Nemo is a given name, nickname and surname. It is Latin for "nobody", and may refer to the Outis alias that Odysseus used to trick Polyphemus in The Odyssey.

Nemo
GenderMasculine
Origin
Word/nameVia Greek Nemo
Meaning"Everyone, nobody"

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

People edit

Given name or nickname edit

  • Nemo Gaines (1897–1979), American Major League Baseball player and naval captain
  • Nemo Leibold (1892–1977), American Major League Baseball player, named after the comic strip character Little Nemo
  • Nemo Mettler (born 1999), known mononymously as Nemo, Swiss rapper
  • Antti Niemi (ice hockey) (born 1983), Finnish former National Hockey League goaltender nicknamed "Nemo"
  • Qiyu Zhou (born 2000), Chinese-born Canadian chess player and streamer also known as Nemo Zhou

Last name edit

  • Gina Nemo (born 1965), American actress
  • Henry Nemo (1909–1999), American musician, songwriter and actor
  • Louis-Paul Némo (1900–1978), known as Roparz Hemon, Breton author and scholar

Fictional characters edit

  • Captain Nemo, in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island (1870), and adaptations thereof
  • Little Nemo, protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay (1905) and the main character in the 2022 film adapted from the comic strip
  • Nemo, a clownfish in the film Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016)
  • Nemo, a minor character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1852)
  • Nemo Nobody, the title character of the film Mr. Nobody (2009)
  • Quentin Nemo, a warlock from the novel Orphans of Chaos (2005)
  • Judge Nemo, main villain of the video game Disgaea 4
  • 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