alaska
- Aggie Creek, Utah County, Utah
- Aggie Mount, in Bimberi Nature Reserve, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Aggieland, College Station, Texas
- Aggieville, a district in Manhattan, Kansas
Schools
Aggie may be a diminutive form of Agricultural, which forms part of the name or historical name of many schools, particularly in the United States. Many of the originated as a land-grant university in the US. The following schools, or a student, alumnus, sporting team or newspaper of one of these schools may be referred to as 'Aggie':[citation needed]
- Albertville High School in Albertville, Alabama
- Bristol County Agricultural High School in Dighton, Massachusetts
- Cameron University, Oklahoma
- Colorado State University, until 1955
- College of Agriculture, Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
- Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Delaware Valley College, Pennsylvania
- Essex Agricultural and Technical High School, Massachusetts
- Forrest County Agricultural High School, Mississippi
- Hamilton High School (Hamilton, Alabama)
- Kansas State University, until 1915
- Michigan State University, until 1925
- New Mexico State University
- Allahabad Agricultural Institute-Deemed University India, until 2010
- Norfolk County Agricultural High School in Walpole, Massachusetts
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, until 1957
- Oklahoma Panhandle State University
- Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Poteet High School in Poteet, Texas
- Sylacauga High School in Sylacauga, Alabama
- Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas
- University of California, Davis
- University of Connecticut, until 1933
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, until 1931
- Utah State University
- Velva Public High School
- Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Glos. UK
Ships
- Aggie, nickname for EAS Agamemnon, a fictional spaceship from Babylon 5, a 1990s US television series
- Aggie, nickname for HMS Agamemnon, a battleship in the Royal Navy launched in 1906
- Aggie on Horseback, nickname for HMS Weston-Super-Mare, a ship in the Royal Navy launched in 1932
Songs and poems
- "The Aggie Song", a song from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a 1978 Broadway musical and 1982 film
- Farewell, Aggie Weston, a famous poem by Cornish poet Charles Causley, and also the name of a poetry collection published by him
- Mistress Aggie, a nineteenth century poem by Hungarian poet János Arany
Other
- Aggie, US name of 1950s British television sitcom The Adventures of Aggie
- Cyclone Aggie, a 1971 Australian cyclone
- Aggie Awards, the awards presented each year by Adventure Gamers to the most relevant titles in the adventure genre
See also
- All pages beginning with "Aggie"
- Agaie, a historical state in present-day Nigeria
- Agey, a commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France
- AGG (disambiguation)
- Agge (disambiguation)
- Saint Aggei, Wycliffe's spelling of Mar Aggai, the second Bishop of Edessa, Mesopotamia
- Aggey (disambiguation)
- Aggi (disambiguation)
- Aggy (disambiguation)
- Aghi, a frazione of Foligno, Italy
- Agi (disambiguation)
- Agii (disambiguation)
- Agy, a commune in the Basse-Normandie région of France
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