Nestor

Nestor may refer to:

Arts, literature, and entertainment

• Nestor (mythology), the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos in Greek mythology
• "Nestor" (Ulysses episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
• Nestor Studios, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey, a Christmas television program

Fictional characters

• Nestor (comics), in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé
• Nestor Burma, created by French crime novelist Léo Malet
• Nestor, in the animated television series Shorty McShorts' Shorts
• Nestor, in the animated television series Scaredy Squirrel (TV series)
• Néstor, a penguin in the film Happy Feet
• Nestor 10, the NS-series robot in the series of short-stories I, Robot
• Prince Nestor, in the animated television series World of Quest
• Nestor Willow, husband of Clarice Willow, in Caprica (TV series)
• Nestor, a group consciousness in the movie Battle Beyond the Stars

People and names

• Nestor (surname), anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, an Irish family
• Nestor (given name), a name of Greek origin, from Greek mythology
  • Nestor of Magydos or Saint Nestor, Christian saint (d. 250 CE)
  • Nestor Roqueplan (1805–1870), French writer
  • Nestor of Thessaloniki, another saint (d. 290, 296, or 306)
  • Nestorius (c.386–c.451), Patriarch of Constantinople, 428-431
  • Nestor the Chronicler (c.1056-c.1114), reputed author of the earliest East Slavic chronicle
  • Nestor Makhno (c.1888-c.1934), Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary

Science and technology

• Nestor (genus), a genus of parrots
• NESTOR Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope
• NESTOR (encryption), a family of voice encryption devices used by the United States during the Vietnam War era, replaced by VINSON

Ships

• HMS Nestor, the name of three ships of the Royal Navy
• SS Nestor a number of ships of this name.
• Nestor (sternwheeler), a steamboat that operated in Oregon and Washington State.

Other uses

• Palace of Nestor, the best preserved Mycenaean Greek palace discovered
• Nestor the priest, earliest surviving anti-Christian Jewish polemic (c. 900 CE)
• Nestoras, a municipality in Messenia, Greece
• Nestor, San Diego, a neighborhood within southern San Diego, California
• Nestor (solitaire), a card game
• A West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
• Nestorianism, a doctrine that Jesus exists as two persons, one divine and the other human

See also

• Nester (disambiguation)
• Dniester, a river in Eastern Europe