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A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon.

Cannonball may also refer to:

As a nickname

• Cannonball Adderley (1928-1975), jazz alto saxophonist
• Erwin Baker, (1882–1960), motorcycle and automobile racing driver and organizer
• Jim Butler (American football) (born 1943), National Football League running back
• Ed Crane (baseball) (1862-1896), Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder
• Bill Jackman (1897-1972), pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues
• Ed Morris (1880s pitcher) (1862-1937), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Didier Pitre (1883-1934), Canadian ice hockey player
• Dick Redding (1890-1948), American pitcher, outfielder and manager in the Negro leagues
• Frank "Cannonball" Richards (1887-1969), vaudeville performer whose act involved being shot in the gut with a cannonball
• Cannonball Titcomb (1866-1950), Major League Baseball pitcher

Fictional characters

• Cannonball (comics), a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men
• Cannonball (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
• Cannonball (Transformers), the Decepticon space pirate in the Transformers toy line
• Experiment 520, from Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Places

• Cannon Ball, North Dakota, a city
• Cannonball River, a tributary of the Missouri River
• Cannonball Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica

Music

• "Cannonball", a drum and bass track produced by Noisia and Phace and released on Noisa's label 'Vision Recordings' as part of VSN005 Collision EP
• Cannonball (album), by Pat Green
• "Cannonball" (The Breeders song), from the album Last Splash
• "Cannonball" (Supertramp song), from the album Brother Where You Bound
• "Cannonball" (Damien Rice song), from Rice's 2002 album O
• "Cannonball", a song by Five Iron Frenzy from their 2004 album The End Is Near
• "Cannonball", a song by Dog Eat Dog from their album Walk with Me
• "Cannon Ball", a song by Colin Munroe featuring Drake from his album Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero.
• "Cannonball", a song by Brandi Carlile from her album The Story
• "Cannon Ball", a soundtrack featured in the Capcom game Mega Man Zero 3

Film and television

• Cannonball (film), a 1976 film inspired by "Cannon Ball" Baker
• Cannonball (TV series), a TV show about two truck drivers, produced in Canada in 1958-59 and syndicated in the U.S. in 1959-60

Trains

• The Cannonball an Illinois Central passenger train routing between Chicago and New Orleans, designated in modern times as the City of New Orleans
• The Cannonball, a train operated by the Long Island Rail Road along its Montauk Branch
• Hooterville Cannonball, a fictional train in the television series Petticoat Junction

Other uses

• A diving technique in swimming
• Operation Cannonball, a Central Intelligence Agency operation
• Cannonball (missile), originally intended to be a US Navy anti-ship missile, later developed as an anti-tank missile
• Cannon Ball roller coaster, a wooden roller coaster at Lake Winnepesaukah, Georgia/Tennessee border
• Cannonball Musical Instruments, a Salt Lake City based musical instrument manufacturer

See also

• Couroupita guianensis, an evergreen tree commonly called the cannonball tree
• Sphaerobolus, a genus commonly known as the cannonball fungi