Hero

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A hero is a person who performs extraordinary deeds for the benefit of others.

Hero may also refer to:

Heroic figures

• Hero (title), a title presented by governments to their citizens for great achievements
• A demigod worshipped in the Greek hero cult

Given name

• Hero and Leander, a Greek legend
• Hero of Alexandria, ancient mathematician
• Hero the younger, ancient Greek physicist
• Hero (singer), stage name of a member of the Korean boy band TVXQ

Literature

• Hero (novel)
• A female character in the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing

Film

Music

Album

• Hero (album), by Kirk Franklin
• Hero (van Canto album), by van Canto
• Heroine (album), by From First to Last
• Heroine, an album by the Wild Strawberries
• HEROINE (Minori Chihara album)
• Hero (Charlotte Perrelli album)

Song

• "Hero" (Mariah Carey song)
• "Hero" (Chad Kroeger song), featured in the film Spider-Man
• "Hero" (Enrique Iglesias song)
• "Hero" (Nas song)
• "Hero" (Superchick song)
• "Hero" (Charlotte Perrelli song)
• "Hero" (Europe song)
• "Hero/Heroine", a song by Boys Like Girls
• "Hero" (David Crosby song), a song by David Crosby and Phil Collins on the album Thousand Roads
• "Hero", a song by Bethany Dillon on the album Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• "Hero", a song by Darren Hayes on the album The Tension and the Spark
• "Hero", a song by Ministry, featured in the game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
• "Hero", a song by Ozzy Osbourne on the album No Rest for the Wicked
• "Hero", a song by Linnéa Handberg Lund
• "Hero", a song by Machinae Supremacy
• "Hero", a song by Skillet
• "Hero", a song by Zion I & The Grouch from Heroes in the City of Dope
• "Heroine", a song by Nami Tamaki on the album Make Progress
• "Hero", a song by Arashi

Other

• !Hero, a rock opera
• Justin Cassell, a calypso musician
• A character in the Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Television

• Hero (TV channel), an anime channel in the Philippines
• Hero (2001 TV series), a Japanese drama
• Hero (2009 TV series), a Korean drama
• "Hero" (Angel), a 1999 episode of Angel
• "Hero" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2006 episode of Battlestar Galactica
• "Hero" (Sanctuary)", an episode of Sanctuary
• Captain Hero, a character on the TV series Drawn Together

Comics

• H.E.R.O. (comics), a comic book series
• Hero, a fictional horse used by the Phantom
• Hero, a character in the web comic RPG World
• Hero Brown, a character in the comic book series Y: The Last Man
• Hero or Shen, a character in Dragon Ball media

Gaming

• H.E.R.O., a 1984 computer and video game
• Hero Online, an online roleplaying game
• Hero System, a generic roleplaying game system published by Hero Games

Technology

• Hero (helio), a wireless mobile device
• HERO (robot), a series of educational robots
• HTC Hero, a smartphone running the Android platform

Sports

• HERO'S, a mixed martial arts organization
• Chris Hero, American professional wrestler

Manufacturing companies

• Hero Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer
• Hero Honda, a motorcycle manufacturer
• Hero Group, a fruit product manufacturer

Other uses

• H.E.R.O. (Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK), a website of the United Kingdom educational system
• H.E.R.O. (Highway Emergency Response Operator), a program of the Georgia Department of Transportation
• Heroic (horse), an Australian racehorse
• A locomotive of the South Devon Railway Dido class
• HMS Hero, the name of six ships of the British Royal Navy
• Hero, a British sloop used by Nathaniel B. Palmer to explore the Antarctic Peninsula between 1820 and 1822
• Hero Parade, a gay pride parade in New Zealand
• Hero sandwich
• Hyper extremely red objects (HEROs) are astronomical energy sources that radiate mainly in the red part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and have unusually high levels of infrared emission. These are thought to be very highly redshifted galaxies.
• Hero (title) is the title of an official honour in many countries.
• "Agent Hero," codename for the Soviet double-agent Oleg Penkovsky.

See also

• Heros (disambiguation)
• Heroes (disambiguation)
• Heroin (disambiguation)
• The Hero (disambiguation)
• Antihero
• Superhero

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