Shrapnel may refer to:

Military

Shrapnel shell Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike targets individually. They relied almo ...

, explosive artillery munitions, generally for anti-personnel use *

Shrapnel (fragment) Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, or autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or ...

, a hard loose material

Popular culture

* ''Shrapnel'' (Radical Comics) * ''Shrapnel'', a game by

Adam Cadre Adam Cadre (born February 5, 1974, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American writer active in a number of forms—novels, screenplays, webcomics, essays—but best known for his work in interactive fiction. Biography Cadre's 1998 piece ''Photopi ...

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Shrapnel (DC Comics) Shrapnel is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He is primarily an enemy of the Outsiders and the Doom Patrol. Shrapnel has appeared in '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' and season two of ''Arrow'', portrayed by Sean Maher in the latter. ...

, a supervillain *

Shrapnel (Transformers) ''The Transformers'' is an American animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndication based upon Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line. The first television series in the ''Transformer ...

Music

Shrapnel (American punk band) Shrapnel was an American punk and power pop band formed in Red Bank, New Jersey in the late-1970s, when its members were still teenagers. History Originating as Hard Attack (named after the second Dust album), the band evolved and changed their ...

, an American punk band *

Shrapnel (Welsh punk band) Shrapnel was a punk rock band formed in 1981 in Briton Ferry, Wales. - ''It seems as if the majority of early Eighties punk bands formed out of boredom, and Shrapnel who got together during late 1981 in Briton Ferry, a drab small town just outsi ...

, a 1981–1988 musical group *

Shrapnel Records Shrapnel Records is an American record label founded in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney. History Guitarist Marty Friedman (formerly of Megadeth and Cacophony), one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album ''Unsu ...

, music label * Shrapnel, a.k.a.

Metal Church Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 and then relocated to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Led by guitarist and songwriter Kurd ...

, an American heavy metal band * "Shrapnel", a song on the Atmosphere album ''

God Loves Ugly ''God Loves Ugly'' is the second studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on June 11, 2002. Release The album, via distribution with Fat Beats, went on to sell more than 130,000 copies in ...

People

Henry Jones Shrapnell Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834) was an English anatomist. For a period of time during his career he was a colleague to Edward Jenner (1749–1823), creator of the vaccine for smallpox. Shrapnell is remembered for his pioneer work in otology. ...

(1792–1834), anatomist *

Henry Shrapnel Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell. Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltsh ...

(1761–1842), British Army officer and anti-personnel-munition innovator *

Norman Shrapnel Norman Shrapnel (5 October 1912 – 1 February 2004) was an English journalist, author, and parliamentary correspondent. Biography Shrapnel was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and was educated at The King's School, Grantham. In 1947, after Second ...

(1912–2004), writer *

John Shrapnel John Morley Shrapnel (27 April 1942 – 14 February 2020) was an English actor. He is known mainly for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the United Kingdom and for his many television appearances. O ...

(1942–2020), actor *

Hugh Shrapnel Hugh Shrapnel (born Birmingham, England, 1947) is an English composer of contemporary classical music and oboist. He was a student of Cornelius Cardew and a member of the Scratch Orchestra. He also co-founded the Promenade Theatre Orchestra Prome ...

(born 1947), composer *

Lex Shrapnel Alexander Carey Shrapnel (born 6 October 1979) is an English actor and voice actor. Early life Shrapnel was born on 6 October 1979 in London, the second of three boys for actor John Shrapnel and Francesca Ann (née Bartley). He is the brother of ...

(born 1979), actor

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