Homer is the name given to the purported author of the Ancient Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Homer can also refer to:

Places

In the United States

  • Homer, Alaska, a city
  • Homer, Georgia, a town
  • Homer, Illinois, a village
  • Homer, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Homer, Iowa, an unincorporated community
  • Homer, Louisiana, a town
  • Homer, Michigan, a village
  • Homer, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
  • Homer, Nebraska, a village
  • Homer, New York, a town
  • Homer (village), New York
  • Homer, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Homer, Union County, Ohio, a ghost town
  • Homer, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Homer, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Homer City, Pennsylvania
  • Homer Township (disambiguation)

In England

  • Homer, Shropshire, a village

In New Zealand

  • Homer Saddle and Homer Tunnel, in Fiordland

In Croatia

  • Homer, Croatia, a village near Lokve

In outer space

  • Homer (crater), on Mercury

Sports

  • Homer (sports slang), a myopic fan or media coverage biased toward the home team
  • Home run, an achievement in baseball in which the batter touches all the bases and scores on the same play

Other uses

  • Homer Simpson, the main protagonist in the animated television series The Simpsons
  • Homer (Ezekiel), a sculpture by Moses Jacob Ezekiel at the University of Virginia, US
  • Homer (film), a 1970 drama film
  • Homer (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
  • Homer (software), an IRC client for Macintosh computers during the 1990s
  • Homer (unit), a unit of volume
  • Homer (brand) an independent, American, luxury brand, founded in 2018
  • Homer College in Homer, Louisiana
  • Homer High School (disambiguation)
  • HOMER1, or Homer homolog 1 (Drosophila), a human gene
  • Homing beacon (or "homer"), a type of tracking transmitter
  • Mil Mi-12, NATO reporting name Homer, a Soviet helicopter
  • Prince Homer, a small truck produced by Prince Motor Company and later by Nissan
  • Racing Homer, a type of racing pigeon
  • SS Homer a steamer scuttled during the American Civil War
  • Homer, the codename for the British spy Donald Maclean

See also

  • Homeric (disambiguation)
  • Homerus (disambiguation)
  • HOMR, a 2001 episode of The Simpsons
  • Omero, the Italian version of the given name Homer