Hierax
Hierax is the Greek name for hawk and also a proper name:
- Antiochus Hierax (263–226 BC), son of the Seleucid king Antiochus II.
- Hierax (strategist) , strategist of the Egyptian king Ptolemy VIII.
- Hierax von Leontopolis (around 300), an early Christian writer and ascetic
- Hierax (Middle Platonist) (probably 2nd century), philosopher
Hierax is the academic nickname for the following people:
- Hierax (1729): Johann Gottlieb Windisch (1689–1732), German physician and member of the Leopoldina
- Hierax II (1756): Johann Christoph Hennicke (1698–1763), German physician, city physician in Öhringen, personal physician to the Count of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and member of the Leopoldina
- Hierax III. (1757): Crafft Gottfried Hennicke (1698–1767), German physician, city physician in Öhringen, personal physician to the Count of Hohenlohe- (Neuenstein-) Oehringen and member of the Leopoldina
