Aníbal (name)
Aníbal is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine given name equivalent of Hannibal, itself a latinization of the Greek name Hanníbas, derived from “ḥnbʿl” in the Carthaginian language, a descendant of the Phoenician Canaanite language in which the name's meaning is "Baʿal my grace", a cognate of the Hebrew honorific Baʿal “master/lord”.
In English, it may refer to:
- Aníbal stagename of Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras, Mexican wrestler
- Aníbal Acevedo, Puerto Rican boxer
- Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican politician
- Aníbal Capela, Portuguese footballer
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese president
- Aníbal González, Chilean footballer
- Aníbal González Irizarry, Puerto Rican broadcast journalist
- Aníbal López aka A-1 53167, Guatemalan artist
- Aníbal Milhais, Portuguese soldier during World War I
- Aníbal Muñoz Duque, Colombian cardinal of the Roman Catholic church
- Aníbal Oswaldo Parada Najarro, Salvadorean footballer
- Aníbal Pinto Garmendia, president of Chile
- Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz, Chilean economist
- Aníbal Sánchez, Venezuelan baseball player
- Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician
- Aníbal Zurdo, Mexican footballer