Hero (disambiguation)

A hero is a person who performs extraordinary deeds for the benefit of others.

Hero may also refer to:

People

Hero (given name), the personal name
Hero (singer), stage name of Kim Jaejoong (born 1986), former member of Korean boy band TVXQ and current member of JYJ
Hero, stage name of Justin Cassell (fl. 1950s), Montserratian calypso musician
Agent Hero, codename for Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky (1919–1963)
Hero of Alexandria (c. 10–70 AD), ancient Greek mathematician
Hero the Younger (fl. 938), Byzantine land surveyor

Ancient religion

Hero, someone worshipped in the Greek hero cult
Hero, priestess of Aphrodite in the Greek myth of Hero and Leander

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional character

Hero, a male character in the 1962 musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Hero or Shen, a character in the Dragon Ball franchise, see List of Dragon Ball characters
Hero, the default name for the protagonists of the Dragon Quest series
Hero, a priestess in Hero and Leander (poem) by Christopher Marlowe
Hero, a female character in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Hero, a fictional horse used by the character Phantom
Hero, a character in the web comic RPG World
Captain Hero, a character on the TV series Drawn Together
Hero Brown, a character in the comic book series Y: The Last Man

Films

Hero (1982 film), a British adventure-fantasy film
Hero (1983 film), a 1983 Hindi romantic action film directed by Subhash Ghai
Hero (1984 film), a Tollywood film directed by Vijaya Bapineedu
Hero (1985 film), a Pakistani action-romance musical
Hero (1987 film), a British documentary about the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico
Hero (1992 film), an American comedic drama
Hero (1997 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Corey Yuen
Hero (2000 film), a short subject film directed and written by Mark Bamford
Hero (2002 film), a Chinese wuxia adventure, starring Jet Li, and directed by Zhang Yimou.
Hero (2005 film), a Adivasi film
Hero (2006 film), a Bengali film directed by Swapan Saha
Hero (2007 film), a Japanese film based on the TV series of the same name
Hero (2008 film), a Telugu-language film
Hero (2012 film), a Malayalam film
Hero (2015 Hindi film), an official remake of the 1983 Hindi film
Hero (2015 Japanese film), a Japanese film based on the TV series of the same name
Hero: The Real Hero, the Tamil and the Malayalam-dubbed versions of the 2007 Telugu film Desamuduru
The Hero (2017 film), a US film about an aging cowboy movie star
Hero (2019 Tamil film)
Hero (2019 Russian film)

Gaming

Hero, common name for the franchise of musical performance simulation games including the Guitar Hero series of music rhythm games
H.E.R.O. (video game), a 1984 computer and video game
Hero Online, a 2006 online roleplaying game
Hero System, a generic roleplaying game system published by Hero Games

Music

Albums

Opera and musicals

Hero (musical), a 1976 rock musical
!Hero, a 2003 rock opera

Songs

"Hero" (Chad Kroeger song), a song by Nickelback vocalist Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott
"Hero" (Charlotte Perrelli song), 2008
"Hero" (David Crosby song), 1993
"Hero" (Enrique Iglesias song), 2001
"Hero" (Europe song), 2004
"Hero" (Family of the Year song), 2012
"Hero" (Mariah Carey song), 1993
"Hero" (Nas song), 2008
"Hero" (Skillet song), 2009
"Hero" (Weezer song), 2020
"Hero", by Bethany Dillon from Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"Hero", by Cassie Davis from Differently
"Hero", by Darren Hayes from The Tension and the Spark
"Hero", by James from The Night Before
"Hero", by Jesse J from Kick-Ass 2 soundtrack
"Hero", by Kid Cudi and Skylar Grey from Music Inspired by the Motion Picture Need for Speed
"Hero", by Linnéa Handberg Lund
"Hero", by Machinae Supremacy
"Hero", by Ministry
"Hero", by Monsta X
"Hero", by Neu! from Neu! '75
"Hero", by Nightrage from Sweet Vengeance
"Hero", by Ozzy Osbourne from No Rest for the Wicked
"Hero", by Regina Spektor from (500) Days of Summer soundtrack
"Hero", by Sevendust from Next
"Hero", by Sterling Knight from Starstruck
"Hero", by Steve Taylor from Meltdown
"Hero", by Superchick from Last One Picked
"Hero", by The Verve Pipe from the self-titled album
"Hero", by Toni Braxton from the album Pulse
"Hero", by Zion I & The Grouch from Heroes in the City of Dope
"Hero", a version of "Wind Beneath My Wings" recorded by Gladys Knight & The Pips
"Hero/Heroine", a 2007 song by Boys Like Girls
"Hero (Kibō no Uta)" / "Cha-La Head-Cha-La", a 2013 single by Flow
"Hero / Sweet Jewel", a 2012 double single by the Japanese girl idol group Fairies, 2011
"The Hero", a track from the 1996 Mike Oldfield album Voyager, an arrangement of the Scottish lament "Hector the Hero" by James Scott Skinner

Television

Channels

Hero (TV channel), an anime channel in the Philippines

Series

Hero (2001 TV series), a Japanese drama
Hero (2009 TV series), a Korean drama
Hero (2016 TV series), a Singaporean drama
Hero (Indian TV Series), an Indian superhero soap

Episodes

"Hero" (Angel), a 1999 episode of Angel
"Hero" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2006 episode of Battlestar Galactica
"Hero" (Better Call Saul), a 2015 episode of Better Call Saul
"Hero" (Sanctuary)", an episode of Sanctuary
"Hero" (The Unit), an episode of the television series The Unit

Comics

H.E.R.O. (comics), a comic book series based on the H-Dial from Dial H for Hero
Hero Cruz, a character from Superboy and the Ravers who also possessed the H-Dial
The Hero Initiative, a not-for-profit organization that helps comic creators in need
Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man, a series created by Neil Gaiman for Tekno Comix
Hero, a character in the web comic RPG World
Hero Brown, a character in the comic book series Y: The Last Man
Hero, is one of the names used by the Eternal the Forgotten One
Hero, a graphic novel by Yoshitaka Amano
Hero, the horse of comics character The Phantom

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Hero (magazine), an American magazine published from 1997–2002
Hero (novel), a 2007 novel by Perry Moore

Government

Hero (title), a title presented by governments to their citizens for great achievements
Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK, a website of the United Kingdom educational system
Highway Emergency Response Operators, a program of the Georgia (U.S.) Department of Transportation
Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, city ordinance in Houston, Texas later repealed by referendum

Manufacturing companies

Hero Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer
Hero Group, a fruit product manufacturer
Hero MotoCorp, an Indian motorcycle manufacturer
Shanghai Hero Pen Company

Science

Hero (gastropod), a genus of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Heroidae
High-Energy Replicated Optics (HERO) a balloon-borne high-altitude X-ray telescope
Hyper Extremely Red Objects (HEROs), astronomical sources of radiation with extreme redshift

Sports and racing

Hero's, a mixed martial arts organization
HERO, HERO2, HERO3, and HERO4, generations of sports cameras made by GoPro

Technology

HERO (robot), a series of educational robots
Hero image, a large graphic with a small amount of text, at the top of a page.
HTC Hero, a smartphone running the Android platform

Transportation

Hero (pinnace), a steam-powered boat
Hero (sloop), a British sloop used by Nathaniel B. Palmer to explore the Antarctic Peninsula between 1820 and 1822
RV Hero, a research vessel built to explore the Antarctic Peninsula between 1968 and 1984
Hero, a locomotive of the South Devon Railway Dido class
HMS Hero, six ships of the British Royal Navy

Other uses

Hero, a roller coaster at Flamingo Land Resort.
Hero prop, a highly detailed prop in a theater or film production intended for close-up viewing
Hero sandwich, a regional name for a submarine sandwich
Hero stone, the name for many old memorials found all over India

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