Hero
Hero stands for:
- an Aphrodite priestess in the Greek saga, see Hero and Leander
- one of the female lead roles in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
- an East Frisian male first name
- Code name for the Soviet double agent Oleg Wladimirowitsch Penkowski (1919–1963)
- Hero (company) , Swiss food manufacturer
- HMS Hero , several ships of the British Royal Navy
- Hero (band) , a former American rock band
- Hero (album) , an album by the American singer Kirk Franklin
- Hero (Chad-Kroeger-Lied) , a song by Chad Kroeger (2002)
- Hero (song) , a song by the Swedish singer Charlotte Perrelli (2008)
- Hero-Werke , a former German automobile manufacturer
- Hero MotoCorp , an Indian motorcycle manufacturer
- colloquially the opioid heroin
- an Android-based cell phone model from HTC Corporation, see HTC Hero
- a camera series from GoPro
- Hero Bay , Livingston Island Bay in the Archipelago of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Hero Fracture Zone , rift valley in Drake Passage, Antarctica
- Hero Inlet , Bay of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
Hero is the family name of the following people:
- Chris Hero (actually: Chris Spradlin ; * 1979), American wrestler
- Julia Hero (* 1992), German volleyball player
HERO is an abbreviation for:
- HERO , Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH , until the end of 2016 the name for Rostock Port GmbH in the port of Rostock
- HERO (Helicopter Equiped Rescue Operation), video game by John van Ryzin released in 1984
- HERO (robot) , a series of educational robot models developed in the 1980s by Heathkit
Hero is the title of the following films:
- Hero (1983)
- Hero (1988) , American action film with Chuck Norris
- The Hero , action film (1995)
- Hero (2002) , a 2002 film directed by Zhang Yimou
- The Hero: Love Story of a Spy , Indian film (2003)
- The Hero (2017) , American film directed by Brett Haley
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