Napoleon (disambiguation)

Napoleon is a first name. Things, places and people called Napoleon include:

People

Bonaparte

• Napoleon I of France (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821; reigned 1804-1814). Most later cases of "Napoleon" as the name of a noun, are derived from Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • Napoleonic Wars, the name given to the military conflicts connected to Napoleon I
  • Code Napoleon, (or Napoleonic code) a legal code instituted by Napoleon I in France in 1803
  • Napoleonic Era is a name given to describe the time period of Napoleon's activities
  • Timeline of the Napoleonic era
• Napoleon II of France, Napoleon's son Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, King of Rome, (1811-1832) who never reigned in France
• Napoleon III of France, Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1808-1873), President of France from 1849 to 1852, and then Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon III from 1852 to 1870
• Louis Bonaparte, Louis I Napoleon Bonaparte (1778-1846), King of Holland from 1806 to 1810; father of the above, brother of Napoleon I
• Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, son of Louis Bonaparte, succeeded his father as King of Holland and reigned for ten days only in 1810
• Joseph Bonaparte, Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte (1768-1844), King of Naples from 1806 to 1808 and King of Spain from 1808 to 1813; brother of Napoleon I
• Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Canino
• Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822-1891), son of Jérôme Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg
• Prince Napoléon Bonaparte of Canino, Lucien Bonaparte's descendent

Other

• Napoleon Einstein, Indian cricketer
• Napoleon (rapper) (1977- ), a Muslim rapper
• Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909
• Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, Civil War officer, businessman, and builder of the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia, Kansas
• Napoleon Chagnon, American anthropologist
• José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador
• Napoleon Hill (1883–1970), self-help and financial writer
• Napoleone Orsini, Italian condottiero
• Napoleon Perdis, Australian make-up artist and businessman
• Napoleon Wapasha, Mdewakanton Sioux chief
• Napoleon XIV (1938- ), a comedic singer best known for "They're Coming To Take Me Away"
• Napolean (actor), Tamil film actor
• Napoleon (pseudonym), pseudonym for Hisaye Yamamoto

Fiction

• Napoléon (1927 film), a 1927 film by Abel Gance about Napoleon I
• Napoléon (1955 film), a 1955 film by Sacha Guitry about Napoleon I
• Napoleon (1995 film), a 1995 Australian movie about a Golden Retriever pup named Napoleon
• Napoleon (2007 film), a BBC television film
• Napoleon (play), 1927 stage play written by George S. Kaufman and originally featuring The Marx Brothers
• Napoléon (miniseries) is the title of a 2002 miniseries
• Napoleon (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm
• Napoleon Bonaparte (fictional detective), a fictional half-caste Aborigine detective, created by Australian author Arthur Upfield
• Napoleon Dynamite, a 2004 film by Jared Hess and its lead character
• Vice Principal Napolean, a character in the anime of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Bonaparte in the American dub)
• Napoleon Wilson, a main character in John Carpenter's 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13
• Napoleon Solo, fictional TV secret agent
• Napoleon (musical), a 1994 musical play by Andrew Sabiston and Timothy Williams

Military

• Le Napoléon (1850), the first steam battleship in history
• Napoleon, the nickname of the M1857 smoothbore 12-pounder field gun in the American Civil War

Places

In the United States:

• Napoleon, Alabama
• Napoleon, Indiana
• Napoleon, Kentucky
• Napoleon, Michigan
• Napoleon, Mississippi
• Napoleon, Missouri
• Napoleon, North Dakota
• Napoleon, Ohio

Computer and video games

• Napoleon (GBA game), a turn-based strategy game
• Napoleon (GMX Media), a real-time strategy game
• Napoleon (Collision Studios), another real-time strategy game
• Napoleon: Interactive Battle Simulator a game made by PBS

Other

• Napoleon, an alternate name for the mille-feuille pastry
• Napoleon (coin), a French gold coin
• Napoleon (card game), a British trick-taking card game
• Napoleon, another name for the card game FreeCell
• Napoleon Opening, a chess opening named after Napoleon Bonaparte who supposedly played it against The Turk
• Napoleon Gambit, a variation of the Scotch Game, a chess opening
• Napoleon complex, a psychological inferiority complex suffered by people who are short
• Napoleone (Italian comics), an Italian comics series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore
• Napoleon's theorem, a statement on triangles, one of which is called the Napoleon triangle
• Napoleon's problem, a question of compass-only construction in geometry
• Napoleonite, a variety of diorite
• Napoleon (band), a pop soul band from Uppsala, Sweden
• Napolean (actor)
• Napoleon (dessert)

Etymology

The name "Napoleon" may derive from:

• "Neapolis" (Latin and Greek for "Naples"), and originally meant "from Naples".
• Greek ναπη or ναπος = "(forest) valley" and λεων = "lion", i.e. "lion of the valley" or similar.