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Homer is the name of several persons and characters:

• Homer, the legendary poet of Ancient Greece and supposed author of the Odyssey and the Iliad
• Homer Simpson, a fictional character in The Simpsons television cartoon
• Homer Simpson, a fictinoal character in The Day of the Locust
• Winslow Homer (1836-1910), an American painter

Homer is the name of several places:

• in the United States:
  • Homer, Alaska
  • Homer, Georgia
  • Homer, Michigan
  • Homer (village), New York
  • Homer (town), New York
  • Homer City, Pennsylvania
  • Homer Township, Michigan
• in England:
  • Homer, Shropshire

Homer may also be:

• A home run in the game of baseball
• Homer Tax, i.e., home owner's tax
• Homer (unit), a unit of volume.
• the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mil Mi-12 helicopter
  • Homerism is the miming of scenes from Homers epic, common in Roman pagan festivals.

• Disambiguation pages