Nimrod (disambiguation)

Nimrod, king of Shinar, was, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush and great-grandson of Noah.

Nimrod may also refer to:

People

• Pseudonym of Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author
• Pseudonym of August Jaeger (1860–1909), Anglo-German music publisher
• Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
• Nimród Antal (born 1973), Hungarian-American film director
• Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli swimmer

Fictional characters

• Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
• Nimrod (Doctor Who), a villain in Doctor Who audio plays
• Nimrod (vampire), a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series

Places

• Nimrod, Golan Heights, an Israeli settlement and village on the Golan Heights
• Nimrod, Minnesota
• Nimrod, Oregon
• Nimrod, Texas
• Nimrod Fortress, on the Golan Heights
• Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
• Nimrod Province in Afghanistan
• Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia

Vehicles

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 now retired
• British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3, an aircraft of which eleven examples were built in the late 1970s/early 1980s
• BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4, an aircraft of which five examples were built in the early 21st century
• 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

Other

• 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

• Nimrod (camper), a brand of pull-behind popup campers manufactured by Ward Manufacturing

Computing

• Nimrod (computing), early computer to play Nim
• Nimrod (distributed computing), tools for distributed parametric modeling
• Nimrod (programming language), a statically typed imperative programming language.

Music

• The 9th variation in the 1899 composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar, dedicated to August Jaeger mentioned above
• Nimrod (album), a 1997 album by Green Day

Entertainment

• Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant hunter originating from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men
• 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
• Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel, A monster from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers

Other

• Nimrod (synchrotron), 8 GeV proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978
• Nimrod (slang), referring to a silly or foolish person