Nicanor

Nicanor or Nikanor is a given name, and less commonly a surname. Notable people with these names include:

Given name

Nicanor (father of Balacrus), 4th century BC
Nicanor (son of Parmenion) (4th-century–330 BC), 4th century BC; a Macedonian officer under Alexander
Nicanor of Stageira, 4th century BC; a messenger sent by Alexander to the 324 Olympics
Nicanor (satrap), 4th century BC; Macedonian officer, governor of Media under Antigonus
Nicanor (Antipatrid general) (died 318 BC), 4th century BC; an officer of Cassandrus
Nicanor (Ptolemaic general), 4th century BC
Nicanor of Syria (died 222 BC), 3rd century BC; assassin of Seleucus III
Nicanor (Macedonian general), 3rd century BC; a Macedonian general under Philip V
Nicanor of Epirus, 3rd–2nd century BC; son of Myrton and supporter of Charops of Epirus
Saevius Nicanor, 3rd or 2nd century BC; Roman grammarian
Nicanor (Seleucid general) (died 161 BC), 2nd century BC; defeated by Judas Maccabaeus
Nicanor of Cyrene, date unknown; author of the Metonomasias
Nicanor the Deacon (died 76 AD), 1st century AD; one of the Seven Deacons of early Christianity
Nicanor Stigmatias, 2nd century AD; the great Homeric grammarian

Nicanor Abelardo (1893–1934), Filipino composer who composed over a hundred of Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World War
Nicanor Carmona (1842–1940), Peruvian politician in the early 20th century
Nicanor de Carvalho (1947–2018), manager of the Kashiwa Reysol soccer team in Japan in the 1990s
Nicanor Duarte (born 1956), President of Paraguay 2003–2008
Nicanor Faeldon (born 1965), Captain in the Philippine Marines and an alleged leader of the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003
Nikanor Grujić (1810–1887), Orthodox bishop, Serbian patriarch, writer, poet, orator and translator
Nikanor Hoveka (c. 1875–1951), Chief of the Ovambanderu in South-West Africa
Nikanor Longinov, Governor of Yekaterinoslav Governorate (1832–1836)
Nicanor Costa Méndez (1922–1992), Foreign Minister of Argentina under Presidents Juan Carlos Onganía and Leopoldo Galtieri, and ambassador to Chile from 1962 to 1964
Nicanor Perlas (born 1950), Filipino activist and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 2003
Nicanor Parra (1914–2018), Chilean antipoet
Nicanor Tiongson, Filipino critic, creative writer and academic
Nicanor Yñiguez (1915–2007), Filipino politician
Nicanor Zabaleta (1907–1993), Basque-Spanish virtuoso and popularizer of the harp
Nikanor Teratologen (born 1964), Swedish author, translator and critic
Patriarch Nicanor of Alexandria from 1866 and 1869

Enrique Nicanor (1944–2025), Spanish television producer and director, and media designer