Nimitz

Nimitz may refer to:

People

 * Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966), fleet admiral of the United States Navy
 * Chester Nimitz Jr. (1915–2002), an American officer and submarine commander
 * Jack Nimitz (1930–2009), American musician

Named for Fleet Admiral Nimitz

 * USS Nimitz (CVN-68), a U.S. Navy supercarrier
 * Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
 * USS Nimitz UFO incident, a 2004 unexplained aerial phenomenon
 * Nimitz High School (Harris County, Texas), Houston, Texas
 * Nimitz High School (Irving, Texas)
 * Nimitz Elementary School, Sunnyvale, California
 * Nimitz Freeway, a designation of Interstate 880 in the San Francisco Bay Area
 * Nimitz Highway, a local name for Hawaii Route 92, a major east–west highway on the island of Oahu
 * Nimitz, West Virginia
 * Nimitz Glacier, an Antarctic glacier
 * Nimitz Strike Group, a deployment of the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group 11
 * Admiral Nimitz Museum, a feature of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas
 * Nimitz Class (novel), a 1997 naval thriller by Patrick Robinson
 * Nimitz, the personal pet of the title character in David Weber's Honor Harrington military science fiction series