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Hector (disambiguation)
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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.
Look up hector in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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 (DJ) (born 1980), Mexican DJ and producer
- Hector (musician) (born 1947), Finnish musician
- Hector Ó hEochagáin (born 1969), Irish television presenter, commonly known as simply "Hector"
Places
Antarctica
Australia
- Hector, Queensland, a town in the Mackay Region, Australia
Canada
- Hector Glacier, Alberta
- Hector Lake, Alberta
- Mount Hector (Alberta)
New Zealand
- Hector, New Zealand, a settlement
- Hector River
- Mount Hector (New Zealand)
United States
- Hector, Arkansas, a town
- Hector, in San Bernardino County, California, where the rare clay mineral hectorite was found
- 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
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Dolphins
- Hector's dolphin, a cetacean endemic to New Zealand
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
- Hector, the eponymous dog in Hector's House
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Science and computing
- 624 Hektor, a Trojan asteroid
- Hector (API), a Java Cassandra client
- HECToR, 'a Research Councils UK High End Computing Service' - the UK's national academic supercomputer
- Hector (microcomputer)
Meteorology
- Hector (cloud), a named cumulonimbus cloud that forms consistently over the Tiwi Islands, Australia
Transportation and craft
Ships
- Hector (immigration ship), the vessel that carried the first Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia in 1773
- Hector (1809 ship), a West Indiaman, captured and burnt 1814
- 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 class consisting of a pair of Royal Navy armoured frigates built in the 1860s
- HMS Hector (1862), lead ship of the class
- HMS Hector, eleven 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
- MG Hector, a sport utility vehicle sold by SAIC Motor in India
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See also
- Hectors River, Jamaica
- Hektor (disambiguation)
- Hurricane Hector, a list of tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
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