Hunchback (disambiguation)

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Hunchback or The Hunchback can refer to:

General

• Outdated term for a person suffering from severe kyphosis (from Greek κυφός / kyphos, as a hump)
• List of people known as the Hunchback
• Hunchback (gene), in the genome of Drosophila embryogenesis
• Mosul, Iraq, a city nicknamed "The Hunchback" after the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri

Arts or entertainment

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Gothic novel by Victor Hugo
  • The eponymous protagonist of Quasimodo
  • Hunchback, a 1983 Arcade and computer game
  • The Hunchback, a 1997 television film directed by Peter Medak
• The Hunchback, 1832 London play by James Sheridan Knowles
• Le Bossu (The Hunchback in french), an 1858 French historical adventure novel by Paul Féval
• The Hunchback, a 2009 EP by Kurt Vile & the Violators
• Hunchback (Japanese: ハンチバック), a 2023 Japanese novel written by Saou Ichikawa [ja] and awarded an Akutagawa Prize
• The Hunchback, a 1914 American silent film featuring Lillian Gish
• List of hunchback characters in fiction

Military

• USS Hunchback, a steam-powered gunboat used by the U.S. Navy during the Civil War ;
• Ilyushin Il-2, nicknamed "The Hunchback", a Soviet World War II ground-attack aircraft.

See also

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Hunchback.
• All pages with titles beginning with The Hunchback.
• All pages with titles containing hunchback.
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