Homer (disambiguation)

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, a city
• Homer, Georgia, a town
• Homer, Illinois, a village
• Homer, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Homer, Iowa, an unincorporated community
• Homer, Louisiana, a town
• Homer, Michigan, a village
• Homer, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Homer, Nebraska, a village
• Homer, New York, a town
  • Homer (village), New York
• Homer, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Homer, Union County, Ohio, a ghost town
• Homer, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Homer, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Homer City, Pennsylvania
• Homer Township (disambiguation)

In England

• Homer, Shropshire, a village

In New Zealand

• Homer Saddle and Homer Tunnel, in Fiordland

In outer space

• Homer (crater), on Mercury

Sports

• Homer (sports slang), a myopic fan or media coverage biased toward the home team
• Home run, a term in baseball for when the batter touches all the bases and scores on the same play.

Other uses

• Homer Simpson, the main protagonist in the animated television series The Simpsons
• Homer (Ezekiel), a sculpture by Moses Jacob Ezekiel at the University of Virginia, US
• Homer (film), a 1970 drama film
• Homer (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
• Homer (software), an IRC client for Macintosh computers during the 1990s
• Homer (unit), a unit of volume
• Homer (brand) an independent, American, luxury brand, founded in 2018
• Homer College in Homer, Louisiana
• Homer High School (disambiguation)
• HOMER1, or Homer homolog 1 (Drosophila), a human gene
• Homing beacon (or "homer"), a type of tracking transmitter
• Mil Mi-12, NATO reporting name Homer, a Soviet helicopter
• Prince Homer, a small truck produced by Prince Motor Company and later by Nissan
• Racing Homer, a type of racing pigeon
• SS Homer a steamer scuttled during the American Civil War
• Homer, the codename for the British spy Donald Maclean
• "HOMR", a 2001 episode of The Simpsons

See also

• Homeric (disambiguation)
• Homerus (disambiguation)
• Omero, the Italian version of the given name Homer