Shrapnel

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Shrapnel may refer to:

Military

• Shrapnel shell, an anti-personnel artillery munition used until World War II
• Fragmentation thrown out by an exploding bomb or shell: See Fragmentation (weaponry)

• British slang term for loose change, possibly in the military sense of metal

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Shrapnel (comic book), a limited series from Radical Comic

Fictional characters

• Shrapnel (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain
• Shrapnel (Transformers), a character in Transformers

Games

• Shrapnel Games, a computer games publisher

Music

• Shrapnel (Welsh punk band), a 1981–1988 musical group
• Shrapnel Records, a music label
• Shrapnel, also known as Metal Church, a heavy metal band

People with the surname

• Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), British Army officer and inventor of the anti-personnel artillery munition bearing his name
• Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834), English anatomist
• Hugh Shrapnel (born 1947), English composer
• John Shrapnel (born 1942), English actor, son of Norman
• Lex Shrapnel (born 1979), English actor, son of John Shrapnel
• Norman Shrapnel (1912–2004), English columnist and writer, father of John Shrapnel

See also

• Shrapnell's membrane, a portion of the tympanic membrane