Hector (name)
Hector , Héctor ( Spanish ) or Hektor is a male given name and family name .
Origin and variants
The name is derived from Hector , a character from Homer's famous epic Iliad .
The first name has the name variants Ettore , Heitor, Ector and Hektor .
Name bearer
First name (selection)
- Héctor Babenco (1946–2016), Argentinian-Brazilian film director
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French composer
- Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012), Argentine-French writer
- Héctor Demarco (1936-2010), Uruguayan football player
- Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode (1755–1786), German writer
- Héctor Herrera (athlete) ( Héctor Herrera Ortiz ; * 1959), Cuban middle-distance runner
- Héctor Herrera (soccer player) ( Héctor Miguel Herrera López ; * 1990), Mexican soccer player
- Héctor Leyva (* 1965), chess player from El Salvador of Cuban origin
- Héctor Mario López (1930–2015), Guatemalan general
- Héctor Mendoza (1932–2010), Mexican theater director and university professor
- Héctor Tizón (1929–2012), Argentine lawyer, diplomat and writer
- Héctor Villalba (* 1994), Argentinian football player
- Héctor Yazalde (1946–1997), Argentinian football player
family name
- Alice Hector (* 1982), British triathlete
- Edgar Hector (1911–1989), Saarland lawyer and politician (CVP)
- Hans-Werner Hector (* 1940), German entrepreneur
- Hughtun Hector (* 1984), soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
- James Hector (1834–1907), Scottish naturalist and geologist
- Jamie Hector (* 1975), American actor
- Jonas Hector (* 1990), German soccer player
- Jonny Hector (* 1964), Swedish chess grandmaster
- Kevin Hector (born 1944), English football player
- Kurt Hector (1909–1981), German archivist
- Marianne Schultz-Hector (* 1929), German politician (CDU), MdL
- Michael Hector (* 1992), Jamaican soccer player
- Sara Hector (* 1992), Swedish ski racer
- Wilhelm Hector (1855–1918), German architect
stage name
- Hector (musician) (* 1947), Finnish musician (Heikki Veikko Harma)
Fictional characters
- Hector, the Knight Without Fear and Blame , feature film from 1975
- Hector , the main character in an internationally successful series of novels by François Lelord
Individual evidence
- ↑ Héctor on behindthename.com (Engl.)