Sanballat was the name of several governors of Samaria during the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods:
Sanballat the Horonite, or Sanballat I, governed in the mid- to late-5th century BCE; was a contemporary of Nehemiah Sanballat II, grandson of the former, governed mid-4th century BCE Sanballat III, governed around the time of Alexander the Great Sanballat IV Sanballat V