Nemo is a

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and

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. It is

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for "nobody", and may refer to the

Outis Outis (a transliteration of the Ancient Greek pronoun = "nobody" or "no one") is an often used pseudonym that appeared famously in Classical Greek legends. Modern artists, writers, and others in public life have adopted the use of this pseudonym in ...

alias that

Odysseus Odysseus ( ; grc-gre, Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς, OdysseúsOdyseús, ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses ( , ; lat, UlyssesUlixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the ''Odyssey''. Odysse ...

used to trick Polyphemus in ''

The Odyssey The ''Odyssey'' (; grc, Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Iliad'', the ...

''. It can also be used as a nickname for the given name

Geronimo Geronimo ( apm, Goyaałé, , ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache ba ...

People

* Willard

Nemo Gaines Willard Roland "Nemo" Gaines (December 23, 1897 – January 26, 1979) was an American military officer and baseball player. He served as an officer in the United States Navy and played briefly as a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher with the Wa ...

(1897–1979), American Major League Baseball player and naval captain * Harry Loran

Nemo Leibold Harry Loran "Nemo" Leibold (February 17, 1892 – February 4, 1977) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1925. He played for the Cleveland Naps, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, and Washington Senators. He stood at and was n ...

(1892–1977), American Major League Baseball player, named after the comic strip character Little Nemo *

Antti Niemi (ice hockey) Antti Niemi (; born 29 August 1983) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey goaltender. He last played for Jokerit of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Niemi previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL). During the 2009–10 se ...

(born 1983), Finnish former National Hockey League goaltender nicknamed "Nemo" *

Qiyu Zhou Qiyu Zhou ( zh, 周齐宇; born January 6, 2000), also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Chinese-born Canadian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM), and is a Twitch live streamer ...

(born 2000), Chinese-born Canadian chess player and streamer also known as Nemo Zhou *

Gina Nemo Gina Nemo (born March 22, 1965) is an American actress, singer, author, and marketing executive who had an award-winning role as Dorothy Pezzino in the American television series ''21 Jump Street'' in the 1980s. She is the daughter of jazz musi ...

(born 1965), American actress *

Henry Nemo Henry Nemo (June 8, 1909 – November 26, 1999) was a musician, songwriter, and actor in Hollywood films who had a reputation as a hipster. Band leading In 1941, Nemo formed his own 19-piece band. The group featured four Chinese women as singers ...

(1909–1999), American musician, songwriter and actor * Louis-Paul Némo, birth name of

Roparz Hemon Louis-Paul Némo (18 November 1900 – 29 June 1978), better known by the pseudonym Roparz Hemon, was a Breton author and scholar of Breton expression. He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also found ...

(1900–1978), Breton author and scholar * Nemo Ramjet, pen name of artist and author

C. M. Kosemen Cevdet Mehmet Kösemen (born 18 May 1984), also known by his former pen name Nemo Ramjet, is a Turkish researcher, artist, and author. Kosemen is known for his artwork, depicting living and extinct animals as well as surrealist scenes, and his wr ...

Fictional characters

Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ( ...

, in Jules Verne's novels ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' and ''Mysterious Island'' (1870), and adaptations thereof *

Little Nemo Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'', before receiving his own spin-off series, ''Little Nemo in Slumberland''. The f ...

, protagonist of the comic strip ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' by Winsor McCay (1905) * Nemo, a

clownfish Clownfish or anemonefish are fishes from the subfamily Amphiprioninae in the family Pomacentridae. Thirty species of clownfish are recognized: one in the genus ''Premnas'', while the remaining are in the genus ''Amphiprion''. In the wild, th ...

, in the film ''

Finding Nemo ''Finding Nemo'' is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the screenplay was writ ...

'' (2003) and its sequel ''

Finding Dory ''Finding Dory'' is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton, produced by Lindsey Collins and written by Stanton and Vict ...

'' (2016) * Nemo, a minor character in the Charles Dickens novel ''

Bleak House ''Bleak House'' is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and ...

'' (1852) * Nemo Nobody, the title character of the film '' Mr. Nobody'' (2009) * Quentin Nemo, a warlock from the novel ''

Orphans of Chaos ''Orphans of Chaos'' is a 2005 science fantasy novel by John C. Wright. It is the first volume of the Orphans of Chaos trilogy that continues with the novels ''Fugitives of Chaos'' (2006) and '' Titans of Chaos'' (2007). Plot synopsis Five orph ...

'' (2005) * Judge Nemo, main villain of the video game ''

Disgaea 4 is a 2011 tactical role-playing video game for the PlayStation 3 and the fourth in the '' Disgaea'' series by Nippon Ichi Software. The game tells the story of Valvatorez, a former tyrant leading a party to rebel against the president of the Net ...

'' * Nicolas Monroe "Nemo" Makalintal, a minor character in the 2018 Philippine romantic-comedy series '' The One That Got Away'' * NEMO, the player character of the video game '' Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere''

Animals

* Nemo (dog), French President Macron's dog {{given name, type=both Nicknames