Nimrod is a biblical king.

Nimrod may also refer to:

Fictional characters

  • Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
  • Nimrod (vampire), a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series
  • Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant-hunter from Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men series
  • Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
  • Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel, a villain in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
  • Nimrod, a character from Robert Ludlum's The Matlock Paper

Military

  • 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, 1969–2011
  • BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4, a planned upgrade of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, developed in the 2000s
  • British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3, a planned AEW version of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, developed in the late 1970s/early 1980s
  • 40M Nimród, a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
  • Nimrod (missile), an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
  • Operation Nimrod, the SAS assault during the Iranian Embassy siege, London, 1980

Music

  • Nimrod (album), a 1997 album by Green Day
  • Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod", the 9th variation in the 1899 composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
  • Nimrod, a band fronted by Zev Asher

People

  • Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author, pseudonym Nimrod
  • Nimród Antal (born 1973), Hungarian-American film director
  • Nimrod Botelanga (1953 or 1954–2013), Nauruan politician
  • Nimrod Kamer (born 1981), satirist and journalist
  • Nimrod Levi (born 1995), Israeli basketball player
  • Nimrod Mashiah (born 1988), Israeli windsurfer
  • Nimrod Megiddo, 20th-21st century Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
  • Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
  • Nimrod Sejake (1920-2004), South African labor leader
  • Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli Olympic swimmer
  • Nimrod Tishman (born 1991), Israeli basketball player
  • Nimrod Whitacre (1822–1892), American politician from Virginia
  • Nimrod Workman (1895–1994), American folk singer and trade unionist

Places

  • Mount Nimrod, New Zealand
  • Nimrod Province, Afghanistan
  • Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
  • Nemrut (volcano), Turkey

Antarctica

  • Nimrod Glacier
  • Mount Nimrod, in the Dominion Range, Antarctica

Golan Heights

  • Nimrod (Israeli settlement), an Israeli settlement and village
  • Nimrod Fortress

United States

  • Nimrod, Arkansas
  • Nimrod, Minnesota
  • Nimrod, Montana
  • Nimrod, Oregon
  • Nimrod, Texas

Science and technology

  • Nimrod (computer), an early computer to play Nim
  • Nimrod (distributed computing), a tool for distributed parametric modelling
  • Nimrod (synchrotron), a proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978
  • Nimrod (programming language), former name of Nim
  • Project NIMROD, a meteorological field study

Vehicles

  • List of ships named Nimrod
  • Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
  • Nimrod Expedition, to the Antarctic
  • Nimrod Racing Automobiles, a British racing constructor and team formed through a partnership with Aston Martin
  • Nimrod NRA/C2, a racing car built by Nimrod Racing Automobiles

Other uses

  • Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, a literary journal published by the University of Tulsa
  • Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools
  • Nimrod, a dramatic poem by Robert William Jameson
  • Nimrod (sculpture), a sculpture by Yitzhak Danziger
  • Valley of Nimrod, referenced in the Book of Mormon

See also

  • Nimrud (disambiguation)