The Hero

The Hero may refer to:

Film

• The Hero (1917 film), an American silent comedy starring Oliver Hardy
• The Hero (1923 film), an American World War I drama directed by Louis J. Gasnier
• The Hero, English language title of Nayak, a 1966 Bengali drama by Satyajit Ray
• The Hero, US title of Bloomfield, a 1971 British-Israeli drama
• The Hero: Love Story of a Spy, a 2003 Bollywood action-adventure
• The Hero (2004 film), an Angolan war drama
• The Hero (2017 film), an American drama starring Sam Elliott

Television

• The Hero (1966 TV series), a 1966 American television series
• The Hero (2013 TV series), a 2013 American reality television series
• "The Hero" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a television episode
• "The Hero" an episode of Wander Over Yonder

Literature

• "The Hero", an 1850 poem by Lydia Sigourney
• "The Hero", an 1895 poem by John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Hero, a 1901 novel by W. Somerset Maugham
• "The Hero", a 1906 poem by Henry David Thoreau
• "The Hero", a 1911 short story by Margarita Spalding Gerry
• "The Hero", a 1917 poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• "The Hero" (poem), a 1913 poem written by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama, a 1936 book by FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan
• The Hero, a 1949 novel by Millard Lampell, basis for the 1951 film Saturday's Hero
• "The Hero", a 1971 short story by George R. R. Martin and collected in Dreamsongs: A Retrospective.
• The Hero, a 1973 novel by Peter Haining
• The Hero (novel), a 2004 science fiction novel by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson

Music

• The Hero (opera), a 1976 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
• "The Hero", a track on the Amon Amarth album Twilight of the Thunder God
• "The Hero", a song on the 1980 Queen album Flash Gordon

See also

• Hero (disambiguation)
• The Heroes (disambiguation)
• Nayak (disambiguation) (lit. 'Hero' in Indic languages)