Homer (disambiguation)
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Homer is the name given to the purported author of the Ancient Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer can also refer to:
Places
In the United States:
- Homer, Alaska
- Homer, Georgia
- Homer, Illinois
- Homer, Indiana
- Homer, Kansas
- Homer, Louisiana
- Homer, Michigan
- Homer, Minnesota
- Homer, Nebraska
- Homer (town), New York
- Homer, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Homer, Union County, Ohio, a ghost town
- Homer, Texas
- Homer, Wisconsin
See also: Homer City, Pennsylvania and Homer Township (disambiguation)
In England:
In outer space:
- Homer (crater), a crater on Mercury
Other uses
- Homer (name)
- Homer (film), a 1970 drama film
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter
- Homer Simpson, a character in the The Simpsons.
- A home run in the sport of baseball
- Homer (unit), a unit of volume
- Homing beacon (also known as a "homer"), a type of tracking transmitter
- Homer, the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mil Mi-12 helicopter
- A Racing Homer, a type of racing pigeon
- HOMER1, or Homer homolog 1 (Drosophila), a human gene
- Prince Homer, a small truck produced by the Prince Motor Company and later by Nissan
- SS Homer a steamer scuttled in Arkansas during the American Civil War
See also
- Homerus of Byzantium (c. 280 BC), grammarian and tragic poet
- 5700 Homerus, an asteroid named after the Greek poet
- Homeric (disambiguation)
- Omero, the Italian version of the given name Homer
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