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Hangman may refer to:

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

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 Dave, 2018
• "Hangman", by Krokus from Hellraiser, 2006
• "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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with hangman
• All pages with titles containing hangman
• All pages with titles containing hang man
• Hangmen (disambiguation)
• Hang (disambiguation)
• Hanging tree (disambiguation)
• The Hanged Man (disambiguation)
• Hanging man (candlestick pattern), a type of pattern on a market pricing graph

• Disambiguation pages
• Place name disambiguation pages
• Nicknames