Hector (given name)

Cognates

• Irish: Eachtar
• Italian: Ettore
• Portuguese: Heitor
• Greek: Modern Greek: Έκτορας, Ancient Greek: Ἕκτωρ

  People with the name

• Héctor Ávila, Dominican boxer
• Héctor Ballesteros, Colombian weightlifter
• Héctor Bellerín, Spanish football player
• Hector Berlioz, French composer
• Hector Blake, Canadian hall of fame hockey player and coach
• Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
• Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
• Héctor Castaño, Colombian road cyclist
• Hector Charlesworth, Canadian writer, editor and critic
• Hector Crawford, Australian radio and television producer
• Héctor del Curto, Argentine tango bandoneon player
• Héctor Delgado, reggaeton artist
• Héctor Elizondo, Puerto Rican-American actor
• Héctor Ferri, Ecuadorian football player
• Hector Halsall, English rugby league footballer with Swinton RLFC in the 1920s
• Héctor King, Mexican recording artist
• Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer
• Hector Lombard, Cuban-Australian mixed martial artist
• Héctor Moreno, Mexican football player
• Hector Hugh Munro, British writer who used the pseudonym Saki
• Héctor Noguera, Chilean television, film and theatre actor
• Hector Ó hEochagáin, Irish radio and television presenter
• Héctor Palacio, Colombian road racing cyclist
• Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet
• Héctor Soto, Puerto Rican volleyball player
• Héctor Thomas, Venezuelan decathlete
• Héctor Timerman, Argentine foreign minister
• Hector Tyndale, American military officer
• Héctor Velásquez, Chilean boxer
• Héctor Vidal Martínez, Paraguayan football midfielder
• Héctor Vilches, Uruguayan football player
• Héctor Yan, Dominican Republic professional baseball player

  Arthurian legend

• Sir Ector
• Hector de Maris

  Fictional characters

• Hector, minor character in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Hector, parrot, unofficial mascot of games company Ambrosia Software
• Hector, from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
• Hector, from the Fire Emblem video game franchise
• Hector, a scary truck in the British children's television series Thomas & Friends; see Rolling stock
• Hector, a Marvel Comics superhero
• , in the adventure video game Hector: Badge of Carnage
• Hector, a polite robot of the father and son android pair Hector and Vector in "Greetings from Earth", an episode of the Battlestar Galactica
• Hector, the evil robot in the film Saturn 3
• Hector, a character in the film Coco

• Hector the Bulldog, in Looney Tunes cartoons
• Hector the Cat, a mascot for the teaching of road safety to children in Australia
• Hector the Dog, in the British children's television series Hector's House

• Hector Alembick, character from King Ottokar's Sceptre
• Hector Barbossa, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series
• Hector Bowen, aka Prospero the Enchanter, from the novel The Night Circus
• Hector Ruiz, from the American television series The Electric Company
• Hector Cruz, from the American animated television series Ozzy & Drix
• Hector Garcia, a character from Zits
• Hector Gonzales, in the film For Your Eyes Only
• Hector Hall, a DC Comics character
• Hector Hammond, a DC Comics supervillain.
• Hector Ricardo, a minor character in the Lorien Legacies series
• Hector Williams, one of the main characters in the American television show The Unit
• Hector "Zero" Zeroni, a character in the novel Holes and its film adaption

• Hector Con Carne, the main character from the American animated series Evil Con Carne