Hammer (disambiguation)

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A hammer is a type of tool. It may also be:

Contents 1 Computers 2 People 3 Places 4 Fictional characters

• Hammer (firearm), a part of modern firearms which strikes a firing pin in order to fire a cartridge.
• Hammer throw, the sport.
• The Hammer people are a tribe in Ethiopia.
• A hammer is a small padded stick or cane used in pairs to play the hammered dulcimer. Dulcimer hammers are made of a variety of materials, most frequently wood with a hammer head covered with a strip of leather or felt.
• A hammer is the last rock in the sport of curling
• Hammers are felt-padded objects within a piano and similar instruments, which, when triggered by depressing a key, strike the instrument's strings.
• Hammer is an informal term for the malleus bone of the ear.
• Hammer is a common shorthand reference to Hammer Film Productions, a British film company famous for its line of horror films.
• Hammer is also the shortened name used by 90s pop-rap artist M.C. Hammer later in his career.
• The Hammer is a Novelty and fad dance, popularized by MC Hammer.
• The Hammer is a nickname for baseball legend, Hank Aaron.
• The Hammer is a nickname for professional wrestler Greg Valentine.
• The Hammer is a nickname for Tom DeLay, a United States Representative from Texas.
• The Hammer is a nickname for a starting hand of 7-2 in Texas Hold'em.
• The Hammers is a nickname for the FA Premier League football club West Ham United F.C..
• A Hammer is slang used by skateboarders to designate that a trick involved an especially large gap, big drop, or high stair count. Invented by Jim Greco.
• A Hammer is slang used by men to describe a female super hottie as in "Is Sharapova a Hammer or what!?!"
• A water hammer, a hydraulics phenomenon.
• The Hammer is a 1707 violin by Antonio Stradivari.

[edit] Computers

• Hammer is the short form name for the Valve Hammer Editor (VHE), the official map editing program for the Half-Life series of computer games.
• Hammer was the codename used for one iteration of the Glaze3D series of vaporware graphics cards.
• Hammer was also the code name for the first AMD 64-bit processor architecture.

[edit] People

• A. J. Hammer
• Anthony Hammer
• Armand Hammer (1898-1990), U.S. physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector
• Barbara Hammer (born 1939), lesbian film maker
• Beatrice Hammer
• Bernhard Hammer (1822-1907), Swiss president
• Charles Christian Hammer (1953-2004), U.S. classical guitarist
• Chuck Hammer
• Doc Hammer
• Friedrich Julius Hammer (1810-1862), German poet
• Heathcote Howard Hammer
• Herb Hammer (born 1934), U.S politician
• Jack Hammer (porn star)
• Jaime Hammer
• Jan Hammer (born 1948), composer
• Jens Hammer
• John Hammer
• Kristian Hammer
• Lisa Hammer, film maker
• MC Hammer (born 1962), rap singer
• Marion P. Hammer
• Michael Hammer
• Mike Hammer, fictional character
• Moshe Hammer (born 1946), Canadian violinist
• Øyvind Hammer
• Victor Hammer] (1882-1967), artist
• Will Hammer (1887-1957), English entrepreneur, jeweller, comedian and film studio owner
• Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), Austrian orientalist

[edit] Places

• Hammer, West Sussex, England

[edit] Fictional characters

• Foe Hammer
• Hans Von Hammer, known as the Enemy Ace, a German pilot during the World Wars in the DC Comics universe who was based heavily upon the real life Red Baron
• Mike Hammer, a private detective in a series of books (and later films based on the books) by the late Mickey Spillane
• The Hebrew Hammer, from a movie of the same name originally appearing on Comedy Central
• Justin Hammer, fictional comicbook villain
• Justine Hammer, fictional comicbook villain