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A hero is somebody who performs great and noble deeds of bravery.

Hero may also refer to:

People

• Hero of Alexandria (c. 10–70 AD), ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
• Hero (given name), including a list of people with the given name
• Hero (singer) (Kim Jaejoong, born 1986), South Korean singer
• Justin Cassell (fl. 1950s), known as Hero, Montserratian calypso musician
• Oleg Penkovsky (1919–1963), codename Hero, Soviet double agent
• Hero of Byzantium, mid-10th century Byzantine author

Arts, entertainment and media

Businesses and organisations

• Hero Certified Burgers, a Canadian restaurant chain
• Hero Motors Company, an Indian company group
  • Hero Cycles, an Indian bicycle manufacturer
  • Hero MotoCorp, formerly Hero Honda, an Indian motorcycle manufacturer
  • Hero Motors, a former Indian moped and scooter manufacturer
• Hero Group, a Swiss food company
• Hero (supermarket), a retail chain in Indonesia
• Hero Tires, a brand of Federal Corporation
• Shanghai Hero Pen Company, Chinese manufacturer of the Hero fountain pen
• Highway Emergency Response Operators, in Georgia, U.S.

Mythology

• Hero, the general concept
• Hero (Greece), the mortal offspring of a human and a god, or a man more than human but less than a god
• Hero, priestess of Aphrodite in the Greek myth of Hero and Leander
• Hero (son of Priam), one of the sons of king Priam

Science and technology

• Hero (gastropod), a genus in the family Heroidae
• HERO (robot), a series of 1980s educational robots
• HTC Hero, a smartphone
• HERO camera series by GoPro
• High-Energy Replicated Optics, a high-altitude X-ray telescope
• Hyper extremely red objects, astronomical sources of radiation with extreme redshift

Transportation and military

• Hero (pinnace), a steam-powered boat, launched 1895
• Hero (1807 ship), a British whaler
• Hero (sloop), that explored the Antarctic in 1820
• Hero-class patrol vessels, nine ships of the Canadian Coast Guard
• RV Hero, an Antarctic research 1968–2017
• HMS Hero, several ships of the Royal Navy
• Hero, a South Devon Railway Dido class locomotive
• Hamilton-class cutter of the U.S. Coast Guard, some of which are known as "Hero class"
• Hero, loitering munition systems by UVision Air

Other uses

• Hero (title), a title presented by governments to their citizens for great achievements
• Hero, a roller coaster at Flamingo Land Resort in Yorkshire, England
• Hero (sandwich), a New York name for a submarine sandwich
• Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK, a former British website
• Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or 2015 Houston, Texas Proposition 1
• North Hero, Vermont, a town in the United States

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hero
• All pages with titles containing Hero
• All pages with titles containing H.E.R.O.
• Heroes (disambiguation)
• Heros (disambiguation)
• Heroic (disambiguation)
• Heroine (disambiguation)
• Herro, given name and surname
• Herrö (disambiguation)
• Hiro (disambiguation)
• The Hero (disambiguation)
• The Heroes (disambiguation)
• Superhero (disambiguation)
• Antihero
• Greek hero cult
• Hero's, a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion
• 英雄 (disambiguation)