Nestor

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Nestor may refer to:

• Nestor (mythology), the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology
• Nestor (given name)
• Nestor (genus), a genus of parrots in ornithology
• Nestor (solitaire), a card game
• Nestor Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope
• Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey, a Christmas television program
• Nestoras, Messenia, Greece
• Nestorianism, a doctrine that Jesus exists as two persons, one divine and the other human

A fictional character:

• Nestor (Tintin character), from The Adventures of Tintin series of comic books by Hergé
• Nestor Burma, created by French crime novelist Léo Malet
• Nestor, a character in the animated television series Shorty McShorts' Shorts
• Néstor, a fictional penguin from the film Happy Feet
• A nickname of NS-series robots in the series of short-stories and film I, Robot

Nestor may also be:

• A chapter in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce
• A West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
• A fictional race in the movie Battle Beyond the Stars

People with the name Nestor:

• Nestor the Chronicler (c.1056-c.1114), reputed author of the earliest East Slavic chronicle
• Nestorius (c.386–c.451), Patriarch of Constantinople, 428-431
• Saint Nestor, Christian saint
• Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), American actor
• Nestor García (born 1975), Uruguayan marathon runner
• Néstor Kirchner (born 1950), President of Argentina
• Nestor Makhno (1888-1936), 20th-century Ukrainian anarcho-communist

[edit] See also

• Nester, a character associated with Nintendo
• Nester (disambiguation)