Daniel Whitehead Hicky, known to friends as Jack Hicky, (December 6, 1900 – July, 1976) was a prominent Atlanta poet, world traveler, and businessman, who in his day was "the toast of the literati" and "one of the most widely published poets in America" . His ancestors included William Whitehead, an English poet and playwright who became Poet Laurate of England in 1757.