Nicanor or Nikanor is the name of:
People
Ancient history
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Nicanor (father of Balacrus), 4th century BC
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Nicanor (son of Parmenion)
Nicanor (; el, Nικάνωρ ''Nīkā́nōr''; died 330 BC), son of Parmenion, was a distinguished officer in the service of Alexander the Great. He is first mentioned at the passage of the Danube river, in the expedition of Alexander against the ...
(4th-century–330 BC), 4th century BC; a Macedonian officer under Alexander
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Nicanor of Stageira Nicanor (; el, Nικάνωρ ''Nīkā́nōr'') of Stageira in Macedonia, was despatched by Alexander the Great to proclaim at the Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading internat ...
, 4th century BC; a messenger sent by Alexander to the 324 Olympics
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Nicanor (satrap), 4th century BC; Macedonian officer, governor of Media under Antigonus
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Nicanor (Antipatrid general) (died 318 BC), 4th century BC; an officer of Cassandrus
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Nicanor (Ptolemaic general), 4th century BC
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Nicanor of Syria (died 222 BC), 3rd century BC; assassin of Seleucus III
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Nicanor (Macedonian general), 3rd century BC; a Macedonian general under Philip V
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Nicanor of Epirus Nicanor (; el, Nικάνωρ ''Nīkā́nōr'') of Epirus was a son of Myrton of Epirus, and lived in the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE. Along with his father, he supported the oppressive and rapacious proceedings of Charops of Epirus in the government ...
, 3rd–2nd century BC; son of Myrton and supporter of Charops of Epirus
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Saevius Nicanor, 3rd or 2nd century BC; Roman grammarian
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Nicanor (Seleucid general) (died 161 BC), 2nd century BC; defeated by Judas Maccabaeus
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Nicanor of Cyrene
Nicanor (; el, Nικάνωρ ''Nīkā́nōr'') of Cyrene was an ancient scholar who lived in the Hellenistic period. No works of his survive, but he is mentioned as the author of a work called ''Changes of names'' (μετονομασίας).
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, date unknown; author of the ''Metonomasias''
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Nicanor the Deacon (died 76 AD), 1st century AD; one of the Seven Deacons of early Christianity
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Nicanor Stigmatias
Nicanor Stigmatias (; el, Nικάνωρ Στιγματίας ''Nīkā́nōr Stigmatíās'') was a celebrated grammarian, who lived during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century AD.
According to the ''Suda'' he came from ...
, 2nd century AD; the great Homeric grammarian
Modern period
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Nicanor Abelardo
Nicanor Santa Ana Abelardo (February 7, 1893 – March 21, 1934) was a Filipino composer known for kundiman songs he wrote before the Second World War.
Biography
Early life
Nicanor Abelardo was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan to Vale ...
(1893–1934), Filipino composer who composed over a hundred of Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World War
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Nicanor Carmona
Nicanor Carmona (1842–1940) was a Peruvian politician. He was Minister of Finance in 1894. He was twice the mayor of Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. ...
(1842–1940), Peruvian politician in the early 20th century
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Nicanor de Carvalho (born 1947), a manager of the Kashiwa Reysol soccer team in Japan in the 1990s
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Nicanor Duarte (born 1956), President of Paraguay 2003–2008
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Nicanor Faeldon (born 1965), Captain in the Philippine Marines and an alleged leader of the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003
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Nikanor Grujić
Nikanor Grujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никанор Грујић; December 12, 1810 – April 20, 1887) was the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Pakrac, the ''locum tenens'' Serbian Patriarch, the Austro–Hungarian emperor's Privy Councilor, knight of th ...
(1810–1887), Orthodox bishop, Serbian patriarch, writer, poet, orator and translator
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Nikanor Hoveka Nikanor Hoveka (ca. 1875–1951) was chief of the Ovambanderu, a Herero clan in Namibia (then South West Africa).
He succeeded his father Kanangati Hoveka in 1896 as chief of the Ovambanderu. This came at the time when Imperial Germany had just be ...
(c. 1875–1951), Chief of the Ovambanderu in South-West Africa
* Nikanor Longinov, Governor of
Yekaterinoslav Governorate (1832–1836)
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Nicanor Costa Méndez (1922–1992), Foreign Minister of Argentina under Presidents Juan Carlos Onganía and Leopoldo Galtieri, and ambassador to Chile from 1962 to 1964
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Nicanor Perlas (born 1950), Filipino activist and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 2003
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Nicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean antipoet
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Nicanor Tiongson, Filipino critic, creative writer and academic
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Nicanor Yñiguez (1915–2007), Filipino politician
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Nicanor Zabaleta (1907–1993), Basque-Spanish virtuoso and popularizer of the harp
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Nikanor Teratologen, author
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Patriarch Nicanor of Alexandria from 1866 and 1869
Other
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Nikanor plc, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, former holding company merged into Katanga Mining which is now owned by Glencore
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