Hero (disambiguation)

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

Fictional characters

• Protagonist, sometimes called hero, the main character in a story
• Hero, priestess of Aphrodite in the Greek myth of Hero and Leander
  • and in Hero and Leander (poem) by Christopher Marlowe
  • and in Hero and Leander (1819 poem) by Leigh Hunt
• Hero, in the 1962 musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Hero or Shen, in Dragon Ball
• Hero, the protagonists of the Dragon Quest series
  • Hero (Dragon Quest III)
  • Hero (Dragon Quest IV)
  • Hero (Dragon Quest V)
• Hero (Much Ado About Nothing), in Shakespeare's play
• Hero, a horse of comic character Phantom
• Hero, a name of comic book character the Forgotten One
• Hero, in the video game Quest for Glory
• Captain Hero, in TV series Drawn Together
• Hero Brown, in the comic book series Y: The Last Man
• Hero Cruz, a DC comics character
• HERO, a character in the 2020 role-playing video game Omori
• Hiro Protago