Nimrod (disambiguation)
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Nimrod, king of Shinar, was, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush and great-grandson of Noah.
Nimrod may also refer to:
Places
- Nimrod Province, Afghanistan
- Valley of Nimrod, referenced in the Book of Mormon
- Nimrud or Nimrod city, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
Antarctica
- Nimrod Glacier
- Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency
Golan Heights
- Nimrod, Golan Heights, an Israeli settlement and village
- Nimrod Fortress
United States
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 now retired
- British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3, an aircraft of which eleven examples were built in the late 1970s/early 1980s
- BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4, an aircraft of which five examples were built in the early 21st century
- Nimrod (AFV), a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
- Nimrod (missile), an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
Vehicles
- 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
Science and technology
- Nimrod (computing), 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
Entertainment
- Nimrod (album), a 1997 album by Green Day
- Variation IX (Adagio) "Nimrod", the 9th variation in the 1899 composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
- Nimrod, a railroad car in the television series The Wild Wild West
- Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
- Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel, a monster from the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
People
- Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author, pseudonym Nimrod
- John Henderson (pen name Nimrod), the editor of The Inquisitor series of crosswords in The Independent and a prolific compiler himself
- Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
- Nimród Antal (born 1973), Hungarian-American film director
- Nimrod Kamer, satirist and journalist
- Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli swimmer
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
Other uses
- Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose, a literary journal published by the University of Tulsa
- Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools