Nimrod (disambiguation)
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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 (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
- Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface
- Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel, a villain in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
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 famous 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
- Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
- Nimród Antal (born 1973), Hungarian-American film director
- Nimrod Kamer, satirist and journalist
- Nimrod Mashiah (born 1988), Israeli windsurfer
- Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli Olympic swimmer
Places
- Nimrod Province, Afghanistan
- Valley of Nimrod, referenced in the Book of Mormon
- Nimrod city, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
- Nemrut (volcano) in east Turkey
Antarctica
- Nimrod Glacier
- Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency
Golan Heights
- Nimrod, Golan Heights, an Israeli settlement and village
- Nimrod Fortress
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 (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
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
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