Guns N' Roses, a hard rock band from Los Angeles, CaliforniaGNR, a Portuguese rock band.
In education
Germanic Notes and Reviews, an academic journal
Railways
Great Northern Railway of Great Britain.Great Northern Railway of Ireland. (usually GNR(I))Great Northern Railway of the United States.Georgia Northeastern Railroad, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Roads
Great North Road, AfricaGreat North Road, AustraliaGreat North Road, British ColumbiaGreat North Road, New ZealandGreat North Road, United KingdomGreat North Road, Zambia
Paramilitary organizations
Republican National Guard (Portugal) - Portuguese National Republican Guard; Portuguese gendarmerieNational Republican Guard (Italy) of Italian Social Republic (1943-45). Replaced the MVSN and the Carabinieri military police corps.
Others
In bioethics, GNR denotes the technologies of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics.In chemistry and physics graphene nanoribbonsGlobal Name Registry, the operator of the .name top-level domain.Great North Radio, a radio station in North East England.Giant Naked Rei, a nickname used by fans of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion to describe the appearance of the angel Lilith in the series' final cinematic installment.Great North Run, an annual half-marathon held in Autumn between Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields in England.Greenbelt News Review, a cooperative weekly newspaper in Greenbelt, MarylandGram negative rod in microbiology.Galaxy News Radio, a fictional radio station in the videogame, Fallout 3.