Homer (disambiguation)

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Homer is the name given to the purported author of the Ancient Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Homer can also refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Fictional people 2 Places 3 Other uses 4 See also

[edit] People

• Homerus of Byzantium (c. 280 BC) Grammarian and tragic poet
• Winslow Homer (1836-1910), an American painter
• Homer Hickam, an aerospace engineer whose youth was depicted in the 1999 film October Sky
• Homer Ledford, an instrument maker and bluegrass musician
• Mark Homer, a British actor

[edit] Fictional people

• Homer Simpson, a cartoon character in the television series The Simpsons
• Homer Simpson, a fictional character in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation
• Homer Price, a fictional character in Homer Price and Centerburg Tales, children's books by Robert McCloskey
• Homer Wells, the protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules
• Homer, a ghost dog in the television series Ghost Whisperer
• Homer, the sidekick of Snidely Whiplash
• Homer the Homeless Goose, a goose that has represented the homeless in Austin, Texas, USA since 1988
• "Homer", the corporate character of Home Depot
• Homer Singh, a fictional character in a popular Punjabi novel Samundar Ka Pyar ('The Love of Ocean') written by Jagmohan Mann.

[edit] Places

In the United States:

• Homer, Alaska
• Homer, Georgia
• Homer, Illinois
• Homer, Indiana
• Homer, Louisiana
• Homer, Michigan
• Homer, Minnesota
• Homer, Nebraska
• Homer (village), New York
• Homer (town), New York
• Homer, Ohio
• Homer, Texas

See also: Homer City, Pennsylvania and Homer Township

In England:

• Homer, Shropshire

In Space:

• Homer (crater), a crater on Mercury
• 5700 Homerus, an asteroid named after the Greek poet

[edit] Other uses

• Slang for a home run in the sport of baseball
• Homer (unit), a unit of volume
• Homing beacon (also known as a "homer"), a type of tracking transmitter
• Homer, the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mil Mi-12 helicopter
• A racing homer, a type of racing pigeon.

[edit] See also

• Homeric (disambiguation)