Pennant

Pennant may refer to:

Flag or banner

• Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag
  • Commissioning pennant, the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission
  • Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a British Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
  • Pennant (church), flown by navies during services on board ships
• Pennant number, a number used to identify ships by the British Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth
• Pennant (sports), a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team
  • Pennant race, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season
• Pennant (military), a tapering flag historically carried for identification purposes by cavalry detachments, attached to lances or standard poles.
• Pennant, a reference to Flag and pennant patterns in technical analysis of a stock market chart

Places

• Pennant, Ceredigion, Wales
• Pennant, Powys, Wales
• Pennant, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Pennant Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia

People

• Dafydd Pennant (16th century), Welsh poet
• Edward Douglas-Pennant (disambiguation)
• George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (1764–1840), plantation and slave owner
• George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn
• Jermaine Pennant (born 1983), English former professional footballer
• Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737–1808), British politician and owner of sugar plantations in Jamaica
• Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), Welsh writer, naturalist and antiquarian
• Pennant Roberts (1940–2010), British television director and producer

Other

• Pennant, the common name of the dragonfly genus Celithemis
• Pennant (automobile) (1924–25), manufactured by the Barley Motor Car Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
• The Pennant, a newspaper in Penola, South Australia
• Vympel, Russian for "Pennant", a Spetznas unit specialised in infiltration and assassination
• Pennant Measures, a stratigraphic division of the South Wales Coal Measures and including the Pennant Sandstone
• Pennant station, a light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States