Ox or The Ox is a nickname of:
Ox:
Oscar Ox Eckhardt (1901-1951), American Major League Baseball and National Football League player
Grover Ox Emerson (1907-1998), American National Football League player
Okey Geffin (1921-2004), South African rugby union player nicknamed "Ox" while a World War II prisoner of war
Fred Ox McKibbon, 1920s college football player
John Ox Miller (1915-2007), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Owen Ox Parry (1914-1976), American National Football League player
James van Hoften (born 1944), American astronaut, US Navy officer and aviator and engineer
The Ox:
John Entwistle (1944-2002), English musician, bassist of the band The Who
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (born 1993), English footballer
Tomasso Petto (1879–1905), New York mobster and hitman
Charles Reiser (1878-1921), American safecracker and murderer
David Schwarz (footballer) (born 1972), retired Australian rules footballer and radio personality