Nero (disambiguation)

Nero (37–68 AD) was Roman emperor from 54 to 68 AD.

Nero may also refer to:

People

• Any male member of the Claudii Nerones family of gens Claudia may be called Nero to distinguish them from other clan members
• Nero Julius Caesar (6–31 AD), related to some emperors
• Gaius Claudius Nero, Roman consul and hero of the Battle of the Metaurus in 207 BC
• Nero Hawley (1742–1817), freed slave and soldier in the Continental Army
• Franco Nero (born 1941), Italian actor
• Peter Nero (1934–2023), American pianist and composer
• Nero Bellum, lead singer of the musical group Psyclon Nine
• Ranjith Premasiri Madalana (died 2009), alias Nero, decorated Sri Lanka Army sniper

Places

• Nero, Kentucky, United States
• Nero, Mozambique
• Nero, West Virginia, United States
• Nero Island, an uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
• Lake Nero, in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
• Nero, the German name for Nerău village, Teremia Mare Commune, Timiș County, Romania

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• The Adventures of Nero, a Belgian comics series
• Nero and Zero, a British comic strip

Characters

• Nero (comic book character), the protagonist in the Flemish comic book character The Adventures of Nero
• Nero (Devil May Cry), a character in the video game series Devil May Cry
• Nero Wolfe, a fictional detective
• A character in the British 1930s comic strip Nero and Zero
• Alex Nero, a supervillain opponent of the Green Lantern
• Barone Nero, a character from Ressha Sentai ToQger
• Angelica Nero, a character in season 9 of Dallas (1978 TV series)
• Nero, a character in Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
• Nero, a character from the manga and anime One Piece
• Nero, a character in the British children's series 4 O'Clock Club
• Nero the Sable, member of the fictional Tsviets of Deepground in Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
• Nero, a minor villain in the British cartoon series Danger Mouse
• Nero, a Servant of the Saber class in Fate/Extra and Fate/Extella video games
• Nero, a character in Derek Landy's book Bedlam, book 12 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series
• Nero, a Romulan captain from the 2009 Star Trek film
• Nero Padilla, a main character on the television series Sons of Anarchy
• Vice-Principal Nero, a character from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Film

• Nero-Film, a German film production company of the Weimar era
• Nero (1909 film), an Italian film directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio
• Nero (1922 film), an American-Italian historical film directed by J. Gordon Edwards
• Nero (1992 film), an Italian crime comedy film written and directed by Giancarlo Soldi
• Nero (2004 film), a television film

Games

• New England Role-playing Organization, a live action role-playing game
• National Emergency Response Organization, a fictional institution in the game Days Gone

Music

• Nero (band), an electronic music trio composed of Daniel Stephens, Joe Ray, and Alana Watson
• Nero, a 1705 opera by George Frideric Handel, HWV 2
• Nero (opera), an 1879 grand opera by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Jules Barbier
• Nero (Closterkeller album), 2003
• Nero (Two Steps from Hell album), or the title song
• "Nero" (song), a 2023 single by Godflesh
• "Nero", a 1981 single by post-punk band Theatre of Hate
• "Nero the Second", an Anglo-Irish Jacobite song of the 18th century
• "Black Cat" (aka Nero), a song by the South Korean group Turbo

Software

• Nero AG, German software company (formerly known as Ahead Software), and its products:
  • Nero Burning ROM, CD/DVD authoring application
  • Nero Digital, suite of MPEG-4-compatible audio and video compression codecs
  • Nero Multimedia Suite, a suite of CD/DVD authoring tools and digital entertainment products that includes Nero Burning ROM, among other software
• Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, a video game in which soldiers are evolved with the neuroevolution of augmenting topologies algorithm

Other uses

• Nero (confectionery), a Norwegian liquorice-based dark chocolate confection
• Nero (yacht), one of the world's largest luxury yachts
• Nero d'Avola, Sicilian red wine grape variety
• Nero Decree, a 1945 decree of Adolf Hitler
• Caffè Nero, a chain of coffee houses

See also

• Niro (disambiguation)
• Neron (disambiguation)
• Nerone (disambiguation)
• Nervo (disambiguation)