Napoleon (disambiguation)

Napoleon is a first name that some say derives from Neapolis (Naples) and would have originally meant "from Naples". Others claim it is of Greek origin (Napoleon) and comes from napè or napos meaning "(forest) valley" and leon meaning "lion" which would mean that Napoleon means "lion of the valley" or similar. Several things to do with France are called Napoleon. Things, places and people called Napoleon include:

In relation to Napoleon Bonaparte

• Napoleon I of France (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821; reigned 1804-1814)
• Napoleonic Wars, the name given to the military conflicts connected to Napoleon I
• Code Napoleon, (or Napoleonic code) a legal code instituted by Napoleon I in France in 1803
• Napoleonic Era is a name given to describe the time period of Napoleon's activities

Most later cases of "Napoleon" as the name of a person, place etc. is also derived directly or indirectly from Napoleon Bonaparte.

People

Bonaparte

• Napoleon II of France, Napoleon's son Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, King of Rome, (1811-1832) who never reigned in France
• Napoleon III of France, Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808-1873), President of France from 1849 to 1852, and then Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon III from 1852 to 1870
• Louis Bonaparte, Louis I Napoleon Bonaparte (1778-1846), King of Holland from 1806 to 1810; father of the above, brother of Napoleon I
• Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, son of Louis Bonaparte, succeeded his father as King of Holland and reigned for ten days only in 1810
• Joseph Bonaparte, Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte (1768-1844), King of Naples from 1806 to 1808 and King of Spain from 1808 to 1813; brother of Napoleon I
• Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Canino
• Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822-1891), son of Jérôme Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg
• Prince Napoléon Bonaparte of Canino, Lucien Bonaparte's descendent

Other

• Napoleon (rapper) (1977- ), a Muslim rapper
• Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909
• Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, Civil War officer, businessman, and builder of the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia, Kansas
• Napoleon Chagnon, American anthropologist
• José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador
• Napoleon Hill (1883–1970), self-help and financial writer
• Napoleone Orsini, Italian condottiero
• Napoleon Perdis, Australian make-up artist and businessman
• Napoleon XIV (1938- ), a comedic singer best known for "They're Coming To Take Me Away"

Fiction

• Napoléon (film), a 1927 film by Abel Gance about Napoleon I
• Napoleon (play), 1927 stage play written by George S. Kaufman and originally featuring The Marx Brothers
• Napoléon (1955 film), a 1955 film by Sacha Guitry about Napoleon I
• Napoléon (miniseries) is the title of a 2002 miniseries
• Napoleon (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm
• Napoleon Bonaparte (fictional detective), a fictional half-caste Aborigine detective, created by Australian author Arthur Upfield
• Napoleon Dynamite, a 2004 film by Jared Hess and its lead character
• Vice Principal Napolean, a character in the anime of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Bonaparte in the American dub)
• Napoleon Wilson, a main character in John Carpenter's 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13
• Napoleon (2007 TV serial), a recently-filmed BBC production
• Napoleon Solo, fictional TV secret agent
• Napoleon (1995 movie), 1995 Australian movie about a Labrador named Napoleon

Military

• Le Napoléon (1850), the first steam battleship in history
• Napoleon, the nickname of the M1857 smoothbore 12-pounder field gun in the American Civil War

Places

In the United States:

• Napoleon, Alabama
• Napoleon, Indiana
• Napoleon, Kentucky
• Napoleon, Michigan
• Napoleon, Mississippi
• Napoleon, Missouri
• Napoleon, North Dakota
• Napoleon, Ohio

Computer and video games

• Napoleon (GBA game), a turn-based strategy game
• Napoleon (GMX Media), a real-time strategy game
• Napoleon (Collision Studios), another real-time strategy game
• Napoleon: Interactive Battle Simulator a game made by PBS

Other

• Napoleon, an alternate name for the mille-feuille pastry
• Napoleon (coin), a French gold coin
• Napoleon (card game), a British trick-taking card game
• Napoleon, another name for the card game FreeCell
• Napoleon Opening, a chess opening named after Napoleon Bonaparte who supposedly played it against The Turk
• Napoleon Gambit, a variation of the Scotch Game, a chess opening
• Napoleon complex, a psychological inferiority complex suffered by people who are short
• Napoleone (Italian comics), an Italian comics series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore
• Napoleon's problem, a question in geometry
• Napoleonite, a variety of diorite
• Napoleon (band), a pop soul band from Uppsala, Sweden

See also

• Neapolitan