Cap is the nickname of the following people:
Charles A. Allen (Los Angeles), city councilman in the 1940s
Cap Anson (1852-1922), American Major League Baseball player
C. E. "Cap" Barham (1904-1972), American politician
Cap Boso (born 1963), American former National Football League player
Irwin Caplan (1919-2007), American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist
Wilbur Wade Card (1873-1948), American baseball player, coach and athletic director at Duke University
Cap Crowell (1892–1962), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Cap Dierks (born 1932), American politician
Cap Edwards (1888-?), National Football League coach and player
Cap Fear (1901-1978), Canadian Football League player
Ernest R. Graham (politician) (1886-1957), American politician
Walthall Robertson Joyner (1854-1925), mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Austin E. Lathrop (1865-1950), American industrialist and outspoken opponent of Alaskan statehood
Bill Narleski (1900-1964), American Major League Baseball player
John Oehler (1910-1983), American National Football League player
Cap Peterson (1942-1980), American Major League Baseball player
Cap Raeder (born 1953), American former World Hockey Association goaltender and National Hockey League coach
Joseph Shaw (editor) (1874-1952), American magazine editor and fencer
George Streeter (1837-1921), American crook
Andrew Tilles (1865-1951), American business magnate and philanthropist
Cap Timm (1908-1987), longest-tenured college baseball coach for the Iowa State University Cyclones
Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006), American politician and businessman, Secretary of Defense under President Reagan
Clarence W. Wigington (1883-1967), African-American architect
Marsh Williams (1893-1935), American Major League Baseball pitcher in 1916
