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Hangman

Hangman most often refers to:

  • Executioner, a person who carries out a death sentence by hanging
  • Hangman (game), a game of guessing a word or phrase one letter at a time

Hangman may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

  • Hangman (DC Comics), an enemy of Batman
  • Hangman (Marvel Comics), the name of a couple of different characters in the Marvel Universe
  • Hangman (Archie Comics), a number of Archie Comics superheroes
  • Hangman Comics, a Golden Age MLJ/Archie Comics imprint comics title featuring the Hangman

Films

  • The Hangman (1928 film), a German silent film
  • The Hangman (1959 film), an American Western directed by Michael Curtiz
  • Hangman, a 2001 television film featuring Mädchen Amick and Lou Diamond Phillips
  • The Hangman (2005 film), an Indian film starring Om Puri and Shreyas Talpade
  • Hangman (2015 film), a British found-footage film starring Jeremy Sisto
  • Hangman (2017 film), an American crime thriller film starring Al Pacino

Literature

  • "The Hangman" (poem), a 1954 children's poem by Maurice Ogden, and a 1964 animated short based on the poem
  • Hangman, a 2000 novel by Michael Slade
  • "Hangman", a short story by David Drake in his 1979 collection Hammer's Slammers

Songs

  • "Hangman", by Black Stone Cherry from Kentucky, 2016
  • "Hangman", by Chapman Whitney from Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers, 1974
  • "Hangman", by Cory Marks from Sorry for Nothing Vol. 2, 2025
  • "Hangman", by Dave, 2018
  • "Hangman", by Krokus from Hellraiser, 2006
  • "Hangman", by Queen from their debut album's deluxe edition, 2024
  • "The Maid Freed from the Gallows", a folk song sometimes given the title "Hangman"

Other

  • Hangman (video game), a 1978 game for the Atari 2600 based on the guessing game
  • The Hangman (roller coaster), a 1990s roller coaster at Opryland USA in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Hangman Books, a British independent small press, and associated film and record projects

Places

  • Hangman cliffs, on the north coast of Devon, England
  • Hangman Island, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, US
  • Hangman Creek, or Latah Creek, in Washington and Idaho, US
  • Hangman Creek, a tributary of the White Salmon River via Gilmer Creek; see List of rivers of Washington (state)

People

Nickname

  • Henry Hawley ("Hangman Hawley") (c. 1679–1759), British Army lieutenant general
  • Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), German Nazi, one of the main architects of the Holocaust

Ring name

  • Hangman Hughes (born 1974), Canadian professional wrestler
  • Bobby Jaggers (1948–2012), American professional wrestler
  • Gene LeBell (1932–2022), American martial artist, professional wrestler, stunt performer, and actor
  • Adam Page (born 1991), American professional wrestler
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