Shrapnel may refer to:
Military
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Shrapnel shell, explosive artillery munitions, generally for anti-personnel use
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Shrapnel (fragment), a hard loose material
Popular culture
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''Shrapnel'' (Radical Comics)
* ''Shrapnel'', a game by
Adam Cadre
Adam Cadre (born February 5, 1974, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American writer active in a number of forms—novels, screenplays, webcomics, essays—but best known for his work in interactive fiction.
Biography
Cadre's 1998 piece ''Photo ...
Characters
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Shrapnel (DC Comics), a supervillain
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Shrapnel (Transformers)
''The Transformers'' is an American animated television series that originally aired from September 17, 1984, to November 11, 1987, in syndication
based upon Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line. The first television series in the ''Transformer ...
Music
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Shrapnel (American punk band), an American punk band
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Shrapnel (Welsh punk band), a 1981–1988 musical group
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Shrapnel Records, music label
* Shrapnel, a.k.a.
Metal Church
Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 and then relocated to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Led by guitarist and songwriter Kurdt ...
, an American heavy metal band
* "Shrapnel", a song on the Atmosphere album ''
God Loves Ugly
''God Loves Ugly'' is the second studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on June 11, 2002.
Release
The album, via distribution with Fat Beats, went on to sell more than 130,000 copies in ...
''
People
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Henry Jones Shrapnell
Henry Jones Shrapnell (1792–1834) was an English anatomist. For a period of time during his career he was a colleague to Edward Jenner (1749–1823), creator of the vaccine for smallpox.
Shrapnell is remembered for his pioneer work in otolo ...
(1792–1834), anatomist
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Henry Shrapnel
Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell.
Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltsh ...
(1761–1842), British Army officer and anti-personnel-munition innovator
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Norman Shrapnel
Norman Shrapnel (5 October 1912 – 1 February 2004) was an English journalist, author, and parliamentary correspondent.
Biography
Shrapnel was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and was educated at The King's School, Grantham. In 1947, after wa ...
(1912–2004), writer
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John Shrapnel
John Morley Shrapnel (27 April 1942 – 14 February 2020) was an English actor. He is known mainly for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the United Kingdom and for his many television appearances. ...
(1942–2020), actor
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Hugh Shrapnel
Hugh Shrapnel (born Birmingham, England, 1947) is an English composer of contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referre ...
(born 1947), composer
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Lex Shrapnel (born 1979), actor
See also
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Shrapnell's membrane, a portion of the tympanic membrane
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