- Nimrod (disambiguation)
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Nimrod (Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד) means "Hunter"; was a Biblical Mesopotamian king mentioned in the Table of Nations; an eponym for the city of Nimrud.
Nimrod can also refer to any of the following:
- Nimród Antal, a director
- Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli swimmer
- Nimrod (slang), referring to a silly or foolish person
- Nimrod (synchrotron), 8 GeV proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978
- 9.3X82 RWG Nimrod, a black powder cartridge dating back to the 1890s
Places:
- Nimrod (Israel), a village on the Golan Heights
- Nimrod, Minnesota
- Nimrod, Oregon
- Nimrod Fortress, on the Golan Heights
- Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Nimrod Province in Afghanistan
- Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
Vehicles:
- HMS Nimrod, six ships of the Royal Navy
- Hawker Nimrod, a 1930s British fighter aircraft
- Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft now supported by BAE Systems
- Nimrod (AFV), a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
- Nimrod (missile), an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
- Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
- Nimrod Racing Automobiles, a British racing constructor and team formed through a partnership with Aston Martin
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- Nimrod NRA/C2, a racing car built by Nimrod Racing Automobiles.
In computing:
- Nimrod (computing), early computer to play Nim
- Nimrod (distributed computing), tools for distributed parametric modeling
- Nimrod Look and Feel (computing), a Java Look and Feel coded by Nilo J. González
In music:
- The 9th variation in the composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
- Nimrod (album), an album by Green Day
- Pseudonym of August Jaeger, an Anglo-German music publisher
In entertainment:
- Pseudonym of Charles James Apperley, an English sportsman and author
- Nimrod (Doctor Who), a villain in Doctor Who audio plays
- Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant hunter originating from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men
- Nimrod (vampire), a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series
- Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
- Nimrod, a literary journal published by the University of Tulsa
- A railroad car in the television series The Wild Wild West
- The Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools featured in ESPN advertisements
- Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
In Global Politics:
- A UN staff member
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