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Pendragon or Pen Draig, meaning "head dragon" or "chief dragon" (a figurative title referring to status as a leader), is the name of several traditional Kings of the Britons:
- Ambrosius Aurelianus, son of Constantine II of Britain, called "Pendragon" in the Vulgate Cycle
- Uther, brother of Aurelius and father of King Arthur, is called Uther Pendragon because he was inspired by a dragon-shaped comet (In the Vulgate, he took the name from his brother)
- King Arthur, son of Uther
Pendragon can also refer to:
- Arthur Uther Pendragon, who claims to be the reincarnation of King Arthur
- Pendragon (band), a British progressive rock band
- Pendragon (role-playing game)
- The Pendragon (fiction series), a short-lived trade paperback line of classic Arthurian reprints, as well as original novels and anthologies
- The Pendragons, husband and wife team of illusionists
- Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle of fantasy books
- Pendragon PLC, a UK car dealership chain
- Knights of Pendragon, a Marvel UK comic during the early 1990s
- The Pendragon Legend, a 1933 novel by Hungarian author Antal Szerb
- Pendragon Records, a record label
- The Pendragon Adventure, a fiction series by D. J. MacHale
- Pendragon: Before the War, a spin-off series created by D. J. MacHale, written by Walter Scrolls, and Carla Jablonski
- Pendragon: Sword of His Father, a 2008 Christian film
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