Hyenas or hyaenas are the animals of the family Hyaenidae.
Hyena, hyaena or The Hyena may also refer to:
Media
[edit]Literature
[edit]- "The Hyena" (short story), 1962 short story by Paul Bowles
- "The Hyena", 1928 short story by Robert E. Howard
Film and television
[edit]- Hyenas (1992 film), also Hyènes, Senegalese film by Djibril Diop Mambéty based on Dürrenmatt's "Besuch der alten Dame"
- Hyenas (2011 film), a supernatural horror film, written and directed by Eric Weston
- Hyena (film), a British film
- Hyena Filmproduktion, a film company founded by Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch in 1984
- Hyena (TV series), a 2020 South Korean legal drama television series
- La hiena (The Hyena), 1971 Mexican telenovela
Music
[edit]- Hyena Records , a record label founded by American jazz and R&B music producer Joel Dorn
- Hyæna, a 1984 album by Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Hyëna, a 2022 album by KMFDM
- Hyena (soundtrack), the soundtrack album of 2006 South Korean television series Hyena
- Hyena, a 2014 album by Red Snapper
- "Hyaena" (song), a 2023 song by Travis Scott
- "Hyena" (song), a 2007 Japanese single by The Gazette
- "Hyena", a song by R.E.M. from the 1986 album Lifes Rich Pageant
- "Hyenas", a song by Noisia from the 2014 compilation album FabricLive.76
Video games
[edit]- Hyenas (video game), a cancelled first-person shooter game
Characters
[edit]- The Hyena (Boner's Ark), from the comic strip Boner's Ark
- Hyena (comics), two villains in the DC Comics universe
- Hyena (Gargoyles), from the Disney cartoon Gargoyles (1994–96)
- Hyena (The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact), in the 2004 fighting video game The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact
People
[edit]- Seo Hyena, also known as Ida Daussy, a French-born South Korean broadcaster
- HYENA, Swedish songwriter
Military
[edit]- HMS Hyaena, four ships of the Royal Navy
- de Havilland Hyena, a prototype British army co-operation aircraft of the 1920s
- Armstrong Siddeley Hyena, a British aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley in the 1930s
Other uses
[edit]- Lancia Hyena, a small sports car introduced in 1992
- Hyena, a southern Malawi occupation for providing sexual cleansing services
See also
[edit]- Iota Draconis, a star in the Draco constellation also known as "Al dhili" (male hyena, in Arabic)
- Le Iene (The Hyenas), a television program broadcast on the Italian channel Italia 1 that began in 1996
- Jorge Rodrigo Barrios (born 1976), Argentine junior lightweight boxer known as La Hiena (The Hyena)
- Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786–1853), Austrian general known as "The Hyena of Brescia"