# Nimrod (disambiguation)

Nimrod is a biblical king.
Nimrod may also refer to:

## Fictional characters

* Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
* 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
* Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
* Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel, a villain in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
* Nimrod, a character from Robert Ludlum's The Matlock Paper

## 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, 1969–2011
** BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4, a planned upgrade of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, developed in the 2000s
** British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3, a planned AEW version of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, developed in the late 1970s/early 1980s
* 40M Nimród, a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
* Nimrod (missile), an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
* Operation Nimrod, the SAS assault during the Iranian Embassy siege, London, 1980

## Music

* 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 band fronted by Zev Asher

## People

* Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author, pseudonym Nimrod
* Nimród Antal (born 1973), Hungarian-American film director
* Nimrod Botelanga (1953 or 1954–2013), Nauruan politician
* Nimrod Kamer (born 1981), satirist and journalist
* Nimrod Levi (born 1995), Israeli basketball player
* Nimrod Mashiah (born 1988), Israeli windsurfer
* Nimrod Megiddo, 20th-21st century Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
* Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
* Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli Olympic swimmer
* Nimrod Tishman (born 1991), Israeli basketball player
* Nimrod Workman (1895–1994), American folk singer and trade unionist

## Places

* Nimrod Province, Afghanistan
* Nimrod city, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
* Nemrut (volcano), Turkey

### Antarctica

* Nimrod Glacier
* Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency

### Golan Heights

* Nimrod, Golan Heights, an Israeli settlement and village
* Nimrod Fortress

### United States

* Nimrod, Arkansas
* Nimrod, Minnesota
* Nimrod, Montana
* Nimrod, Oregon
* Nimrod, Texas

## Science and technology

* Nimrod (computer), 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
* Project NIMROD, a meteorological field study

## Vehicles

* List of ships named Nimrod
** Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
*** Nimrod Expedition, to the Antarctic
* 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

## Other uses

* Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, a literary journal published by the University of Tulsa
* Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools
* Nimrod, a dramatic poem by Robert William Jameson
* Nimrod (sculpture), a sculpture by Yitzhak Danziger
* Valley of Nimrod, referenced in the Book of Mormon