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Nimrod may refer to:

• Nimrod (king) or Nemrod or Namrood, a Mesopotamian king mentioned in the Bible, an eponym for the location
• Pseudonym of Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author
• Pseudonym of August Jaeger, Anglo-German music publisher.

• Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia, originally built at some time before 2200BC, and becoming the capital of Assyria in the 13th century BC
• Nimrod Fortress, on Golan Heights
• Nimrod, Israel, a village on Golan Heights
• Nimrod, Minnesota
• Nimrod, Oregon
• Mount Nimrod, in Maungati, New Zealand
• Nimrod Province in Afghanistan

• Hawker Nimrod, a 1930s British fighter aircraft
• Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft now supported by BAE Systems

• Nimrod (Lasertag), The Code Name for one member of Team Overpower, the two-time World Champion Lasertron team.
• The Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools featured in ESPN advertisements.
• Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
• The 9th variation in the composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
• nimrod., an album by Green Day
• Nimrod (Doctor Who), a villain in Doctor Who audio plays
• Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant hunter originating from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men
• Nimrod (dracula), a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series
• Nimrod (computing), early computer to play Nim
• Nimrod (distributed computing), tools for distributed parametric modelling
• Nimrod (font), a serif typeface and font designed for early laser printing
• A song by Pixies called Nimrod's Son
• Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
• Nimrod (band), thrash metal band based in Uppsala, Sweden
• Nimrod (slang), a silly or foolish person
• Nimrod (synchrotron), 8 GeV proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978.
• 9.3X82 RWG Nimrod, a black powder cartridge dating back to the 1890s. It was designed for use in a single-shot rifle for game the size of small deer.
• Nimrod (person), a fictional character from an episode of Hogan's Heroes - Hogan made the Germans think that Colonel Klink was Nimrod - an undercover British spy so that they would trade him for the head of the underground.
• Nimrod or Nim, a reptile in the television series Surface.
• Nimrod, a railroad car in the television series The Wild Wild West.

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