# Nero (disambiguation)

Nero (37–68 AD) was the Roman emperor from 54 to 68 AD.
Nero may also refer to:

## People

* Any male member of the Claudii Nerones family of gens Claudia may be called Nero to distinguish them from other clan members
* Nero Julius Caesar (6–31 AD), related to some emperors
* Gaius Claudius Nero, Roman consul and hero of the Battle of the Metaurus in 207 BC
* Nero Hawley (1742–1817), freed slave and soldier in the Continental Army
* Franco Nero (born 1941), Italian actor
* Peter Nero (1934–2023), American pianist and composer
* Nero Bellum, lead singer of the musical group Psyclon Nine
* Ranjith Premasiri Madalana (died 2009), alias Nero, decorated Sri Lanka Army sniper

## Places

* Nero, Kentucky, United States
* Nero, Mozambique
* Nero, West Virginia, United States
* Nero Island, an uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
* Lake Nero, in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
* Nero, the German name for Nerău village, Teremia Mare Commune, Timiș County, Romania

## Art, entertainment, and media
### Comics

* The Adventures of Nero, a Belgian comics series
* Nero and Zero, a British comic strip

### Characters

* Nero (comic book character), the protagonist in the Flemish comic book character The Adventures of Nero
* Nero (Devil May Cry), a character in the video game series Devil May Cry
* Nero Wolfe, a fictional detective
* A character in the British 1930s comic strip Nero and Zero
* Alex Nero, a supervillain opponent of the Green Lantern
* Barone Nero, a character from Ressha Sentai ToQger
* Angelica Nero, a character in season 9 of Dallas (1978 TV series)
* Nero, a character in Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
* Nero, a character from the manga and anime One Piece
* Nero, a character in the British children's series 4 O'Clock Club
* Nero the Sable, member of the fictional Tsviets of Deepground in Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
* Nero, a minor villain in the British cartoon series Danger Mouse
* Nero, a Servant of the Saber class in Fate/Extra and Fate/Extella video games
* Nero, a character in Derek Landy's book Bedlam, book 12 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series
* Nero, a Romulan captain from the 2009 Star Trek film
* Nero Padilla, a main character on the television series Sons of Anarchy
* Vice-Principal Nero, a character from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

### Film

* Nero-Film, a German film production company of the Weimar era
* Nero (1909 film), an Italian film directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio
* Nero (1922 film), an American-Italian historical film directed by J. Gordon Edwards
* Nero (1992 film), an Italian crime comedy film written and directed by Giancarlo Soldi
* Nero (2004 film), a television film

### Games

* New England Role-playing Organization, a live action role-playing game
* National Emergency Response Organization, a fictional institution in the game Days Gone

### Music

* Nero (band), an electronic music trio composed of Daniel Stephens, Joe Ray, and Alana Watson
* Nero, a 1705 opera by George Frideric Handel, HWV 2
* Nero (opera), an 1879 grand opera by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Jules Barbier
* Nero (Closterkeller album), 2003
* Nero (Two Steps from Hell album), or the title song
* "Nero" (song), a 2023 single by Godflesh
* "Nero", a 1981 single by post-punk band Theatre of Hate
* "Nero the Second", an Anglo-Irish Jacobite song of the 18th century
* "Black Cat" (aka Nero), a song by the South Korean group Turbo

## Software

* Nero AG, German software company (formerly known as Ahead Software), and its products:
** Nero Burning ROM, CD/DVD authoring application
** Nero Digital, suite of MPEG-4-compatible audio and video compression codecs
** Nero Multimedia Suite, a suite of CD/DVD authoring tools and digital entertainment products that includes Nero Burning ROM, among other software
* Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, a video game in which soldiers are evolved with the neuroevolution of augmenting topologies algorithm

## Other uses

* Nero (confectionery), a Norwegian liquorice-based dark chocolate confection
* Nero (yacht), one of the world's largest luxury yachts
* Nero d'Avola, Sicilian red wine grape variety
* Nero Decree, a 1945 decree of Adolf Hitler
* Caffè Nero, a chain of coffee houses