Eliezer ben Hurcanus (or Hyrcanus) was one of the most prominent Judean Tannaim (Talmudic sages) of 1st- and 2nd-century Judaism, a disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai according to the Pirkei Avot 2:8 and Avot of Rabbi Natan 6:3 and 14.5, and a colleague of Gamaliel II