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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 (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

• Mount Hector (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

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

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

See also

• Hectors River, Jamaica
• Hektor (disambiguation)
• Hurricane Hector, a list of tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

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