Hector () is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. The name is derived from the name of
Hektor
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
, a legendary
Trojan
Trojan or Trojans may refer to:
* Of or from the ancient city of Troy
* Trojan language, the language of the historical Trojans
Arts and entertainment Music
* ''Les Troyens'' ('The Trojans'), an opera by Berlioz, premiered part 1863, part 1890 ...
champion who was killed by the Greek
Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ) or Achilleus ( grc-gre, Ἀχιλλεύς) was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's ''Iliad''. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, k ...
. The name ''Hektor'' is probably derived from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''ékhein'', meaning "to have", "to hold", "to check", "restrain". In Scotland, the name ''Hector'' is sometimes an
anglicised
Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influen ...
form of the
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...
''
Eachann
''Eachann'' is a masculine given name in the Scottish Gaelic. A similar and possibly related early form of the name was ''Eachdonn''. which cited for the surname "Hector". The name is composed of two elements; the first element is ''each'', mean ...
'', and the pet form ''Heckie'' is sometimes used. The name of
Sir Ector
Sir Ector , sometimes Hector, Antor, or Ectorius, is the father of Sir Kay and the adoptive father of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain. Sometimes portrayed as a king instead of merely a lord, he has an estate in the country as well as pro ...
, the foster father of
King Arthur
King Arthur ( cy, Brenin Arthur, kw, Arthur Gernow, br, Roue Arzhur) is a legendary king of Britain, and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain.
In the earliest traditions, Arthur appears as a ...
, is also a variant of the same.
Etymology
In Greek, is a derivative of the verb
ἔχειν ''ékhein'', archaic form * grc, ἕχειν, hékhein, label=none ('to have' or 'to hold'), from
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-E ...
*''
seɡ́ʰ-'' ('to hold'). , or as found in
Aeolic
In linguistics, Aeolic Greek (), also known as Aeolian (), Lesbian or Lesbic dialect, is the set of dialects of Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia; in Thessaly; in the Aegean island of Lesbos; and in the Greek colonies of Aeolis in Anatolia ...
poetry, is also an epithet of
Zeus
Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label=Genitive case, genitive Aeolic Greek, Boeotian Aeolic and Doric Greek#Laconian, Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label=Genitive case, genitive el, Δίας, ''D ...
in his capacity as 'he who holds
verything together. Hector's name could thus be taken to mean 'holding fast'.
Cognates
*
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
: ''Eachtar''
*
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
: ''
Ettore Ettore is a given name, the Italian version of Hector.
People
*Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi (1867–1942), Italian naturalist
*Ettore Bassi (born 1970), Italian actor and television presenter
*Ettore Bastianini (1922–1967), Italian opera singer
*Et ...
''
*
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
: ''Heitor''
*
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: Modern Greek: ''Έκτορας'' (Ectoras), Ancient Greek: ''Ἕκτωρ'' (Hector)
People with the name
*
Hector Abhayavardhana
Hector Abhayavardhana (5 January 1919 – 22 September 2012) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, a long-standing member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and a founder-member of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burm ...
(1919-2012), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist politician
*
Hector Appuhamy
Hector Appuhamy is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He was elected from Puttalam District in 2015. He is a Member of the United National Party
The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP ( si, එ ...
, Member of the
Sri Lanka Parliament
The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ''Shri Lanka Parlimenthuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்றம் ''Ila ...
for
Puttalam District
Puttalam is a district situated near to the west coast of Sri Lanka. It has an area of . Along with the Kurunegala District, it formulates the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. The district capital is Puttalam, which borders the Kala Oya and ...
*
Hector Arawwawala
Hector Arawwawala was the fifth Governor of North Western Province. He was part of the United National Party
The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP ( si, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, translit=Eksath Jāthi ...
,
Governor of North Western Province, Sri Lanka from July 1994 - January 1995
*
Héctor Ávila, Dominican boxer
*
Héctor Ballesteros, Colombian weightlifter
*
Héctor Bellerín
Héctor Bellerín Moruno (born 19 March 1995) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or wing-back for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Spain national team.
Bellerín started his career at Barcelona, and moved ...
, Spanish football (soccer) player
*
Hector Boece
Hector Boece (; also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465–1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and the first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Abe ...
, a Scottish philosopher and historian
*
Hector Berlioz
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
, French composer
*
Hector (Toe) Blake
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
, Canadian hall of fame hockey player and coach
*
Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
*
Héctor Carrasco
Héctor Pacheco Carrasco (born October 22, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He bats and throws right handed.
In a twelve-season career, Carrasco has posted a 44–50 record with 19 saves and a 3.99 ERA in 637 relief app ...
, Dominican baseball player
*
Héctor Castaño
Héctor Manuel Castaño Betancurt (born January 23, 1965 in Itagüí, Antioquia) is a retired male professional road cyclist from Colombia.
Career
;1994
:1st in General Classification Vuelta a Antioquia (COL)
;1999
:5th in General Classificati ...
, Colombian road cyclist
*
Hector Charlesworth
Hector Willoughby Charlesworth (28 September 1872 – 30 December 1945) was a Canadian writer, editor, and critic.
Biography
Hector Charlesworth was born in Hamilton on 28 September 1872. He married Katherine Ryan on 15 February 1897, and they h ...
, Canadian writer, editor and critic
*
Hector Crawford
Hector William Crawford CBE AO (14 August 191311 March 1991) was an Australian entrepreneur, conductor and media mogul, best known for his radio and television production firms. He and his sister Dorothy Crawford founded Crawford Productions, ...
, Australian radio and television producer
*
Hector de Zayas
Hector de Zayas (September 7, 1910 – July 26, 1944) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonel. He was killed in action during the Battle of Guam (1944), second battle of Guam in W ...
, U.S. Marine Corps officer and Navy Cross recipient
*
Hector Deheragoda
Ekanayake Rajapakse Kodippilli Dissanayake Mudiyanseralahamilaye Hector Deheragoda was the 26th Solicitor General of Ceylon. He was appointed on 1970, succeeding L. B. T. Premaratne, and held the office until 1972. He was succeeded by R. S. Wana ...
,
Solicitor General of Sri Lanka
The Solicitor General of Sri Lanka is a post subordinate to the Attorney General of Sri Lanka. The Solicitor General of Sri Lanka assists the Attorney General, and is assisted by four Additional Solicitors General. Note that the post was Solicit ...
from 1970-1972
*
Héctor del Curto
Héctor del Curto is an Argentine tango bandoneon player. Born in Buenos Aires, he began to study tango music at a young age, winning the Best Bandoneon under 25 when only 17 years old. Following that honour, he played with the late tango giants ...
, Argentine tango bandoneon player
*
Héctor Delgado
Hector () is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the name of Hektor, a legendary Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. The name ''Hektor'' is probably derived from the Greek ''ékhein'', m ...
, reggaeton artist
*
Héctor Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American character actor. He is known for playing Phillip Watters in the television series ''Chicago Hope'' (1994–2000) and Ed Alzate in the television series '' Last Man Standing'' (2011–2021) ...
, Puerto Rican-American actor
*
Héctor Ferri
Héctor Américo Ferri (born October 16, 1968) is a retired footballer from Ecuador who played as a midfielder during his professional career.
International career
He obtained a total number of six caps (no goals) for the Ecuadorian national sid ...
, Ecuadorian football (soccer) player
*
Hector Halsall
Hector Halsall (20 August 1900 – October 1966) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s, and coached in the 1930 and 1940s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level fo ...
, English rugby league footballer with Swinton RLFC in the 1920s
*
Hector A. Hanson
Hector Ames Hanson (May 29, 1904 – September 20, 1993) was an American farmer and politician.
Hanson was born in Fertile, Minnesota, Fertile, Polk County, Minnesota. He went to the Fertile Public Schools and to the Northwest School of Agricu ...
, American farmmer and politician
*
Hector Hetherington
Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington (21 July 1888 – 15 January 1965) was a Scottish philosopher, who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1927 to 1936, and Principal of the University of Glasgow until 1961.
Early life
H ...
, Scottish philosopher
*
Héctor King
Héctor King (born May 4, 1982) is a Mexican people, Mexican recording artist who has worked in Latin America as well as the United States. King released the Spanish language album ''VIVE'' in 2006, followed-up by "The Sweet Spot", in English in ...
, Mexican recording artist
*
Hector Kobbekaduwa
Hector Senarath Rajakaruna Bandara Kobbekaduwa (29 August 1916 – 17 September 1983) was a Sri Lankan politician and lawyer. He was the Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate in the 1982 Sri Lankan presidential election and the Minister for Agricult ...
, Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer and politician
*
Héctor Lavoe
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez (30 September 1946 – 29 June 1993), better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Lavoe is considered to be possibly the best and most important singer and interpreter in the history of salsa ...
, Puerto Rican salsa singer
*
Hector Lombard
In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
, Cuban-Australian mixed martial artist
*
Hector Munro Macdonald
Prof Hector Munro Macdonald FRAS FRSE LLD (19 January 1865 – 16 May 1935) was a Scottish mathematician, born in Edinburgh in 1865. He researched pure mathematics at Cambridge University after graduating from Aberdeen University with an hono ...
, Scottish mathematician
*
Hector Carsewell Macpherson
Hector Carsewell Macpherson (16 October 1851 – 17 October 1924) was a prolific Scottish writer and journalist who published books, pamphlets and articles on history, biography, politics, religion, and other subjects.
Biography Early ye ...
, Scottish writer and journalist
*
Héctor Moreno (footballer)
Héctor Alfredo Moreno Herrera (born 17 January 1988) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Monterrey and the Mexico national team.
Moreno ascended the youth ranks of Club Universidad Nacional, makin ...
, Mexican football (soccer) player
*
Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar, a Scottish-born British soldier who became the ninth
Commander-in-Chief, India
During the period of the Company rule in India and the British Raj, the Commander-in-Chief, India (often "Commander-in-Chief ''in'' or ''of'' India") was the supreme commander of the British Indian Army. The Commander-in-Chief and most of his ...
*
Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and cultur ...
, British writer who used the pseudonym Saki
*
Héctor Noguera
Héctor Eugenio Noguera Illanes (born July 8, 1937 in Santiago), is a Chilean television, theatre and film actor, and also a theatre director.
Noguera is the son of Héctor Noguera Prieto (grandson of José Joaquín Prieto Vial and Yolanda Illa ...
, Chilean television, film and theatre actor
*
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Héctor Germán Oesterheld, also known as his common abbreviation HGO (born July 23, 1919; disappeared and presumed dead 1977), was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics. He has come to be celebrated as a master in his ...
, Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics
*
Hector Ó hEochagáin
Shane Ó hEochagáin (; born 17 August 1969), known mononymously as Hector, is an Irish television and radio presenter born in Drogheda, County Louth, and raised in Navan, Co. Meath. He currently presents ''The Tommy and Hector Podcast with Laur ...
, Irish radio and television presenter
*
Héctor Palacio
Héctor Ivan Palacio Montoya (born 12 May 1969) is a Colombian former professional cyclist. During the 1992 Olympic Games, Palacio represented Colombia in the individual road race, where he finished 52nd. He most notably won the Vuelta a Colomb ...
, Colombian road racing cyclist
*
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet
*
Héctor Soto
Héctor Soto (born June 28, 1978 in New York City, New York) is a former volleyball player from Puerto Rico, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in sixth place at the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan and received the Be ...
, Puerto Rican volleyball player
*
Héctor Thomas
Héctor Thomas Martínez (October 10, 1938 – December 23, 2008) was a decathlete from Venezuela. He won more than ten medals in various athletics events at the Bolivarian Games
The Bolivarian Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Bolivarianos'', full n ...
, Venezuelan decathlete
*
Héctor Timerman
Héctor Marcos Timerman (16 December 1953 – 30 December 2018) was an Argentine journalist, politician, human rights activist and diplomat. He served as his country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2015, during the presidency of Cristi ...
, Argentine foreign minister
*
Hector Tyndale
Hector Tyndale (a.k.a. George Hector Tyndale) was a Union general during the American Civil War rising to the rank of Brevet Major General of Volunteers. He notably led brigades at the battles of Antietam and Wauhatchie. Apart from the war Tynda ...
, American military officer
*
Héctor Velásquez
Héctor "Joto" Velásquez Vergara (9 February 1952 – 18 August 2010) was a boxer from Chile. He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate ...
, Chilean boxer
*
Héctor Vidal Martínez
Hector () is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the name of Hektor, a legendary Troy, Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. The name ''Hektor'' is probably derived from the Greek language ...
, Paraguayan football (soccer) midfielder
*
Héctor Vilches
Héctor Vilches (14 February 1926 – 23 September 1998) was a Uruguayan footballer, born in Montevideo, who played for C.A. Cerro.
For the Uruguay national football team, he was part of the 1950 FIFA World Cup
The 1950 FIFA World Cup was th ...
, Uruguayan football (soccer) player
* Héctor Yan (born 1999), Dominican Republic professional baseball player
Arthurian legend
*
Sir Ector
Sir Ector , sometimes Hector, Antor, or Ectorius, is the father of Sir Kay and the adoptive father of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain. Sometimes portrayed as a king instead of merely a lord, he has an estate in the country as well as pro ...
*
Hector de Maris
The Knights of the Round Table ( cy, Marchogion y Ford Gron, kw, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, br, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the knights of the fellowship of King Arthur in the literary cycle of the Matter of Britain. First appearing in lit ...
Fictional characters
;Monomial characters
* Hector, minor character in the book series ''
A Series of Unfortunate Events
''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' is a series of thirteen children's novels written by American author Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The books follow the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. After their p ...
''
*
Hector (Ambrosia Mascot)
Ambrosia Software was a predominantly Macintosh software company founded in 1993 and located in Rochester, New York, U.S. Ambrosia Software was best known for its Macintosh remakes of older arcade games, which began with a 1992 version of Atari ...
, parrot, unofficial mascot of games company Ambrosia Software
*
Hector (Castlevania)
Listed below are characters from all of the ''Castlevania'' video games in the order of their introduction and the game's release.
''Castlevania'' and ''Simon's Quest''
Dracula
The main antagonist of the ''Castlevania'' series is , based on ...
, from ''Castlevania: Curse of Darkness''
*
Hector (Fire Emblem)
''Fire Emblem'', also officially known as ''Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade'', is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld video game console. It is the seventh ...
, from the ''Fire Emblem'' video game franchise
*
Hector (Marvel Comics)
Pantheon is a fictional organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Peter David, the Pantheon first appeared in '' The Incredible Hulk'' vol. 2 #368 (April 1990), and was a large part of that book' ...
, a Marvel Comics superhero
*
Hector: Fat Arse of the Law, in the adventure video game ''Hector: Badge of Carnage''
* Hector, a polite robot of the father and son android pair Hector and Vector in "Greetings from Earth" (1979), an episode of the ''
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
''Battlestar Galactica'' is an American science fiction television series created by Glen A. Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, and Dirk Benedict. The series follows the surviving humans as they flee in the fictional spacecraft o ...
''
* Hector, the evil robot in the film ''
Saturn 3
''Saturn 3'' is a 1980 British science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel. The screenplay was written by Martin Amis, from a story by John Barry (set designer), John B ...
''
* Hector, a character in the film ''
Coco''
;Monomial with descriptor
*
Hector the Bulldog
Hector the Bulldog is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. Hector is a muscle-bound bulldog with gray fur (except in '' A Street Cat Named Sylvester'' and '' Greedy for Twee ...
, in ''
Looney Tunes
''Looney Tunes'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series ''Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation. '' cartoons
*
Hector the Cat, a mascot for the teaching of road safety to children in Australia
* Hector the Dog, in the British children's television series ''
Hector's House
''Hector's House'' (French ''La Maison de Toutou'') is a French children's television series using glove puppets. It was first broadcast in France on 1ère chaine on 27 October 1966 and ran over seven series and 78 episodes. It was re-voiced in ...
''
;Binomial characters
* Hector Alembick, character from ''
King Ottokar's Sceptre
''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' (french: link=no, Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper for its children's sup ...
''
*
Hector Barbossa
Captain Hector Barbossa is a fictional character of the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' franchise, appearing in all five films in the series. Starting out as a villainous undead pirate in '' The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (2003), the character dies ...
, in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series
* Hector Bowen, aka Prospero the Enchanter, from the novel
The Night Circus
''The Night Circus'' is a 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern. It was originally written for the annual writing competition National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) over the span of three competitions. The novel has a nonlinear narrative wr ...
* Hector Ruiz, from the American television series
The Electric Company
''The Electric Company'' is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett. The ...
* Hector Cruz, from the American animated television series ''
Ozzy & Drix
''Ozzy & Drix'' is an American animated television series based on the 2001 film ''Osmosis Jones''. It serves as a spiritual successor to the film. It centers on Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones, a cheeky-chappy white blood cell, and Drix, a level-headed co ...
''
* Hector "Hec" Faulkner, a character from the film ''
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
''Hunt for the Wilderpeople'' is a 2016 New Zealand adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose screenplay was based on the book ''Wild Pork and Watercress'' by Barry Crump. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison play "Uncle" ...
''
* Hector Garcia, a character from ''
Zits''
*
Hector Gonzales
The following is a list of primary antagonists in the ''James Bond'' novels and film series.
Novel villains by author
Ian Fleming
Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham)
Christopher Wood
John Gardner
Raymond Benson
...
, in the film ''For Your Eyes Only''
*
Hector Hall
Hector Hall is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in DC Comics's ''Infinity, Inc.'', ''Sandman'' and '' JSA''. He has gone by the names Silver Scarab, Sandman, and Doctor Fate.
Publication history
Hector Hall first appeared in ''All-Star ...
, a DC Comics character
*
Hector Hammond
Hector Hammond is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics who is primarily an enemy of Green Lantern.
Peter Sarsgaard played the role of Hammond in the 2011 film ''Green Lantern''.
Publication history
Hector Ham ...
, a DC Comics supervillain.
* Hector "High Five" Nieves, one of the two main characters in the animated web television series ''
Glitch Techs
''Glitch Techs'' is an American animated streaming television series created by Eric Robles and Dan Milano for Nickelodeon and Netflix. The series premiered on Netflix on February 21, 2020, with a second season premiering on August 17 of the sa ...
''.
* Hector Ricardo, a minor character in the
Lorien Legacies
''Lorien Legacies'' is a series of young adult science fiction books, written by James Frey, Jobie Hughes, and formerly, Greg Boose, under the collective pseudonym Pittacus Lore.
Lorien Legacies
''I am Number Four''
The first book of The L ...
series
*
Hector Salamanca
''Breaking Bad'' is a neo-Western
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and ...
, a character in ''
Breaking Bad
''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited hig ...
'' and ''
Better Call Saul
''Better Call Saul'' is an American crime and legal drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. Part of the ''Breaking Bad'' franchise, it is a spin-off of Gilligan's previous series, ''Breaking Bad'', and serves as a ...
''
* Hector Williams, one of the main characters in the American television show ''
The Unit
''The Unit'' is an American action-drama television series created by David Mamet that aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009 with the total of four seasons and 69 episodes. The series focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled aft ...
''
* Hector "Zero" Zeroni, a character in the novel ''
Holes
A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in many fields of en ...
'' and its
film adaption
A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dial ...
;Polynomial characters
*
Hector Con Carne, the main character from the American animated series ''
Evil Con Carne
''Evil Con Carne'' is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. The series centers on wealthy crime lord Hector Con Carne, who is reduced to his brain and stomach after an assassination attempt and subseq ...
''
See also
*
Hector (disambiguation), other things named ''Hector'' on Wikipedia
• Orthodox Church celebrating
Saint Hector
References
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