Nicanor

Nicanor or Nikanor is the name of:

People

Ancient history

• Nicanor (Antipatrid general) (died 318 BC), 4th century BCE; an officer of Cassandrus
• Nicanor (satrap), 4th century BCE; Macedonian officer, governor of Media under Antigonus
• Nicanor (son of Parmenion) (4th-century–330 BC), 4th century BCE; a Macedonian officer under Alexander
• Nicanor of Stageira, 4th century BCE; a messenger sent by Alexander to the 324 Olympics
• Nicanor the Elephant, 3rd century BCE; a Macedonian general under Philip V
• Nicanor (Seleucid general) (died 161 BC), 2nd century BCE; defeated by Judas Maccabaeus
• Nicanor (Ptolemaic general), 4th century BCE
• Nicanor of Syria (died 222 BC), 3rd century BCE; assassin of Seleucus III
• Nicanor of Epirus, 3rd–2nd century BCE; son of Myrton and supporter of Charops of Epirus
• Nicanor (father of Balacrus), 4th century BCE
• Nicanor of Cyrene, date unknown; author of the Metonomasias
• Nicanor the Deacon (died 76 AD), 1st century CE; one of the Seven Deacons of early Christianity
• Saevius Nicanor, 3rd or 2nd century BCE; Roman grammarian
• Nicanor Stigmatias, 2nd century CE; the great Homeric grammarian
• Nicanor of Alexandria (Mishnah), who gifted doors for the eastern gate of the Second Temple, whose family remains were found in Nicanor Cave, an ancient tomb in Mount Scopus, Jerusalem

Modern period

• Nicanor Abelardo (1893–1934), Filipino composer who composed over a hundred of Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World War
• Nicanor Carmona (1842–1940), Peruvian politician in the early 20th century
• Nicanor de Carvalho (born 1947), a manager of the Kashiwa Reysol soccer team in Japan in the 1990s
• Nicanor Duarte (born 1956), President of Paraguay 2003–2008
• Nicanor Faeldon (born 1965), Captain in the Philippine Marines and an alleged leader of the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003
• Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Orthodox bishop, Serbian patriarch, writer, poet, orator and translator
• Nikanor Hoveka (c. 1875–1951), Chief of the Ovambanderu in South-West Africa
• Nikanor Longinov, Governor of Yekaterinoslav Governorate (1832–1836)
• 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
• Nicanor Perlas (born 1950), Filipino activist and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 2003
• Nicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean antipoet
• Nicanor Tiongson, leading critic, creative writer and academic from the Philippines
• Nicanor Yñiguez (1915–2007), Filipino politician
• Nicanor Zabaleta (1907–1993), Basque-Spanish virtuoso and popularizer of the harp
• Nikanor Teratologen, author
• Patriarch Nicanor of Alexandria from 1866 and 1869

Other

• Nikanor plc, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, merged into Katanga Mining which is now owned by Glencore