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 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 Videocart-18: Hangman, a 1978 video game for the Fairchild Channel F 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 Jean-Neil Guay (born 1942), Canadian professional wrestler 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
Hangmen (disambiguation) Hang (disambiguation) Hanging tree (disambiguation) The Hanged Man (disambiguation) Hanging man (candlestick pattern), a type of pattern on a market pricing graph