Nimitz

Nimitz can refer to:

• Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz USN, (1885 – 1966)

or various things named in honor of Adm. Nimitz:

• Nimitz class aircraft carrier of US Navy aircraft carrier
• USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the lead ship of the above class
• Nimitz High School, Houston, Texas
• Nimitz High School, Irving, Texas
• Nimitz Elementary School, Sunnyvale, California
• Interstate 880, a.k.a. the Nimitz Freeway
• Hawaii Route 92, a.k.a. the Nimitz Highway
• Nimitz Hill - A hill on Guam three miles from the international airport. On August 7, 1997, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed here carrying 254 people. Only 26 survived.
• Nimitz, West Virginia
• Nimitz Glacier
• Nimitz Strike Group
• Nimitz Museum
• Nimitz Class, a naval thriller published in 1997 by Patrick Robinson

• Chester "Chet" William Nimitz, Jr. (1915 - 2002), an American officer and submarine commander
• Jack Nimitz (1930 – 2009), American musician

See also

• Nimitz High School (disambiguation)
• Nimitz Highway (disambiguation)

Related surnames

• Niemiec, Niemietz (Niemetz (de), Niemitz (de)) (< Polish: Niemiec)
• Niemz (Nimz, Nimtz (de)) (< Upper Sorbian: němc, Lower Sorbian: nimc)
• Nemetz (de)
• Němec