Nero (disambiguation)

Nero (37–68) was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68.

Nero may also refer to:

People

• Any male member of the Claudii Nerones family of gens Claudia may be called Nero to distinguish them from other clan members
• Nero Julius Caesar (6–31 AD), related to some emperors
• Gaius Claudius Nero, Roman consul and hero of The Battle of the Metaurus in 207 BC
• Nero Hawley (1742–1817), freed slave and soldier in the Continental Army
• Franco Nero (born 1941), Italian actor
• Peter Nero (born 1934), American pianist and composer

Places

• Nero, Kentucky, United States
• Nero, West Virginia, United States
• Nero, Mozambique
• Lake Nero, in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
• Nero Island, an uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
• Nero, the German name for Nerău village, Teremia Mare Commune, Timiș County, Romania

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• The Adventures of Nero, Belgian comics series
• Nero and Zero, British comic strip

Characters

• Nero and Zero, British 1930s comics characters. Protagonists in Nero and Zero.
• Nero (comic book character), protagonist in the Flemish comic book character The Adventures of Nero.
• Nero (DC Comics), supervillain opponent of the Green Lantern
• Nero (Devil May Cry), one of the main characters in the video game series Devil May Cry.
• Nero, Romulan mining captain and villain, played by Eric Bana in the film Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek (2009)
• Vice Principal Nero, character from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Nero Padilla, fictional character on Sons of Anarchy
• Nero Wolfe, fictional detective
• Barone Nero, fictional character from Ressha Sentai ToQger
• Angelica Nero, character in season 9 of Dallas (1978 TV series)
• Nero, character in Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
• Nero, character from the manga and anime One Piece
• Nero the Sable, member of the fictional Tsviets of Deepground in Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
• Nero, minor villain in the British cartoon series Danger Mouse
• Nero, a Servant of the Saber class in Fate/Extra and Fate/Extella video games
• Nero, a character in Derek Landy's book Bedlam, book 12 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series

Film

• Nero (1909 film), an Italian film directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio
• Nero (1922 film), an American-Italian historical film directed by J. Gordon Edwards
• Nero (2004 film), a television film

Games

• NERO, acronym for New England Role Playing Organization, a live action role-playing game

Music

Operas

• Nero, an opera by George Frideric Handel, HWV 2 (1705, Hamburg; music lost)
• Nero, a grand opera by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Jules Barbier (1879, Hamburg)

Groups and labels

• Nero (band), an electronic music trio composed of Daniel Stephens, Joe Ray, and Alana Watson
• Nero Bellum, lead singer of the musical group Psyclon Nine

Albums

• Nero (Closterkeller album), 2003
• Nero (Two Steps from Hell album), or the title song

Songs

• "Nero", a song by the Mexican rock group Molotov
• "Nero", a 1981 single by post-punk band Theatre of Hate
• "Nero the Second", an Anglo-Irish Jacobite song of the 18th century
• "Black Cat" (aka Nero), a song by the South Korean group Turbo

Brands and enterprises

• Nero (confectionery), Norwegian liquorice-based dark chocolate confection
• Caffè Nero, chain of coffee houses

Software

• Nero AG, German software company (formerly known as Ahead Software), and its products:
  • Nero Burning ROM, CD/DVD authoring application
  • Nero Digital, suite of MPEG-4-compatible audio and video compression codecs
  • Nero Multimedia Suite, a suite of CD/DVD authoring tools and digital entertainment products that includes Nero Burning ROM, among other software
• NERO or Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, a video game in which soldiers are evolved with the neuroevolution of augmenting topologies algorithm

Other uses

• Nero (yacht), one of the world's largest luxury yachts
• Nero d'Avola, Sicilian red wine grape variety
• @Nero, former Twitter account of British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos (born 1983)
• Nero Decree, 1945 decree of Adolf Hitler

See also

• Neron (disambiguation)
• Nerone (disambiguation)
• Nervo (disambiguation)