Genesis 14:1 names him as the King of Shin'ar at the time of the War of the Kings. Many scholars have tried to prove that he was in fact the famous Nimrod, builder of Bav-El (Babel) and king of Babylon; thus far they have not succeeded.
Much more likely he was Amira-Paltu, also known by his official title as Khammu-rabi, though we tend to pronounce him in English as Hammurabi, who unified Babylonia and made Bav-El (Babylon) its capital, and gave the world its second important law-code - the first was Ur-Nammu's: he, rather than Nimrod, but thence the confusion.
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