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 Epeirus, 3rd-2nd century BCE; son of Myrton and supporter of Charops of Epeirus
- 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
- Apostle Nicanor, one of the Seven Deacons of the early Christian church
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 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 (also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize") in 2003
- Nicanor Parra (born 1914), 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
Other
- Nicanor Cave ancient cave in Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
- Nikanor Plc, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, merged into Katanga Mining which is now owned by Glencore