Cannonball (nickname)
Cannonball is the nickname of:
- Cannonball Adderley, jazz alto saxophonist
- Erwin Baker,, motorcycle and automobile racing driver and organizer
- Harry Frederick Baker, Australian speedway motorcycle rider and aviator
- Caroline Buchanan, Australian cyclist
- Jim Butler , National Football League running back
- Paul Carter , English darts player nicknamed "the Cannonball"
- Clyde Crabtree, American football player nicknamed "Cannonball Crabtree"
- Ed Crane , Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder
- Norman Curtis, English footballer
- Charlie Fleming, Scottish footballer nicknamed "Cannonball Charlie"
- Bill Jackman, pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues
- Lawson Little, American golfer
- Ed Morris , Major League Baseball pitcher
- Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player
- Dick Redding, American pitcher, outfielder and manager in the Negro leagues
- Frank "Cannonball" Richards, vaudeville performer whose act involved being shot in the gut with a cannonball
- Cannonball Titcomb, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gus Weyhing, American baseball pitcher
- Cannonball Jack May, 1975 winner of Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash
