Hero (disambiguation)

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A hero is a person who performs extraordinary deeds for the benefit of others.

Hero may also refer to:

People

• Hero (given name), the personal name
• Hero (singer), stage name of Kim Jaejoong (born 1986), former member of Korean boy band TVXQ and current member of JYJ
• Hero, stage name of Justin Cassell (fl. 1950s), Montserratian calypso musician
• Agent Hero, codename for Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky (1919–1963)
• Hero of Alexandria (c. 10–70 AD), ancient Greek mathematician
• Hero the Younger (fl. 938), Byzantine land surveyor

Ancient religion

• Hero, someone worshipped in the Greek hero cult
• Hero, priestess of Aphrodite in the Greek myth of Hero and Leander

Arts, entertainment, and media

Government

• Hero (title), a title presented by governments to their citizens for great achievements
• Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK, a website of the United Kingdom educational system
• Highway Emergency Response Operators, a program of the Georgia (U.S.) Department of Transportation
• Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, city ordinance in Houston, Texas later repealed by referendum

Manufacturing companies

• Hero Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer
• Hero Group, a fruit product manufacturer
• Hero MotoCorp, an Indian motorcycle manufacturer
• Shanghai Hero Pen Company

Science

• Hero (genus), a genus of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Heroidae
• High-Energy Replicated Optics (HERO) a balloon-borne high-altitude X-ray telescope
• Hyper Extremely Red Objects (HEROs), astronomical sources of radiation with extreme redshift

Sports and racing

• Hero's, a mixed martial arts organization
• HERO, HERO2, HERO3, and HERO4, generations of sports cameras made by GoPro

Technology

• HERO (robot), a series of educational robots
• Hero image, a large graphic with a small amount of text, at the top of a page.
• HTC Hero, a smartphone running the Android platform

Transportation

• Hero (pinnace), a steam-powered boat
• Hero (sloop), a British sloop used by Nathaniel B. Palmer to explore the Antarctic Peninsula between 1820 and 1822
• Hero, a locomotive of the South Devon Railway Dido class
• HMS Hero, six ships of the British Royal Navy

Other uses

• Hero, a roller coaster at Flamingo Land Resort.
• Hero prop, a highly detailed prop in a theater or film production intended for close-up viewing
• Hero sandwich, a regional name for a submarine sandwich
• Hero stone, the name for many old memorials found all over India

See also

• Antihero
• Heroes (disambiguation)
• Heros (disambiguation)
• Heroic (horse) (1921–1939), Australian racehorse
• Heroine (disambiguation)
• Hiro (disambiguation)
• People's Hero (disambiguation)
• Superhero
• The Hero (disambiguation)
• The Heroes (disambiguation)