Nimitz may refer to:

People

  • Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966), American admiral
  • Chester Nimitz Jr. (1915–2002), American submarine commander
  • Jack Nimitz (1930–2009), American musician

Named for Fleet Admiral Nimitz

  • USS Nimitz (CVN-68), a U.S. Navy supercarrier
  • Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
  • USS Nimitz UFO incident, a 2004 unexplained aerial phenomenon
  • Nimitz High School (Harris County, Texas), Houston, Texas
  • Nimitz High School (Irving, Texas)
  • Nimitz Elementary School, Sunnyvale, California
  • Nimitz Freeway, a designation of Interstate 880 in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Nimitz Highway, a local name for Hawaii Route 92, a major east–west highway on the island of Oahu
  • Nimitz, West Virginia
  • Nimitz Glacier, an Antarctic glacier
  • Nimitz Strike Group, a deployment of the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group 11
  • Admiral Nimitz Museum, a feature of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas
  • Nimitz Class (novel), a 1997 naval thriller by Patrick Robinson
  • Nimitz, the personal pet of the title character in David Weber's Honor Harrington military science fiction series

Others

  • 2C-T-17, a psychedelic drug

See also

  • Nimitz High School (disambiguation)
  • Nimitz Hill (disambiguation)
  • Niemitz (disambiguation)
  • Nimtz
  • Nemetz