Andrew Hero Jr. (December 13, 1868 – February 7, 1942) was a major general in the United States Army who was prominent for his service as Chief of Coast Artillery.

[1] His father, Andrew Hero, was a soldier in the Confederate States Army, and served in the Washington Artillery.

[7] At the start of the Spanish–American War, Hero was appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Joseph P. Sanger, commander of 3rd Division, First Army Corps, and served in Cuba until June 1899.

[14][16] In September 1917 he was promoted to temporary brigadier general and assigned to Fort Meade, Maryland as commander of the 154th Field Artillery Brigade, a unit of the 79th Division.

[14][17] Hero's brigade underwent additional training upon arrival in France, and because of the Armistice it never entered combat as a unit.

[19] Hero completed the course at the Army Center of Artillery Studies in Trier, and returned to the United States in May, 1919.

[27] Camp Hero, a World War II coast defense facility at Montauk, New York was named for him after his death in 1942.