Hammerhead

Hammerhead may refer to:

• The head of a hammer

Fiction

• Hammerheads, a 1990 book by Dale Brown.
• Hammerhead, a 1964 Charles Hood secret agent novel by James Mayo
• Hammerhead (film), a 1968 film based on the novel by James Mayo
• Hammerhead (1987 film), a 1987 Italian action film
• Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy a 2005 TV movie starring William Forsythe, Jeffery Combs and Hunter Tylo
• Hammerhead, a Rulon character from the TV cartoon Dino-Riders
• Hammerhead (comics), a Marvel Comics foe of Spider-Man
• Hammerhead, the nickname for the Star Wars character Momaw Nadon
• Hammerhead Hannigan, the leader of Taurus Bulba's henchmen in the television cartoon series Darkwing Duck

Games and rides

• Hammerhead, a heavy helicopter gunship in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
• Hammer Heads, a 2006 computer game from PopCap Games
• Hammerhead (attraction), a former ride at Knott's Berry Farm, now defunct
• Hammerhead, a monster truck present in various titles of the Twisted Metal series of video games
• Hammerhead Gunship, an A-grav alien tank from the "Dawn of War" video game serie, from the Warhammer 40000 fictional universe.
• HammerHead Ltd, a defunct software development company based in Britain.

Music

• Hammerhead (band), noise rock band
• "Hammerhead" (Jeff Beck song), a song from the 2010 Jeff Beck album Emotion & Commotion
• "Hammerhead", a song by Solace's 2006 EP album Hammerhead (vinyl)
• "Hammerhead" (song), from The Offspring's 2008 album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
• "Hammerhead" (Tin Machine song), a song on Tin Machine's 1991 album Tin Machine II
• "Hammerhead", a song from the John Zorn album Naked City

Science and technology

• Hammerhead sharks (genus Sphyrna), of which there are nine known species
• Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta), a bird of order Ciconiiformes, may also be known as a hammerhead
• Hammerhead ribozyme, which can catalyze the sequence-specific cleavage of RNA phosphodiester bonds
• Hammerhead crane, a type of crane

Sports

• Jupiter Hammerheads, a minor league baseball team based in Jupiter, Florida
• Wilmington Hammerheads, a minor league soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina
• Corpus Christi Hammerheads, a professional arena football team
• Hammerhead maneuver, an aerobatic maneuver

United States Navy submarines

• USS Hammerhead (SS-364), a Gato-class submarine, commissioned in 1944
• USS Hammerhead (SSN-663), a Sturgeon-class submarine, commissioned in 1968 and struck in 1995