Cannonball (nickname)
Cannonball is the nickname of:
- Cannonball Adderley, American jazz alto saxophonist
- Erwin Baker, American motorcycle and automobile racing driver and organizer
- Harry Frederick Baker, Australian speedway motorcycle rider and aviator
- Jim Butler (American football), American National Football League running back
- Clyde Crabtree, American football player
- Ed Crane (baseball), American Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder
- Norman Curtis, English footballer
- Charlie Fleming, Scottish footballer
- Bill Jackman, American pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues
- Lawson Little, American golfer
- Cannon Ball Miller, baseball pitcher in the pre-Negro leagues
- Ed Morris (1880s pitcher), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player
- Dick Redding, American pitcher, outfielder and manager in the Negro leagues
- Frank Richards (performer), American vaudeville performer whose act involved being shot in the gut with a cannonball
- Ledell Titcomb, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gus Weyhing, American Major League Baseball pitcher