Gunner, the Gunner, Gunners or the Gunners may refer to:

Places

Gunner Bay, Bermuda Gunner Bay is a large bay in the far north of Bermuda. It contains the entrance to St. George's Harbor, Bermuda, St. George's Harbor and Paget Island, Bermuda, Paget Island, and is overlooked by St. David's Head, Bermuda, St. David's Head in the ...

* Gunner River, New Zealand * Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges, a nature reserve in Essex, England * Gunners Pond, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Mount Gunner, Ross Dependency, Antarctica

People

* Gunner (name), a list of people with the nickname, given name or surname * Gunner, a nickname used by rapper

Machine Gun Kelly (rapper) Colson Baker (born April 22, 1990), known professionally as MGK (stylized in all lowercase) and formerly Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper, music producer, singer, songwriter, and actor. MGK released four mixtapes from 2007 to 2010 be ...

Jaxson Ryker Chad Lail (born June 6, 1982) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Gunner and in WWE under the ring name Jaxson Ryker. Lail started his professional ...

(Chad Lail), professional wrestler who was wrestled with his ring name Gunner (born 1982) * Gunner Scott, ring name of retired professional wrestler

Brent Albright Brent Albright (born November 28, 1978) is an American retired professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment, during which he appeared on ''SmackDown!'' as Gunner Scott. Aside from WWE, Albright is a o ...

(born 1978) * Gunner (student), a slang term in medical or law school for a hyper-competitive student * Gunner, a nickname for

Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 as a merger of local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band's "classic" line-up consisted of vocalist Axl R ...

fans

Military

Rank or role

Gunner (artillery) Artillery consists of ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, ...

, a member of the crew operating a crew-served weapon, such as an artillery piece *

Gunner (rank) Gunner (Gnr) is a rank equivalent to private in the British Army Royal Artillery and the artillery corps of other Commonwealth armies. The next highest rank is usually lance-bombardier, although in the Royal Canadian Artillery it is bomba ...

, a rank equivalent to private in a Commonwealth artillery corps * Gunner, formerly a gunnery

warrant officer Warrant officer (WO) is a Military rank, rank or category of ranks in the armed forces of many countries. Depending on the country, service, or historical context, warrant officers are sometimes classified as the most junior of the commissioned ...

of the British Royal Navy or Royal Marines * Gunner, in armored, reconnaissance or mechanized units, a soldier who occupies a dedicated gun position in a

military vehicle A military vehicle is any vehicle for land-based military transport and activity, including combat vehicles, both specifically designed for or significantly used by military. Most military vehicles require Off-road vehicle, off-road capabilities ...

* Machine Gunner, in infantry platoons, a specialist trained in using machine guns *

Air gunner An air gunner or aerial gunner is a member of a military aircrew who operates flexible-mount or turret-mounted machine guns or autocannons in an aircraft. Modern aircraft weapons are usually operated automatically without the need for a dedic ...

, or aerial gunner, a member of an aircrew who operates a machine gun or auto-cannon *

Infantry weapons officer The United States Marine Corps United_States_military_occupation_code, MOS 0306, infantry weapons officers, commonly referred to as "the Gunner" or "Marine gunner" are non-technical Warrant officer (United States)#Marine Corps, chief warrant off ...

, commonly referred to as gunner, a non-technical chief warrant officer in the United States Marine Corps

Other

Fairchild AT-21 Gunner The Fairchild AT-21 was an American World War II specialized bomber crew trainer, intended to train crews in the use of power gun turrets or a gun on a flexible mount, as well as learn to function as a member of a crew. It had a brief career ...

, an American World War II specialized bomber crew trainer * Gunner (dog), a dog noted for his ability to hear Japanese air raids approaching Darwin, Australia, in the Second World War * The Gunners, a nickname for the British

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

Sports

Teams

* Albuquerque Gunners, a former name (1987-1989) of the defunct

New Mexico Chiles The New Mexico Chiles were an American soccer club established in 1990 which competed in the American Professional Soccer League. In 1991, the team merged with the New Mexico Roadrunners and moved to the USISL until its disestablishment in 1996. ...

soccer club *

Ballygunner GAA Ballygunner GAA (nicknamed "The Gunners") is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club located in the parish of St Mary's Ballygunner in Waterford City, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The club concerns itself primarily with hurling. It passes b ...

, Waterford, Ireland, a hurling club *

Canberra Gunners The Canberra Gunners are an Australian basketball team based in Canberra. The Gunners compete in the Men's NBL1 East and play their home games at Belconnen Stadium. The team is affiliated with Basketball ACT, the governing body for basketball in ...

, an Australian basketball team based in Canberra *

Charleston Gunners The Charleston Gunners were a Premier Basketball League team based in Charleston, West Virginia. The Gunners played their home games on the campus of West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery. The Gunners were named to ...

, a short-lived Premier Basketball League team based in Charleston, West Virginia * Edinburgh Gunners, nickname and former official name for

Edinburgh Rugby Edinburgh Rugby (formerly Edinburgh Reivers, Edinburgh Gunners) is one of the two professional rugby union teams from Scotland. The club competes in the United Rugby Championship, along with the Glasgow Warriors, its oldest rival. Edinburgh play ...

, a Scottish rugby team *

Ellesmere Port Gunners Ellesmere Port Gunners were an English speedway team in Ellesmere Port, Wirral, which operated at the Ellesmere Port Stadium from 1972 until their closure in 1985. History The inaugural league season for the team was during the 1972 British ...

, a defunct English speedway team in Ellesmere Port, Wirral (1972-1985) *

Fredericksburg Gunners Fredericksburg Gunners was an American soccer team based in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 2006, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2009, after w ...

, a defunct American soccer team based in Fredericksburg, Virginia (2006-2009) * Garrison Gunners, one of the two teams in the

Isles of Scilly Football League The Isles of Scilly Football League is the official football league for the Isles of Scilly. The football league is the smallest in the world, with only two clubs. The league is affiliated with The Football Association. However, since the league ...

* Gunners F.C., a Zimbabwean football club based in Harare *

Oberwart Gunners Oberwart Gunners, for sponsorship reasons known as Unger Steel Gunners Oberwart, is a professional basketball club based in Oberwart, Austria. The team plays in the Österreichische Basketball Bundesliga and was founded in 1957. The team has won ...

, a basketball club based in Oberwart, Austria *

Puget Sound Gunners FC Puget Sound Gunners FC was an American soccer team based in Issaquah, Washington, United States. Founded in 2010, the team played in the Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, from 2011 to 2015. In 2012 ...

, a defunct American soccer team based in Issaquah, Washington (2010-2015) *

St. Louis Gunners The St. Louis Gunners were an independent professional football team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played the last three games of the 1934 National Football League season, replacing the Cincinnati Reds on the league schedule after the Reds ...

, a former independent football based in St. Louis, Missouri, that briefly played in the National Football League * The Gunners, nickname for

Arsenal F.C. The Arsenal Football Club, commonly known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. In domestic football, Arsenal h ...

, a London football club

Position

Gunner (American football) In American football, a gunner, also known as a shooter, flyer, headhunter, or kamikaze, is a player on kickoffs and punts who specializes in running down the sideline very quickly in an attempt to tackle the kick or punt returner. Gunners must ...

, an American football player tasked with sprinting to tackle a kick returner

Arts and entertainment

* "Gunner" (''The Punisher'' episode), an episode of ''The Punisher'' * Gunner Henderson, a fictional character appearing in ''The Punisher'' television series * ''

The Gunner ''The Gunner'' is a 1928 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Film adaptation In 1962 it was turned into the film '' Solo for Sparrow'', directed by Gordon Flemyng Gordon William Flemyng (7 March 1934 – 12 July 1995) was a Scot ...

'', a 1928 crime novel by Edgar Wallace * ''Gunner'' (film), a film starring Morgan Freeman and Luke Humsworth.

Other uses

* Gunner (cocktail) *

Gunner and Company Gunner and Company was an English private bank, based in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. Founded in 1809, it served as the primary provincial bank for Bishop's Waltham and the Meon Valley throughout much of the nineteenth century. It was the last ...

, the last provincial private bank in the United Kingdom, bought out in 1953