Military

• Shrapnel shell, an anti-personnel artillery munition used until the 1930s
• The fragments thrown out by an exploding bomb or shell: See Fragmentation (weaponry)
  Fragmentation (weaponry)
  Fragmentation is the process by which the casing of an artillery shell, bomb, grenade, etc. is shattered by the detonating high explosive filling. The correct technical terminology for these casing pieces is fragments , although shards or splinters can be used for non-preformed fragments...
  
  

Entertainment

• Shrapnel (band) or Metal Church, a heavy metal band
• Shrapnel Games
  Shrapnel Games
  Shrapnel Games is an independent American video game publisher that specializes in the strategy and role playing genres, particularly turn-based strategy games. It was founded in 1999 by Tim Brooks in Cary, North Carolina...
  
  , a computer games publisher
• Shrapnel (Transformers), a character in Transformers
• Shrapnel (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain
• Shrapnel (comic book), a forthcoming publication
• Shrapnel Records
  Shrapnel Records
  Shrapnel Records is a guitar-oriented record label started in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney. Guitarist Marty Friedman , one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album Unsung Guitar Heroes II in 1980 with the band Vixen. Vixen would later change their name to Hawaii...
  
  , a music label
• Shrapnel City: the name of the third episode levels in Duke Nukem 3D

People with the surname

• Henry Shrapnel
  Henry Shrapnel
  Henry Shrapnel was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously, of the "shrapnel shell".Henry Shrapnel was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England....
  
   (1761-1842), British Army officer and inventor
• Henry Jones Shrapnell
  Henry Jones Shrapnell
  Henry Jones Shrapnell was an English anatomist. For a period of time during his career he was a colleague to Edward Jenner , creator of the vaccine for smallpox....
  
   (1792–1834), English anatomist
• John Shrapnel
  John Shrapnel
  John Shrapnel is an English actor.Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel....
  
  (born 1942), English actor