Hannibal (name)

Hannibal is a male given name and family name .

Origin and meaning

The name comes from Phoenician and means " Baal is gracious".

Antiquity:

Hannibal Mago († 406 BC), Carthaginian general, grandson of the Carthaginian ruler Hamilcar I, died at the battle of Agrigento against the Greeks in 406 BC. Chr.
Hannibal (around 247 BC; † 183 BC), Carthaginian general
Hannibal Gisko († 258 BC), Carthaginian naval and army commander in the First Punic War
Hannibal (son of Bomilkar) († after 215 BC), next to the famous Hannibal, another Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War

Early period:

Hannibal Orgas (around 1575–1629), Italian conductor and composer
Hannibal von Schauenburg (1582–1634), Count, General Feldzeugmeister, Imperial Field Marshal and Commander of the Order of Malta
Hannibal von Degenfeld (1648–1691), Swabian military leader in the Venetian service
Hannibal August von Schmertzing (1691–1756), royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain and manor owner
Hannibal Germanus von Schmertzing (1660–1715), royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain, chief steward and governor of the Ballei Thuringia and knight of the Order of St. John

Modern times:

Hannibal Marquis Sommariva (1755–1829), Austrian general of Italian descent
Hannibal Goodwin (1822–1900), American clergyman and inventor
Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), American politician
Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American writer
Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (1873–1929), American politician
Hannibal Valdimarsson (1903–1991), Icelandic politician
Hannibal von Lüttichau (1915–2002), German officer and president of the German Castle Association
Hannibal Marvin Peterson (* 1948), American jazz trumpeter
Hannibal Sehested (politician, 1609) (1609–1666), Danish politician, statesman
Hannibal Sehested (politician, 1842) (1842–1924), Danish politician (Højre), Prime Minister
Hannibal al-Gaddafi (* 1975), fourth son of the former Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi
Hannibal Buress (* 1983), American actor, screenwriter and comedian

fictitious name bearers:

Abraham Petrowitsch Hannibal (around 1696–1781), Prince of Eritrea or Logone-Birni (Cameroon) and Russian general en chief
Ehrenreich Hannibal (1678–1741), Swedish-German coin die and seal cutter and medalist
Heinrich Hannibal (1889–1971), German policeman and SS officer
Iwan Abramowitsch Hannibal (1735–1801), Russian equipment master of the naval artillery and general en chef
Marc Hannibal (1931–2011), American basketball player and actor
Martin Hannibal (painter) (1640–1720), German-Hungarian painter
Martin Hannibal (medalist) (around 1704–1766), German die cutter and medalist
Ossip Abramowitsch Hannibal (1744–1806), Alexander Pushkin's maternal grandfather