Hero (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Film 2 Television 2.1 Episodes 3 Music 3.1 Songs 4 Gaming 5 People 5.1 Fiction 6 Sports 7 National decorations 8 Other 9 See also

A hero (male) or heroine (female) is a person of great bravery who performs extraordinary and praiseworthy deeds.

Hero, heroes or HERO may also refer to:

[edit] Film

• Hero (2002 film), a Chinese film starring Jet Li
• Hero (1995 film), a Hong Kong film starring Jessica Hsuan
• Hero (1992 film), an American film starring Dustin Hoffman
• Hero (1986 film), official film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico
• Hero (1983 film), a Bollywood film starring Jackie Shroff
• Heroes (film), a 1977 Vietnam vet returns with Henry Winkler and Sally Field
• Heroism (film), a 1958 Polish film

[edit] Television

• Heroes (TV series), a 2006 American television series on NBC created by Tim Kring
• Hero (TV channel), an anime cable channel in the Philippines
• Hero (TV series), a 2001 Japanese drama
• Hero, an Indian television show for kids shown on hugama TV

[edit] Episodes

• Hero (Angel episode), an episode of Angel
• Heroes (Stargate SG-1), a two-part episode of Stargate SG-1
• Hero (Battlestar Galactica), an episode of Battlestar Galactica
• Heroes, an episode of CSI: NY

[edit] Music

• Heroes (1993 album), by Mark O'Connor
• !Hero, a rock opera based on the story of Jesus
• "Heroes", an album by David Bowie
• Hero (album), a gospel album by singer Kirk Franklin
• Héroes del Silencio, Spanish rock band
• Heroes of Sand, song by the Brazilian metal band Angra
• Heroes (Cash and Jennings album), a 1986 album by Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings
• Heroine (album), by post-hardcore band From First to Last
• Heroine (band), an all-female Seattle rock band

[edit] Songs

• "Hero", a song by Ozzy Osbourne from his 1988 album No Rest for the Wicked
• "Hero" (Chad Kroeger song), a single from the film Spider-Man
• "Hero" (Enrique Iglesias song)
• "Hero" (Mariah Carey song)
• "Hero", a song by David Crosby and Phil Collins from Crosby's 1993 album Thousand Roads
• "Hero" (Superchick song)
• "HERO", a song originally to be included on Utada Hikaru's "Boku wa Kuma" single
• Heroes (song), the same-titled single from a David Bowie album
  • Symphony No. 4 (Glass) or "Heroes" Symphony, by Philip Glass, inspired by the album
• "Heroes", a single by the hard rock band Shinedown
• "Heroes" (Elena Paparizou song), the official song of the 2006 European Athletics Championship

[edit] Gaming

• H.E.R.O. (Helicopter Equipped Rescue Operation), a 1983 computer and video game
• Hero (computer game), an Angband inspired roguelike game written by Brad Miller
• No More Heroes, a video game originally known simply as Heroes
• Hero (Warcraft), a special type of unit in Warcraft III
• Hero System, a generic roleplaying game system published by Hero Games
• Hero (MMORPG), a Korean MMORPG
• Hero online, a MMORPG made my Netgames
• Heroes of Might and Magic, dubbed simply as Heroes by players, a series of turn-based strategy games

[edit] People

• Hero of Alexandria, ancient Greek mathematician
• Chris Hero, an American professional wrestler
• Justin "Hero" Cassell, a Montserratian Calypsonian
• Hero the younger, ancient Greek physicist
• Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, in the myth of Hero and Leander.

[edit] Fiction

• Superhero, a hero with extraordinary powers, usually starring in a comic book, television series, or film
• Anti-hero
• Hero and Leander, a Greek myth
• Hero, of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
• Hero, of the web comic RPG World
• Hero Brown, in the comic book series Y: The Last Man
• Captain Hero, a character on the Drawn Together animated television series
• Heroes (comics), a comic book limited series from Milestone Comics
• H.E.R.O. (comics), a short-lived comic book series of the early 2000s, loosely based on Dial H for Hero

[edit] Sports

• Hero, the name used for the strong safety position by the Penn State Nittany Lions football team
• HERO'S, a mixed martial arts organization based in Japan

[edit] National decorations

• Hero (title)
• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Hero of Socialist Labor
• Hero of Belarus
• Hero of the Russian Federation
• Hero of Ukraine

[edit] Other

• Hazards EM Ordnance (Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance)
• H.E.R.O. (Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK) - official gateway website to the UK higher education system
• HERO (robot), a series of hobby robots formerly sold by Heathkit
• Heroic (horse), champion Australian racehorse and sire of the 1930s
• Hero (novel), by Festus Iyayi
• The Hero Initiative (formerly known as ACTOR), a comic-book-based charity to help creators in need
• Hero Pen Company, a writing instrument manufacturer in China
• Hero Parade, a gay Pride Parade in New Zealand
• Hero sandwich, or submarine sandwich
• Heroes (book), a short novel by American author Robert Cormier
• GDOT HERO, Georgia Department of Transportation's highway emergency response operators
• Hero (1860–1887), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
• Heros genus, a genus of cichild fish that includes some aquarium fish
• Hero (helio), a wireless mobile device manufactured by Pantech Curitel and sold by Helio
• Hero group, A swiss manufactuer of food products - primarily jams and fruit juices

[edit] See also

• List of literary works with eponymous heroines
• Heroin (disambiguation)
• HMS Hero, the name of six historical ships of the British Royal Navy