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A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon.
Cannonball may also refer to:
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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
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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
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Places
- Cannon Ball, North Dakota, a city
- Cannonball River, a tributary of the Missouri River
- Cannonball Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica
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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
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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
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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
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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
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See also
- Couroupita guianensis, an evergreen tree commonly called the cannonball tree
- Sphaerobolus, a genus commonly known as the cannonball fungi
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