Cotton (nickname)
Cotton is the nickname of:
- Cotton Davidson, American National Football League quarterback for the Baltimore Colts
- Cotton Fitzsimmons, American college and NBA basketball coach
- Cotton Ivy, American humorist, comedian and entertainer who served in the Tennessee House of Representatives
- Cotton Knaupp, American Major League Baseball shortstop
- Cotton Minahan, American MLB pitcher, and track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris
- Cotton Nash, American MLB outfielder and National Basketball Association forward
- Cotton Owens, American NASCAR driver
- Cotton Pippen, American MLB pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Athletics, and Detroit Tigers
- Cotton Priddy, American NASCAR Grand National race car driver from Louisville, Kentucky
- Cotton Speyrer, American NFL wide receiver for the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolphins
- Cotton Tierney, American MLB second baseman and third baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Braves, and Brooklyn Robins
- Cotton Warburton, American film and television editor with sixty feature film credits with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
