Hammerhead may refer to: * The head of a

hammer A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nail (fastener), nails into wood, to sh ...

Commercial

Hammerhead (company) SRAM LLC is a privately owned bicycle component manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, founded in 1987. SRAM is an acronym comprising the names of its founders. The company produces a range of cycling components, including Grip S ...

, a subsidiary of SRAM Corporation

Fiction

Hammerhead (comics) Hammerhead is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is primarily depicted as an adversary of the superhero Spider-Man. He is a temperamental mobster who often dresses and acts in the 1920s styl ...

, a Marvel Comics foe of Spider-Man * ''Hammerhead'' (film), a 1968 film based on the novel by James Mayo * '' Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy'' a 2005 TV movie starring William Forsythe, Jeffery Combs and Hunter Tylo * ''Hammerhead'' (1987 film), a 1987 Italian action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari * ''Hammerhead'' (novel), a 1964 Charles Hood secret agent novel by James Mayo * Hammerhead Hannigan, the leader of Taurus Bulba's henchmen in the television cartoon series ''Darkwing Duck'' * Hammerhead, a Rulon character from the TV cartoon ''

Dino-Riders ''Dino-Riders'' is an American animated television series that first aired in 1988. The cartoon was primarily a promotional show to launch a new Tyco toy line.

'' * Hammerhead, the nickname for the ''Star Wars'' character Momaw Nadon * ''Hammerheads'', a 1990 book by

Dale Brown Dale Brown (born November 2, 1956) is an American writer and aviator known for aviation techno-thriller novels. At least thirteen of his novels have been ''New York Times'' Best Sellers. Early life Brown was born in Buffalo, New York, and wa ...

* '' James Bond 007: Hammerhead'', a 2016 James Bond comic book by Dynamite Entertainment

Games and rides

* Hammerhead, a heavy helicopter gunship in the video game '' Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath'' * '' Hammer Heads'', a 2006 computer game from Pop Cap Games * Hammerhead (attraction), a former ride at Knott's Berry Farm, now defunct * Hammerhead, a monster truck present in various titles of the

Twisted Metal ''Twisted Metal'' is a series of Vehicular combat game, vehicular combat video games originally developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series has appeared on the PlayStation (console), PlayStation, PlaySta ...

series of video games * Hammerhead, the most prominent gas station and repair shop in the game

Final Fantasy XV is a 2016 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix. The fifteenth main installment of the ''Final Fantasy'' series, it was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2016, Windows in March 2018, and as a lau ...

Music

Hammerhead (band) Hammerhead Was a Minneapolis-based noise rock band active in the early 1990s. Members went on to form the band Vaz. History Hammerhead was formed in Moorhead, Minnesota in the early 1990s, with members Paul Erickson, Jeff Mooridian Jr. and Pau ...

, noise rock band * "Hammerhead" (Jeff Beck song), 2010 * ''Hammerhead'' (EP), a 2006 EP by Solace, or the title track * "Hammerhead" (The Offspring song), 2008 * "Hammerhead", a song by Tin Machine, from the 1991 album ''

Tin Machine II ''Tin Machine II'' is the second and final studio album by the Anglo-American rock group Tin Machine, released on 2September 1991 through Victory Music. The band, composed of David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels on guitar and brothers Tony Fox and Hun ...

'' * "Hammerhead" (James Reyne song), 1987 * "Hammerhead", a song from the John Zorn album '' Naked City'' * "Hammerhead", an instrumental by Pat Travers from the album '' Heat in the Street'' * "Hammerhead", a song by Flotsam and Jetsam, from the 1986 album '' Doomsday for the Deceiver'' * "Hammerhead", a song by !!! from '' !!!'', 2000

Science and technology

Hammerhead shark The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks that form the family Sphyrnidae, named for the unusual and distinctive form of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a Hammerhead shark#Cephalofoil, cephalofoil (a T-shape or " ...

(genus ''Sphyrna''), of which there are nine known species * Hammerkop (''Scopus umbretta''), a bird of order Ciconiiformes, may also be known as a hammerhead *

Hammerhead ribozyme The hammerhead ribozyme is an RNA Sequence motif, motif that catalyzes reversible cleavage and Ligation (molecular biology), ligation reactions at a specific site within an RNA molecule. It is one of several catalytic RNAs (ribozymes) known to occ ...

, which can catalyze the sequence-specific cleavage of RNA phosphodiester bonds *

Hammerhead crane A crane is a machine used to move materials both vertically and horizontally, utilizing a system of a guyed mast, boom, hoist (device), hoist, wire ropes or chains, and Sheave (mechanical), sheaves for lifting and relocating heavy objects with ...

, a type of crane * Hammerhead worm * Google Nexus 5, an Android handset with the code name Hammerhead

Sports

Jupiter Hammerheads The Jupiter Hammerheads are a Minor League Baseball team of the Florida State League and the Single-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. They are located in the town of Jupiter in Palm Beach County, Florida, and play their home games at Roger Dean ...

, a minor league baseball team based in Jupiter, Florida *

Wilmington Hammerheads FC Wilmington Hammerheads FC was a semi-professional American soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded in 1996, the team last competed in the Premier Development League, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid in 2017. Histor ...

, a minor league soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina *

Corpus Christi Hammerheads Corpus (plural ''corpora'') is Latin for "body". It may refer to: Linguistics * Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts * Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files * Corpus linguistics, a branch of ...

, a professional arena football team * Hammerhead turn or

stall turn The hammerhead turn, stall turn, or Gerhard Fieseler, Fieseler is an aerobatics turn-around maneuver. Description Enter at full power and maximum airspeed. Pull the aircraft up through a quarter loop into a vertical climb. The speed will decay b ...

, an aerobatic maneuver * Hammerhead (mascot), mascot of the British football club West Ham United

United States Navy submarines

* , a ''Gato''-class submarine, commissioned in 1944 * , a ''Sturgeon''-class submarine, commissioned in 1968 and struck in 1995 {{disambiguation