Nimrod

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Nimrod (Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד‎) means "Hunter"; was a Biblical Mesopotamian king mentioned in the Table of Nations.

Nimrod can also refer to any of the following:

• Nimród Antal, a film director
• Nimrod (synchrotron), 8 GeV proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978
• 9.3X82 RWG Nimrod, a black powder cartridge dating back to the 1890s

Places:

• Nimrod (Israel), a village on the Golan Heights
• Nimrod, Minnesota
• Nimrod, Oregon
• Nimrod Fortress, on the Golan Heights
• Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
• Nimrod Province in Afghanistan
• Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia

Vehicles:

• 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 now supported by BAE Systems
• Nimrod (AFV), a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
• Nimrod (missile), an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
• Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
• 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.

In computing:

• Nimrod (computing), early computer to play Nim
• Nimrod (distributed computing), tools for distributed parametric modeling
• Nimrod Look and Feel (computing), a Java Look and Feel coded by Nilo J. González

In music:

• The 9th variation in the composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
• Nimrod (album), an album by Green Day
• Pseudonym of August Jaeger, an Anglo-German music publisher

In entertainment:

• Pseudonym of Charles James Apperley, an English sportsman and author
• Nimrod (Doctor Who), a villain in Doctor Who audio plays
• Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant hunter originating from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men
• Nimrod (vampire), a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series
• Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
• A railroad car in the television series The Wild Wild West
• The Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools featured in ESPN advertisements
• Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface