Nicanor

Nicanor or Nikanor is the name of:

Ancient history

 * Nicanor (father of Balacrus), 4th century BC
 * Nicanor (son of Parmenion) (4th-century–330 BC), 4th century BC; a Macedonian officer under Alexander
 * Nicanor of Stageira, 4th century BC; a messenger sent by Alexander to the 324 Olympics
 * Nicanor (satrap), 4th century BC; Macedonian officer, governor of Media under Antigonus
 * Nicanor (Antipatrid general) (died 318 BC), 4th century BC; an officer of Cassandrus
 * Nicanor (Ptolemaic general), 4th century BC
 * Nicanor of Syria (died 222 BC), 3rd century BC; assassin of Seleucus III
 * Nicanor (Macedonian general), 3rd century BC; a Macedonian general under Philip V
 * Nicanor of Epirus, 3rd–2nd century BC; son of Myrton and supporter of Charops of Epirus
 * Saevius Nicanor, 3rd or 2nd century BC; Roman grammarian
 * Nicanor (Seleucid general) (died 161 BC), 2nd century BC; defeated by Judas Maccabaeus
 * Nicanor of Cyrene, date unknown; author of the Metonomasias
 * Nicanor the Deacon (died 76 AD), 1st century AD; one of the Seven Deacons of early Christianity
 * Nicanor Stigmatias, 2nd century AD; the great Homeric grammarian

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 (1947–2018), 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, Filipino critic, creative writer and academic
 * 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, former holding company merged into Katanga Mining which is now owned by Glencore

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