Hector (disambiguation) explained
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
Places
Antarctica
- Mount Hector (Antarctica)
Australia
- Hector, Queensland, a town in the Mackay Region, Australia
Canada
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
Dolphins
- Hector's dolphin, a cetacean endemic to New Zealand
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
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
- , a trilogy of computer games
- Hector, the eponymous dog in Hector's House
Science and computing
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
- , eleven ships of the Royal Navy
- , a diesel-powered tugboat
- , a repair ship that served with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1987
Other transportation and craft
See also