Hannibal (disambiguation)

Hannibal (from Phoenician hann - "grace" and baal - "master" or "lord"; hence translating as "The Glory of Ba'al") may refer to:

People

Carthaginians:

• Hannibal, the famous general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the Second Punic War against the Roman Republic, crossing the Alps with war elephants
• Hannibal Gisco, a Carthaginian military commander in the First Punic War
• Hannibal the Rhodian, a Carthaginian ship captain during the Siege of Lilybaeum
• Hannibal Mago, shofet (magistrate) of Carthage in 410 BC
• Hannibal Monomachus, who fought alongside the famous Hannibal
• Hannibal (Mercenary War) (d.238 BC), fought in the war against rebel mercenaries

Others:

• Abram Petrovich Gannibal or Hannibal (1697-1781), African prince and Russian general
  • Ivan Gannibal (1735-1801), his son and Russian general
• Hannibal Day (1804-1891), Union army officer during the American Civil War
• Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), Abraham Lincoln's first vice president
• Hannibal Kimball (1832-1895), American entrepreneur
• Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur (1788-1861), Australian colonist, politician, businessman and wool pioneer
• Hannibal Navies (born 1977), American National Football League player
• Hannibal Price (1841-1893), Haitian diplomat and author
• Hannibal Sehested (council president) (1842-1924), Danish Council president
• Hannibal Sehested (governor) (1609-1666), Danish Governor of Norway
• Hannibal Valdimarsson (1903–1991), Icelandic politician
• Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
• Hannibal Buress (born 1983), comedian

Pseudonyms:

• The Mighty Hannibal, stage name of American R&B singer James Shaw
• Hannibal (musician), an American jazz trumpeter and composer

Places

Populated places

• Hannibal, Missouri
  • Hannibal Regional Airport
• Hannibal (village), New York
• Hannibal (town), New York
• Hannibal, Ohio
• Hannibal, Wisconsin

Other

• Hannibal Bridge, spanning the Missouri River
• Hannibal Islands, Australia
• 2152 Hannibal, an asteroid

Fiction

• Hannibal Lecter, fictional serial killer created by novelist Thomas Harris
  • Hannibal (novel), by Thomas Harris and featuring Hannibal Lecter
  • Hannibal (film), a 2001 film based on the above novel, starring Anthony Hopkins
• Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare, 2006 BBC TV movie starring Alexander Siddig
• John "Hannibal" Smith, leader of The A-Team
• Hannibal Roy Bean, a character in the cartoon Xiaolin Showdown
• Hannibal Brooks, 1969 film starring Oliver Reed
• Hannibal King, a Marvel Comics character
• Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage, an old Avalon Hill board game
• Hannibal Master of the Beast, a 1994 PC/DOS computer game
• A fictional opera performed in The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical), a Broadway show by Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Hannibal, a meerkat in the television series Meerkat Manor
• Hannibal, a dog in Agatha Christie's novel Postern of Fate

Vehicles

• Hannibal (ship), a notorious 17th century slave-trading ship
• HMS Hannibal, six ships of the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries
• USS Hannibal (AG-1), a Hydrographic Survey Vessel
• A name sometimes used, as "Handley Page Hannibal", for the Handley Page H.P.42 airliner

In entertainment

• Hannibal Records, a now-defunct record label
• Hannibal (Santana song), by Santana (band)
• Hannibal (Miles Davis song), by Miles Davis
• Hannibal-TV, a privately-owned television network in Tunisia

Other

• Hannibal Directive in Israel Defence Forces
• Operation Hannibal in the Second World War
• Hannibal (high-rise building)
• Hanbal
• Annibale, the Italian equivalent to Hannibal.