Pennant may refer to:

Flag or banner

Pennon A pennon, also known as a pennant or pendant, is a long narrow flag which is larger at the Hoist (flag), hoist than at the Fly (flag), fly, i.e., the flag narrows as it moves away from the flagpole. It can have several shapes, such as triangular ...

(or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag **

Commissioning pennant The commissioning pennant (or masthead pennant) is a pennant (also spelled "pendant") flown from the masthead of a warship. The history of flying a commissioning pennant dates back to the days of chivalry with their trail pendants being flown f ...

, the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission **

Broad pennant A broad pennant is a triangular swallow-tailed naval pennant flown from the masthead of a warship afloat or a naval headquarters ashore to indicate the presence of either: (a) a Royal Navy officer in the rank of Commodore, or (b) a U.S. Navy ...

, flown from the masthead of a British Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board ** Pennant (church), flown by navies during services on board ships *

Pennant number In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of ''pendant number'', which it was called before 1948). Historically, naval ships flew a flag that iden ...

, a number used to identify ships by the British Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth *

Pennant (sports) A pennant is a commemorative pennon typically used to show support for a particular athletic team. Pennants have been historically used in all types of athletic levels: high school, collegiate, professional etc. Traditionally, pennants were mad ...

, a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team **

Pennant race The Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is the annual playoff elimination tournament held to determine the champion of MLB in the United States and Canada. Since 2022, the postseason for each league— American and National—consists of two ...

, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season * Pennant (military), a tapering flag historically carried for identification purposes by

cavalry Historically, cavalry (from the French word ''cavalerie'', itself derived from ''cheval'' meaning "horse") are groups of soldiers or warriors who Horses in warfare, fight mounted on horseback. Until the 20th century, cavalry were the most mob ...

detachments, attached to

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s or standard poles. * Pennant, a reference to

Flag and pennant patterns The flag and pennant patterns are commonly found patterns in the price charts of financially traded assets (stock Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the Share (finance), shares by which owner ...

in technical analysis of a stock market chart

Places

* Pennant, Ceredigion, Wales *

Pennant, Powys Pennant is a small village in Powys Powys ( , ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It borders Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Wrexham County Borough, Wrexham to the north; the English ...

, Wales * Pennant, Saskatchewan, Canada *

Pennant Point, Nova Scotia Pennant Point is a rural community located at the head of Pennant Harbour near Sambro, Nova Scotia, Sambro on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on Nova Scotia Route 349, Route 349. Pennant Point is part of t ...

, Canada *

Pennant Hills, New South Wales Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pennant Hills is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local government in Australia, local government area ...

, Australia

People

Dafydd Pennant Dafydd Pennant was a late 16th-century Welsh poet. Two surviving works are known, a cywydd The cywydd (; plural ) is one of the most important metrical forms in traditional Welsh poetry ( cerdd dafod). There are a variety of forms of the cywy ...

(16th century), Welsh poet * Edward Douglas-Pennant (disambiguation) *

George Hay Dawkins-Pennant George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (born George Hay Dawkins; 20 February 1764 – 17 December 1840) was a British politician who represented Newark and New Romney in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1814 to 1830. Early life George Hay ...

(1764–1840), plantation and slave owner *

George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (born Douglas; 30 September 1836 – 10 March 1907) was a British peer and landowner who played a prominent part in the Slate industry in Wales, Welsh slate industry as the owner of the Pen ...

Jermaine Pennant Jermaine Lloyd Pennant (born 15 January 1983) is an English retired professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder#Winger, winger. Pennant made over 350 league appearances for 15 clubs, and scored 25 league goals. Born ...

(born 1983), English former professional footballer *

Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808) was a British politician who represented Petersfield and Liverpool in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1761 to 1790. He was the owner of Penrhyn Castle, an estate on the ou ...

(1737–1808), British politician and owner of sugar plantations in Jamaica *

Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales. As a naturalist he had ...

(1726–1798), Welsh writer, naturalist and antiquarian *

Pennant Roberts John Pennant Roberts (15 December 1940 – 22 June 2010) was a British director and producer known for his work in British television drama. Early life Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset to Welsh parents. He went to school i ...

(1940–2010), British television director and producer

Other

* Pennant, the common name of the dragonfly genus ''

Celithemis ''Celithemis'' is a genus of dragonfly, dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. They are known commonly as pennants. There are eight species in this monophyly, monophyletic genus. They are mainly distributed in eastern North America. Species Spec ...

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Pennant (automobile) The Pennant was an automobile marque of the Barley Motor Car Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan (1924–25) for taxicabs. Barley also made the Roamer (1916–29) and the Barley automobiles (1922–24). The Pennant was a continuation of the Barley con ...

(1924–25), manufactured by the Barley Motor Car Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, US * ''

The Pennant ''The Pennant'' is a weekly newspaper published in Penola, South Australia, from July 1946. Along with '' The Border Watch'', it was most recently owned by the Scott Group of Companies. After 74 years of publishing, however, the newspaper (alon ...

'', a newspaper in Penola, South Australia *

Vympel Directorate "V" of the FSB Special Purpose Center, often referred to as Spetsgruppa "V" Vympel ( pennant in Russian, originated from German , and having the same meaning), but also known as KGB Directorate "V", Vega Group, is a stand-alone su ...

, Russian for "Pennant", a Spetznas unit specialised in infiltration and assassination *

Pennant Measures The Pennant Measures is the traditional name for a sequence of sedimentary rocks of the South Wales Coalfield. They were also referred to as the Upper Coal Measures and assigned to the Westphalian 'C' and Westphalian 'D' stages of the Carbonifer ...

, a stratigraphic division of the South Wales Coal Measures and including the Pennant Sandstone * Pennant station, a light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States {{disambiguation, geo