Torchy

Nickname • 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 • Paul Torchy, a competitor in the inaugural 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 1925 French Grand Prix and the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix ==Arts and entertainment==

• 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