Nimrod (disambiguation)

Nimrod is a biblical king.

Nimrod may also refer to:

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
• Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant-hunter from Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men series
• Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
• Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel, a villain in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

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, 1969–2011
• BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4, a planned upgrade of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, developed in the 2000s
• British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3, a planned AEW version of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, developed in the late 1970s/early 1980s
• 40M Nimród, a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
• Nimrod (missile), an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
• Operation Nimrod, the SAS assault during the Iranian Embassy siege, London, 1980

Music

• Nimrod (album), a 1997 album by Green Day
• Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod", the famous 9th variation in the 1899 composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
• Nimrod, a band fronted by Zev Asher

People

• Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author, pseudonym Nimrod
• Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
• Nimród Antal (born 1973), Hungarian-American film director
• Nimrod Kamer, satirist and journalist
• Nimrod Mashiah (born 1988), Israeli windsurfer
• Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli Olympic swimmer

Places

• Nimrod Province, Afghanistan
• Valley of Nimrod, referenced in the Book of Mormon
• Nimrod city, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
• Nemrut (volcano) in east Turkey

Antarctica

• Nimrod Glacier
• Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency

Golan Heights

• Nimrod, Golan Heights, an Israeli settlement and village
• Nimrod Fortress

United States

• Nimrod, Arkansas
• Nimrod, Minnesota
• Nimrod, Montana
• Nimrod, Oregon
• Nimrod, Texas

Science and technology

• Nimrod (computer), an early computer to play Nim
• Nimrod (distributed computing), a tool for distributed parametric modelling
• Nimrod (synchrotron), a proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978
• Nimrod (programming language), former name of Nim
• Project NIMROD, a meteorological field study

Vehicles

• List of ships named Nimrod
  • Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
    • Nimrod Expedition, to the Antarctic
• 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

Other uses

• Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, a literary journal published by the University of Tulsa
• Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools
• Nimrod, a dramatic poem by Robert William Jameson

See also

• Nimrud (disambiguation)