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Hector was a Trojan prince, champion of Troy and one of the greatest fighters of the Trojan War from Greek mythology.
Hector may also refer to:
People
- Hector (given name), origin of the given name and list of people with the name
- Hector (surname), origin of the surname and list of people with the surname
- Hector (musician), Finnish musician
- Shane Hector Ó hEochagáin, Irish television presenter, commonly known as simply "Hector"
Places
Antarctica
Canada
- Mount Hector (Alberta)
- Hector Glacier, Alberta
- Hector Lake, Alberta
New Zealand
- Hector, New Zealand, a settlement
- Mount Hector (New Zealand)
- Hector River
United States
- Hector, Arkansas, a town
- Hector, Kentucky, Clay County, Kentucky
- Hector, Minnesota, a city
- Hector, New York, a town
- Hector, Ohio
- Hector International Airport, North Dakota
- Hector Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania
Computing
- Hector (API), a Java Cassandra client
- HECToR, 'a Research Councils UK High End Computing Service' - the UK's national academic supercomputer
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
- Hector (1987 film), a Flemish comedy film
- Hector (2015 film), a British drama film
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Hector, the mascot for the heavy metal band HammerFall
- Hector, a Cherokee vigilante and, after his death, a symbol of "Hector Lives" justice for reservation residents in Longmire
- Hector: Badge of Carnage, a trilogy of computer games
Meteorology
- Hector (cloud), a named cumulonimbus cloud that forms consistently over the Tiwi Islands, Australia
- Hurricane Hector (disambiguation), six tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Transportation and craft
Ships
- Hector (ship), the vessel that carried the first Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia in 1773
- Hector (steamboat 1897), a fishing and tug boat
- Hector class ship of the line, a French Navy class
- French ship Hector (1756), lead ship of the class
- Hector-class ironclad, a pair of Royal Navy armoured frigates built in the 1860s
- HMS Hector, ten ships of the Royal Navy
- MV Hector, a diesel-powered tugboat
- USS Hector (AR-7), a repair ship that served with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1987
Other transportation and craft
- Hector, a steam locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class
- Hawker Hector, British 1930s military aircraft
See also
- Hectors River, Jamaica
- Hektor (disambiguation)