Mad Dog

Mad Dog is a nickname. One of the earlist documented references for the term is in 1577 to refer to a strong ale called Madde Dogge. By 1818 it referred to the plant mad-dog skullcap, a supposed cure for hydrophobia. ["mad dog, n."; Oxford English Dictionary]

Mad Dog is used to refer to:
* Johnny Adair, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary
* Vincent Coll, Irish-American gangster
* Jon Hall, American computer programmer
* Adam Macdougall, Australian rugby player
* John Madden, American ice hockey player
* Greg Maddux, American baseball player
* Michael Mavridoglou, American musician
* Michael McAnany, American contestant on Madden Nation
* Dominic McGlinchey, Irish republican paramilitary
* Jay Michaels, Canadian broadcast personality
* Robbie Muir, Australian Australian-rules footballer
* Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian football (soccer) player
* Chris Russo, American sports radio personality
* Maurice Vachon, French-Canadian wrestler
* James Mattis, American general

In fiction:
* Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, a character from the movie "Back to the Future Part III"
* Mad Dog, a character from the John Woo film "Hard Boiled"
* Mad Dog Rassitano, a bounty hunter and former SWAT team member in the Marvel Universe
* The Mad Dog, an assassin in the DC Universe
* "Mad Dog" TV series
* Madd Dogg, a character played by Ice-T in the video game "",

Mad Dog could also refer to:
* "Mad Dog", an album by John Entwistle
* a song by America from "Holiday"
* a song by Deep Purple from "The House of Blue Light"
* "Mad Dog God Dam", a song by Elastica from "The Menace"
* Mad Dog, a kind of dance
* Mad Dog (oil platform), an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico
* MD 20/20, a fortified wine
* the MD-80, a medium-range single-aisle commercial jet
* a missile that is launched without it being locked onto a target; such a weapon usually locks on to the first target it acquires, friend or foe
* Mad Dog McCree, an early 1990s lightgun game
* Mad Dog Multimedia, a computer peripherals manufacturer based in San Diego, California
* [http://maddog.ie/ Mad Dog Multimedia] , a web design and Internet advertising firm based in Dublin
* Mad Dog can refer to either of the following "Contra" characters:: the name given to the character Bill Rizer in the American localization of "Contra" and "Super C" for the Nintendo Entertainment System.: a new character with that name in "Contra 4" for the Nintendo DS.
* A heavy Battlemech in the Battletech series. It is also known as the Vulture.

References

ee also

* Mad Dogs and Englishmen