THE MAN...

Some themed nicknames:

The Man - Van Morrison, Arnold Palmer, Bear Bryant (American football), Stan Musial(baseball)
The Man Who Taught America to Sing - Fred Waring (bandleader)
The Man of a Thousand Faces - Lon Chaney
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - Joseph Jaggers
The Man in Black - Johnny Cash
The Man Who Listens to Horses - Monty Roberts
The Man with the Plan - Hugh Gaitskell
The Man in the Iron Mask - unknown
The Man Who Broke the Pound - George Soros (financier)
The Man with a Red Scarf - Pierre Rosenberg (art expert)
The Man on the Wedding Cake - Thomas E Dewey (US politician)
The Man with No Name - Clint Eastwood (from his Western character)
The Man with the Velvet Voice - Ronal Coleman, Nat King Cole
The Man of 1000 Aces - Goran Ivanisevic
The Man with the Golden Head - Sandor Kocsis (1950s football star)
The Man with the Horn - Miles Davis
The Man Who Never Was - Piltdown Man (skull hoax)
The Man with the Perfect Profile - Robert Taylor
The Man with a Million Friends - T Texas Tyler (US singer and presenter)
The Man with the Orchid-Lined Voice - Enrico Caruso
The Man of Iron - Lech Walesa
The Man Who Sold the Milky Way - Bart Bok (astronomer)
The Man Who Murdered Music - Spike Jones
The Man of the People - Abraham Lincoln
The Man Who Colours Stars - David Malin (photographer)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - unnamed patient of neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks
The Man of a Thousand Moves - Elgin Baylor (basketball)
The Man Who Taught the World to Play Guitar - Bert Weedon
The Man with the Golden Flute - James Galway
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Edrös (mathematician)
The Man with the Golden Trumpet - Eddie Calvert
The Man You Love to Hate - Erich von Stroheim

source: various